Sabzian
Sabzian is an international film journal, hailing from Belgium.
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- ✨New on Sabzian: Flavia Dima in conversation with Lucrecia Martel On 𝘕𝘶𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢 𝘛𝘪𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘢, politics across her work, fiction and documentary, industry and style traps, and weaving diverse imagery into a cohesive whole.
- Weekly Review / Frans van de Staak Collection, Belgian Premieres and Festivals, This Week’s Agenda: The Servant, Sciuscià, .. all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/a1ftX. Want to stay up to date? Subscribe here → sabzian.be/weekly-review
- 🎞️ 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘳𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘔𝘢𝘯 (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956)
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- “The beauty of [Béla Tarr’s] images is never an end. It is only the reward for a fidelity to the reality that one wants to express and to the means that one employs in doing so.” – Jacques Rancière
- Pasolini, Poet of the Ashes, Béla Tarr (1955–2026), 86 printemps, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Baptiste Thoret, RITCS Winter School 2026, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/tVlvi. Want to stay up to date? Subscribe here → sabzian.be/weekly-review
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- Brigitte Bardot (1934-2025), Nederlands Silent Film Festival 2026, Bahram Beyzai (1938–2025), Max mon amour, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/djvfS. Want to stay up to date? Subscribe here → sabzian.be/weekly-review
- Le père Noël a les yeux bleus (Jean Eustache, 1966)
- Bologna, Jonathan Mackris, Bram Van Beek, Gerard-Jan Claes, Showgirls,Paul Verhoeven, Fritz Lang Retrospective at CINEMATEK, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/dQz3B. Want to stay up to date? Subscribe here → sabzian.be/weekly-review
- 💫 New text: Jonathan Mackris, Bram Van Beek, and Gerard-Jan Claes each revisit one film from this year’s Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna that has stayed with them.
- Babel - lettre à mes amis restés en Belgique (Boris Lehman, 1991) → sabzian.be/film/babel-lettre-%C3%A0-mes-amis-rest%C3%A9s-en-belgique
- 🎄📚 Just published: the winter edition of our seasonal roundup of recently released and upcoming film publications! → sabzian.be/news/new-boo...
- Sirât, Oliver Laxe, New Book Releases / Winter 2026, Screening Room: State of Cinema 2025 / Isabelle Huppert, Max mon amour, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/sy6zi Want to stay up to date? Subscribe here → sabzian.be/weekly-review
- Prisma #59, Ahmed Abdallah, A Thousand Shadows: Pedro Costa in Copenhagen, In Theatres: Angel’s Egg (Mamoru Oshii, 1985), ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/angmr. Want to stay up to date? Subscribe here → sabzian.be/weekly-review
- Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos, Daniel Zamora, Belgian Premieres and Festivals, Albert Serra, Ganga, Velu Viswanadhan, Tampopo, Jûzô Itami, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/p12y0. Want to stay up to date? Subscribe here → sabzian.be/weekly-review
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- André Bazin as television critic, Frans van de Staak, Nurşen Bakır, Amsterdam Film Meeting 2025, Edmond Bernhard, Robina Rose, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/tFBjy. Want to stay up to date? Subscribe here → sabzian.be/weekly-review
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- New Issue on Sabzian: ‘André Bazin, Television Critic’ Compiled and introduced by Tillo Huyghelen, this trilingual issue contains 7 articles by Bazin on the notion of television, as well as an interview with Jean Renoir and Roberto Rossellini. → sabzian.be/issue/andr%C3%A9-bazin-television-critic
- State of Cinema 2025, Isabelle Huppert, Karl Kels, Arindam Sen, Jean-Luc Godard: Unmade and Abandoned, First Forum for Film Education, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/KGotb. Want to stay up to date? Subscribe here → sabzian.be/weekly-review
- “The magic of cinema is something which leaps out, which isn’t planned: it’s what happens beyond all the work, the materials tools, the script, etc. In my life as an actress, it’s the encounters and surprises which attract, or even enchant, me.” – Isabelle Huppert, ‘In Praise of the Unexpected’
- Annette Apon, Frans van de Staak, Prisma #58, La pianiste, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Vers la mer, The Annihilation of Fish, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/ML4ZN. Want to stay up to date? Subscribe here → sabzian.be/weekly-review
- The State of Cinema 2025 with Isabelle Huppert at Bozar tonight is sold out. See you there!
- To encourage more support, we’re posting 𝗮 𝗻𝗲𝘄 𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗺𝗮 𝗰𝗮𝘁 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗵! If you value Sabzian’s work, please consider supporting us. → sabzian.be/en/support-sabzian 🐈 Elle (Paul Verhoeven, 2016)
- “Het aan de ratio vastgeklonken woord kampt met een inherente blinde vlek; is het mogelijk dat de cinema, met zijn haast magische affectieve krachten, de toeschouwer dichter bij het onbeschrijfbare brengt?” Sara Schelstraete over Haneke's La pianiste
- « D’une manière inusitée, c’est exactement ce que le film donne à voir. La parole de Spinoza sert avant tout de prétexte pour observer et filmer des personnes. » Introduction d’Annette Apon à deux films de Frans van de Staak à CINEMATEK sabzian.be/text/introdu...
- “Op een eigenaardige manier is dat precies wat je ziet. De woorden van Spinoza zijn vooral een aanleiding om mensen te filmen en om naar ze te kijken.” Uit de introductie van Annette Apon bij twee films van Frans van de Staak in CINEMATEK, Brussel
- “What was I supposed to do, work a miracle? Yes, of course, Fellini had been expecting a miracle.” New on Sabzian: Pier Paolo Pasolini on the filming of Accattone
- Julian, Cato Kusters, Tillo Huygelen, Frans van de Staak, State of Cinema 2025 / Isabelle Huppert, Peter Watkins (1935-2025), ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/7gp2t. Want to stay up to date? Subscribe here → sabzian.be/weekly-review
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- “The frame guides and misleads viewers with the aim of creating a surprise effect. What’s behind this apparently manipulative opening shot?” Bram Van Beek on the opening shot of Jeunes mères (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne, 2025)
- Jeunes mères, Bram Van Beek, Sabzian x Avila: Encounters with Belgian Filmmakers, La prise de pouvoir par Louis XIV, Annik Leroy at CINEMATEK,... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/nneZZ. Want to stay up to date? Subscribe here → sabzian.be/weekly-review
- Sabzian and Avila are happy to present a curated collection of conversations with Belgian filmmakers from Sabzian’s archive, paired with films of the same filmmakers whose work can be watched on the Avila platform.
- From the Archive: Notes and fragments from the Chantal Akerman Foundation archives, drawn from Akerman’s working materials for Golden Eighties.
- From the Archive: Pierre Reverdy’s The Image (1917) reappears – fragmented and uncredited – in several of Jean-Luc Godard’s films. For both, the image cannot stand alone: “The image is a pure creation of the mind.”
- A Conversation between Frans van de Staak and Jacq Firmin Vogelaar, André Bazin, Isabelle Huppert, Vidéographie, Support Sabzian, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/R6ovG. Want to stay up to date? Subscribe here → sabzian.be/weekly-review
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- “Television gives rise to a new notion of presence, void of all visible human content – nothing, in short, but the presence of the spectacle to itself.” – André Bazin, 1952
- On the occasion of the Frans van de Staak retrospective at CINEMATEK, Sabzian and Punto de Vista present an in-depth conversation between Van de Staak and writer Jacq Firmin Vogelaar on the film 𝘏𝘦𝘵 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘢𝘨𝘥𝘦 𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘬 (1983).
- Afternoons of Solitude, Albert Serra, Gerard-Jan Claes, Frans van de Staak, Nicholas Philibert, Ken Jacobs (1933-2025), Cécilia Mangini, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/iit9m. Want to stay up to date? Subscribe here → sabzian.be/weekly-review
- “Are we being given what we long to see? Why, then, are we bored?” New text: @gerardjanclaes.bsky.social on Albert Serra’s Tardes de soledad [Afternoons of Solitude] (2024)
- American experimental filmmaker Ken Jacobs (1933-2025) passed away this weekend.
- From 9 to 18 October, Japan Society in New York presents a special programme dedicated to film critic and theorist Shiguéhiko Hasumi, titled ‘Another History of the Movie in America and Japan’.
- False Improvisation and “Memory Lapses” on TV, André Bazin, Film Fest Gent 2025, Shiguéhiko Hasumi, @AdrianMartin25, Valeska Grisebach, ... all included in our Weekly Review newsletter: shorturl.at/3IVOo. Want to stay up to date? Subscribe here → sabzian.be/weekly-review
- Sabzian and Bozar present: State of Cinema 2025 / Isabelle Huppert 9 November 2025 → sabzian.be/event/state-of-cinema-2025-isabelle-huppert
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- ‘False Improvisation and “Memory Lapses” on TV’ André Bazin, 1955
