Read. A Round-Up Of Writing On Film.

Welcome to a new semi-regular round-up of items deemed worthy of your attention.

The internet is a wide and varied creature, with great writing often falling by the wayside, especially if it doesn’t fit the agenda being discussed at a particular moment in time. Here are a couple of interesting pieces we’ve noted over the last few days.

• Richard Brody on Spectacle.

• Brody again, this time on Jean Renoir’s time in America.

• The Dissolve, on the tradition of films being adapted for television.

• Philip French on Violent Saturday.

• Julien Allen’s 100 great figures of French cinema (a list).

• IndieWire are running some exclusive English translations of Cahiers du cinéma reviews, to mark the magazine’s 700th issue. There are more to come too.

• There’s a new interview with James Gray over at Film Comment.

• This week’s Criticwire Survey.