Electra Revisited: On Claire Denis’ 35 rhums José Sarmiento June 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film “O pardon the one who knocks for pardon at your gate, father – your hound-bitch, daughter, friend. It was my love that did us both to death.” - Sylvia Plath, “Electra on Azalea Path” (1) An opening ...
Gestures of Intimacy: Claire Denis’ I Can’t Sleep Saige Walton June 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film No doubt those who are familiar with Claire Denis’ work will be well aware of how her films are invested in and expressive of the material connections that unite and divide bodies in the world. Similarly, in he...
Dancing Reveals So Much: An Interview with Claire Denis Darren Hughes April 2009 Conversations on Film Denis discusses her recent feature, 35 Shots of Rum, a film inspired by Yasujiro Ozu’s Late Spring, and, as Hughes puts it, “a love story – or, in fact, several love stories – told in small gestures and commonplace tragedies”.
Claire Denis by Martine Beugnet John Orr October 2005 Book Reviews Martine Beugnet's study of Claire Denis is a highlight of the lively Manchester series on French film directors, and well worth an uninterrupted read from cover to cover. Ending with a full critique of Vendredi...
L’Intrus: An Interview with Claire Denis Damon Smith April 2005 Conversations with Filmmakers Acclaimed filmmaker Claire Denis discusses her new feature and the evolving æsthetics of her art.
Claire Denis: An Interview Aimé Ancian December 2002 Spotlight: Claire Denis In this detailed, wide-ranging interview, Denis talks openly about her early fascination with literature, the beginnings of her filmmaking career, her collaborators and the latest film.
Making Contact: Claire Denis’ Vendredi soir Aimé Ancian December 2002 Spotlight: Claire Denis The release of Vendredi soir in Paris gives Aimé another opportunity to reflect upon and appreciate the singularity of Claire Denis' cinema.
Denis, Claire Samantha Dinning April 2009 Great Directors b. 1948 Paris, France Filmography Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources When you look at the hills, beyond the houses and beyond the trees, where the earth touches the sky, that’s the horizon...
Our Body is a Battleground: An Interview with Claire Simon Öykü Sofuoğlu November 2023 Interviews This year's Berlinale was marked by Nicolas Philibert's surprising victory with his modest and intimate documentary about a Parisian psychiatric institution, which prompted us to question the established bounda...
The Hither Side of Solutions: Bodies and Landscape in L’intrus R. Emmet Sweeney July 2005 Feature Articles Claire Denis' most recent feature was inspired by a brief essay by French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy. This article discusses the connections between Nancy's ideas and Denis' æsthetic visualisation.
Postcolonial Cinema: Chocolat Fiona Villella December 1999 French Cinema A postcolonial reading of Claire Denis' Chocolat.
World Poll 2023 – Part 2 the editors January 2024 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: José Cabrera Betancort Thomas Caldwell Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Kevin Cassidy Guilherme Cavalcanti Daryl Chin Kristen Marie Coleman Jesús Cortés Jordan Cronk Joe CruzBrian...
World Poll 2023 – Part 4 the editors January 2024 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 4: Michael Heath Maggie Hennefeld Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee Hill Kierran A. HornerBrian Hu Christoph Huber Darik Janik Paul Jeffery Matthew Jordan Michael Heath Screenwrite...
World Poll 2023 – Part 5 the editors January 2024 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 5: George Kapaklis Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Aryan Tauqeer Khawaja Simon Killen Rainer Knepperges Gary M. Kramer Jan Křipač Jay KuehnerMark Lager Eugenia Lai Reynaldo Lastre ...
World Poll 2023 – Part 8 the editors January 2024 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 8: Maria San Filippo Rowena Santos Aquino Jack Sargeant Hamed Sarrafi Christine Sathiah Andrea Schmidt Dr James Slaymaker Valerie Soe Öykü Sofuoğlu Karina Solórzano Mark Spratt Vedan...
Towards A Domestic Cinephilia: The 24th Jeonju International Film Festival Marc Raymond August 2023 Festival Reports The Jeonju International Film Festival has gone through a transformation in its now 24-year history, one that has some overlap with the broader movement of Korean cinema over this same time period. The festival...
Punto de Vista 2023: Dust No Longer Clouds Our Eyes Jay Kuehner May 2023 Festival Reports I approached the 17th edition of Punto de Vista (International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra) with necessary ambivalence, owing on the one hand to the recently aired conference at the Berlinale Critics’ ...
Bloody, Raging Females: Five Books Examine Contemporary Feminist Horror Films Holly Willis May 2023 Book Reviews A few days after the death of 22-year-old Iranian woman Mahsa Amini after her arrest by morality police for being in violation of Iran’s dress code on September 16, 2022, I began viewing horror films. Finger po...
Fire Within: The 60th Viennale Leonardo Goi January 2023 Festival Reports The single strangest effect the pandemic’s had on me is that I seem to have changed the way I walk. I don’t mean how I walk indoors, or at home, but how I stroll around cities, the one I live in and those I vis...
World Poll 2022 – Part 1 the editors January 2023 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 1: Antti Alanen Hussain Al-Dubaisi Francisco Algarín Navarro Algitya Algi Michael J. Anderson Martyn Bamber Jennifer Lynde Barker Kyle Barrowman Mike Bartlett Nicolas Bartlett Arta Ba...
World Poll 2022 – Part 2 the editors January 2023 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: José Cabrera Betancort Thomas Caldwell Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Kevin Cassidy Guilherme Cavalcanti Jane Cheadle Daryl Chin Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn Janina Ciezadlo Jesús ...
World Poll 2022 – Part 4 the editors January 2023 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 4: Dr Lisa Harper Campbell Craig Harshaw Michael Heath Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee HillKierran Horner Christoph Huber Robert Hughes Darik Janik Tara Judah Dr Lisa Harper Campb...
World Poll 2022 – Part 5 the editors January 2023 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 5: Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Nolan Kelly Simon Killen Rainer Knepperges Ricardo Köhler Benjamin Kooyman Maja Korbecka Sneha Krishnan Jay KuehnerAdam Kuntavanish Otto Kylmälä ...
World Poll 2022 – Part 6 the editors January 2023 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 6: Josh B Mabe Jonathan Mackris Ioannis Makris Bob Manning Miguel MaríasJack Mcculloch Jamie Mendonça Douglas Messerli Stefano Miraglia Olaf Möller Josh B Mabe Librarian & F...
World Poll 2022 – Part 7 the editors January 2023 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 7: Peter Nagels Andy Norton Veton Nurkollari Darragh O’Donoghue Roberto Oggiano Wilfred Okiche Andreea Patru Andrew F Peirce Jesse PercivalAntoni Peris-Grao Andréa Picard Milan Pribis...
World Poll 2022 – Part 8 the editors January 2023 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 7: Maria San Filippo Rowena Santos Aquino José Sarmiento Hinojosa Valerie Soe Öykü Sofuoğlu Mark Spratt Vedant Srinivas Tyson Stewart Iván SuárezJosh Timmermann Tomas Trussow Koen Van...
The 75th Locarno Film Festival: Happy Birthday and Many Happy Returns Jaimey Fisher October 2022 Festival Reports This year marked the 75th edition of the Locarno (Film) Festival, which started in 1946 and technically before the more famous Cannes festival – Cannes had had its opening planned for 1939 but, understandably, ...
Living Ghosts at the Melbourne International Film Festival Eloise Ross October 2022 Festival Reports It was rather poetic that my first IRL interaction with the festival, on the Sunday of the first weekend, was a much-anticipated, rarest-of-rare screening of The Afterlight (2021). Charlie Shackleton’s film was...
An Interview with Scriptwriter Geoff Cox John Edmond August 2022 The Natural Models of Lucile Hadžihalilović Interview conducted via email from July-August 2022. How did you come to work with Lucile Hadžihalilović. It's clear how Lucile and yourself would find each other sympathetic collaborators, but how did you o...
Normality: The 2022 Cannes Film Festival Daniel Fairfax August 2022 Festival Reports “Back to normal” was undoubtedly the prevailing ethos of this year’s Cannes film festival. This was to be expected after the cancellation of the festival in 2020, with even the powers-that-be at Cannes having t...
“Resistance is the driving force of the film”: An Interview with Davy Chou Maja Korbecka July 2022 Interviews Cambodian-French writer-director Davy Chou’s third full-length film, Return to Seoul, which premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 2022 Cannes Film Festival, focuses on a French Korean adoptee during her recurri...
The value of reproduction and the reproduction of value: Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010) Anders Furze March 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film “In even the most perfect reproduction, one thing is lacking: the here and now of the work of art – its unique existence in a particular place. It is this unique existence – and nothing else – that bears the ...
Issue 100: the Centennial Edition the editors January 2022 Editorial In 1999, the then 36-year-old Melbourne-based independent filmmaker Bill Mousoulis hatched an idea for an online film journal. The notion of starting a film journal that would purely reside on the Internet was ...
World Poll 2021 – Part 1 the editors January 2022 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 1: Antti Alanen Victor Alicea Francisco Algarín Navarro Salvador Amores Geoff Andrew Cinema Antiviral. Martyn Bamber Jennifer Lynde Barker Arta Barzanji Amarsanaa Battulga Mike Bartl...
World Poll 2021 – Part 3 the editors January 2022 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Samantha Egensteiner Gerónimo Elortegui John K. Emelianoff Adalberto Fonkén Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Simon Foster Sachin GandhiFlora Georgiou Sean Gilman Antony I. Gi...
World Poll 2021 – Part 4 the editors January 2022 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 4: Craig Harshaw Glenn Heath Jr. Michael Heath Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee Hill Chris Hite Peter Hourigan Brian Hu Christoph Huber Tomáš Hudák Parviz Jahed Darik Janik Christophe...