Search Results for: "Dušan Makavejev"

Makavejev aims to tear down and rebuild the basic blocks of moviemaking itself. Toggling easily, even imperceptibly, between fiction and documentary, his films can appear to be vérité portraits of everyday life...

Cold War-era WR: misterije organizma (WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Dušan Makavejev, 1971) sets West against East with two opening sequences. In the first, Tuli Kupferberg shambles into a New York street and p...

“I didn’t sign on to be your slave.” It’s the cry of every woman who has ever been born, and every country who has ever been created, annexed, oppressed. Hungarian woman Izabela Garodi (Eva Ras) speaks these wo...

Penetrating analysis of Dušan Makavejev’s 1965 first feature film in the light of its critique of the social realist æsthetic and Communist ideology of the era.

The author of the forthcoming first English-language book devoted to the director, Terror and Joy: The Films of Dušan Makavejev, dissects this most sensuously complex film.

Always a step ahead with his ingenious and subversive dismantling of political icons, Privett gets closer to the great Makavejev.

The fall of Yugoslavia was a historical event of huge importance for the Balkans, but also for the rest of Europe and the world. Different accounts and explanations of how and why the former Yugoslavia collapse...

Cinema Ritrovato had never gone away in 2020 and 2021 but now there was no online alternative and most festival-goers were back at the usual venues to a visibly packed week. Although there was a ‘last minute’ q...

ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Gerónimo Elortegui Ted Fendt Christine Folch-Sathiah Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Simon Foster Sachin Gandhi Flora Georgiou Sean Gilman Antony Ginnane Leonardo Goi Fr...

ENTRIES IN PART 4: Lauren Carroll Harris Andy Hazel Glenn Heath Jr. Michael Heath Claire Henry Jhon Hernandez Marissa Hernandez Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee Hill Lili Hinstin Jytte Holmqvist Pet...

ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Michael Campi Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Celluloid Liberation Front Jeremy Chamberlin Daryl Chin Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn Roberta Ciabarra Adam Cook Jesús...

Odessa boasts an impressive although often overlooked film history and the idea of staging Ukraine’s major international festival in this city is certainly a fortuitous one. Indeed, the festival organisers were...

In the popular imagination, modern French cinema began around 1959 and hit its peak in the 1960s, with the revolutionary filmic works of Cahiers du cinéma's critics-turned-directors and their Left Bank contempo...

The Canary Islander has the mind in Europe, the feet on Africa and the heart in America. – anonymous popular saying Spread upon five centuries of history Las Palmas is a cosmopolitan and integrated city. Conq...

Editorial It has been 50 years since 1967 and it struck us at Senses of Cinema that not only was this a notable anniversary, but that it also made for an interesting throughline to our cultural experience in t...

Welcome to Issue 82 of Senses of Cinema. To begin 2017, we decided to celebrate films that turn 50 this year in a bumper dossier we've simply titled 1967: Love Letters. As the title indicates, this is not an at...

The great Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó has died at the age of 92, leaving behind one of the more indisputably unique bodies of work in cinema history. Over the course of fifty years, Jancsó’s body of work r...

The Memorial Event – Thoms’ Resurrection On 17 December 2012, a large group of people came together in Paddington Town Hall to celebrate Albie Thoms’ life, and to launch his book, a memoir called My Generati...

Have no respect, it’s only film. – Vassily Bourikas The Alternative Film/Video Festival in Belgrade has historically been one of a triumvirate of critical festivals, with Pula’sMAFAF (1965-1990) and Zagreb’s ...

THE ENTRIES PART ONE Antti Alanen Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Sean Axmaker Martyn Bamber Michael Bartlett Paolo Bertolin Pamela Biénzobas Cis Bierinckx Yvette Biro James Brown...

Some festivals take place below the radar of a city: local residents are barely aware that there is a film festival on, and only films by the most well-known directors attract full houses. In the picturesque ci...

Looking into France’s international success with The Artist, Zafar Masud discovers the little-known history of a Parisian theatre and the cinéphiles that made its reputation.

The author brings together two seminal films from differing eras that challenge audiences in complex and confronting ways.

Paul Hackett (Griffin Dunne): “What do you want from me? I’m just a word processor!” Street Pickup (Robert Plunket): “Why don’t you just go home?” Paul Hackett: “Pal, I’ve been asking myself that all night....

The esteemed director of this landmark movie looks back at his most controversial film.

As this issue goes on-line in this month of May, it would be remiss not to mention the 40th Anniversary of another seminal month of May long gone. We refer, of course, to the so-called ‘events’ of May 1968 ...

John Gianvito Antony I. Ginnane Stephen Goddard Chiranjit Goswami Kharálampos Goyós Benjamin Halligan Lee Hill Peter Hourigan Brian Hu Christoph Huber Pasquale Iannone Raine...

A comprehensive overview of the regional and global imperatives that shaped the historically fascinating 1960s avant-garde movement known as the Barcelona School.

Over recent years, Thomas Elsaesser has published so prolifically that one might be forgiven for occasionally wondering if “Thomas Elsaesser” is the name not of an individual but of an academic collective. This...

Famously, L'Âge d'or opens with a documentary on scorpions. The film was first screened publicly in Paris in November 1930. In honour of its 75th anniversary year, this article provides a critical overview of Surrealist uses and abuses of the documentary form.

There is a seductive cliche that runs through “cultural circles”: writing about dance makes about as much sense as dancing about architecture. What is implied here is not only a suspicion at the “folly” of ...

David Thomson's film criticism continues to incite passion and debate. Harper takes a chilly view of the latest edition of his New Biographical Dictionary of Film...

b. May 5, 1938, Lódz, Poland filmography bibliography web resources Eyes Wide Open Jerzy Skolimowski has said that he makes films to please himself. (1) Between 1964 and 1984 he completed six semi-au...

A lively overview of the films of Jean Painlevé and his unique contribution to cinema and its possibilities.

compiled by Fiona A. Villella The Entries James Hewison Lee Hill Bruce Hodsdon Alexander Horwath Peter Hourigan Christoph Huber Darren Hughes Dina Iordanova Robert Keser Rai...