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Infused with an almost classical reverence for romanticism, the unfolding emotions and narratives at the heart of John Huston’s work always seemed tied intimately to their settings. The environment, more than j...

Let There Be Light (1946 USA 58 mins) Source: NLA/Cinemedia Prod Co: U.S. Army Signal Corp Pictorial Service Dir: John Huston Scr: John Huston, Charles Kaufman Photo: Stanley Cortez, John Huston, John Dor...

b. 5 August 1906, Nevada, Missouri, U.S, d. 28 August 1987, Middletown, Rhode Island, U.S. John Huston, the American director, writer and actor, was prolific, various and uneven. As a director, he worked in...

The silhouette. The swagger. That drawl. While John Wayne remains one of Hollywood’s most recognisable stars he has often been reduced to caricature.  Despite a varied career, when we think of Wayne he is visua...

Does it come at all as a surprise that the first image in the often-hallucinatory Johnny Guitar features an explosion, and one whose cause is not immediately apparent? Or that the next sequence draws attention ...

Noted Ford scholar Tag Gallagher casts his gaze over this well worn 1939 classic and discovers further treasures in Ford’s poetic vision.

Socratic lessons can be articulated in all manner of ways. Pedro Blas Gonzalez examines John Huston’s 1947 fable about avarice and greed.

b. 22 April 1937, Neptune City, New Jersey, United States The Affective Structure of Furious Feeling: Masculinist Anger in the American New Wave and in Its Wake It goes without saying that Jack Nicholson (b. ...

b. December 25 1899, New York City, U.S. d. January 14 1957, Los Angeles, California, U.S. Humphrey DeForest Bogart, arguably the first true anti-hero of the cinema, was born on Christmas Day in 1899 in New Y...

Sweet Smell of Success (1957) is a landmark in the careers of actors Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, screenwriter Clifford Odets, and director Alexander Mackendrick. It is also a film that pulses with the claus...

What’s recorded by the camera is at least metaphorically, a ghost of something that was once as it appears in the picture but is no more. And so that’s why film has been called “the haunted medium” more than a...

b. Robert Louis Fosse, Chicago, Illinois, June 23, 1927 d. September 23, 1987, Washington, D.C. Although Bob Fosse died at the relatively young age of 60, he had a career in show business extending for almost...

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...

b. March, 18, 1933, London “I'll always be around because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.” – Michael Caine Sir Michael Caine, one of the most durable act...

Fritz Lang’s M (1931) is a cry for despair representing the dying moments of a free Germany before the reign of terror was concentrated under Adolf Hitler and his Nazi party. The film’s secondary title was “a c...

At first pass, placing Frank Capra into the position of a major figure in the experimental and avant-garde continuum may seem counter intuitive in the context of his feature film output and known political pers...

ENTRIES IN PART 2: José Cabrera Betancort Thomas Caldwell Michelle Carey Nicolás Carrasco Michael J. Casey Kevin Cassidy Guilherme Cavalcanti Jeremy Chamberlin Daryl Chin Janina CiezadloJesús Cortés ...

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...

After a modest attempt to create a national film industry in bilingual Belgium had run aground in the 1950s, Belgian cinema was split into two separate small cinemas – a Flemish and a Walloon (French-speaking) ...

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 6: Peter Nagels Walter Neto Andy Norton Veton Nurkollari Alison O'Daniel Darragh O'Donoghue Andreea Pătru Antoni Peris Andréa Picard Milan Pribisic Catherine Putman Bérénice Reynau...

War is a limit-experience for human communities. In the modern era this has often meant nation states, which during periods of total conflict become communities of bounded fate. In these circumstances, human re...

There are very good books and articles on actors, about stardom, about performance, on acting and about acting. David Thomson and Pauline Kael have often been astute concerning the thin line between the person ...

This being our mid-year issue, we are thrilled to be presenting another dossier in conjunction with a film program devoted to a great contemporary film auteur, this time Peter Strickland, screening at the Melbo...

Film festivals – like film shoots, or warzones – waver between exhilarating and dull. One minute you’re thanking the heavens that something as wondrous as Ash Is Purest White, the latest Jia Zhangke film, exist...

In the weeks leading up to the 75th Venice film festival, buzz around the festival had less to do with its stellar lineup (arguably the most promising in recent years) and more to do with the festival’s ability...

Thomas Doherty, the author of Show Trial, is professor of American Studies at Brandeis University, Massachusetts, associate editor of Cineaste, as well as the film reviews editor for The Journal of American His...

This will not be a typical festival review, in that it will not offer in-depth commentary – or even a “best of” roundup – on a sizable selection of what was programmed over Labor Day weekend in the mining town-...

Cinephile, historian, filmmaker and one of the most knowledgeable persons I’ve ever met, Thom Andersen visited the Austrian Filmmuseum during the fall of 2017 where I interviewed him about Red Hollywood (1996),...

In Two Cheers for Hollywood, film historian and critic Joseph McBride is on a mission: to recover the marginalised or unsung reputations of screenwriters, directors, producers and craftspeople of some of our fa...

In the second instalment of his two-part article, Canadian film scholar and regular Senses of Cinema contributor Murray Pomerance continues his thoughts on the trope of the gangster in four films shot in Paris ...

ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Jeremy Elphick John K. Emelianoff Kaya Erdinc Eliú Escamilla Adalberto Fonkén Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Mark Freeman Hugo Gamarra E. Sachin Gandhi Stephen Gaunson ...

ENTRIES IN PART 4: Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Ricardo Köhler Ehsan Khoshbakht Rainer Knepperges Adam Kuntavanish Eugenia Lai Elaine Lennon Raúl Liébana Liébana Kimberly Lindbergs Tara Loma...

A 2003 New York Times article described 1950s matinee idol Tab Hunter as having “Malibu beach boy looks”, and that description is apt. Even today, well into his eighties, Hunter holds the appearance of the blon...

In this, the first instalment of a two-part article, Canadian film scholar and regular Senses of Cinema contributor Murray Pomerance presents his thoughts on the trope of the gangster in four films shot in Pari...

“I am not afraid of the war in Algeria. I am not afraid of decolonisation” Like many other companies, the national oil company of Italy, ENI, produced a number of films, particularly between the 1950s and the ...