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Robert Philip Kolker has given us two very useful film books: The Altering Eye and A Cinema of Loneliness are excellent accounts of post-war European cinema (which take in other parts of the world too), and 197...

Citizen Kane, rightly so, owes much of its fame to its deep-focus effects, but Orson Welles’ staging of shots also points to a whole host of pictorial references. Michael Riedlinger’s analysis uncovers Welles’ ‘painterly’ eye for composition.

In the first decade of the Cahiers era, Bitsch conducted many interviews with Hollywood directors. He has expressed great fondness for this particular one – because of Welles and in memory of his co-interviewer, the legendary André Bazin.

Post-Citizen Kane: a career in ascent or decline? The question still divides Welles scholars. This essay appraises the latter stage of Welles’ majestic career.

In his excellent 1996 review of several Orson Welles books which had just been published, Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote the following about the revised and expanded edition of Joseph McBride’s classic Orson Welles (...

Welles' fascination with magic fuelled one of his most intriguing late projects. His collaborator recalls its making.

On the trail of the unfinished Isak Dinesen adaptation The Dreamers, Tonguette talks with Welles experts and associates about this crucial late work.

The world of Welles: St-Germain provides a window in his discussion of Mr. Arkadin.

George Orson Welles b. May 6, 1915, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA d. October 10, 1985, Hollywood, California, USA filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Orson Welles: An Incomplete Edu...

One key takeaway from Alejo Moguillansky’s films is that by telling one's personal story, you can illuminate broader topics and issues. In an effort to elucidate his cinematic approach and truly describe his di...

Anyone fortunate enough to attend the back-to-back screenings of La Flor (The Flower, Mariano Llinás, 2018) over three nights at the 62nd London Film Festival in 2018 will forever cherish the uniqueness of the ...

When Gloria Grahame won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her sub-ten-minute performance in Vincente Minnelli’s The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), presenter Edmund Gwenn made a playful quip about...

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...

Some films outlive time. Although their year of production is located in the past, their energy spreads over decades, influencing filmmakers, resurfacing in new artworks, not once abandoning the viewer who had ...

b. February 27 1932, London, United Kingdom d. March 23 2011, Los Angeles, United States It was fitting that, in 1967, Elizabeth Taylor starred as Helen of Troy, the mythological daughter of Zeus whose face w...

In a response to The Independent’s obituary of Serge Daney dated June 1992, Louis Skorecki wrote: “He was the only film critic of real value in France in the last 20 years and one of the only original writers ...

Dualities and parallels abound in Ildikó Enyedi’s remarkable Az én XX. századom (My Twentieth Century, 1989), a singularly playful, magical realist, retro-futuristic, richly allusive, erotically charged, and wi...

It begins and ends outside the movies. Peter Bogdanovich’s sophomore feature, The Last Picture Show (1971), is a clear-eyed portrait of a small North Texas town in decline. It is also a film that isn’t afraid o...

Peter Bogdanovich’s debut feature, Targets (1968), is a left-of-centre horror film that initially seems to stand out as an anomaly within his filmography – predominantly comprised of comedies and dramas harkeni...

I grew up in a provincial city in Northeast China, and before the internet age, my main way of exploring the world outside the city was through television. However, most of the time, the television in our livin...

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The aesthetic and political imperatives for nonfiction film in Serbia, after Yugoslavia, can be understood through the conclusion of Theodor Adorno’s essay, “The Meaning of Working through the Past.” He writes ...

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...

What can one say that hasn’t already been said about F.W. Murnau’s lyrical masterpiece, Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927). The film marks the German auteur's first American film after being coaxed out of Ger...

Two topics have come up every time I’ve discussed the 2022 San Francisco Silent Film Festival: One: This is the first edition of the festival after two consecutive cancellations in 2020 and 2021, leading fes...

Being a French speaker brings many advantages in this world, but few so dear to my heart as being able to read through any release of Trafic, the cinema journal founded by Serge Daney and Jean-Claude Biette in ...

To say that a book devoted to analysing camera movement is an exemplary instance of ordinary language philosophy may raise a few eyebrows. Indeed, it may lead some to wonder if I did not miss the point of the b...

b. October 16, 1925, London, England. “When I take power, they will be pulled down and ground into dirt for what they did to you. And what they did in so contemptuously underestimating me." - Angela Lansbury ...

b. 18 September 1905, Stockholm, Sweden d. 15 April 1990, New York City, U.S. “What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.” This often-quoted musing by Kenneth Tynan, published in the ...

b. 14 November, 1932, Columbus, Ohio, USA d. 18 September, 1989, New York, New York, USA Artists who choose to pursue counter-paradigmatic work often do so at great personal costs to themselves, their familie...

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This article originally appeared in CTEQ: Annotations on Film, no. 1 (1998), published in Metro, no. 113/114 (1998), p. 131. It is reprinted with the kind permission of the author. At the same time that Orso...

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