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This article was peer reviewed. Introduction Stanley Kubrick oscillated between torturing his female characters and exhibiting sympathy for them. Sometimes, he both tortured women and exhibited sympathy at th...

Stanley Kubrick belongs to the category of select filmmakers to have elicited a massive body of critical work as well as gained a cult following among fans and mainstream audiences. In his expert study of Jewis...

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...

How one should turn to stone. - Slowly slowly become hard like a precious stone - and finally lie there still and silent, to the joy of all eternity. –Nietzsche. I. Apart from a few early documentaries...

Since the time of this classic’s release, the one question that seems to have always hung over it is: “But what does it all mean?” Pedro Blas Gonzalez goes in search of answers.

In his underrated war film, Kubrick continues to explore ideas of identity, free will and the human-machine relation.

b. July 26, 1928, Manhattan, New York, USA. d. March 7, 1999, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England, UK. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources It may not be entirely correct to cal...

Laleen Jayamanne’s beautiful new book, Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gify, enlivens the spirits of its readers every bit as much as the movies it discusses enliven both the spirits and the bodies of their...

Interviewed in Jeremi Szaniawski’s After Kubrick: a Filmmaker’s Legacy, Gaspar Noé is asked about his relationship to Stanley Kubrick: I am a dwarf . . . a flea . . . compared to the giant. . . . You can’t com...

Previously unseen materials donated by the Stanley Kubrick estate to the London University of the Arts Special Collections Archive sheds new light on what has been a relatively ‘unknown’ period in the auteur’s ...

It is a common trope that authors rarely like films based on their novels. Stephen King, who at the time of this writing has seen 48 feature films and 26 television series adapted from his works, is no exceptio...

If, as I have argued elsewhere, Stanley Kubrick is an intellectual, Jewish, and “Talmudic” filmmaker, his text most susceptible to Jewish or Talmudic readings or, at least which has attracted the most scholarsh...

A number of recurring motifs, themes and ‘signature’ styles have been attributed to Stanley Kubrick over the years, mostly from an auteurist perspective. These include, for example, the use of mirrors, facial c...

Much has been written about the intertextual richness of Stanley Kubrick’s cinema both in and of itself and in terms of its influence on other filmmakers. In this regard The Shining (1980) has itself been the s...

Since its theatrical release in 1980, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining has fit uneasily into the horror genre and has met with a discordant range of responses. A common grievance among reviewers at the time was th...

“We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?” Paul Thomas Anderson Stanley Kubrick (1927-1999) passed away twenty years ago – on March 7, 1999 – while in the pr...

Santas looks at the many faces of Lolita.

Technology and the future in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey and Don Siegel's The Shootist.

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. ...

To begin, then, with Hamlet: to be or not to be, this seems to be the question these days for the city of Berlin when it comes to its longstanding status as – and claim to being – Germany’s cinema capital. Do t...

My initial viewing of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920) took place in 2022. As a 21st-century moviegoer, I had been educated by technically refined psychological hor...

ENTRIES IN PART 7: Jayanth Naga Sai Pasupulati Peter Nagels Virat Nehru Boris Nelepo Andy Norton Veton Nurkollari Gabrielle O’Brien Darragh O’Donoghue Wilfred Okiche SvenErik Olsen Andreea Pătru Ant...

“To haunt does not mean to be present, and it is necessary to introduce haunting into the very construction of a concept”  - (Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New interna...

In a review of Club Zero, Jessica Hausner’s latest feature, which premiered in Competition at Cannes this year, Charles Bramesco calls the director “Austria’s most fearless button-pusher.” Given that her compat...

When he was seven, Paul Thomas Anderson wrote in his diary, “I want to be a writer, producer, director, special effects man. I know how to do everything and I know everything” (p. 1). For this millennial wunder...

Over the course of nearly two decades, Alexandre O. Philippe has celebrated and explored the iconic figures of the seventh art, from Lucas and Ford to Hitchcock and Lynch. His unique approach not only reveals n...

“It was the greatest Carnival Attraction I’d ever seen… His Super Power was Music.” - Colonel Tom Parker An Australian Film Brand With just six films over thirty years (1992-2022), Baz Luhrmann and his crea...

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 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...

This All Hallows Eve, Senses of Cinema is publishing our first sustained inquiry into nonfiction cinema from the territories of former Yugoslavia. At a time when new nationalisms are again on the horizon, what ...

“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...

In less than 20 years, writer-director Michel Franco has carved a niche for himself in the more austere parts of world cinema. The Mexican filmmaker has never shied away from representing thorny issues on scree...

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. 31 March 1922 Armagh, Northern Ireland d. 14 August 1982 London, England Patrick Magee was born one hundred years ago (exactly two weeks after St. Patrick’s Day) at 2 Edward Street in 1922 in Northern Irel...

There are countless films that peddle in the reification of dreams, and countless filmmakers for whom that is their primary mode. From David Lynch’s penchant for allusive unlogic, to Kamal Swaroop’s bustling po...