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This article was first published in Entre/telones y pantallas. Afectos y saberes en la performance argentina contemporánea (Libraria, 2020), the volume we co-edited with Jordana Blejmar (Univ. Liverpool) and Ph...

Escaped convicts, bickering family members and fairy-tale grotesques – the darker side of contemporary New Zealand in three recent features.

ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Cristóbal Escobar Andre Ferreira Adalberto Fonkén Giampiero Frasca Pablo Gamba Sachin Gandhi John GianvitoSean Gilman Antony I. Ginnane Andrew Goode Jared Gores Mi...

ENTRIES IN PART 7: Gavin Oakes Darragh O’Donoghue Lalo Ortega Lydia Pankratova Andreea Pătru Antoni Peris-Grao Andréa Picard Milan PribisicSharat Raju Daniel Ribas Marie-Pierre Richard Peter Rinaldi ...

This article is a reworking of an earlier article in Issue 56 of Senses of Cinema that discusses both Kohlhiesels Töchter and Schuhpalast Pinkus (1916). Ernst Lubitsch’s meteoric German career spanned ten ye...

Derek Jarman was an extraordinarily productive artist. Across his 30-year creative life he worked within a wide range of formats, practices and forms, always questioning and stretching the capacities of whateve...

Judging by films produced in Hollywood’s Classic period, from roughly the early 1930s to the late 1950s, there was a time when, on just about any remote tropical island or port of call, particularly in the Sout...

His name plagues me. Everywhere I go I can hear it. Whenever I ask somebody for information pertaining to the Melbourne Cinémathèque, it’s not long before his name pops up again. Although a dentist by trade, Mi...

I always say that the 20th Century brought two unfortunate events: the invention of the atom bomb and the invention of the sound film. - Jiří Menzel For many, the cinema of Jiří Menzel foremost carries asso...

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. ...

During the global lockdown, the film industry faced significant disruptions that challenged filmmakers both creatively and logistically. However, El Pampero, a collective renowned for its resilience in low-budg...

"We artists are irresponsible people." – Maxim Gorky to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, c. 1907-08 As a core member of El Pampero Cine, Alejo Moguillansky was initially known as the team’s editor who was sought-af...

“There is therefore an inherent tension in late style that abjures mere bourgeois aging and that insists on the increasing sense of apartness and exile and anachronism, which late style expresses and, more impo...

The day I arrived in the Netherlands was the same day that the provisional measures request from South Africa in their genocide case against Israel was brought before the ICJ (International Court of Justice) in...

Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, 1947), often classified as a film noir, and one of the first Hollywood films dealing with antisemitism, didn’t start out with that theme in mind. Instead, the film was based on Richar...

“I know that Creation is a Great Wheel that cannot move without crushing someone!” La Roue (1923) “If cinephilia is dead, then movies are dead too... no matter how many movies, even very good ones, go on be...

Translated from Portuguese by Matt Losada. This text originally appeared in Revista Piauí, no. 180, September 2021. Translated and reprinted here with kind permission of the author. In a few years it will...

Nine-tenths of our movements obey habit and automatism. It is anti-nature to subordinate them to will and to thought.  - Robert Bresson, Notes on the Cinematographer The cinema of Martín Rejtman is a cinema...

Although he has written and directed only two features, Martín Shanly has developed a distinctive voice in Argentine cinema. His style is low-key, and his character studies showcase troubled heroes. His two fil...

Introduction Recent political events, such as the “Title 42” expulsions, have led to growing prominence in United States-Mexico border discourses. The Trump Administration used the law during the COVID-19 pand...

In 2022 the National Film and Sound Archive acquired the hand-made filmmaking material Paul Winkler constructed to make his innovative films from the the 1960’s to the present. Winkler is packing up his practic...

In the United States, regional filmmakers rarely get the same attention as their big-city counterparts, at least until they premiere in New York or L.A. This denial of certain geographic perspectives is bound u...

b. 31 December 1923, Thessaloniki, Greece d. 16 October 2010, Piraeus, Greece Before the emergence of Theo Angelopoulos in the mid-1970s, Greek Cinema was largely unknown to international cinephiles despite a...

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...

A wise man - and a festival director to boot - once said to me, “Film festivals are not about the films. Neither are they about the Q&As with the filmmakers, the industry panels, the workshops or any of tha...

This article has been peer reviewed Two lovers walk in silence along a riverbank. They are framed in a long shot, on a path bordered by green grasses. Behind them are misty fields and distant trees. But in the...

After three years of pandemic-related hiatus, Hong Kong International Film Festival returns to its regular late March/early April dates. The festival experienced seismic changes continuously for the last two de...

In Latin American countries, piracy has been a way to access films for different audiences since VHS technology became popular. Piracy has been equally relevant to elite filmmakers interested in particular titl...

The comedy drama Sorry to Bother You (2018), written and directed by Boots Riley, follows the trials and tribulations of Cassius, aka “Cash”, Green (played by Lakeith Stanfield), a new employee at RegalView, a ...

The third full-length collaboration between the filmmaking duo Huang Ji and Ryûji Otsuka, Stonewalling, had its world premiere at the 2022 Venice Film Festival and from 10th March this year started screening at...

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...

Presenting as a bizarre jigsaw puzzle of slow cinema motifs, surrealist musical numbers, a looming climate crisis, and highly explicit sex, Tsai Ming-Liang’s Tian bian yi duo yun (The Wayward Cloud, 2005)  – on...

A lifelong cinephile, professional film projectionist (35mm and 70mm), and independent filmmaker, Rob Murphy is an optimistic anomaly within the industry. He, and his docu-quest through big and widescreen forma...

At all three screenings I attended of Leos Carax’s incandescent rock opera, Annette (2021), at my local theatre, the already sparse audience trickled from the room. Those who had survived Adam Driver’s sweat-so...

In his latest film, Unrest (2022), Swiss director Cyril Schäublin has created something new and unique. Together with his feature debut, Those Who Are Fine (2017), he has developed his own aesthetic style and n...

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...