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Dennis Hopper was a master curator. While known across the globe for his extremely surrealist, wild, hip and very “method” acting capabilities in both Hollywood and international films, Hopper was also among th...

There is no getting around it, as a director, Dennis Hopper’s name will live on almost exclusively on the basis of Easy Rider. But the authorship of that film is nowhere near a clear-cut proposition, nor its legacy.

17 May, 1936, Dodge City, Kansas 29 May 2010, Venice, Los Angeles On October 8 1963, a young actor named Dennis Hopper attended the first retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum in California for the French ...

An insightful comparison of Wes Anderson’s film with Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider. Emily May charts the long road travelled in screen depictions of the American traveller figure.

Despite an intriguing fact-based premise and Dennis Hopper, this new comedy about Frank Sinatra's visit to Australia lacks wit or resonance.

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD In the midst of what is in all probability the most consequential presidential election in the history of the United States of America, writer/director Alex Garland drops his nightmar...

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. ...

Crowds erupted in the narrow streets outside Sarajevo’s stately National Theatre as security guards cleared a space for someone unexpected – though we had a pretty good inkling who it was – pulling up to the re...

Papas Kino (Daddy’s Cinema) was the derogatory term applied to the post-war West German films that reproduced the conventions of movies made in the fascist era. The so-called Heimatfilm (“homeland movie”) in pa...

ENTRIES IN PART 2: José Cabrera Betancort Thomas Caldwell Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Kevin Cassidy Guilherme Cavalcanti Jane Cheadle Daryl Chin Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn Janina Ciezadlo Jesús ...

ENTRIES IN PART 4: Dr Lisa Harper Campbell Craig Harshaw Michael Heath Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee HillKierran Horner Christoph Huber Robert Hughes Darik Janik Tara Judah Dr Lisa Harper Campb...

The revolution may not have been televised, but it was certainly filmed. In 1970, youth rallied in droves and studios rolled out the little red carpet: MGM released The Strawberry Statement (Stuart Hagmann), Za...

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...

As Bruce Langhorne (who composed the music for Peter Fonda’s directorial debut The Hired Hand) said, “Nobody at Universal knew what to do with it. They said, hey, this isn’t a movie. The hero doesn’t win in the...

When the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) rolls around in early August, that final month of winter always feels a little warmer in Melbourne, Australia. The festival's 69th inception was planned to ...

George Romero reimagined the zombie movie when he co-wrote and directed Night of the Living Dead (1968). This was certainly not the first movie about zombies. Earlier examples include Hollywood classics White Z...

b. 21 June, 1944, Tynemouth, Northumberland, England, UK d. 19 August, 2012, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA When Tony Scott passed away at the age of 68, his unexpected death sent shockwaves throug...

Easy Rider (Dennis Hopper, 1969), a herald of Hollywood’s ‘70s renaissance and lament for the death of the ‘60s counterculture, is a movie famously full of moments powered by popular music of the era. No doubt ...

Philippe Garrel is now in his seventies and has behind him a body of work that looked initially like it might have become no more (and no less) than an avant-garde skeleton. Those early films which included Cic...

Robert Earl Wise b. 10 September, 1914, Winchester, Indiana, USA d. 14 September, 2005, Westwood, Los Angeles, USA Wise is varied. He seems able to do almost anything … – Arthur Knight. In his influentia...

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...

1954, Saint-Étienne, France “Cinema is made (above all) with the hands, with the skin, with the entire body, by fatigue, by breath, by the pulsations of the blood, the rhythm of the heart, by the muscles...

For film scholars interested in the narrative settings of cinema examined through a “cultural materialist approach to film history” (p. 4), combined with digital cartography, Christian B. Long’s The Imaginary G...

Translated by Jaimey Fisher This conversation among writer/director Christian Petzold, senior programmer Robert Fischer, and Prof. Jaimey Fisher of University of California, Davis was part of the “Filmmaker Li...

Nash Edgerton, the older brother of Australian film star Joel Edgerton, is primarily known in his country of birth, perhaps, for his early and cheeky short films, often seen at the early iterations of Tropfest....

Half a century from the moment when British cinema flickered so brightly as to contend on even footing with Hollywood’s most mainstream product in the American market it remains Alexander Walker’s accounts that...

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...

If Mad Dog Morgan (Philippe Mora, 1976) is one of the grubbiest films of the first phase of Australia’s post-1970 feature film revival, it also stands out as one of the most entertaining. And despite its explor...

“It’s a movie for kids, they’re not going to dig it, man!” Peter Tork, Head The story is, by now, familiar. Amidst dwindling cinema attendance and the migration of the mass audience to television, Hollywood’s...

It’s December 2014, and I’m researching a book on the 1976 bushranger film Mad Dog Morgan – one of the best Australian films of the 1970s, a far-out antipodean Western directed by the much underrated pop surrea...

By coincidence, the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival began and ended for me with strikingly similar images. The first film I saw, Jafar Panahi’s Closed Curtain, opens with a minutes-long shot through a ...

There are festivals that are objectively deemed to be ‘major’, and then there are festivals that have a special place in our individual hearts. The Viennale certainly occupies this latter position for me, but I...

Jonathan Rosenbaum recently offered some useful, brief observations on two versions of Nicholas Ray’s last film, a collaboration with Wim Wenders. (1) A third (of sorts) also circulated, and considering the var...

In the mid-1960s, the young sports writer Hunter S. Thompson spent a year living and riding with the notorious Hells Angels, leading to the publication of his first book-length work of gonzo journalism, Hells A...

Saturday Night Live In this new millennium, and with the first black President of the United States, it’s becoming acceptable to discuss “white people” as a distinct culture, beyond the usual referenc...

Commemorating Nicholas Ray in his centenary year, in 2011 his last feature-length motion picture, We Can’t Go Home Again (1973-), started doing laps around the festival circuit, sometimes accompanied by Don’t E...