Dream Baby Dream: Robert Altman’s 3 Women (1977) Tanner Tafelski March 2016 CTEQ Annotations on Film “I had a dream last night,” says a boy. “We had the same dream,” an oddly similar voice replies. Renowned ambient musician, Geir Jensen, using the moniker of Biosphere, loops this exchange in his spectral and c...
Fever Dream: Combat! – “Survival” (Robert Altman, 1963) Adrian Danks March 2016 CTEQ Annotations on Film Although Robert Altman is now widely regarded as one of the key figures of New Hollywood cinema, he was also a significant director of mainstream US television in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Altman has a re...
Robert Altman’s Jazz ’34 Jesse Schlotterbeck March 2016 CTEQ Annotations on Film The music performance film Jazz ’34 (1997) is best introduced in the context of a feature that this title could easily be mistaken for: Kansas City (1996). Robert Altman’s feature Kansas City tells a story abou...
Altman, Robert Robert Self February 2005 Great Directors b. Robert Bernard Altman b. 20 February 1925, Kansas City, Missouri, USA d. 20 November 2006, Los Angeles, California, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources The Mod...
Not so dirty realism: Altman glosses Carver in Short Cuts Julian Murphy March 2016 CTEQ Annotations on Film Somebody wins the lottery. The same day, that person’s sister gets killed by a brick falling off a building in Seattle. Those are both the same thing. The lottery was won both ways. The odds of either happening...
Reverse Shot: Twenty Years of Film Criticism in Four Movements: The Way of the Dinosaur Tony McKibbin November 2024 Book Reviews Reverse Shot is a magazine that has for the last twenty years hazardously found for itself a place between the journalistic review and the academic essay. It is the sort of place and space allowing room for the...
“A very open-ended canon”: The Many Histories of the Melbourne Cinémathèque Adrian Danks November 2024 “A very open-ended canon”: The Many Histories of the Melbourne Cinémathèque The special dossier is edited by Adrian Danks and Olympia Szilagyi, with editorial assistance from Digby Houghton. It draws on various accounts of the history of the Melbourne Cinémathèque as well as the ar...
From Joseph Losey’s M to Jeni Thornley’s Island Home Country: The Melbourne Cinémathèque and Australian Film Culture Adrian Danks November 2024 “A very open-ended canon”: The Many Histories of the Melbourne Cinémathèque Dedicated to Michael Koller, without whom none of this would have been possible. You have to adapt and remain the same. The Melbourne Cinémathèque is one of Australia’s longest-running film culture organ...
World Poll 2023 – Part 1 the editors January 2024 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 1: Jacob Agius Antti Alanen Hussain Al-Dubaisi Francisco Algarín Navarro Julien Allen Michael J. Anderson Dan Auiler Swapnil Azad Jessica Balanzategui Martyn Bamber Jennifer Lynde Bar...
World Poll 2023 – Part 5 the editors January 2024 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 5: George Kapaklis Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Aryan Tauqeer Khawaja Simon Killen Rainer Knepperges Gary M. Kramer Jan Křipač Jay KuehnerMark Lager Eugenia Lai Reynaldo Lastre ...
World Poll 2023 – Part 6 the editors January 2024 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 6: Josh B Mabe Mattia Magi Bob Manning Miguel Marías Jack McCulloch Duncan McLeanTim McQueen Adrian D. Mendizabal Jamie Mendonça Stefano Miraglia Olaf Möller Josh B Mabe A libr...
World Poll 2023 – Part 8 the editors January 2024 World Poll 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...
A Man of Genius Has Been Seldom Ruined But By Himself: Ethan Warren’s The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson Hannah Bonner November 2023 Book Reviews 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...
The Last Musical Show: Peter Bogdanovich’s At Long Last Love (1975) Dana Polan June 2023 CTEQ Annotations on Film Throughout the New Hollywood of the late 1960s into the 1970s, two filmmaking desires of auteur directors (usually male) sometimes combined: to realise very ambitious vanity projects in which highly detailed so...
“Why Don’t You Love Me (Like You Used To Do)?”: Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show (1971) Adrian Danks June 2023 CTEQ Annotations on Film 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...
Beresford, Bruce Benjamin Kooyman May 2023 Great Directors b. 1940, Paddington, Sydney, Australia That we would see in letters five feet high His name one day spread shining in the gloom Preceded with the words ‘Directed by’ – To doubt that prospect there was never...
Fellini’s Memory: Amarcord Bruce Jackson January 2023 Feature Articles “I’m a liar, but an honest one. People reproach me for not always telling the same story in the same way. But this happens because I’ve invented the whole tale from the start and it seems boring to me and unkin...
World Poll 2022 – Part 2 the editors January 2023 World Poll 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 ...
World Poll 2022 – Part 3 the editors January 2023 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards John K. Emelianoff Javier H. Estrada Adalberto Fonkén Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Simon Foster Flora Georgiou Sean GilmanAntony I. Ginnane Leo Goldsmith Andrew Goode Mi...
World Poll 2022 – Part 5 the editors January 2023 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 5: Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Nolan Kelly Simon Killen Rainer Knepperges Ricardo Köhler Benjamin Kooyman Maja Korbecka Sneha Krishnan Jay KuehnerAdam Kuntavanish Otto Kylmälä ...
World Poll 2022 – Part 8 the editors January 2023 World Poll 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...
Craven, Wes Hal Young October 2022 Great Directors b. 2 August, 1939, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A d. 30 August, 2015, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A 'The family is the best microcosm to work with…’ - Wes Craven Introduction Few directors have garnered such pola...
World Poll 2021 – Part 2 the editors January 2022 World Poll 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 ...
World Poll 2021 – Part 3 the editors January 2022 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Samantha Egensteiner Gerónimo Elortegui John K. Emelianoff Adalberto Fonkén Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Simon Foster Sachin GandhiFlora Georgiou Sean Gilman Antony I. Gi...
World Poll 2021 – Part 4 the editors January 2022 World Poll 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...
World Poll 2021 – Part 6 the editors January 2022 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 6: Peter Nagels Boris Nelepo Andy Norton Darragh O’Donoghue Roberto Oggiano Wilfred Okiche Andreea Patru Andrew F PeirceAntoni Peris-Grao Andréa Picard Milan Pribisic Catherine Putman...
World Poll 2021 – Part 8 the editors January 2022 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 8: Jason Tan Liwag Tomas Trussow Koen Van Daele Noel Vera Peter VerstratenNicholas Vroman David Walsh Jason Philip Wierzba Christopher Witty Barbara Wurm Jason Tan Liwag Alumnus...
Daddy Nostalgie (Bertrand Tavernier, 1990) Lee Hill April 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film It is tempting to view Daddy Nostalgie (Bertrand Tavernier, 1990), Dirk Bogarde’s last film, as an actor’s swan song or as a great director’s meditation on aging. When the film was released, it was marketed an...
World Poll 2020 – Part 2 the editors January 2021 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Nicolás Carrasco Michael J. Casey Kevin Cassidy Jeremy Chamberlin Allison Chhorn Ian Christie Emily Collins Jordan Cronk Adrian Danks Dustin Dasig Henri de Corin...
World Poll 2020 – Part 3 the editors January 2021 World Poll 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...
World Poll 2020 – Part 4 the editors January 2021 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 4: Parviz Jahed Tara Judah Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Dominique Kobler Rainer Knepperges Jan Křipač Jay Kuehner Eugenia Lai Marc Lauria Elaine Lennon Thomas Logoreci Jennif...
What’s in a Cone? Barbara Loden’s Wanda Between Weakness and Resilience Luise Moerke October 2020 Feature Articles In the middle of an empty parking lot, a lonely snack stall promises roadside indulgence. Its red and white marquee speaks of sunnier days, seaside vacations, bustling lines of children eager to buy sweet refre...
Hitting Rock Bottom: Representing Capital in Late Neoliberal Cinema Jensen Suther April 2020 Feature Articles The winner of this year’s Best Picture award at the Oscars was a South Korean film about class resentment, economic desperation, and the parasitic dependence of the upper social strata on our world’s basement d...
World Poll 2019 — Part 2 the editors January 2020 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: Jose Cabrera Betancort Thomas Caldwell Michael Campi Michelle Carey Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Jeremy Chamberlin Daryl Chin Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn Roberta Ciabarra Jesú...
A Decade+ in Review: The 2019 Toronto International Film Festival Darren Hughes October 2019 Festival Reports On 31 December 2018, the fundraising arm of the Toronto International Film Festival sent a year-end email solicitation, urging recipients to support cinema by helping the organisation hit its annual target of 3...
Klapisch, Cédric Ben McCann March 2019 Great Directors b. 4 September 1961, Neuilly-sur-Seine Filmography Further Reading “All of (Klapisch’s films) are solid mainstream entertainments with sprawling casts, intersecting storylines and a strong sense of pla...