Dream Baby Dream: Robert Altman’s 3 Women (1977) Tanner Tafelski March 2016 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 78 “I had a dream last night,” says a boy. “We had the same dream,” an oddly similar voice replies. Renowned ambient musician, Geir Jensen,...
Fever Dream: Combat! – “Survival” (Robert Altman, 1963) Adrian Danks March 2016 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 78 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...
Robert Altman’s Jazz ’34 Jesse Schlotterbeck March 2016 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 78 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...
Robert Altman Robert Self February 2005 Great Directors Issue 34 b. Robert Bernard Altman b. 20 February 1925, Kansas City, Missouri, USA d. 20 November 2006, Los Angeles, California,...
Not so dirty realism: Altman glosses Carver in Short Cuts Julian Murphy March 2016 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 78 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...
The Archive of Detritus Daniel Fairfax June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia Issue 87 If asked about the film that has most affected me, then I want to answer with Godard’s Weekend (1967), Straub/Huillet’s Othon (1969), Bresson’s...
Road Trip Through A Cinematically-Constructed America: The Imaginary Geography of Hollywood Cinema, 1960-2000 by Christian B. Long Shannon Scott June 2018 Book Reviews Issue 87 For film scholars interested in the narrative settings of cinema examined through a “cultural materialist approach to film history” (p. 4),...
“Sudden Changes in the Weather”: Symptoms (José Ramón Larraz, 1974) Alexandra Heller-Nicholas March 2018 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 86 Catalan filmmaker José Ramón Larraz’s psychological horror film Symptoms – a UK production – was the British entry at the Cannes Film...
World Poll 2017 – Part 2 the editors January 2018 World Poll Issue 85 ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Michael Campi Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Celluloid Liberation Front Daryl Chin Graiwoot...
World Poll 2017 – Part 4 the editors January 2018 World Poll Issue 85 ENTRIES IN PART 4: Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Ricardo Köhler Ehsan Khoshbakht Rainer Knepperges Adam Kuntavanish Eugenia...
World Poll 2017 – Part 6 the editors January 2018 World Poll Issue 85 ENTRIES IN PART 6: Maria San Filippo José Sarmiento Hinojosa Howard Schuman Christopher Sikich Matthew Singleton Christopher Small Mark...
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005) Rahul Hamid September 2017 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 84 Cristi Puiu’s first feature, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, put the Romanian New Wave on the international map, winning Cannes’ Un Certain Regard...
