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...
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...
World Poll 2018 – Part 5 the editors January 2019 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 5: Eugenia Lai Marc Lauria Elaine Lennon Raúl Liébana Thomas Logoreci Tara Lomax Josh B. Mabe Ioannis Makris Bob Manning Miguel Marias Jack McCulloch Brian McFarlane Kenta McGrath...
World Poll 2018 – Part 2 the editors January 2019 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Michael Campi Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Celluloid Liberation Front Jeremy Chamberlin Daryl Chin Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn Roberta Ciabarra Adam Cook Jesús...
Post-Human Post-Cinema: The Opening Titles of Westworld Philip Brophy December 2018 Feature Articles Introduction HBO’s Westworld is new, modern, innovative, polyphonic, self-reflexive and existential. Yet it is simultaneously classical, postmodern, derivative, mono-dimensional, self-aggrandising and grandilo...
Riding, Jumping, Standing Still: Junior Bonner (Sam Peckinpah, 1972) Adrian Danks October 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Although Sam Peckinpah’s films are routinely described in terms of their often-fetishistic fascination with violence, influential deployment of such devices as slow motion, split screen and contrapuntal editing...
The Archive of Detritus Daniel Fairfax June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia 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 Pickpocket (1959), Pasolini’s Accatone (1960), Stroheim’s Greed (1...
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 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...
“Sudden Changes in the Weather”: Symptoms (José Ramón Larraz, 1974) Alexandra Heller-Nicholas March 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Catalan filmmaker José Ramón Larraz’s psychological horror film Symptoms – a UK production – was the British entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974. Despite this, the film was considered all but lost for dec...
World Poll 2017 – Part 2 the editors January 2018 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Michael Campi Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Celluloid Liberation Front Daryl Chin Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn Roberta Ciabarra Joel Condemi Adam Cook Jordan Cro...
World Poll 2017 – Part 4 the editors January 2018 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 4: Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Ricardo Köhler Ehsan Khoshbakht Rainer Knepperges Adam Kuntavanish Eugenia Lai Elaine Lennon Raúl Liébana Liébana Kimberly Lindbergs Tara Loma...
World Poll 2017 – Part 6 the editors January 2018 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 6: Maria San Filippo José Sarmiento Hinojosa Howard Schuman Christopher Sikich Matthew Singleton Christopher Small Mark Spratt Brad Stevens Josh Timmermann Gorazd Trušnovec Matt Tur...
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005) Rahul Hamid September 2017 CTEQ Annotations on Film Cristi Puiu’s first feature, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, put the Romanian New Wave on the international map, winning Cannes’ Un Certain Regard prize in 2005. The film’s success created a road map for other Roma...