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...
Altman, Robert 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...
A Decade+ in Review: The 2019 Toronto International Film Festival Darren Hughes October 2019 Festival Reports Issue 92 On 31 December 2018, the fundraising arm of the Toronto International Film Festival sent a year-end email solicitation, urging recipients to support...
Klapisch, Cédric Ben McCann March 2019 Great Directors Issue 90 b. 4 September 1961, Neuilly-sur-Seine Filmography Further Reading “All of (Klapisch’s films) are solid mainstream entertainments with...
World Poll 2018 – Part 5 the editors January 2019 World Poll Issue 89 ENTRIES IN PART 5: Eugenia Lai Marc Lauria Elaine Lennon Raúl Liébana Thomas Logoreci Tara Lomax Josh B. Mabe Ioannis Makris Bob...
World Poll 2018 – Part 2 the editors January 2019 World Poll Issue 89 ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Michael Campi Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Celluloid Liberation Front Jeremy Chamberlin Daryl...
Post-Human Post-Cinema: The Opening Titles of Westworld Philip Brophy December 2018 Feature Articles Issue 89 Introduction HBO’s Westworld is new, modern, innovative, polyphonic, self-reflexive and existential. Yet it is simultaneously classical,...
Riding, Jumping, Standing Still: Junior Bonner (Sam Peckinpah, 1972) Adrian Danks October 2018 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 88 Although Sam Peckinpah’s films are routinely described in terms of their often-fetishistic fascination with violence, influential deployment of...
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...
