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“To haunt does not mean to be present, and it is necessary to introduce haunting into the very construction of a concept”  - (Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New interna...

When viewed in retrospect, the vast and versatile oeuvre of British director James Scott (b. 1941), the son of the famous abstract painter William Scott and sculptor Mary Scott, may be best described as a body ...

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...

A.O. Scott is one of the few film critics working today whose fuller personality comes through in their prose. From his weekly reviews for the New York Times – always animated, hyper-readable, and often subtly ...

For Slavoj Žižek, Charlie Chaplin's City Lights (1931) is "perhaps the purest case of a film which, so to speak, stakes everything on its final scene." This is not to be understood in the sense that this fi...

Deathwatch presents a sweeping history of on-screen death, from the silent film era to recent Hollywood blockbusters. Historically, American film has accompanied depictions of death with some kind of mark of re...

“I want to talk about epic poetry.” I still remember the shock when Scott Millwood opened a documentary masterclass in the bowels of the Bondi Pavilion with these words back in 2004. I was covering the class fo...

Australian cinema rarely embraces the bold, hyperbolic flourish of full-blown melodrama; our family melodramas tend to remain grounded in a realist aesthetic (1). As one of the most successful films of the 1990...

In 1995 the (in)famous Danish director Lars von Trier and the young director Thomas Vinterberg launched a manifesto for filmmaking known as Dogma '95 and a set of rules – The Vow of Chastity – that had to be ob...

As a producer for MGM, Mankiewicz put his signature on films by a variety of directors – not necessarily for the better.

First, a bit of news from the front. Those who have been following some of the local drama outlined in my last dispatch from the San Francisco Silent Film Festival know that this year’s edition is the first in ...

b. 11 August, 1941, Santiago, Chile Patricio Guzmán’s career in documentary film now stretches through six decades. He started out as a young man filming on the streets a political movement and the challenges ...

During the global lockdown, the film industry faced significant disruptions that challenged filmmakers both creatively and logistically. However, El Pampero, a collective renowned for its resilience in low-budg...

Anyone fortunate enough to attend the back-to-back screenings of La Flor (The Flower, Mariano Llinás, 2018) over three nights at the 62nd London Film Festival in 2018 will forever cherish the uniqueness of the ...

There are two main sites of the New York Film Festival. On the northside of West 65th Street, in the Lincoln Square neighbourhood of Manhattan, is the 268-seat Walter Reade Theater, which sits above the street,...

It is customary in China’s film festival environment for there to be is almost no information on the upcoming edition of a festival until the last two, three weeks before the event is scheduled to start. The ne...

The following interview with Marie Craven originated from an online interview after a film class viewing of a program of her films as we moved out of Covid. The Zoom transcriptions of that event were trawled an...

“Make everybody see/in order to fight the powers that be…”  - Public Enemy, “Fight the Power” (1989) “And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.” - Eric Liddell, Chariot...

b. April 5, 1942, Monmouthshire, Wales P is for Peter. G is for Greenaway. – Peter Greenaway was born in Newport, Wales in 1942. His father was a builder’s merchant and ornithologist. His mother was a teacher....

Bill Nichols presents six conceptual lenses through which to examine the ways in which documentary film functions to invoke and convey its meaning or message, and they are the poetic, expository, observatio...

Shot in late 1972 and released at the Melbourne Filmmakers Co-op in mid-September 1974, Dave Jones’ Yackety Yack is one of the key films made in that transitional period between the relative “void” of homegrown...

Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, 1947), often classified as a film noir, and one of the first Hollywood films dealing with antisemitism, didn’t start out with that theme in mind. Instead, the film was based on Richar...

When Gloria Grahame won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her sub-ten-minute performance in Vincente Minnelli’s The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), presenter Edmund Gwenn made a playful quip about...

For its first iteration as an annual event, the Adelaide Film Festival invited audiences to “see in the dark”. Enticing hot-pink branding accompanied a program that consisted of over 130 Australian and internat...

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...

ENTRIES IN PART 2: José Cabrera Betancort Thomas Caldwell Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Kevin Cassidy Guilherme Cavalcanti Daryl Chin Kristen Marie Coleman Jesús Cortés Jordan Cronk Joe CruzBrian...

ENTRIES IN PART 3: John Edmond William Edwards Geronimo Elortegui Cristóbal Escobar Javier H. Estrada Adalberto Fonkén Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Simon Foster Giampiero Frasca Cynthia FuchsFlora Georgiou...

ENTRIES IN PART 4: Michael Heath Maggie Hennefeld Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee Hill Kierran A. HornerBrian Hu Christoph Huber Darik Janik Paul Jeffery Matthew Jordan Michael Heath Screenwrite...

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...

ENTRIES IN PART 7: Jayanth Naga Sai Pasupulati Peter Nagels Virat Nehru Boris Nelepo Andy Norton Veton Nurkollari Gabrielle O’Brien Darragh O’Donoghue Wilfred Okiche SvenErik Olsen Andreea Pătru Ant...

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...

Chinese independent cinema has long been associated with the term ‘underground cinema’ since its emergence in the 1990s. Due to its non-compliance to censorship, it has existed in the grey space between the aut...

There was an independent cinema in Folly Beach, South Carolina, that was showing Good Time (Josh and Benny Safdie, 2017). A film set in the marginal spaces of Queens? Count me in. I left the theater spellbound ...

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...

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...

b. September 22, 1946 (birthdate as stated on passport), Guangzhou, China While several filmmakers have become synonymous with specific genres, few have carved out as inimitable and identifiable a niche within...