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Seldom does a singular song shape an entire film’s atmosphere, nature and subtext as completely as “California Dreaming” (1965) by The Mamas and the Papas does in Wong Kar-Wai’s directorial masterpiece Chunghin...

A while back, Senses of Cinema offered a mini-dossier on Wong Kar-wai's cinema on the occasion of the release of his In the Mood for Love (2000). A number of writers were invited to pick a word that for them in...

(Wang Jiawei) b. 1958, Shanghai, China. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Wong Kar-wai is undeniably an auteur of striking and salient cinema, standing apart from much main...

An informed and sensitive reflection on Wong's latest film.

A collage of reflections by fans, critics and writers from around the globe.

Commissioned to celebrate the 60^th Anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, this article reflects on the relative merits of the many short films contributed by noted international filmmakers such as Wong Kar-wai, David Cronenberg, Roman Polanski, Jane Campion and Tsai Ming-liang.

An analysis of the themes of time and memory in Wong Kar-waiís 2046, and how the film forms a trilogy of sorts with In the Mood for Love and Days of Being Wild.

Leonor Teles’s mirror-surfaced, headily constructed Baan opens at a moment of contemplation. Against the backdrop of a lilac-infused blue cityscape of the King Power MahaNakhon, the legendary Bangkok skyscraper...

Gilberto Perez’s The Eloquent Screen has less a thesis than a theme. It doesn’t argue for the importance of rhetoric in film; more it muses over how it can allow us to see films in a particular way with the aid...

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 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...

Locarno is, and can feel, half a world away from Hollywood, but much of the press talk leading up to this year’s 76th Locarno Film Festival concerned the concurrent SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild strikes in the US...

The Jeonju International Film Festival has gone through a transformation in its now 24-year history, one that has some overlap with the broader movement of Korean cinema over this same time period. The festival...

Pirated films found a place in the social and cultural sphere of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh during the 1980s. State controlling the access to and the viewing of films is nothing new. As Amos Vogel stat...

Over the course of nearly two decades, Alexandre O. Philippe has celebrated and explored the iconic figures of the seventh art, from Lucas and Ford to Hitchcock and Lynch. His unique approach not only reveals n...

When describing the emotion he puts into his work, director Trần Anh Hùng states that he wants audiences to be able to understand his overall life perspective when watching his films. He wants them to have an e...

ENTRIES IN PART 1: Antti Alanen Hussain Al-Dubaisi Francisco Algarín Navarro Algitya Algi Michael J. Anderson Martyn Bamber Jennifer Lynde Barker Kyle Barrowman Mike Bartlett Nicolas Bartlett Arta Ba...

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...

ENTRIES IN PART 7: Peter Nagels Andy Norton Veton Nurkollari Darragh O’Donoghue Roberto Oggiano Wilfred Okiche Andreea Patru Andrew F Peirce Jesse PercivalAntoni Peris-Grao Andréa Picard Milan Pribis...

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...

ENTRIES IN PART 1: Antti Alanen Victor Alicea Francisco Algarín Navarro Salvador Amores Geoff Andrew Cinema Antiviral. Martyn Bamber Jennifer Lynde Barker Arta Barzanji Amarsanaa Battulga Mike Bartl...

ENTRIES IN PART 5: Jonathan Mackris Bob Manning Łukasz Mańkowski Miguel Marías Jack McCulloch Tim McQueen Adrian Mendizabal Jamie Mendonça Douglas Messerli Stefano Miraglia Olaf Möller Marcel Müller...

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...

“For filmmakers, it’s simple, we just want to work with great actors and Song Kang-ho is such a great actor that it’s fearful how good he is…” Bong Joon-ho Bong Joon-ho's auteurism is defined by his rich arti...

ENTRIES IN PART 6: Peter Nagels Walter Neto Andy Norton Veton Nurkollari Alison O'Daniel Darragh O'Donoghue Andreea Pătru Antoni Peris Andréa Picard Milan Pribisic Catherine Putman Bérénice Reynau...

ENTRIES IN PART 7: Dan Sallitt Jack Sargeant Mark Seman Sarah Scales Andrea Schmidt Howard Schumann Pummy Sharma Christopher Sikich Valerie Soe Mark Spratt Madalina Stefan Brad Stevens Iván Suáre...

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...

The 58th New York Film Festival, which took place September 17 to October 11, was inevitably unique in a year of disease and unrest. Taking place at drive-ins and online, NYFF did what was necessary to let the ...

“Lagos na wa!” Anyone who has ever lived in Lagos has uttered this phrase at one point or other. Loosely translated from Pidgin English as “Lagos is overwhelming”, the phrase attempts to capture the permanen...

I believe in ghosts, vampires and public employees That a certain morning fly away from their houses. Because I am a man in love. — Luis Caicedo Places of Anger and Desire Female directors provided rewardi...

b. 10 October, 1906, Shanghai d. 31 January, 1951, Hong Kong Fei Mu was a director whose life coincided with huge upheavals in the history of China. A man of deep intellect and a love of his country, he was...

Drawing on Agnès Varda’s practice of engaging characters dialectically with their environments, I intend to explore how Jacquot de Nantes (1991) and The Gleaners & I (2000) have codified skin as a phenomeno...

This article argues that establishing the screen city begins with the script, and the author makes a case study of her own screenplay, set in an alternative Melbourne where gender hierarchies are reversed. Draw...

The 41st Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) was launched amidst political turmoil and much soul searching about the state of the local film industry. While tales of the declining fortunes of Hong Kon...

In the fall 2016, US film festivals on the West Coast had the foresight, the clout and the good luck to uncover some significant gold nuggets: Telluride world premiered Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight, and AFI FEST P...

ENTRIES IN PART 1: Australian Film Institute Research Collection Francisco Algarín Navarro Julien Allen Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Sam Ankenbauer Rowena Santos Aquino Luke Aspell Sean Axmaker ...