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      “A Film is a Synthesis”: An Interview with Ventura Pons

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      The Cinema Hypothesis: Teaching Cinema in the Classroom and Beyond, by Alain Bergala

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Author Adrian Danks

Adrian Danks

Adrian Danks is Director of Higher Degree Research in the School of Media and Communication, RMIT University. He is also co-curator of the Melbourne Cinémathèque and was an editor of Senses of Cinema from 2000 to 2014. He has published hundreds of articles on various aspects of cinema and is the editor of A Companion to Robert Altman (Wiley-Blackwell, 2015).

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The Turning of the Earth: Elia Kazan’s Wild River

Adrian Danks
March 2018
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 86
Although Elia Kazan is most well known for films such as A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), On the Waterfront (1954) and East of Eden (1955) that feature heightened, often hyper-masculine and definitively...
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Before On the Beach: Melbourne on Film in the 1950s

Adrian Danks
December 2017
Screening Melbourne
Issue 85
“City images are historical creations, and are often more resistant to change than the modernisers anticipate, although the resistance may be stronger at some times than others.”- Graeme...
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1985: Come and See (Elem Klimov)

Adrian Danks
December 2017
100 Years of Soviet Cinema
Issue 85
Come and See (1985 Soviet Union 142 mins) Source: AFTRS Prod, Dir: Elem Klimov Scr: Klimov and Ales Adamovich Phot: Alexei Rodionov Mus: O. Yanchenko, Mozart Cast: Alexei Kravchenko, Olga Mironova,...
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The Light on the Chemical Plant: Raoul Walsh’s White Heat (1949)

Adrian Danks
September 2017
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 84
The careers of Raoul Walsh and James Cagney were never quite the same after White Heat (1949). As various commentators have suggested, this propulsive, machine-tooled, sardonically funny and often-brutal crime...
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All Boxed Up: Barton Fink (Joel and Ethan Coen, 1991)

Adrian Danks
March 2017
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 82
Barton Fink (1991), the Coen brothers’ fourth feature, represents a departure from their earlier excavations of classical American genre cinema, Blood Simple. (1984) and Miller’s Crossing (1990), as well...
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The Man in Black: The Night of the Hunter (1955)

Adrian Danks
March 2017
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
An earlier version of this article first appeared in CTEQ: Annotations on Film published in Metro 109 (1997): 49-50. The Night of the Hunter is a film that I am little frightened to write about; scared that...
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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 television in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Altman has a...
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All the Histories: A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard by Tom Conley and T. Jefferson Kline (eds)

Adrian Danks
September 2015
Book Reviews
Issue 76
In the opening paragraph of their introduction to A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard, Tom Conley and T. Jefferson Kline situate a particular cinephilic response to the great Swiss filmmaker’s work in terms of...
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The Cost of Living: Philippe Garrel’s J’entends plus la guitare

Adrian Danks
September 2015
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 76
Philippe Garrel’s J’entends plus la guitare (1991) is an intimate, unadorned roman à clef quietly but intensely covering an expanse of years in the relationship between Marianne (the extraordinary Johanna...
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The Sound of Silence: Jean Pierre Melville’s Le silence de la mer

Adrian Danks
April 2015
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 74
This is a revised version of an article that first appeared in CTEQ: Annotations on Film published in Metro, no. 199, 1999, pp. 96-97. “For twenty-five centuries, Western knowledge has tried to look upon...
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“Keep the coffee hot, Hugo”: A Celebration for John Flaus (1)

Adrian Danks
October 2014
John Flaus Dossier
Issue 72
This special tribute dossier is devoted to one of the true legends of Australian screen culture, the inimitable and mercurial John Flaus. It marks a little over 60 years since the start of John’s involvement...
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Elsa la rose

Adrian Danks
June 2014
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Issue 71
In 1965, Agnès Varda made a short, intense documentary on the then almost 40-year relationship between the French writers Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Her film predominantly and characteristically focuses...
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