Coeur fidèle

I just want to say this: you have to love it and hate it at the same time – and love it as much as you hate it. This fact alone proves that the cinema is an art with a very well-defined personality of its own. ...

Across the Borderline

Barbarosa (1982) was the first feature to be made in America by any of the key figures of the Australian film “renaissance” of the 1970s. It sits alongside the initial American films of Gillian Armstrong, Bruce...

Humphrey Jennings by Keith Beattie

Keith Beattie’s monograph on the seminal British documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings is a significant contribution to the scholarship on this fascinating, mercurial and multi-faceted artist, as well as on B...
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Petulia, mon amour

This is a revised version of an article that first appeared in CTEQ: Annotations on Film no. 4, 1996. Petulia (1968 USA 105 mins) Prod Co: Petersham Pictures/Warner Bros.-Seven Arts Prod: Raymond Wagn...