adrian-danks
“The Raw and the Cooked”: The Peculiar Poetics of Nicolas Philibert’s Un animal, des animaux
Filmed between 1991 and 1994, Nicolas Philibert’s Un animal, des animaux is a gently extraordinary documentary that follows the refurbishment and eventual reopening of the
Don’t Rain on Ava Gardner Parade
“I’m here to make a film about the end of the world… and this seems to be exactly the right place for it.” – Ava
Rooms with a View: Watching John Smith’s Hotel Dairies
Watching John Smith’s playfully inquisitive, profoundly interiorised and often “hushed” Hotel Diaries is a curious and sometimes unsettling experience. Comprised of eight episodes (though the
Back to the Old House: Krzysztof Zanussi’s Family Life
“The image of a Socialist paradise is a false one, false because it is static. What is beautiful in life is movement, development, change, part
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,
The End of Innocence: Ernst Lubitsch’s The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg is one of Lubitsch’s most surprising, nostalgic and emotionally engaging films. It represents a “return to Germany” after four
Introduction
Arthur (1938-) and Corinne Cantrill (1928-) started their extraordinary filmmaking careers in 1960, and remain two of the most significant and productive figures in the
“The film we had imagined”, or: Anna and Jean-Luc Go To the Movies
What is the particular dynamic at play in films featuring movie-going? Adrian Danks explores the film-within-a-film mode in range of movies, everything from Sullivan’s Travels
Who’s That Knocking at My Door
“Like Samuel Fuller, Scorsese fills his movies with personal talismans; like Werner Herzog, he riddles them with documentary subtexts.” (1) Martin Scorsese’s first feature, Who’s
A Fuller View: The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I’ll Kill You! by Lisa Dombrowski
Lisa Dombrowski’s The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I’ll Kill You! is an important contribution to the growing scholarship on and broader cultural