Author Adrian Danks

b. 8 October 1897, Tbilisi, Georgia d. 4 December 1987, Los Angeles, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources “Nostalgia for places one has never seen” (1) In his ca...

The Silent Village (1943 Britain 36 mins) Prod Co: Crown Film Unit Prod, Dir, Scr: Humphrey Jennings Phot: Chick Fowle Ed: Stuart McAllister Sound: Jock May In his influential 1954 article, Lindsay An...

This annotation previously appeared in Senses of Cinema, no. 25, Mar–Apr 2003. Madame de… (1953 France 102 mins) Source: Film Alliance Prod Co: Franco-London Prod: Ralph Baum, Max Ophuls Dir: Max Oph...

This annotation previously appeared in Senses of Cinema, no. 1, Dec 1999. This essay first appeared in the Treasures from the French Embassy Collection monograph, published by the National Cinémathèque, ...

The Wind (1928 USA 80 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: MGM Dir: Victor Seastrom Scr: Frances Marion, based on the novel by Dorothy Scarborough Phot: John Arnold Ed: Conrad A. Nervig Art Dir: Cedric Gibbons,...

The Immortal Story (1968 France/Spain 63mins) Source: ScreenSound Prod Co: ORTF, Albina Films Prod: Micheline Rozan Dir, Scr: Orson Welles from novella by Isak Dinesen Phot: Willy Kurant Ed: Yolande Maur...

There's Always Tomorrow (1956 USA 84 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Universal International Prod: Ross Hunter Dir: Douglas Sirk Scr: Bernard C. Schoenfeld, based on a story by Ursula Parrott Phot: Russell ...

Rabbit Punch (1948 USA 7 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Warner Bros. Prod: Eddie Selzer Dir: Charles M. Jones Story: Tedd Pierce, Michael Maltese Anim: Phil Monroe, Ken Harris, Lloyd Vaughan, Ben Washam La...

The Small Back Room (1949 UK 108 mins) Source: BFI Prod Co: London Film Productions/The Archers Prod, Dir: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger Scr: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Nigel Balchin, based...

b. May 8, 1913, San Diego, California, USA d. May 4, 1984, Detroit, Michigan, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources It Can Happen Here! The World of Bob Clampett An unparalleled wackines...

Comanche Station (1960 USA 73 mins) Source: Sony Picture Classics Prod Co: Ranown Prod, Dir: Budd Boetticher Scr: Burt Kennedy Phot: Charles Lawton, Jnr Ed: Edwin Bryant Art Dir: Carl Anderson Mus Dir: Misch...

Late Autumn/Akibiyori (1960 Japan 125 mins) Source, Prod Co: Shochiku Films Dir: Yasujiro Ozu Scr: Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu, from the novel by Ton Satomi Phot: Yaharu Atsuta Ed: Yoshiyasu Hamamura Art Dir...

The Dante Quartet (1987 USA 7 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Filmmaker: Stan Brakhage One of dozens of hand-painted films that Brakhage completed in the last two decades of his life, The Dante Quartet can be ...

In the opening pages of the aptly titled Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris, Ginette Vincendeau discusses the photograph of Melville that graces her book's cover. The photograph shows the Stetson-wearin...

The Mascot/Puppet Love (1933 France 20 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Gelma-Films Filmmaker: Ladislaw Starewicz Ladislaw Starewicz (Starewitch) is perhaps the key figure in the history of stop-motion...

Vendredi soir (2002 France 90 mins) Source: CNC Prod Co: Arena Films/France 2 Cinéma Prod: Bruno Pesery Dir: Claire Denis Scr: Emmanuèle Bernheim, Claire Denis, from the novel by Bernheim Phot: Agnès God...

An overview of the work of filmmaker John Smith, and an appreciation of its humble, earthly qualities, its fine-tuned probing of the "local" world, the artist's relationship to this world and the film form itself.

Three Little Pigs (1933 USA 9 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Walt Disney Pictures Prod: Walt Disney Dir: Burt Gillett Anim: Art Babbitt, Norman Ferguson, Norman King, Dick Lundy, Fred Moore Mus: Frank C...

Despite an intriguing fact-based premise and Dennis Hopper, this new comedy about Frank Sinatra's visit to Australia lacks wit or resonance.

Spies (1943 USA 4 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: United States Army Signal Corps/Warner Brothers Dir: Charles M. Jones Scr: Theodor Geisel Spies is the third of 26 three to four minute cartoons featu...

City Girl (1930 USA 88 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Fox Film Corporation Dir: F. W. Murnau Scr: Berthold Viertel, Marion Orth from the play The Mad Turtle by Elliott Lester Phot: Ernest Palmer Ed: Kat...

La Bataille du Rail (1946 France 85 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: CGCF Prod, Dir: René Clément Scr: René Clément and Colette Audry, based on stories told to Audry by members of the Resistance P...

The outrage over the Australia-wide banning of Larry Clark's Ken Park (2002) forestalled much of the broader media's critical discussion of the 2003 Sydney Film Festival (SFF), both in terms of the quality ...

In this overview of de Toth's cinema, Danks details its uniqueness and complexity.

Ophuls was less interested in real things than in their reflections; he liked to film life indirectly, by 'ricochet.' For example the first treatment of Madame de…, rejected by the producers, planned that the...

b. June 30, 1940, Carranza, Spain filmography bibliography web resources Come Towards the Light: The Films of Victor Erice Everyone has the capacity to create and recreate within them. And a film doe...

Adrian Danks discusses the interventionist strategies at work in the 'home experimental films' of local and international female filmmakers including Merilee Bennett and Su Friedrich.

The Merry Widow (1925 USA 150 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: MGM Prod, Dir: Erich von Stroheim Scr: Benjamin Glazer, Erich von Stroheim, from the operetta by Franz Lehar Phot: Oliver Marsh Ed: Frank E. Hull...

Adrian Danks explores the complex collaborative relationships that define the Makhmalbaf filmmaking dynasty.

b. Jean-Pierre Grumbach b. Paris, France, October 20, 1917 d. Paris, France, August 2, 1973 filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Together Alone: The Outsider Cinema of Jean-Pie...

A Moment of Innocence (1996 Iran 78 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: MK2/Pakhshiran Prod: Abolfazi Alagheband Dir, Scr, Ed: Mohsen Makhmalbaf Phot: Mahmud Kalari Art Dir: Reza Alagheband Mus: Nadjid Entez...

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932 USA 97 mins) Source: Chapel Prod Co: Paramount Prod, Dir: Rouben Mamoulian Scr: Samuel Hoffenstein and Percy Heath, adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson's novella The Strange...

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, Ly...

Michael Powell b. September 30, 1905, Bekesbourne (Kent), England. d. February 19, 1990, Avening (Gloucestershire), England. Emeric Pressburger b. December 5, 1902, Miskolc, Hungary. d. February 5, 1...

Fellini's Roma (1972 Italy 128mins) 35mm Source: Potential Films Prod. Co: Ultra Films, Les Productions Artistes Associés Exec. Prod: Lamberto Pippia Prod: Turi Vasile Dir: Federico Fellini Scr & Sto...

The Immortal Story (1968 France/Spain 63mins) Source: ScreenSound Prod Co: ORTF, Albina Films Prod: Micheline Rozan Dir, Scr: Orson Welles from novella by Isak Dinesen Phot: Willy Kurant Ed: Yolande Maur...