Author Hamish Ford

4–22 June 2008 The 2008 Sydney Film Festival was a bigger event – longer, and with more films – than previously, and the first year the festival has included work “in competition”. I managed...

8-24 June 2007 By almost any measure, the 2007 Sydney Film Festival has been the best since at least 2004. The range of films was good, even if there weren’t an abundance of surprises; many of the...

Paris nous appartient/Paris Belongs to Us (1961 France 140 mins) Prod Co: Ajym Films/Les Films du Carrosse Prod: Roland Nonin Dir: Jacques Rivette Scr: Jacques Rivette, Jean Gruault Phot: Charles Bitsch...

It seems extraordinary that Alberto Elena’s The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami is the first book in English devoted to a reference-style coverage of Kiarostami’s filmmaking career, even if it is a translated...

June 10–25, 2005 Despite procuring State Government funding, the 52nd Sydney Film Festival featured a reduced number of films (170) compared to previous years, the most notable effect of the...

Deleuze's concept of the "time-image" offers insights into Antonioni's still-radical treatment of time and space.

Summer with Monika (1952 Sweden 96 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Svensk Filmindustri Prod: Allan Ekelund Dir: Ingmar Bergman Scr: Ingmar Bergman and Per Anders Flogelström, from a story by...

b. July 14, 1918, Uppsala, Sweden d. July 30, 2007, Fårö, Sweden filmography bibliography web resources The radical intimacy of Bergman Prologue: facing the void I came out of that movie house...