Author Randy Malamud

Randy Malamud

Randy Malamud is Regents’ Professor of English at Georgia State University in Atlanta. He is the author of nine books, including The Language of Modernism (UMI, 1989), Reading Zoos: Representations of Animals and Captivity (Macmillan/NYU Press, 1998), Poetic Animals and Animal Souls (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003) and The Importance of Elsewhere: The Globalist Humanist Tourist (Intellect/University of Chicago Press, 2018). He has published numerous essays on film in The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Point, Film Quarterly, Truthout, Spring and Film International.

Confronting Austrian history at the Diagonale: Making Up for Lost Time

Randy Malamud

June 2018

Festival Reports

Issue 87

If Austrian film is less renowned than some other European cinema, still, it is a valuable and eclectic duchy of its own, and the Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film impressively curates and promotes this...

You Live Till You Die: Fatih Akin’s Hesitant Vigilante

The Doors of Reception: Notes Toward a Psychedelic Film Investigation

Darkness Itself Made Plastic: The Forms and Formlessness of Jacques Rivette’s La Belle Noiseuse

Valeska Grisebach’s Western: an unacknowledged remake of Samuel Fuller’s Run of the Arrow

Stray Images, Inside-Outside: On Tsai Ming Liang’s Stray Dogs

Cold Wars: The 2018 Cannes Film Festival

Breaking Down Borders in the Midwest: True/False 2018

Finding the Forest Through the Trees: The 64th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen

New Achievements, New Challenges: The 20th Far East Film Festival

A Girl’s Own Adventure, or Something – but Not the Same Thing – for Everyone: The 19th Melbourne Queer Film Festival

Styles of Substance: The Extraordinary Image: Orson Welles, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick, and the Reimagining of Cinema, by Robert P. Kolker

Mind of a Movie Critic: Two Cheers for Hollywood, by Joseph McBride

Face, Flesh, Film: The Face on Film by Noa Steimatsky

Cinema, the Art of Artificial Darkness: Artificial Darkness: An Obscure History of Modern Art and Media, by Noam Elcott

Returning to the Movie Theatre: Roland Barthes’ Cinema by Philip Watts and La nuit sera noire et blanche by Jean Narboni

The Mercenary (Sergio Corbucci, 1968)

Comedy and the Castratrice: Věra Chytilová’s Traps (1998)

Destiny (Fritz Lang, 1921)

Sabata (Gianfranco Parolini, 1969): The Best of the Bad

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort

Philippe Grandrieux

Luchino Visconti

Chantal Akerman

Sergei Eisenstein

Dennis Hopper

Author Randy Malamud

Randy Malamud

Confronting Austrian history at the Diagonale: Making Up for Lost Time