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

Thank God We Don't Have a Pope: Habemus Papam, Moretti's Apocalypse

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

“Ah! The cruelty of Cannes!”: The 65th Cannes Film Festival 2012

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

Nollywood: The Video Phenomenon in Nigeria edited by Pierre Barrot translated by Lynn Taylor

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

The Vanguard of Marketa Lazarová

Philippe Grandrieux

Luchino Visconti

Chantal Akerman

Sergei Eisenstein

Alanis Obomsawin

Author Randy Malamud

Randy Malamud

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