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When writing on the modern figure of the flâneur, Charles Baudelaire’s description sometimes gives this figure of the city-stroller making his way down the boulevards of 19th Century Paris the attributes of a c...

Feature image: Michelangelo Antonioni during the filming of Chung Kuo: Cina (China) “It was a harsh and courteous battle that had neither winners or losers. A compromise came out of it, and the film that I f...

To coincide with the 2013 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), Senses of Cinema has commissioned a series of articles that cover two particularly important and vibrant strands of its vast program: a sm...

La Notte (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1961) This issue of Senses is dedicated to the memory of Nicola White (1964-2013). Nicola – or “Nicki” as she was affectionately known to friends and colleagues – joined Se...

Contents Darragh O’Donoghue on Ballad of Narayama  Brian Darr on Carmen Comes Home  Gregory Dolgopolov on Khrustalyov, My Car!  Tara Judah on Comrades  Hamish Ford on Two or Three Things I Know Abou...

THE ENTRIES PART ONE Antti Alanen Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Sean Axmaker Martyn Bamber Michael Bartlett Paolo Bertolin Pamela Biénzobas Cis Bierinckx Yvette Biro James Brown...

Geoff Gardner Antony I. Ginnane Chiranjit Goswami Jaime Grijalba Lee Hill Alexander Horwath Florent Houde Peter Hourigan Cerise Howard Christoph Huber Dominik Kamalzadeh Daniel Kasman Christop...

Peter Nagels Brad Nguyen Andy Norton Darragh O’Donohue Michael Pattison David Pearson Antoni Peris David Phelps Jit Phokaew Matías Piñeiro Phoebe Pua Bérénice Reynaud Marcos Ribas de Faria Pe...

Amour What an odd event the European Film Awards is. Recently broadcast, the European Film Awards this year celebrated its Silver Jubilee edition. Like the Eurovision Song Contest, it has a revolving door p...

Contents Love, Death, Truth–Amour by Roy Grundmann The Way Wakamatsu Chose His Own Fate: Political Mortality and Radical Dramaturgy by Philip Brophy Quotidian Melancholy: Marcel Hanoun’s Une simple his...

Contents Jorge Mourinha DocLisboa Pierce Conran on Busan Michael Laff on Busan Daniel Fairfax and Joshua Sperling on New York Pamela Cohn on CPH:DOX Bérénice Reynaud on Vancouver Ben Cho on Lisbon &...

The Battle of Chile José Sarmiento on The Battle of Chile Christopher Sharrett on Nostalgia for the Light Louise Sheedy on Salvador Allende Lee Hill on The Pinochet Case Gino Moliterno on Investigation ...

Contents  Nicholas Godfrey on The long game: Conversations with independent iconoclasts Roger Corman, George A. Romero, and Charles Burnett Douglas Gomery on America’s Corporate Art: The Studio Authorsh...

He seemed immortal, Chris Marker. For so long the basic empirical data of his life – his name, date and place of birth, his private identity – were all up to rumour, speculation and second-guessing. Mystery...

Chris Marker Special Dossier: My Letter from Siberia by Murray Pomerance Séance “C.M.” by Gavin Keeney Montage as Resonance: Chris Marker and the Dialectical Image by Daniel Fairfax Chris Marker...

Contents: Luke Buckmaster on Dead End Drive-In Kit Harvey on Red Hill Lesley Speed on Ants in His Pants Adrian Danks on The Overlanders Stephen Gaunson on Bitter Springs Robert Picking on The Tracker T...

Holy Motors Contents: Jorge Mourinha on Vila do Conde International Short Film Festival Sally Shafto on Khouribga Bill Mousoulis on Karlovy Vary Alison Frank on New Horizons Paul Macovaz on Sydney D...

The Hourglass Sanatorium Contents: Tony Williams on The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks Shari Kizirian on The Girl with the Hat Box David Melville on The Hourglass Sa...

Peter Lorre: Face Maker Contents: Mary Harrod on Richard Linklater Mike Walsh on The Shadowcatchers: A History of Cinematography in Australia Richard Martin on David Lynch Todd Herzog on Peter Lorre: ...

Contents: “Yes, We Must Improve Ourselves”: Damsels in Distress by Peter Tonguette April and August: Moonrise Kingdom by Max Nelson Blood from a Stone: Go Go Tales by Murray Pomerance Pure West: Dri...

To coincide with the 2012 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), Senses of Cinema has commissioned a series of articles that cover many different aspects of the program ranging from new Iranian cinema an...

Contents: Manjari Kaul on The Burmese Harp Darragh O'Donoghue on Kokoro Margaret Barton-Fumo on Kanto Wanderer David Melville on Flowers & the Angry Waves Adam Bingham on Profound Desires of the Gods...

Contents: Michelle Langford on A Social History of Iranian Cinema: volumes 1 & 2 Daniele Rugo on Les Ècarts du Cinema Justin Owen Rawlins on Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Po...

Contents: Vera Brunner-Sung on the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Daniel Fairfax on Cannes Cerise Howard on Fribourg Mike Walsh on the Hong Kong International Film Festival Yun Mi Hwang on Jeonju ...

Once upon a time in France, long, long before The Artist and all it represents was even a blimp on distant horizons, film culture had an altogether different dimension and orientation. That orientation can be s...

“If ever anyone has the courage and the time to write a great chronicle of the French New Wave, I suspect that Jacques Rivette’s L’amour fou will emerge as the climax and the crisis, the moment when it beco...

Dear readers At Senses we have recently been busy with a new project, which you may have already heard about. The team at Senses of Cinema has recently launched our very first Pozible campaign. For those of ...

“Certainly there was a misunderstanding, and I have been hesitant to speak about The Matrix until now.” So said Jean Baudrillard about the Matrix trilogy in a 2003 interview. He was, of course, addressing the ...

A father proposes to his teenage daughter a trip together to Death Valley, California. He with dreams of Erich von Strohiem’s silent classic Greed (1923) on his mind (specifically the famous final act staged on...

In dreams I walk with you In dreams I talk to you In dreams you're mine all of the time We're together in dreams, in dream –Roy Orbison, “In Dreams” Were dreams the “virtual worlds” of a previous era? Or a...

German filmmaker Christian Petzold speaking about fellow German director Dominik Graf had this to say: “Graf’s Sisyphus work is to keep making a film here and there that reminds us of how wonderful streets u...

I’m sure the irony is not lost on our readers that this new issue of the journal, substantially devoted to two filmmakers, Eric Rohmer and Solrun Hoaas, who both passed away in recent months, coincides with the...

The very first edition of Senses of Cinema appeared on line in December 1999, so it is appropriate that our final issue for 2009 appears, if only just, exactly to the month ten years on. By pure coincidence, 20...

After decades of being little more than an exotic location for overseas filmmakers and production companies, Australia was shocked in 1971 with the release of two films that would forever change all notions...

Late in 1999, a Melbourne based independent filmmaker decided to take a well-earned hiatus from his prolific filmmaking activities and thought it would be a good idea to start up a web-based film journal. He so...