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Senses of Cinema would like to apologise to both authors and readers for the lateness of this issue. Senses has undertaken a complete redesign of its website. We had hoped to launch issue 49 with a trial...

The Children of Marx and Coca-Cola – Jean-Luc Godard, Masculin féminin: 15 faits précis We believed that ideas were the most important thing; now they stand before us in rows, like dented cans of Coca-Cola....

As this issue goes on-line in this month of May, it would be remiss not to mention the 40th Anniversary of another seminal month of May long gone. We refer, of course, to the so-called ‘events’ of May 1968 ...

Film history is full of byways and back alleys, ‘little histories’ that weave their way on the margins and tributaries that traverse the canonised super-highways of film history. Leave the super-highway and...

Every day, walking up and down the main street of my town, I’d only have eyes for the cinemas, three that showed new films and changed programmes every Monday and Thursday, and a couple of fleapits with older...

Jonas Mekas has acquired the look of a wise old sage. It’s the look of someone who has seen much of the world and retained a sense of wonder – or, the look of someone who has spent a lifetime with his eye f...

In a rare 1967 monograph, now long out of print, the Italian director Valerio Zurlini published a poetic account of an evening in the company of the great painter Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski, 1908-2001), ...

In 2006, some big Hollywood hitters came out to play, by which we mean Clint Eastwood, Martin Scorsese and Michael Mann. Each of their recent films are highly represented in our 2006 World Poll, but, signif...

“Put an amen to it. There’s no more time for praying.” That is a line of dialogue from the famous burial scene in John Ford’s The Searchers (1956), quoted by Tim Cawkwell in his article, “Perfect Storm, Imp...

And so, Senses of Cinema has reached its 40th issue. To celebrate this milestone, the journal has collaborated with ten artists from the prominent dotmov media arts collective to pay tribute to ten of the w...

Certain films are like time capsules, or so they seem to us in hindsight. Libido (1973) being a case in point. As a four-part film with episodic variations on a theme, it has its antecedents in European por...

As expected, this current issue of Senses of Cinema contains the 2005 World Poll. As old as Senses itself, this is the sixth such edition of the ‘year in review’ poll. Inevitably, it has changed and muta...

Cameron Crowe: The lore is that Lubitsch died in the arms of a prostitute, is that true? Billy Wilder: No. Not in the arms. After they were through. He had finished with the lady, and he had gone into the ba...

One of the most anticipated dates in the local cinephile's calendar of events is the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF). Fortuitously, this issue of Senses of Cinema comes online almost concurrently w...

The title to the opening article in this current issue of the journal, “A Matter of Time, A Labour of Love”, may also well serve to delineate the twin constraints under which this issue was produced. Little...

Now we are five! Into the second half of the first decade of the twenty-first century and changes are afoot for this periodical. In December 1999, the first issue of Senses of Cinema appeared online and her...

Here in Australia, this month has seen Prime Minister John Howard and his conservative government re-elected with an increased majority, despite widely expressed dismay over our involvement with the disaste...

Marvelling at a scene in The Dreamers in which an auditorium of students sit bug-eyed at a screening of Shock Corridor, Maximilian Le Cain writes in this issue “...Bertolucci emphasises the energy with which th...

For this issue, we considered launching a wide-ranging investigation into the current state of Australian film culture. Then we realised this would bore everyone to tears. The decline of public broadcasting, th...

As in previous years, our first issue for 2004 leads off with a collection of lists of the best films of the last 12 months, by a wide range of cinephiles and critics. We're honoured by the unprecedented nu...

In recent weeks, members of the Australian film and television industry have been up in arms at the possibility of Australia's cultural industry being undermined by current free trade agreements with the US...

A number of articles here approach the outer limits of cinema: cinema outside the space of the movie theatre; cinema where the focus is no longer on the screen (Anthony McCall's Line Describing a Cone ); ci...

Recent months have been marked by two well-publicised controversies around the issue of freedom of speech in Australia. Firstly, there was the appalling decision by the Board of Review and the Office of Fil...

By chance more than design, this issue has a sombre cast to it. Some of the films discussed here explore contemporary scenarios of social alienation and sexual abjection; others touch on the historical enor...

But first of all he looked for the woman's face, at the end of the jetty. He ran toward her. And when he recognized the man who had trailed him since the underground camp, he understood there was no way to es...

A significant section of this issue is devoted to the year just passed. It's more then a little difficult, and somewhat misleading, to attempt a summary or generalisation about a year in film especially whe...

In a recent French documentary profiling female directors, Women Behind the Camera (Jean-Marie Nizan, 2001), Agnès Varda observes, “Little by little, by studying or with a bit of cheek, women have invaded t...

There is nothing connected with the staging of a motion picture that a woman cannot do as easily as a man. - Alice Guy-Blaché, 1913 As editors of the Special Women's Issue of Senses of Cinema, we could not h...

Senses of Cinema is growing and changing. Our philosophy of cinema remains the same: to stay outside the mainstream system of distribution and promotion that rules public film culture, and to champion what ...

Parts of this article are now hosted on the PANDORA archive of the National Library of Australia and Partners. Several key threads make their way through this issue: the theme of nation and identity; of ...

During a recent film radio show, a well-known local film commentator threw to his listeners an intriguing, provocative question: how on earth did David Lynch convince a bunch of hard-nosed business folk ...

Well, it's hard to believe yet another year has just passed. Banal observations aside, it seems that the more technologically advanced Western society becomes, the faster the pace of everyday life: greate...

In this issue, Senses of Cinema reflects on recent events in America and the integral role played by the media in the representation and experience of these events. There's no doubt that any attempt to 'read...

The relation between cinema and reality changed on September 11. All distinction between screen fantasy and the crises of history seemed to disappear in a flash. Immediately, people registered the horror they w...

The heart of this issue is the John Cassavetes spotlight. The range of voices, thoughts and approaches to discussing his films' unique style and legacy in this issue and in a related dossier in Canadian fi...

Is it Christmas in July or is this the Film Festivals issue? Either way you look at it, festival fever is about to hit the cities of Melbourne and Brisbane. A month prior, Sydney recently closed its majo...