Too Cool for School: Social Problems in Elephant Tony McKibbin July 2004 Feature Articles Not just another teen movie: beyond the Columbine massacre, Van Sant's latest work explores the philosophical problem of identity.
Chaos and Control: The Cinema of Emir Kusturica: Notes from the Underground by Goran Gocic Tony McKibbin April 2004 Book Reviews Some filmmakers' work possess such vitality the films have the effect of energising or frazzling the viewer. This is often because the world created has a closed off, insular feel, where the director's vision i...
Energy Unleashed: Leos Carax by Fergus Daly and Garin Dowd Tony McKibbin April 2004 Book Reviews Fergus Daly and Garin Dowd's book is on the one hand a study of Leos Carax's work; on the other an attempt, if you like, to make British criticism more French. It's that the latter comes very much out of the fo...
Durgnatian Doublethink Tony McKibbin May 2002 A Festschrift for Raymond Durgnat I must confess I've learned more about films from intensely spiritual writers – Bazin, Agel and Paul Schrader – than from Marxist writing (…) Is it because Christian theories strive to be sensitive, whereas M...