Welcome to issue 72 of our journal the editors October 2014 Editorial This issue is dedicated to one of the true legends of Australian screen culture, John Flaus, who turned 80 in April this year. The extensive “tribute” dossier that dominates this edition of Senses of Cinema mar...
Welcome to Issue 71 of our journal the editors July 2014 Editorial Issue 71 sees a new Senses of Cinema presented to the world! After many months in development, we’re very pleased to share with you our newly designed website. It offers an enhanced navigational experience and ...
Welcome to Issue 70 of our journal the editors March 2014 Editorial Readers may find it odd at first to see Federico Fellini’s name appear as an author on the content’s page of our current issue – perhaps for no other reason than the fact the Italian director passed away in 199...
Welcome to Issue 69 of our Journal the editors December 2013 Editorial Frederick Wiseman’s latest film, At Berkeley, and Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell both screened at this years Toronto International Film Festival. John Dentino’s For I Know My Weakness screened at the New Orlean...
Welcome to Issue 68 of our journal the editors September 2013 Editorial 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...
Welcome to Issue 67 of our journal the editors July 2013 Editorial 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...
Welcome to Issue 66 of our journal the editors March 2013 Editorial 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...
Welcome to Issue 65 of our journal the editors December 2012 Editorial 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...
Welcome to Issue 64 of our journal the editors September 2012 Editorial 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...
Welcome to Issue 62 of our journal the editors April 2012 Editorial 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...
Welcome to Issue 61 of our journal the editors December 2011 Editorial “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...
Welcome to Issue 60 of our journal the editors October 2011 Editorial 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 ...
Welcome to Issue 59 of our journal the editors June 2011 Editorial “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 ...
Welcome to Issue 58 of our journal Senses of Cinema March 2011 Editorial Tsai Ming-liang loves movie theatre chairs. Addressing an audience at the National Central University in Taiwan following a screening of his film Face, he is quick to point out to them that the seats in the scr...
Welcome to issue 57 of our journal the editors December 2010 Editorial 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...
Welcome to Issue 56 of our journal the editors October 2010 Editorial 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...
Welcome to Issue 55 of our journal the editors July 2010 Editorial 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...
Welcome to Issue 54 of our journal the editors April 2010 Editorial 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...
Welcome to Issue 53 of our journal! the editors December 2009 Editorial 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...
Welcome to issue 51 of our journal! the editors July 2009 Editorial 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...
Welcome to our 50th Anniversary Issue! the editors April 2009 Editorial 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...
Welcome to Issue 49 of our Journal … Finally! the editors February 2009 Editorial 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...
Welcome to issue 48 of our journal! the editors August 2008 Editorial 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....
Welcome to issue 47 of our journal! the editors May 2008 Editorial 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 ...
Welcome to issue 46 of our journal! the editors March 2008 Editorial 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...
Welcome to issue 45 of our journal! the editors November 2007 Editorial 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...
Welcome to issue 44 of our journal! the editors August 2007 Editorial 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...
Welcome to issue 43 of our journal! the editors May 2007 Editorial 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), ...
Welcome to issue 42 of our journal! the editors February 2007 Editorial 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...
Welcome to Issue 41 of our journal! the editors November 2006 Editorial “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...
Welcome to Issue 40 of our journal! the editors July 2006 Editorial 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...
Welcome to Issue 39 of our journal! the editors May 2006 Editorial 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...
Welcome to Issue 38 of our journal! the editors February 2006 Editorial 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...
Welcome to Issue 37 of our journal! the editors October 2005 Editorial 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...
Welcome to Issue 36 of our journal! the editors July 2005 Editorial 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...
