Issue 26
Infernal Affairs: High Concept in Hong Kong
Hong Kong's most ambitious blockbuster reveals shifts in the industrial logic of world cinema
Wim Wenders
Wilhelm Wenders b. August 14, 1945, Düsseldorf, Germany filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Born only a few months after the end of the
California Split
California Split (1974 USA 108 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod Co: Columbia Pictures Prod: Robert Altman, Joseph Walsh Dir: Robert Altman Scr: Joseph Walsh Phot:
The Book, the Goddess and the Hero: Sexual Politics in the Chinese Martial Arts Film
An examination into the martial arts genre that reveals the extent of its ambivalence and complexity toward questions of gender, femininity and the submissiveness of
Joel and Ethan Coen
Joel Coen: b. November 29, 1954, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA Ethan Coen: b. September 21, 1957, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources
Catch Me If You Can, Auto Focus, Far From Heaven and the Art of Retro Title Sequences
A look at the stylish heyday of title sequences in the 1950s and '60s - and some current films that playfully revisit this era
A City of Sadness
A City of Sadness (1989 Taiwan 157 mins) Source: Chinese Taipei Film Archive/Eracom Prod Co: 3-H Films/Era Prod: Chiu Fu-sheng Dir: Hou Hsiao-hsien Scr: Chu
The Atheist’s Shoah – Roman Polanski’s The Pianist
An analysis of Polanski's film in light of the question: can narrative cinema, with sensitivity and vision, conjure the complexity of history and, specifically, the
Joe Dante
b. November 28, 1946, Morristown, New Jersey, USA filmography bibliography web resources Although known chiefly for Gremlins (1984) and Innerspace (1987), the two films he
Beginning Again from Zero: Post-War Reconstruction: Germany Year Zero
Germany Year Zero (1947 Italy/West Germany/France 78 mins) Source: Goethe Institut Prod Co: Tevere/Sadfilm Prod, Dir: Roberto Rossellini Scr: Roberto Rossellini, Max Colpet, Carlo Lizzani