Issue 32
Letters
from Robert Daudelin, Bernard Eisenschitz, Paul Byrnes, Samuel Macgeorge, and James Leahy Responses to articles, and comments on any aspect of Senses of Cinema, should
Welcome to Issue 32 of our journal!
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
What is the Matrix? Cinema, Totality, and Topophilia
Leary maps the vertiginous images of “totality” presented in The Matrix and its sequels
Daily Reports from the 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival
• Festival Wrap-Up • Friday 6 August • Thursday 5 August • Wednesday 4 August • Monday 2 August • Sunday 1 August • Thursday
Dying at a Film Festival: The 6th Udine Far East Film Festival
Every year since 1999, a festival in a northern Italian town has played host to a week’s worth of the most popular films from East
Looking for a Common Ground: Cinema of the Other Europe: The Industry and Artistry of East Central European Film by Dina Iordanova
The last decade saw an increasing number of publications devoted to the cinemas of the ex-Soviet Bloc. However, most of these concentrated either on an
The New American Old West: Bruno Dumont’s Twentynine Palms
A newly-available sports utility vehicle, a new socio-political context and a new set of cinematic references inform Dumont's examination of masculine authority, human miscommunication and
The Joyless Street
The Joyless Street/Die Freudlose Gasse (1925 Germany 145 mins) Source: Munich Film Archive Prod Co: Sofar-Film Dir: G.W. Pabst Scr: Willy Haas, based on the
Idrissa Ouedraogo
b. January 21, 1954, Banfora, Burkina Faso Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources While constantly seeking to expand African audiences for his work,