Issue 51
(1) and Calanda: 40 Years Later">A Buñuel Scrapbook: The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel (1) and Calanda: 40 Years Later
Designed as a loosely chronological “scrapbook” marking the 25th anniversary of Luis Buñuel’s death in Mexico City, El Último guión: Buñuel en la memoria is
Moving through the Absence: Viviane Vagh’s Ground Zero NY, 2005
From there, faced with these large frescoes, the feeling of the past being wiped away, of its disappearing and the impression of ruins: of traces
Notes on Free Women/Femmes libres
In a field dominated by intellectual showmanship and hermetic eccentricity, Viviane Vagh’s filmmaking speaks with a voice as familiar as it is poetic. Her latest
Magical Transformations: A Conversation with Viviane Vagh
“There are lots of different identities in my genes”, says Viviane Vagh. We speak on the ’phone, she in Paris, me in Yorkshire, but either
Viviane Vagh and the Poetics of Disappearance, Or: A Portrait of Cinema as a Young Girl
A young girl on a sunny day. Gracefully, she comes and goes. Does she know she’s being filmed? Does she know that, as her image
Experimental Fusions: Viviane Vagh’s Beachcombers Installations
Viviane Vagh’s absorbing installation series, “Beachcombers”, is a celebration of fusion. Vagh explores the meeting points of natural elements, such as land and sea, of
My Son John and The Red Scare in Hollywood
Leo McCarey may be revered for his string of film masterpieces (Duck Soup, The Awful Truth, Love Affair, Going My Way, et al), but he
Confining Nature: Rites of Passage, Eco-Indigenes and the Uses of Meat in Walkabout
Gregory Stephens explores how the rites of passage chronicled in Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout contribute towards the film’s critique of the post-industrial world’s attitudes towards nature
Love and Social Marginality in Samson and Delilah
Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah has captured the world’s imagination in a way no Aboriginal film has done before. After a century of white filmmakers
The Trauma Film and British Romantic Cinema 1940-1960
Trauma has long played a key role in cinema. John Orr argues that “What is out there as waking nightmare in a dangerous world is