Issue 53
2009 World Poll
Numerous contributors from across the globe offer their selections and thoughts on their movie-going experiences in 2009. Readers should find it a fascinating overview of
Nollywood: The Video Phenomenon in Nigeria edited by Pierre Barrot translated by Lynn Taylor
This is an essential book on one of the most explosive film movements in recent memory, rivalling the prodigious output of Iranian films in the
Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch edited by Joram ten Brink
Joram ten Brink’s interest in French Ethnographer-Cinéaste Jean Rouch’s (1918-2004) work “resurfaced” after the latter’s death in Africa. In October 2004, he organised the highly
Correspondence
Letter from Pip Chodorov in response to Pedro Blas Gonzalez's article on 2001: A Space Odyssey
Notes on Some Limits of Technicolor: The Antonioni Case
Whilst looking at the long and illustrious history of Technicolor films, Murray Pomerance uncovers the remarkable uses Michelangelo Antonioni put the Technicolor process through in
Godard’s Comic Strip Mise-en-Scène
Taking the three films Made in USA, La Chinoise and Tout va bien as a focus, Drew Morton looks at how Jean-Luc Godard (and Jean-Pierre
Chiaroscuro: Caravaggio, Bazin, Storaro
André Bazin and Vittorio Storaro may make for strange bedfellows, but by bringing the fabled theorist and the equally fabled cinematographer into ‘dialogue’ with one
Orson Welles – Painter
Citizen Kane, rightly so, owes much of its fame to its deep-focus effects, but Orson Welles’ staging of shots also points to a whole host
(1)">On Straub-Huillet’s Une Visite au Louvre (1)
Sally Shafto’s introduction sets the context for the transcript to the Straub’s film that follows
Transcript to Straub & Huillet’s A Visit to the Louvre
Transcript of the dialogue, and description of visual and sound tracks to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s 2004 film on Cezanne