Issue 58 | March 2011
Welcome to Issue 58 of our journal
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
Senso
Released in 1954, Senso was Visconti’s fourth feature and is recognised as a milestone in the director’s career. Not only did it mark a decisive
Le Amiche
There is a freshness to Le Amiche that will always surprise new generations of moviegoers. An early feature by Michelangelo Antonioni, it introduces us to
A Woman Under the Influence
A Woman Under the Influence is a rarity. It manages to be both an incisive commentary on sexual politics, and one of the great heterosexual
The Awful Truth and the Smallest Injustice in Film History
In accepting his “Best Director” Oscar statuette for The Awful Truth, Leo McCarey famously opined that Academy voters had given him the award for the
Ball of Fire
Ball of Fire is not Howard Hawks’ best comedy. Compared with the director’s greatest achievements within the genre, Twentieth Century (1934), Bringing Up Baby (1938),
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek
American films of the 1940s were far different from their predecessors of the 1920s and 1930s. Brash upstart comics from radio and vaudeville who found
My Man Godfrey
While William Powell’s eponymous butler in My Man Godfrey is characterised as the “forgotten man”, perhaps the film’s director, Gregory La Cava (1892-1952) might more
Nothing Sacred
“Nothing Sacred solves no peace problems, Nothing Sacred solves no labour problems, Nothing Sacred solves absolutely nothing but your entertainment problems”, the film’s promotional trailer
Rooms with a View: Watching John Smith’s Hotel Dairies
Watching John Smith’s playfully inquisitive, profoundly interiorised and often “hushed” Hotel Diaries is a curious and sometimes unsettling experience. Comprised of eight episodes (though the