Issue 63 | July 2012
For Wrocław and the World: The 12th New Horizons Film Festival
Some festivals take place below the radar of a city: local residents are barely aware that there is a film festival on, and only films
Features
Contents: “Yes, We Must Improve Ourselves”: Damsels in Distress by Peter Tonguette April and August: Moonrise Kingdom by Max Nelson Blood from a Stone: Go Go Tales by Murray Pomerance Pure West: Drive,
61st Melbourne International Film Festival Dossier (2012)
To coincide with the 2012 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), Senses of Cinema has commissioned a series of articles that cover many different aspects of
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Contents: Manjari Kaul on The Burmese Harp Darragh O’Donoghue on Kokoro Margaret Barton-Fumo on Kanto Wanderer David Melville on Flowers & the Angry Waves Adam
Book Reviews
Contents: Michelle Langford on A Social History of Iranian Cinema: volumes 1 & 2 Daniele Rugo on Les Ècarts du Cinema Justin Owen Rawlins on Famous Faces Yet
Festival Reports
Contents: Vera Brunner-Sung on the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival Daniel Fairfax on Cannes Cerise Howard on Fribourg Mike Walsh on the Hong Kong International
Neil Jordan
b. February 25, 1950, Sligo, Ireland With each successive outing, Neil Jordan–without doubt the most interesting filmmaker to emerge thus far from Ireland–astonishes the viewer
Pure West: Drive, nostalgia for postmodernism
It is a one way street and there, Walter Benjamin says: “What, in the end, makes advertisements so superior to criticism? Not what the moving
Crossing the Pont de Varsòvia: The Critical Resilience of Pere Portabella’s Warsaw Bridge
The corpse of a scuba diver is found in the midst of a burnt forest. How did he get there? That is the question. And
‘Each like a coal drawn from the fire’: Terrence Malick’s The Thin Red Line
Every end is a beginning…there is always another dawn risen on mid-noon. - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles (1841) Heroism cannot properly account for one of