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Contents To the Viewer: On Nicholas Ray’s We Can’t Go Home Again by Susan Ray Sirk, Hollywood and Genre by Tom Ryan Bodies in Filmic Space:
To the Viewer: On Nicholas Ray’s We Can’t Go Home Again
It’s taken almost four decades to bring you Nick’s last full-length film We Can’t Go Home Again, and not for lack of trying. Why so long?
In Dreams and Imagination: Surrealist Values in Mulholland Dr. and Inland Empire
Given that Surrealism is commonly cited as one of many artistic influences on David Lynch, attempts to view his films within this framework are surprisingly
Notes on Sans Soleil
1 “I’ve been around the world several times, and now only banality still interests me.” At the beginning of Chris Marker’s Sans soleil (1983), a
Umwelt and the Paradoxes of Landscape in Lupu Pick’s Sylvester and Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Teorema
Introduction Writing in 1996, Matthew Gandy pointed out that landscape was an underrepresented area in cinema studies. (1) By 2012, it can be said that
Poetry in the Air: Mad Bastards and Toomelah
I. Where the Crocodiles Are: Mad Bastards I am really proud of this movie most of all because it does justice to the tough men
The Angels’ Share: Ken Loach and Paul Laverty Lift Scotland’s Kilts to Expose Its Darker Parts
The Angels’ Share (2012) is a Cannes Jury Prize winning film. Given this accolade it seems a little surprising that the film’s central focus is
Thank God We Don’t Have a Pope: Habemus Papam, Moretti’s Apocalypse
“As nihilism becomes more and more the norm, the symbols of emptiness spread much more terror than those of power do.” – Ernst Jünger One
It All Flows Back: Treed Murray and the Limits of Urban Community
In the Canadian Oscar winning animated short Ryan (Chris Landreth, 2004), the narrator laments “I live in Toronto, a city in Canada, where I see
Bodies in Filmic Space: The Mise en Scène of ‘Courtship Readiness’ in The Big Sleep
Adrian Martin reminds us that mise en scène is ‘the art of bodies in space’. (1) The human body, particularly in motion, generates a complex