Feature Articles
Sirk, Hollywood and Genre
The Douglas Sirk discovered by criticism has gone through numerous phases. For me, the most telling is the one which has excavated from his work
Vertigo: The Best Film of All Time?
Way back in 1982, Vertigo debuted on the BFI’s Sight & Sound Poll of Best Films at number 7. Since then it has slowly ascended,
Features
Contents Love, Death, Truth–Amour by Roy Grundmann The Way Wakamatsu Chose His Own Fate: Political Mortality and Radical Dramaturgy by Philip Brophy Quotidian Melancholy: Marcel Hanoun’s Une
Love, Death, Truth – Amour
Once again, Michael Haneke gives us a story about Georges and Anne, the bourgeois couple that, in various incarnations, has populated his films since the
The Way Wakamatsu Chose His Own Fate: Political Mortality and Radical Dramaturgy
A 17 year old Japanese student is in his prison cell, preparing to hang himself. It’s 1960. A high pitched whine signals the slow emergence
A Conversation with Nicolas Rey
Nicolas Rey’s third feature film, differently, Molussia (2012), is an adaptation of a novel he’s never read. Written between 1932 and 1936, Günther Anders’s The
Quotidian Melancholy: Marcel Hanoun’s Une simple histoire
Cinephiles around the world mourned Chris Marker’s passing earlier this year, while the death of another avant-garde filmmaker and former countryman of Marker’s has largely
The Kids Are Not All Right: Fanny and Alexander Thirty Years Later
As an elaborately constructed, compulsively watchable piece of large-scale fiction made for the screen, Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander) is an achievement with few
“One day, the swan sang this with its wings”: An Interview with Teresa Villaverde
Teresa Villaverde is one of the most important contemporary directors to have emerged from the school of new Portuguese cinema, which includes filmmakers such as
To Accept the Unacceptable: Reflections on Three Films by Teresa Villaverde
“What is poetry?” “All that exists in this world. (…) Good and bad. - from Teresa Villaverde’s Transe ”There is beauty in the force of