Welcome to issue 73 of our journal the editors December 2014 Editorial With this issue we farewell one of the mainstays of the journal. Adrian Danks has been associated with Senses of Cinema longer than any current member of the editorial team. He was there in the early years of ...
Introduction: 2014 World Poll the editors January 2015 World Poll Welcome to the 11th Senses of Cinema World Poll. Unlike most other end of year polls, this one does not result in an aggregated “top 10 of the year” list. That is not the point of the poll. Rather, we wish to ...
2014 World Poll – Part 1 the editors January 2015 World Poll Entries in part 1: Antti Alanen Francisco Algarín Navarro Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Martyn Bamber Lynden Barber Michael Bartlett Nicolas Bartlett Conor Bateman Gustavo Beck Sean Bell Pa...
2014 World Poll – Part 2 the editors January 2015 World Poll Entries in part 2: Toni D'Angela Fergus Daly Adrian Danks Dustin Dasig Michael Da Silva Mónica Delgado Wheeler Winston Dixon Patrick Dorner Marie-Pierre Duhamel Dzondunkellicht Vassilis Economo...
2014 World Poll – Part 3 the editors January 2015 World Poll Entries in part 3: Lucas Hammer Michael Helms Alain Hertay Lee Hill Wai Ho Joshua Hoffmann Alexander Horwath Peter Hourigan Brian Hu Christoph Huber Zachary Ingle Tara Judah Dominik Kamalzade...
2014 World Poll – Part 4 the editors January 2015 World Poll Entries in part 4: Josh Mabe Miguel Marías Duncan McLean David Melville Adrian Mendizabal Nina Menkes Peter Meredith Mads Mikkelson David Miller Olaf Möller Brent Morrow Oona Mosna Jorge Mour...
2014 World Poll – Part 5 the editors January 2015 World Poll Entries in part 5: Fidel Jésus Quirós Robert Reimer Bérénice Reynaud Stuart Richards Jeremy Rigsby Peter Rist Eloise Ross Julian Ross Miriam Ross Dan Sallitt Maria San Filippo José Sarmiento ...
Harun Farocki (1944-2014), or Dialectics in Images Thomas Voltzenlogel December 2014 Feature Articles The mirror endows an object with new proportions, studies objects through other objects which are not quite the same. The mirror extends the world: bu...
Corpi e luoghi: Harun Farocki on Pasolini Toni Hildebrandt December 2014 Feature Articles “Do you really know who I was before I met you?” (1) I met Harun Farocki in June 2014 at Princeton. Bernhard Siegert and Nikolaus Wegmann had organis...
Obsessions, Imitations & Subversions, Part One – on Magnificent Obsession Tom Ryan December 2014 Feature Articles In the beginning was the Lloyd C. Douglas novel (1), published in the immediate wake of the 1929 stock market crash, when the author was 52. It was th...
Jill Esmond Olivier: The First Wife Brian McFarlane December 2014 Feature Articles Feature image: Jill Esmond with Laurence Olivier When I was eleven, an Australian schoolboy already besotted with the movies, I saw a film called My ...
A Reply From John Flaus John Flaus December 2014 Feature Articles The Flaus Dossier has overwhelmed me – I am at a loss for words. I know that statement will be met with a measure of doubt by many of those who hav...
Astro Noise: Unsettling Encounters, or The Finer Points of Whistle Blowing Pamela Cohn December 2014 Feature Articles Technical issues and social justice are tied together when we talk about mass surveillance. Cryptography – that is, mathematics and computer science –...
The Ashes of Gramsci: A Conversation about the 52nd New York Film Festival Daniel Fairfax and Joshua Sperling December 2014 Festival Reports JS: Because of its premiers, the concentration of tastemakers in New York, and where it falls on the calendar, the New York Film Festival helps to jum...
On the Way to a Free Cinema – Beyond the 11th China Independent Film Festival Zimu Zhang December 2014 Festival Reports My summer back in China was marked by two film events, the Beijing Independent Film Festival (BIFF) and the China Independent Film Festival (CIFF), tw...
Building Networks in a Contested Space: DMZ International Documentary Film Festival 2014 Ma Ran December 2014 Festival Reports To visit the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) dividing North and South Korea might be a thrilling touristic option for Seoul’s visitors if they feel bo...
Greek Filmmakers Riding the Waves: The 55th Thessaloniki International Film Festival Petro Alexiou December 2014 Festival Reports Feature image: Forget Me Not This year the Thessaloniki International Film Festival (TIFF) celebrated its 55th year of continuous existence as a nati...
Unexpected Encounters: The 33rd Vancouver International Film Festival Bérénice Reynaud December 2014 Festival Reports As Bill, who had met me at the airport with the Festival sign, is driving me to the hotel, I learn much about him. He’s a retired law professor. In hi...
Be Young, Be Dope, Be Proud: The 58th BFI London Film Festival Richard Martin December 2014 Festival Reports Debut films are often about youth, and about living on the edge. From The 400 Blows to Breathless, from Badlands to Kids, first features repeatedly ch...
Inhabiting the Borderline: Freedom and Indetermination at the 1st Fronteira – International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival Victor Guimarães December 2014 Festival Reports The creation of an international festival dedicated to documentary and experimental cinema in Goiânia is, somehow, like opening a narrow trail in a vi...
Documents and Eyewitnesses: the Archipelago of the 12th Doclisboa Jorge Mourinha December 2014 Festival Reports Jean-Luc Godard may not have invented the filmic convergence of la grande Histoire and la petite histoire, of the way that art and, especially, cinema...
Image Problems: The 2014 Toronto International Film Festival Darren Hughes December 2014 Festival Reports Feature Image: I am Here “WTF is this movie?!” I scribbled this note midway through I Am Here, Fan Lixin’s trainwreck of a documentary about Super...
Lee Chang-dong Joseph Pomp December 2014 Great Directors b. July 4, 1954, Daegu, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea By just about any measure, Lee Chang-dong is one of the principal architects of the di...
Confronting the Future: Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno, by Miriam Bratu Hansen Tony McKibbin December 2014 Book Reviews Halfway through Cinema and Experience, Miriam Bratu Hansen quotes László Moholy-Nagy’s comment: “It is not the person ignorant of writing but the one ...
Films for the Senses: Realism of the Senses in World Cinema: The Experience of Physical Reality, by Tiago de Luca Troy Michael Bordun December 2014 Book Reviews In this work, Tiago de Luca aims to update the concept of cinematic realism by linking classical accounts of realism, as articulated by André Bazin an...
Tertium Datur: The Cinema of Alexander Sokurov by Jeremi Szaniawski Marco Grosoli December 2014 Book Reviews To write about Alexander Sokurov is no easy task. The manifold hurdles in the way of such an endeavour ultimately all converge into one single feature...
Master Curator of Readymades: Dennis Hopper: The Wild Ride of a Hollywood Rebel by Peter L. Winkler Joanna Elena Batsakis December 2014 Book Reviews Dennis Hopper was a master curator. While known across the globe for his extremely surrealist, wild, hip and very “method” acting capabilities in both...
Rewriting Japanese Cinema for the Global Age: The Oxford Handbook of Japanese Cinema by Daisuke Miyao (ed.) Rea Amit December 2014 Book Reviews This is not a typical scholarly handbook, and will not necessarily provide an overview of the history of Japanese cinema. Instead, it seeks to reasses...
Casque d’or John Fidler November 2014 CTEQ Annotations on Film Midway through Jacques Becker’s sparkling, multi-faceted Casque d’or (1952), a wise old woman watches lovers Marie (Simone Signoret) and Manda (Serge ...
Reflection Without Interference: Édouard et Caroline and the Romantic Mundane Nicholas Brodie November 2014 CTEQ Annotations on Film A cool Paris in the evening, 1951. Atop a flight of stairs the window to a modest apartment sits closed, overlooking Rue de Seine. (Take a left at the...
Touchez pas au grisbi Shaun Scott November 2014 CTEQ Annotations on Film In the light of the impending nouvelle vague, reflection on any aspect of post-WWII French film threatens to become a referendum. So wide is the shado...
Les Amants de Montparnasse Darragh O’Donoghue November 2014 CTEQ Annotations on Film Despite its alternative title (Montparnasse 19), Les Amants de Montparnasse (1958) actually charts the last years of Modigliani’s life (from late 1916...
Goupi mains rouges Tony Williams November 2014 CTEQ Annotations on Film Though lesser known than some of his later films, Goupi mains rouges (1943) was Jacques Becker’s second solo feature and received acclaim at the time ...
Le Trou Darragh O’Donoghue May 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film Le Trou/The Hole (1960 France/Italy 118 mins) Source: ACMI/FE Prod Co: Filmsonor S. A./Play Art/Titanus Prod: Serge Silberman Dir: Jacques Becker S...
