World Poll 2021 – Part 5 the editors January 2022 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 5: Jonathan Mackris Bob Manning Łukasz Mańkowski Miguel Marías Jack McCulloch Tim McQueen Adrian Mendizabal Jamie Mendonça Douglas Messerli Stefano Miraglia Olaf Möller Marcel Müller...
World Poll 2021 – Part 6 the editors January 2022 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 6: Peter Nagels Boris Nelepo Andy Norton Darragh O’Donoghue Roberto Oggiano Wilfred Okiche Andreea Patru Andrew F PeirceAntoni Peris-Grao Andréa Picard Milan Pribisic Catherine Putman...
World Poll 2021 – Part 7 the editors January 2022 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 7: Dan Sallitt Maria San Filippo Rowena Santos Aquino Jack Sargeant Christine Sathiah Barnabé Sauvage & Occitane Lacurie Howard SchumannChristopher Small Valerie Soe Mark Spratt Ma...
World Poll 2021 – Part 8 the editors January 2022 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 8: Jason Tan Liwag Tomas Trussow Koen Van Daele Noel Vera Peter VerstratenNicholas Vroman David Walsh Jason Philip Wierzba Christopher Witty Barbara Wurm Jason Tan Liwag Alumnus...
“I Wish I Were Here”: Women at the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival Alexandra Heller-Nicholas October 2021 Festival Reports Locked down as I have been in Melbourne, Australia, and unable to attend the Toronto International Film Festival in person for a second year running, I confess what by any rational standard would be an intensel...
Embarrassment Of Riches: The 59th New York Film Festival Nolan Kelly October 2021 Festival Reports About three-quarters of the way through the New York Film Festival’s press screenings, which unfolded in an orderly pace at Lincoln Center’s Walter Reade Theater last month, I was struck by an unexpected and un...
A Fortnight Alone with the 69th Melbourne International Film Festival Jacob Agius October 2021 Festival Reports When the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) rolls around in early August, that final month of winter always feels a little warmer in Melbourne, Australia. The festival's 69th inception was planned to ...
Brave New World: the 2021 Cannes Film Festival Daniel Fairfax August 2021 Festival Reports How does it feel to return to the cinema? I asked myself this question as my plane taxied on the runway at Nice airport one fine July morning, the shimmering waters of the Mediterranean to my right, the hilly l...
The Movies of the Future Ramiro Sonzini May 2021 What Will Become of Cinema? Postcards for the Future Translated from the Argentinian Spanish by César Albarrán-Torres The film of the future will be even more personal than a novel, individual and autobiographical, like a confession or an intimate diary. Young f...
World Poll 2020 – Part 8 the editors January 2021 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 8: Josh Timmermann Jon Towlson Tomas Trussow Koen Van Daele Nicholas de Villiers Peter Verstraten Fiona Villella Mark William Watkins Jason Philip Wierzba Barbara Wurm Neil Young ...
The 57th Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival: Enclave Amidst the Chaos? Maja Korbecka January 2021 Festival Reports Taiwan is one of the few countries that managed to suppress the spread of COVID-19 very early on, drawing from the traumatic experience of the early 2000s SARS epidemic that severely plagued the island. After a...
Closer Than Ever? The 1st Long Distance Film Festival Leonardo Goi July 2020 Festival Reports For all the festivals forced to cancel their yearly rendezvous in response to the COVID pandemic, there’s a tiny contingent that have blossomed under it, digital safe havens put together in the midst of the apo...
A World without Cinema the editors April 2020 Editorial In the face of mass death and economic devastation on a worldwide scale, matters of art and entertainment may seem trifling. But the COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the cinema. With theatres shut...
World Poll 2019 — Part 2 the editors January 2020 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: Jose Cabrera Betancort Thomas Caldwell Michael Campi Michelle Carey Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Jeremy Chamberlin Daryl Chin Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn Roberta Ciabarra Jesú...
The Grain of the Real, The Grain of the Surreal, and the Grain of Light: Vancouver International Film Festival 2019 Bérénice Reynaud January 2020 Festival Reports The Grain of the Real Always the champion of the most cutting-edge documentaries from Asia, the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) presented two remarkable films by young Chinese women, which, albeit...
The Butterfly Affect: Haptic Vision in Peter Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy Drew Daniel July 2019 The Analogues of Peter Strickland One handy way to think about Peter Strickland’s cinematic work is through its pronounced, indeed insistent historical referentiality to the cinema of the past, and, in particular, to an immediately recognisable...
Under the Moon in Sharjah: The 1st Sharjah Film Platform Carmen Gray March 2019 Festival Reports If you were around in the 1980s and even a passing consumer of Hollywood action movies, you’ll probably remember Chuck Norris as an elite troop facing off against Lebanese terrorists in The Delta Force (1986) –...
The Unspeakable finds Voice: The 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam Dirk de Bruyn March 2019 Festival Reports The 48th edition of the International Film Festival of Rotterdam was IFFR director Bero Beyer’s fourth iteration. The four program groupings that he instigated in his inaugural year remain in place with special...
Back to the Wolf Pack: the 22nd Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Leonardo Goi March 2019 Festival Reports “You’ve come prepared,” a member of the guest management team from the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF, in its Estonian acronym) giggled at my extra-large winter jacket as I stepped out of the Lennart ...
World Poll 2018 – Part 7 the editors January 2019 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 7: Maria San Filippo Christopher Sanda José Sarmiento Hinojosa Adrian Schober Howard Schumann Vladimir Seput Christopher Sikich Christopher Small Jordan M. Smith Ben Soper Mark Spra...
World Poll 2018 – Part 4 the editors January 2019 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 4: Lauren Carroll Harris Andy Hazel Glenn Heath Jr. Michael Heath Claire Henry Jhon Hernandez Marissa Hernandez Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee Hill Lili Hinstin Jytte Holmqvist Pet...
World Poll 2018 – Part 2 the editors January 2019 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Michael Campi Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Celluloid Liberation Front Jeremy Chamberlin Daryl Chin Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn Roberta Ciabarra Adam Cook Jesús...
World Poll 2018 – Part 1 the editors January 2019 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 1: Antti Alanen Francisco Algarín Navarro Victor Alicea Rowena Santos Aquino Luke Aspell Martyn Bamber Michael Bartlett Rhett Bartlett Arta Barzanji Raphaël Bassan Conor Bateman Gu...
Leadership Transitions, Critical Voices and Experimental Cinema at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival Darren Hughes December 2018 Festival Reports In 2018, the Toronto International Film Festival joined Sundance, Berlin, Locarno and Vienna in announcing major changes in leadership. After 36 years at TIFF, the final 24 of them as chief executive officer, P...
Contemporary Chilean cinema: a provisional cartography of an expanding field Valeria de los Ríos Escobar and César Albarrán-Torres December 2018 Latin American Cinema Today: An Unsolved Paradox Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. By Valeria de los Ríos Escobar Translated by César Albarrán-Torres In their 2010 book Novísimo cine chileno, Ascanio Cavallo and Gonzalo Maza coined the ter...
Contemporary Colombian cinema: the splintered mirror of a country Pedro Adrián Zuluaga and Gabriella Munoz December 2018 Latin American Cinema Today: An Unsolved Paradox Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. By Pedro Adrián Zuluaga Translated by Gabriella Munoz Colombia has gained a place in the international landscape mainly because of two predominant narrative...
Welcome to Issue 88 of our journal the editors October 2018 Editorial In the popular imagination, modern French cinema began around 1959 and hit its peak in the 1960s, with the revolutionary filmic works of Cahiers du cinéma's critics-turned-directors and their Left Bank contempo...
Reflections Upon Transitions: The 18th Las Palmas International Film Festival Andreea Patru June 2018 Festival Reports The Canary Islander has the mind in Europe, the feet on Africa and the heart in America. – anonymous popular saying Spread upon five centuries of history Las Palmas is a cosmopolitan and integrated city. Conq...
The Quarrel of the Dispositifs: Reprise Raymond Bellour March 2018 Cinema and the Museum In this scintillating, provocative piece – originally printed as a chapter in Raymond Bellour’s monumental work La Querelle des dispositifs (P.O.L., 2012), a collection of texts focusing on the “fatal syntagma”...
Cinema and the Museum: Introduction Daniel Fairfax March 2018 Cinema and the Museum Since roughly the early 1980s, we have lived through a grand mutation in visual culture, one that has accompanied the socio-political transformations wrought by nearly four decades of global neoliberal capitali...
Wavelengths at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Darren Hughes December 2017 Festival Reports My conversations during the first two days of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival were dominated by two subjects: Twin Peaks: The Return, which had aired its final episodes earlier in the week (and ult...
World Poll 2016 – Part 1 the editors January 2017 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 1: Australian Film Institute Research Collection Francisco Algarín Navarro Julien Allen Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Sam Ankenbauer Rowena Santos Aquino Luke Aspell Sean Axmaker ...
World Poll 2016 – Part 2 the editors January 2017 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Raúl Camargo Bórquez Michael Campi Forest Cardamenis Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Daryl Chin Lesley Chow Roberta Ciabarra Cinema For All Martyn Conterio Ada...
World Poll 2016 – Part 3 the editors January 2017 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Russell Edwards Randall Egan Hossein Eidizadeh Kaya Erdinç Ted Fendt Felicity Ford Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Mark Freeman Kenji Fujishima Anders Furze Gavin Ga...
World Poll 2016 – Part 5 the editors January 2017 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 5: Josh B. Mabe Bob Manning Giovanni Marchini Camia Miguel Marias Josephine Massarella Neil McGlone Tim McQueen Adrian Mendizabal Douglas Messerli Hind Mezaina Richie Mill...
World Poll 2016 – Part 6 the editors January 2017 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 6: Fidel Jesús Quirós Stuart Richards Peter Rist Kate Robertson Eloise Ross Julian Ross Paula Arantzazu Ruiz Lisi Tribble Russell Dan Sallitt Maria San Filippo José Sarmie...