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 2020 – Part 3 the editors January 2021 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Gerónimo Elortegui Ted Fendt Christine Folch-Sathiah Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Simon Foster Sachin Gandhi Flora Georgiou Sean Gilman Antony Ginnane Leonardo Goi Fr...
Women at the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival Alexandra Heller-Nicholas October 2020 Festival Reports In 2016, the 5050x2020 campaign was launched by the Swedish Film Institute at the Cannes Film Festival, and big names were there to share in the announcement including the Swedish Minister for Culture and Democ...
The Past Is Not Even Past: Afterimages, by Laura Mulvey Tony McKibbin April 2020 Book Reviews It could almost be a parlour game to try to talk about Laura Mulvey without mentioning her famous essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, with its more than fifteen thousand citations and the phrase the m...
A Simple Life: Arun Karthick on Nasir Leonardo Goi April 2020 Conversations with Filmmakers Across the Globe At the young age of 27, Tamil cineaste Arun Karthick has already taken Rotterdam twice. In 2016, his debut feature The Strange Case of Shiva found a slot in the festival’s Bright Future sidebar, and followed a ...
Dispatch from Reykjavík: Hot Films at a Cool Festival Randy Malamud January 2020 Festival Reports At Reykjavík International Film Festival’s 16th edition, strong opening and closing feature films – End of Sentence and Parasite – bookended a program where, in between, my top picks were all documentaries: an ...
World Poll 2019 — Part 1 the editors January 2020 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 1: Asif Ahmed Antti Alanen Francisco Algarín Navarro Victor Alicea Rowena Santos Aquino Martyn Bamber Jennifer Lynde Barker Christopher Barkman Mike Bartlett Rhett Bartlett Arta Bar...
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...
World Poll 2019 — Part 3 the editors January 2020 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Geronimo Elortegui John K. Emelianoff Fernando Chaves Espinach Ted Fendt Adalberto Fonkén Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Mark Freeman Sachin Gandhi Steve Gaunson Flora G...
World Poll 2019 — Part 4 the editors January 2020 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 4: Michael Heath Claire Henry Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee Hill Phil Hobbins-White Jytte Holmqvist Peter Hourigan Brian Hu Yue Huang Christoph Huber Parviz Jahed Christopher Kear...
World Poll 2019 — Part 5 the editors January 2020 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 5: Josh B Mabe Ioannis Makris Bob Manning Miguel Marias Jack Mcculloch Joe Mcelhaney Adrian D. Mendizabal Jamie Mendonça Stefano Miraglia Olaf Möller Marcel Müller Peter Nagels An...
World Poll 2019 — Part 6 the editors January 2020 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 6: Andreea Pătru Yoana Pavlova Jesse Percival Antoni Peris-Grao Fidel Jesús Quirós Christopher Llewellyn Reed Daniel Ribas Stuart Richards Peter Rist Kate Robertson Jonathan Rosenba...
World Poll 2019 — Part 7 the editors January 2020 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 7: Maria San Filippo Jose Sarmiento Hinojosa Christine Sathiah Adrian Schober Howard Schumann Christopher Sikich Christopher Small Rachel Small Jordan M. Smith Valerie Soe Mark Spra...
World Poll 2019 — Part 8 the editors January 2020 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 8: Josh Timmermann John Tuttle Donatella Valente Koen Van Daele Miha Veingerl Peter Verstraten Tom Vincent Nicholas Vroman David Walsh Rick Warner Jason Wierzba Virginia Wright Wex...
Pass/fail politics: face-to-face encounters and the attention economy Tara Judah October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s It’s been bang on ten years since I started my so-called career in film exhibition and film criticism. My hopes and desires, for film and for myself, was to engage in discourse. I’d just set up my equivalent fi...
A Decade+ in Review: The 2019 Toronto International Film Festival Darren Hughes October 2019 Festival Reports On 31 December 2018, the fundraising arm of the Toronto International Film Festival sent a year-end email solicitation, urging recipients to support cinema by helping the organisation hit its annual target of 3...
Slow History: Cinema and Culture in the 2010s Daniel Fairfax October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s In his recent book, Clear Bright Future, the British political theorist Paul Mason admits to having recently experienced a moment of uncanny bewilderment. Walking down a UK high street, he was struck by the see...
Looking Forward and Looking Back: The 20th Jeonju International Film Festival Marc Raymond July 2019 Festival Reports 2019 marked the 20th anniversary of the Jeonju film festival, which celebrated with its largest program to date, with an emphasis on both the history of Korean cinema as well as the legacy of the festival itsel...
The Tender Force of Valérie Massadian Maura Edmond and John Edmond March 2019 Valérie Massadian and the Aesthetics of Care This project began in Melbourne’s Princes Park. Margot, Maura’s daughter, was ambling about in the sunshine while we discussed Milla, and its recent debut at Locarno 2017. Margot was then only a little younger ...
All the Feels: The 48th International Film Festival Rotterdam Leonardo Goi March 2019 Festival Reports The tote bag I picked up at the headquarters of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) had four fluorescent words printed on it, one for each feeling the festival’s 48th edition promised to make me ex...
“It’s Good to Lose Control”: An Interview with Valeska Grisebach Gerd Gemünden March 2019 Interviews Often considered a junior member of the one dozen directors or so associated with the Berlin School, Valeska Grisebach has left, with a mere three features, her own distinct imprint on the much-celebrated reali...
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 6 the editors January 2019 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 6: Nick P. George Papadopoulos Andreea Pătru Yoana Pavlova Jesse Percival Antoni Peris Grao Simon Petri-Lukács Andréa Picard Fidel Jesús Quirós Christopher Llewellyn Reed Bérénice R...
World Poll 2018 – Part 5 the editors January 2019 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 5: Eugenia Lai Marc Lauria Elaine Lennon Raúl Liébana Thomas Logoreci Tara Lomax Josh B. Mabe Ioannis Makris Bob Manning Miguel Marias Jack McCulloch Brian McFarlane Kenta McGrath...
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 3 the editors January 2019 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Geronimo Elortegui Kaya Erdinç Eliú Escamilla Fernando Chaves Espinach Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Mark Freeman Hugo Gamarra E. Steve Gaunson Sachin Gandhi Flora Geor...
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...
Towards the De-masculinisation of Korean Cinema: The 23rd Busan International Film Festival Marc Raymond December 2018 Festival Reports The latest edition of the Busan International Film Festival featured the usual lineup: a number of films getting their Asian or Korean premieres after having debuted at more prestigious festivals (Cannes, Venic...
American Drama: The 56th New York Film Festival Jackson Arn December 2018 Festival Reports Film festivals – like film shoots, or warzones – waver between exhilarating and dull. One minute you’re thanking the heavens that something as wondrous as Ash Is Purest White, the latest Jia Zhangke film, exist...
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...
The Second Generation: French Cinema After the New Wave (Introduction) David Heslin October 2018 The Second Generation: French Cinema After the New Wave In the 1970s, French film was in a post-revolutionary phase. Not only had the work of the Cahiers du cinema acolytes and their Left Bank contemporaries over the previous decade made the country’s output a short...
Valeska Grisebach’s Western: an unacknowledged remake of Samuel Fuller’s Run of the Arrow Peter Verstraten June 2018 Feature Articles The oddest thing about Western (2017), the third feature film by the German director Valeska Grisebach after Mein Stern (Be My Star, 2001) and Sehnsucht (Longing, 2006), is its title. Borrowing neither an origi...
Living forever in The Sweet Hereafter: film spectatorship and personal memory César Albarrán-Torres June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia People often ask me what my favourite movie is. For a cinephile, a simple answer verges on the impossible. Ozu’s Tôkyô monogatari (Tokyo Story, Yasujirô Ozu, 1953)? Chaplin’s premonitory Modern Times (Charles C...
Grandrieux, Philippe Samm Deighan June 2018 Great Directors 1954, Saint-Étienne, France “Cinema is made (above all) with the hands, with the skin, with the entire body, by fatigue, by breath, by the pulsations of the blood, the rhythm of the heart, by the muscles...
The Dionysian Stage of 2018: Interview with Gabriel Abrantes and Daniel Schmidt Daniel Fairfax June 2018 Feature Articles 2018 is a World Cup year, so it is only to be expected that football-themed films will proliferate. None, however, are likely to be anywhere near as deliriously idiosyncratic as Diamantino, a film which, with i...