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ENTRIES IN PART 8: Maria San Filippo Rowena Santos Aquino Jack Sargeant Hamed Sarrafi Christine Sathiah Andrea Schmidt Dr James Slaymaker Valerie Soe Öykü Sofuoğlu Karina Solórzano Mark Spratt Vedan...

“To haunt does not mean to be present, and it is necessary to introduce haunting into the very construction of a concept”  - (Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning and the New interna...

Mapping Global Horror: Australia, Japan and Beyond brought world-leading scholars and filmmakers to Wurundjeri country for a two-day conference to navigate how the titular genre moves through time, space and cu...

The third film written by Josef Skružný and his nephew Elmar Klos to star Vlasta Burian, An Old Gangster’s Molls (Milenky starého kriminálníka, 1927) is built around two of Czechoslovakia’s biggest stars. Nickn...

This year's Berlinale was marked by Nicolas Philibert's surprising victory with his modest and intimate documentary about a Parisian psychiatric institution, which prompted us to question the established bounda...

b. September 22, 1946 (birthdate as stated on passport), Guangzhou, China While several filmmakers have become synonymous with specific genres, few have carved out as inimitable and identifiable a niche within...

There are so many ways into Daniel Fairfax’s vast and very impressive account of Cahiers du cinéma during the properly tumultuous period between 1968 and 1973. How could they not have been clamorous when France...

Mauri (1988) is the only feature-length fiction film that Merata Mita (1942–2010) made across her decades-long engagement with audio-visual narrative. It may also not be the work for which she is best remembere...

Peter Bogdanovich’s debut feature, Targets (1968), is a left-of-centre horror film that initially seems to stand out as an anomaly within his filmography – predominantly comprised of comedies and dramas harkeni...

Pirated films found a place in the social and cultural sphere of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh during the 1980s. State controlling the access to and the viewing of films is nothing new. As Amos Vogel stat...

Papas Kino (Daddy’s Cinema) was the derogatory term applied to the post-war West German films that reproduced the conventions of movies made in the fascist era. The so-called Heimatfilm (“homeland movie”) in pa...

Over the course of nearly two decades, Alexandre O. Philippe has celebrated and explored the iconic figures of the seventh art, from Lucas and Ford to Hitchcock and Lynch. His unique approach not only reveals n...

b. 1 August, 1914, Bristol, England, UK d. 30 August, 2002, Sooke, British Columbia, Canada He directed some of the most famous actors in film history, from Robert Mitchum, Gregory Peck, and Anthony Quinn, to...

“If a viewer understands the story and characters fully, then I have failed.” – Bill Mousoulis on Lovesick Those were the days, when you could have no income to speak of and still live in Collingwood. I m...

Sweet Smell of Success (1957) is a landmark in the careers of actors Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis, screenwriter Clifford Odets, and director Alexander Mackendrick. It is also a film that pulses with the claus...

“She’s as phony as a three dollar bill, and you’re trying to make her real”, director Howard Hawks told 20th Century-Fox executive Darryl F. Zanuck after the latter complained about losing money on his studio’s...

Afterwater, conceived, directed and edited by Dane Komljen, is both as limpid as the water of the lakes that appear in it, and as complex as their, often, unfathomable depths. With an inventive, sensitive appro...

“It is not enough for a painter like Cézanne, an artist, or a philosopher, to create or express an idea,” writes Maurice Merleau-Ponty. The artist and philosopher, he continues, “must also awaken the experience...

In his latest film, Unrest (2022), Swiss director Cyril Schäublin has created something new and unique. Together with his feature debut, Those Who Are Fine (2017), he has developed his own aesthetic style and n...

If an argument can be made that film festivals reflect some of the unique traits of their host cities, the sprawling format of the Tokyo International Film Festival certainly bears out this hypothesis.  Alth...

ENTRIES IN PART 1: Antti Alanen Hussain Al-Dubaisi Francisco Algarín Navarro Algitya Algi Michael J. Anderson Martyn Bamber Jennifer Lynde Barker Kyle Barrowman Mike Bartlett Nicolas Bartlett Arta Ba...

ENTRIES IN PART 4: Dr Lisa Harper Campbell Craig Harshaw Michael Heath Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee HillKierran Horner Christoph Huber Robert Hughes Darik Janik Tara Judah Dr Lisa Harper Campb...

ENTRIES IN PART 6: Josh B Mabe Jonathan Mackris Ioannis Makris Bob Manning Miguel MaríasJack Mcculloch Jamie Mendonça Douglas Messerli Stefano Miraglia Olaf Möller Josh B Mabe Librarian & F...

ENTRIES IN PART 7: Peter Nagels Andy Norton Veton Nurkollari Darragh O’Donoghue Roberto Oggiano Wilfred Okiche Andreea Patru Andrew F Peirce Jesse PercivalAntoni Peris-Grao Andréa Picard Milan Pribis...

ENTRIES IN PART 7: Maria San Filippo Rowena Santos Aquino José Sarmiento Hinojosa Valerie Soe Öykü Sofuoğlu Mark Spratt Vedant Srinivas Tyson Stewart Iván SuárezJosh Timmermann Tomas Trussow Koen Van...

This article has been peer reviewed. There is a scene in Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014) in which two characters play a game of “Truth or Dare” while chatti...

In what is perhaps the most disturbing and moving part of Dubina dva (Depth Two, Ognjen Glavonić, 2016), a female voice narrates the events of late March 1999 in the village of Suva Reka in Kosovo, a province t...

This article was peer reviewed. Introduction Stanley Kubrick oscillated between torturing his female characters and exhibiting sympathy for them. Sometimes, he both tortured women and exhibited sympathy at th...

Bloomsbury Academic chooses for the most recent entry to its Philosophical Filmmakers series, the British/American writer, producer, director, Christopher Nolan. In an age where blockbuster cinema has been wres...

b. 2 August, 1939, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S.A d. 30 August, 2015, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A 'The family is the best microcosm to work with…’ - Wes Craven Introduction Few directors have garnered such pola...

Kutaisi International Short Film Festival (KISFF) is a pure manifestation of how film festivals can enrich and enhance a city’s cultural landscape. Kutaisi – the second largest city in Georgia – is also burstin...

Most discussion of the career of Cecil Holmes focuses, understandably, on the 30-year body of work he completed after migrating to Australia from New Zealand in 1949. Those who comment on Holmes’ much shorter s...

“Back to normal” was undoubtedly the prevailing ethos of this year’s Cannes film festival. This was to be expected after the cancellation of the festival in 2020, with even the powers-that-be at Cannes having t...

The revolution may not have been televised, but it was certainly filmed. In 1970, youth rallied in droves and studios rolled out the little red carpet: MGM released The Strawberry Statement (Stuart Hagmann), Za...

Being a French speaker brings many advantages in this world, but few so dear to my heart as being able to read through any release of Trafic, the cinema journal founded by Serge Daney and Jean-Claude Biette in ...

Critic, film theorist and filmmaker, Jean-Louis Comolli died in his adoptive home city of Paris on May 19, 2022, at the age of 80. An editor of Cahiers du Cinéma from 1965 to 1973, his international reputation ...