World Poll 2021 – Part 2 the editors January 2022 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: José Cabrera Betancort Thomas Caldwell Michelle Carey Nicolás Carrasco Michael J. Casey Kevin Cassidy Guilherme Cavalcanti Jeremy Chamberlin Daryl Chin Janina CiezadloJesús Cortés ...
World Poll 2021 – Part 3 the editors January 2022 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Samantha Egensteiner Gerónimo Elortegui John K. Emelianoff Adalberto Fonkén Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Simon Foster Sachin GandhiFlora Georgiou Sean Gilman Antony I. Gi...
World Poll 2021 – Part 4 the editors January 2022 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 4: Craig Harshaw Glenn Heath Jr. Michael Heath Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee Hill Chris Hite Peter Hourigan Brian Hu Christoph Huber Tomáš Hudák Parviz Jahed Darik Janik Christophe...
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...
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...
Australian Autofiction: A Filmmaker Roundtable by Chris Luscri Chris Luscri July 2021 Australian Autofiction Outside of small research studies and articles that have appeared in academic journals, there is an absence of in-depth contextual work around personal filmmaking in Australia. This roundtable, featuring six ke...
World Poll 2020 – Part 7 the editors January 2021 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 7: Dan Sallitt Jack Sargeant Mark Seman Sarah Scales Andrea Schmidt Howard Schumann Pummy Sharma Christopher Sikich Valerie Soe Mark Spratt Madalina Stefan Brad Stevens Iván Suáre...
A cinema of resistance: My Brilliant Career (Gillian Armstrong, 1979) Gabrielle O'Brien April 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film Loneliness is a terrible price to pay for independence. Sybylla, don’t throw away reality for some impossible dream. - Aunt Gussie (Patricia Kennedy) When looking back at the filmography of Australia’s nation...
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...
Why Aren’t There More Women Directors in Hollywood—Even in 2019? Virginia Wright Wexman October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s The 2018 documentary This Changes Everything (Tom Donahue) describes the way in which women in Hollywood continue to be shut out of opportunities for directing. A look at some of the data around this issue conf...
Children of the Apocalypse: the 2019 Cannes Film Festival Daniel Fairfax July 2019 Festival Reports Picture this, dear reader: from the very beginning of this year’s Cannes film festival, I had been having nightmares about the prospect of getting into the inaugural press screening of Quentin Tarantino’s Once ...
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...
Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia (Introduction) Daniel Fairfax June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia The cinema has always, it seems, been tightly connected with feelings of nostalgia, such that it is not hard to imagine a film-goer in the early 20th century pining for the lost past of the mid-1890s. With the ...
World Poll 2017 – Part 2 the editors January 2018 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Michael Campi Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Celluloid Liberation Front Daryl Chin Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn Roberta Ciabarra Joel Condemi Adam Cook Jordan Cro...
World Poll 2017 – Part 6 the editors January 2018 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 6: Maria San Filippo José Sarmiento Hinojosa Howard Schuman Christopher Sikich Matthew Singleton Christopher Small Mark Spratt Brad Stevens Josh Timmermann Gorazd Trušnovec Matt Tur...
Welcome to issue 84 of our journal the editors September 2017 Editorial Welcome to Issue 84 of Senses of Cinema, where we proudly once again have the privilege of sharing a range of writing on cinema from around the world, with our focus as always as much on contemporary cinema as ...
Girls on Film: Growing Up with Cinema Papers Alexandra Heller-Nicholas July 2017 Pioneering Australian Women The first dedicated film magazine I ever bought was in March 1988, Issue #68 of the Australian publication Cinema Papers. Nick Cave was on the cover to promote the release of John Hillcoat’s Ghosts… of the Civi...
Claudia Karvan: The Girl Most Likely Alexandra Heller-Nicholas July 2017 Pioneering Australian Women Across her 34-year career, actor Claudia Karvan has become one of the most familiar faces on Australian screens, winning numerous awards and becoming nothing less than a national film and television icon. With ...
Questioning the “Strong Female Character”: Gillian Armstrong’s High Tide (1987) Blythe Worthy July 2017 Pioneering Australian Women In the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, when the Australian Film and Television School (AFTRS) program was in full swing and the Sydney Women's Film Group was working to support emerging filmmakers, the Australian pub...
Into the Light: Hope, Despair and Haunted Doubles in Laurie McInnes’s Broken Highway (1993) Josh Nelson and Alexandra Heller-Nicholas July 2017 Pioneering Australian Women Laurie McInnes’s 1993 film Broken Highway is Australian Gothic at its simultaneously most brutal and beautiful; it is a Nick Cave song come to life. The opening few moments reference a character enigmatically n...
What is the Cinema?: The 2017 Cannes Film Festival Daniel Fairfax June 2017 Festival Reports Cannes, as we all know, is essentially a scandal-making machine. More than any other film festival, Cannes has had controversy baked into its DNA from the very beginning of its now 70-year history, and it somet...
We Live in a World of Images: Interview with Dana Polan Daniel Fairfax June 2017 Contemporary Cinema Studies: A Discipline with a Future? A professor in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University, Dana Polan has written prolifically on film and television since receiving a PhD from Stanford in 1980 and a Doctorat d’État from the Univ...
Fortunate Sinners: Martin Koolhoven’s Brimstone as an ‘Edam’ Western Peter Verstraten June 2017 Feature Articles Between 1999 and 2008, the Dutch director Martin Koolhoven made eight feature films, none like any of the others. In 2005 he shot the multicultural rom-com Het schnitzelparadijs (Kitchen Paradise), about a Moro...
Of Female Trouble Here, There and Everywhere: The 30th Fribourg International Film Festival Cerise Howard July 2016 Festival Reports Ah, anniversaries. How readily a landmark – and a sense of obligation towards its acknowledgment being given a due sense of occasion – might become more millstone than milestone. And so the challenge presented ...
A Festival of Two Halves: the 2016 Cannes Film Festival Daniel Fairfax July 2016 Festival Reports It’s one of the oldest clichés in football. A team dominates the match and is ahead on the scoreboard at half-time, but throws their lead away after play resumes. Or the reverse: after meekly surrendering in th...
Glimpses of Life: An interview with Albert Maysles Tom Ryan June 2015 Feature Articles Albert Maysles, who died on March 6 at the age of 88, was an American treasure, a documentary filmmaker for whom anything was a potential subject, simply because it happened, and who discovered poetry in the ev...
AFI FEST-AFM 2014: Of the Good Use of Actors Bérénice Reynaud March 2015 Festival Reports The only US festival to have bothered with a FIAPF accreditation, AFI FEST presented by Audi joyously continues to assert its presence in the heart of Hollywood and in the midst of a chaos of overflowing lines....
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 channel the freedoms and frustrations of being young, via an a...
The Ritual of Cannes: the 67th Cannes Film Festival Daniel Fairfax June 2014 Festival Reports The first time one attends the Cannes film festival, the overwhelming sensation is one of shock – shock at a world so displaced from one’s everyday existence, with its idiosyncratic codes, Byzantine regulations...
2013 World Poll – Part 1 the editors January 2014 2013 World Poll THE ENTRIES PART 1 Francisco Algarín Navarro Victor Alicea Michael Anderson Geoff Andrew Julian Antos Armas Miguel Charlotte Aumont Sean Axmaker Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett Raphaël...
2013 World Poll – Part 2 the editors January 2014 2013 World Poll Lucas Hammer Lee Hill Wai Ho Alexander Horwath Peter Hourigan Cerise Howard Brian Hu Christoph Huber David Hudson Darren Hughes Tara Judah Dominik Kamalzadeh Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney...