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 ...
Riefenstahl, Leni Jeremy Carr July 2021 Great Directors b. 22 August, 1902, Berlin, Germany d. 8 September, 2003, Bavaria, Germany Does Leni Riefenstahl even belong here, ranked alongside the world’s most illustrious filmmakers and designated a “Great Director”?...
Luis Buñuel’s El in the Face of Cultural Appropriation and the #MeToo Movement: A Filmmaker’s Reappraisal Salvador Carrasco May 2021 Feature Articles To my daughter Cassandra Before the first consumer-grade videotapes came out in the mid-1970s, it stands to reason that movies were not that readily available for the general public. If you were a well-estab...
Pit Stop: Billy Wilder’s Mauvaise graine (1934) Adrian Danks April 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film The low budget, independently-produced Mauvaise graine (1934) is an outlier in Billy Wilder’s career. Although it characteristically illustrates the value and practice of collaboration – it was co-directed by t...
World Poll 2020 – Part 2 the editors January 2021 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Nicolás Carrasco Michael J. Casey Kevin Cassidy Jeremy Chamberlin Allison Chhorn Ian Christie Emily Collins Jordan Cronk Adrian Danks Dustin Dasig Henri de Corin...
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...
World Poll 2020 – Part 5 the editors January 2021 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 5: Josh B Mabe Ioannis Makris Randy Malamud Bob Manning Miguel Marías Jamie Mendonça Douglas Messerli Jack McCulloch Jane Mills Stefano Miraglia Olaf Möller Andy Motz Marcel Mulle...
Countering Dominant Cinema: Temporality in Meek’s Cutoff Catherine Putman October 2020 Feature Articles Living in a time and place that moves faster than ever; ultimately, we end up with less. Lutz Koepnick suggests that subsequently we experience less substance, depth, meaning, freedom, and spontaneity. Koepnick...
The Restless Spectator: Anxious Cinephilia: Pleasure and Peril at the Movies, by Sarah Keller Joshua Heaps July 2020 Book Reviews In a recent blog post for Columbia University Press – “Anxious Afterthoughts on Anxious Cinephilia” – Sarah Keller provides her latest book with a casual addendum, addressing film in the age of Coronavirus to u...
Ennio Morricone and the Stuff of Cinema Dan Golding July 2020 Feature Articles There are those who write music for the movies, and then there are those whose music reshapes the stuff of cinema. Ennio Morricone, who died in July this year, was one of a handful of composers in film history ...
Wise, Robert Adrian Schober April 2020 Great Directors Robert Earl Wise b. 10 September, 1914, Winchester, Indiana, USA d. 14 September, 2005, Westwood, Los Angeles, USA Wise is varied. He seems able to do almost anything … – Arthur Knight. In his influentia...
The Masquerade is Over: Billy Wilder’s The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) Adrian Danks April 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970) was one of the projects closest to Billy Wilder’s heart – an organ that some commentators question even existed. It is also a notoriously vexed and incomplete work, co...
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 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 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...
22nd Revelation Perth Film Festival David Morgan-Brown October 2019 Festival Reports The unpredictable notion of control is beneficial for conflict in storytelling, particularly in the features and documentaries of the 22nd Revelation Perth International Film Festival, seemingly spilling out of...
“Mesdames, mesdemoiselles, messieurs: un classique!”: Eric Rohmer’s Film Theory (1948-1953) – From ‘École Scherer’ to ‘Politique des Auteurs’ by Marco Grosoli Jeremi Szaniawski October 2019 Book Reviews In 1987, when his book, which serves as one of the first efforts in English to reassess and appraise the films and legacy of Roberto Rossellini (1987), was first released, Peter Brunette pointed to the dearth o...
On Paul Schrader’s “Rethinking Transcendental Style” Bruce Hodsdon October 2019 Feature Articles Transcendental style seeks to maximize the mystery of existence; it eschews all conventional interpretations of reality: realism, naturalism, psychologism, romanticism, expressionism, impressionism, and... rati...
What’s Inside a Girl?: Porn, Horror and the Films of Roberta Findlay (Issue 80, September 2016) Alexandra Heller-Nicholas October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 80, September 2016. “You know the money shots in porn films? Well, this was just a different substance: it was red” – Director Roberta Findlay on the relationshi...
Spectacles of Death: Body Horror, Affect and Visual Culture in the Mexican Narco Wars (Issue 84, September 2017) César Albarrán-Torres October 2019 Highlights from 20 years of Senses of Cinema Originally published in Senses of Cinema issue 84, September 2017. This article offers an overview of the highly mediatized nature of the current phase of the Mexican narco wars, highlighting the existence of ...
Huston, John Bruce Jackson July 2019 Great Directors b. 5 August 1906, Nevada, Missouri, U.S, d. 28 August 1987, Middletown, Rhode Island, U.S. John Huston, the American director, writer and actor, was prolific, various and uneven. As a director, he worked in...
Joseph Kilián (Pavel Juráček & Jan Schmidt, 1963) Darragh O’Donoghue July 2019 CTEQ Annotations on Film Much of the visual lexicon we associate with the term ‘Kafkaesque’ was established by Orson Welles’ adaptation of The Trial (1962) and Pavel Juráček and Jan Schmidt’s Postava k podpírání (Joseph Kilián, 1963), ...
Thessaloniki International Film Festival: Reflexivity and Realism in the Romanian Retrospective Yaron Dahan March 2019 Festival Reports The Thessaloniki International Film Festival has long had a tradition of foregrounding Balkan cinema through its Balkan Survey. In a retrospective of Romanian films, precursors to the Romanian New Wave were sho...
After Kubrick (1927-1999): a Cinematic Legacy Jeremi Szaniawski March 2019 Feature Articles “We’re all children of Kubrick, aren’t we? Is there anything you can do that he hasn’t done?” Paul Thomas Anderson Stanley Kubrick (1927-1999) passed away twenty years ago – on March 7, 1999 – while in the pr...
A Multitude of Meanings: The Long Take: Critical Approaches, ed. John Gibbs and Douglas Pye Nicholas Bugeja March 2019 Book Reviews In the cinema, the long take is an instrument of multifaceted – sometimes paradoxical – power. In a film like Ladri di Biciclette (Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio de Sica, 1948) or Deux jours, une nuit (Two Days, One...
The Ontological Truth of Film-as-Philosophy: Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience, by Shawn Loht James Magrini March 2019 Book Reviews Whereas the majority of film-philosophy essays incorporating the thinking of Martin Heidegger are limited to reading specific films from one or another Heideggerian perspective, Shawn Loht’s Phenomenology of Fi...
Four Years of the Nitrate Picture Show, Part 2: The “Silver Screen”, Beautiful Black and White Peter Rist March 2019 Feature Articles In Part 1 of this article, I discussed the history of my own film viewing experiences of cellulose nitrate colour prints. We now move to black and white. The true glory of silver nitrate is best appreciated ...
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...
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...
New Stars, Old Dreams: The 75th Venice Film Festival Leonardo Goi December 2018 Festival Reports In the weeks leading up to the 75th Venice film festival, buzz around the festival had less to do with its stellar lineup (arguably the most promising in recent years) and more to do with the festival’s ability...