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One of the legendary figures of the American cinema, the late Monte Hellman (1929 – 2021) is best known for directing Two-Lane Blacktop (1971), considered by many to be the definitive “road movie,” but Hellman’...

b. 14 May, 1944, Modesto, California, USA The place to start with George Lucas, director, is at the beginning. Aged 23, the then-USC film student won a scholarship from Columbia to hang out on the set of Mac...

There is the kind of cinema which reassures people that the world is as they prefer to think it is. That there is some kind of meaning and sense to life. The kind of cinema in which a protagonist endures or sur...

I From the comfort of my home, and the peace of my computer, I didn’t miss the long lines in the cold, or my shoes soaked in dirty snow, nor did I miss the crowded trips in the shuttles fighting week-end traff...

In a year marked by apocalyptic imagery and an eerie sense of the science-fictional, the Adelaide Film Festival’s decision to open its socially distanced festival with the world premiere of Seth Larney’s sci-fi...

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...

Recently I saw what will most likely be my favourite film of the past year and foreseeable future, especially in light of the pandemic: The Painted Bird (Václav Marhoul, 2019), from the Czech Republic. I made a...

Seeing the murder mystery thriller Gumnaam (The Unknown, Raja Nawathe, 1965) for the first time this year, the film’s opening song and dance number is a standout pop music sequence. Gumnaam starts with two murd...

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2017) is an inscrutable psycho-drama, following a cursed family through clinical upper-class houses and hospital rooms. It has a monumental formality, somewhere b...

“Forever and ever (and ever)” since its release, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) has generated an uncanny amount of literature, by critics and fans alike. The critical response, following initially lukewar...

Much like Alfred Hitchcock with Psycho (1960), Stanley Kubrick sought, with The Shining (1980), to conduct an experiment in cinematic fear. While neither of the films can be reduced to it, this experimental dim...

In Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, Fredric Jameson famously takes the Westin Bonaventure Hotel as an emblem of postmodern impersonality. “The Bonaventure,” he argues, “aspires to being...

Under the current restrictions of lockdown and quarantine, in which we are being asked not to leave our homes, “hands-on filmmaking” has become virtually impossible, at least in the sense of a group of people c...

Through the character of Danny Torrance, Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining influenced a new model of uncanny child character that has become a key trope of the horror genre since the film’s release in 1980. This ty...

Note Few buildings in the history of cinema are as essential to the plot of a film as the Overlook hotel in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining. The film recounts the experience of the Torrance family who come to ...

In The Shining no attention is drawn to it and it appears open, such that the page layouts are recognisable, only three times. This is perhaps why up to now, despite its essential role in King’s novel, the Scra...

Four decades is a short time in the grand scheme of all history, but in the realm of film music, it is a significant span. It is time enough to see overall trends and important shifts, and it provides an excell...

The Shining is a resource that keeps on giving. It has generated a whole “universe” of creative, critical and fan activity. Stanley Kubrick adapted The Shining once in 1980 and never looked back, un like Stephe...

Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) has gained notoriety not only for the sheer quantity of critical analysis it has produced, a voluminous outpouring of exegesis from scholars, critics and fans alike that sho...

The Shining is a glaring example of a film that has led to countless interpretations, favoured by its complex and enigmatic nature, sometimes leading to interpretive deliriums – as confirmed by the documentary ...

As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on lives and societies around the world, the likes of which we have never seen (except in a disaster movie or dystopian fiction), we wanted to investigate further the impact...

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...

Within the archive meaning exists in a state that is both residual and potential. The suggestion of past uses coexists with a plentitude of possibilities. Unpacking Peter Butt’s film Final Rendezvous (2020) a...

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...

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...

This article argues that some of the strongest visual and symbolic elements that glue Roma together is the use of fluids as metaphors of racial and class division in 1970s Mexico, as well as the site in which t...

Welcome to Issue 90 of Senses of Cinema. Our 90th issue, and the first for 2019, is bountiful, to say the least. Though her cinema output is small (so far), Valérie Massadian is, in our estimation, one of th...

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...

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...

Thomas Doherty, the author of Show Trial, is professor of American Studies at Brandeis University, Massachusetts, associate editor of Cineaste, as well as the film reviews editor for The Journal of American His...

The movie screens are today filled with science fiction films ranging from adventure fantasies, such as Star Wars: The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson, 2017) to tales of Armageddon, such as War for the Planet of the Ap...

Cinephile, historian, filmmaker and one of the most knowledgeable persons I’ve ever met, Thom Andersen visited the Austrian Filmmuseum during the fall of 2017 where I interviewed him about Red Hollywood (1996),...

I ask of film what most North Americans ask of psychedelic drugs. The difference being that when one creates a psychedelic film, he need not create a film that shows the visions of a person who has taken a pill...

If asked about the film that has most affected me, then I want to answer with Godard’s Weekend (1967), Straub/Huillet’s Othon (1969), Bresson’s Pickpocket (1959), Pasolini’s Accatone (1960), Stroheim’s Greed (1...

This interview was conducted in person by Pip Chodorov, with additional questions by Jeremi Szaniawski, at the Cannes Grand Hotel, 18 May 2018. It was edited and translated from French by Jeremi Szaniawski. • ...

If Austrian film is less renowned than some other European cinema, still, it is a valuable and eclectic duchy of its own, and the Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film impressively curates and promotes this small...