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Discussion of the New Waves of European national cinemas that emerged after World War II has often focused on those movements’ stances towards American cinema. While Italian neo-realism and British social reali...

Though he shared a San Francisco studio loft in the 1960s with friends Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, John Korty eschewed the studio system and devoted himself to making low budget films the equal of any thing that emerged from the American independent cinema of the time.

Jean Baudrillard’s encounter with cinema, and cinema’s encounter with Baudrillard’s thought are the twin subjects of this extensive discussion of American cinema of the 1970s and beyond.

The cinema of Nicholas Ray, even in early efforts like They Live by Night (1948), In a Lonely Place (1950), Flying Leathernecks (1951), and The Lusty Men (1952), ranges across conventional Hollywood genres ...

Well they got some damn songs, now, hell, a man can't even figure out what in the hell's going on, don't you know. But the old songs, usually they was made in telling a damn story. A lot of the old English, old...

Numerous contributors from across the globe offer their selections and thoughts on their movie-going experiences in 2010. Readers should find it a fascinating overview of cinema from a multitude of countries and cultures.

Letter from Nile Southern on his father, Terry Southern's, contribution to Easy Rider. And, Bernard Eisenschitz's letter alerts us to more of value on Eric Rohmer.

The first of five novels Patricia Highsmith published about her murderous protagonist Tom Ripley, The Talented Mr. Ripley (1955) begins with the eponymous central character fearful of his presumed pursuit by an...

Visiting foreign observers to the Republic of the United States of America have always been easily taken with its amber waves of grain and purple mountain majesty; its natural wonders, so to speak. Its people a...

Lisa Dombrowski’s The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I’ll Kill You! is an important contribution to the growing scholarship on and broader cultural fascination with the work of the self-consciously iconocl...

Numerous contributors from across the globe offer their selections and thoughts on their movie-going experiences in 2009. Readers should find it a fascinating overview of cinema from a multitude of countries and cultures.

From there, faced with these large frescoes, the feeling of the past being wiped away, of its disappearing and the impression of ruins: of traces of a world that is now based on a bombardment of images. – Yo...

Gregory Stephens explores how the rites of passage chronicled in Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout contribute towards the film’s critique of the post-industrial world’s attitudes towards nature.

The summary of my student short film, Meanwhile Elsewhere (1981), in the National Film & Sound Archive catalogue reads: An experimental film with heavy gothic overtones. Images include a woman clad in ...

This 2-disc DVD set from the National Film Preservation Foundation and Image Entertainment covers an era of filmmaking that is almost lost to authentic recall; an era when individual artists were able to make f...

For any scholar of the so-called New American cinema of the late ’60s and early ’70s, the career of Bob Rafelson makes for an interesting case study. A wide-ranging interview with the director of Five Easy Pieces, Stay Hungry and Mountains of the Moon.

Medium Cool (1969 USA 110 mins) Prod Co: Paramount Prod: Tully Friedman, Haskell Wexler, Jerrold Wexler Dir, Scr, Phot: Haskell Wexler Ed: Verna Fields Art Dir: Leon Erickson Mus: Mike Bloomfield Cast...

If…. (1968 UK 107 mins) Prod Co: Memorial Enterprises Prod: Michael Medwin, Lindsay Anderson Dir: Lindsay Anderson Scr: David Sherwin Phot: Miroslav Ondriček Prod Des: Jocelyn Herbert, Brian Eatwell Ed: ...

Greetings (1968 USA 88 mins) Prod Co: West End Films Prod: Charles Hirsch Dir, Ed: Brian De Palma Scr: Brian De Palma, Charles Hirsch Phot: Robert Fiore Mus: Eric Kaz, J. Stephen Soles, Artie Traum Ca...

b. 15 December 1954, Liverpool, England Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources Introduction Ever since Repo Man burst onto the scene in 1984, Alex Cox has been one of the m...

It is now a done deal: at the beginning of November, the American Film Institute Festival (1-11 November) and the American Film Market (31 October-7 November) are held quasi-simultaneously – one in a ...

The publication of Anna Powell’s second book on Gilles Deleuze and cinema immediately illuminates two very important points. Firstly, the continued growth of work on Deleuze and cinema and the interchange it fa...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, ...

Rebel Without a Cause (1955 USA 111 mins) Prod Co: Warner Bros. Prod: David Weisbart Dir: Nicholas Ray Scr: Stewart Stern Phot: Ernest Haller Ed: William Zeigler Art Dir: Malcolm Bert Mus: Leonard Rosenm...

b. 7 February 1929, Iquique, Chile Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources Venerated by cult cinema enthusiasts while dismissed by most other critics, the films of Alejandr...

b. February 4, 1940, New York, New York, USA d. July 16, 2017, Toronto, Canada Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources Though typically associated with certain low-budget products of the horr...

b. 7 April, 1939, Detroit, Michigan, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources Most critiques of Francis Ford Coppola's career interweave film criticism with biography an...

A further instalment (see Issue 37) on the career of this fabled American screenwriter. Elaine Lennon examines in detail Towne’s contribution to this key film of the post-classical Hollywood era.

For many, the films of Nick Ray are a litmus test for the pros and cons of la politique des auteurs. This article provides the most extensive analysis to date of the elusive ‘Nick Ray Style’.

Paddy Chayefsky's screenplay for Sidney Lumet's 1976 film foresaw much of what the current tele-visual cultural landscape would look like decades before it arrived at our doorstep.

One of the more forgotten movies of the 70s receives due appreciation.

Understandably, the 'rape-revenge' scenario has been endlessly controversial, yet the cinema continues to replay it in different guises and contexts. This article charts the evolution of a genre, giving particular emphasis to the Japanese cinema's take on the theme.

On the dust jacket of The Dream Life, Clint Eastwood squints and squats in his Dirty Harry stance, wielding his Magnum .44 in wide angle, the long metallic barrel absurdly hypertrophied and directly aimed at th...

I'll tell you one thing. There's nothing like building up an old automobile from scratch and wiping out one of these Detroit machines. That'll give you a set of emotions that'll stay with you. Know what I mean?...

A martyr to the cinema: Hallberg traces the meta-narrative of death and transcendence guiding Dafoe's film performances.