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On the first weekend of this year’s Cannes, the heavens opened with a ferocity and persistence rare for the Côte d’Azur, dousing the red carpet galas and sending hordes of festival attendees, unprepared for inc...

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.

Darwin’s Screens opens with a quote from the man himself: “I was in those days a very great storyteller” (unpaginated). In the following 232 pages, Barbara Creed explores the influence of Charles Darwin’s work ...

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.

In this free-form interview the director of A Christmas Tale, King and Queens, amongst others, discusses everything from Truffaut and Godard, Stanley Cavell and disaster movies, Nietzsche and Italo Calvino, Jean Gabin and hip-hop, and more.

“The release of Inception marks another entry into the plethora of films of the last decade revolving around themes of simulation and meta-reality.” Ian Alan Paul looks at what is distinctive in Christopher Nolan’s take on the reality/illusion paradigm.

February 1, 2004: A delegation of members of the Steamship Rotterdam Foundation visited the ex-SS ROTTERDAM in Freeport, Grand Bahama. They reported that the ship's overall condition to be reasonable, both the ...

Not surprisingly, Lars von Trier’s film has divided opinion. Nor is there much consensus on how best to interpret this tale of grief, pain, and despair. Daniel Vilensky comes at this most enigmatic of films from a range of critical angles.

This is an edited version of an interview originally published in Filmviews, No. 131 (Autumn 1987), pp. 2-7. It is reproduced with the kind permission of the authors. (1) Richard Lowenstein graduated fro...

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.

b. 1948 Paris, France Filmography Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources When you look at the hills, beyond the houses and beyond the trees, where the earth touches the sky, that’s the horizon...

John Gianvito Antony I. Ginnane Stephen Goddard Chiranjit Goswami Kharálampos Goyós Benjamin Halligan Lee Hill Peter Hourigan Brian Hu Christoph Huber Pasquale Iannone Raine...

Acquarello Peg Aloi Geoff Andrew Sean Axmaker Martyn Bamber Michael Bartlett Paolo Bertolin Rochelle Boland Stephen Brower Thomas Caldwell Dan Callahan Michael Campi Ben ...

Ioannis Mookas Bill Mousoulis James Naremore James L. Neibaur Darragh O’Donoghue John Orr Jit Phokaew Bérénice Reynaud Marcos Ribas de Faria Peter Rist James Rose Dan Sallit...

Post-Citizen Kane: a career in ascent or decline? The question still divides Welles scholars. This essay appraises the latter stage of Welles’ majestic career.

6-15 September 2007 Each year, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) seems a little grander, more populated, more aware of its world-class status. Good planning and the Herculean effort of an ar...

3-8 May 2007 The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen is the longest running short film festival in the world. The festival, now in its 53rd year, can be characterised by its constant questioning...

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, ...

What are monsters? What role do they fulfil in modern society? These are the leading questions that Barbara Creed addresses in Phallic Panic. Cinema is the contemporary medium to tell stories about monstrous be...

Editors’ Note Welcome to the annual Senses of Cinema World Poll. Readers should find it a fascinating overview of cinema from a multitude of countries and cultures. As some readers will seek and search entr...

Editors’ Note Welcome to the annual Senses of Cinema World Poll. Readers should find it a fascinating overview of cinema from a multitude of countries and cultures. As some readers will seek and search entr...

Editors’ Note Welcome to the annual Senses of Cinema World Poll. Readers should find it a fascinating overview of cinema from a multitude of countries and cultures. As some readers will seek and search entr...

29 September–15 October 2006 For 44 years we’ve been accused of being demanding, inflexible and insanely selective.... Remarkably like our audience. – Voiceover from 44th New York Film Festival trailer S...

The director of, among others, Roadgames, Psycho II and Hotel Sorrento, offers an insightful reflection on an issue close to his heart and profession.

April 21–29, 2006 “No to Chinese Goods”, howled a cluster of Lega Nord-campaign posters from a downtown Udine wall when on the 21st of April the 8th Far East Film Festival opened in Friuli’s main city. T...

Miranda July’s film was one of the indie success stories of the year. Yet, it may be what it most critiques, an example of commodity fetishism.

Editors’ Note As readers may seek and search entries, rather than read from beginning to end, full titles, director credits and years of release have been included with each reference. Several authors have ...

Editors’ Note As readers may seek and search entries, rather than read from beginning to end, full titles, director credits and years of release have been included with each reference. Several authors have ...

Editors’ Note As readers may seek and search entries, rather than read from beginning to end, full titles, director credits and years of release have been included with each reference. Several authors have ...

This acclaimed critic and writer discusses a range of issues related to Canadian film culture and its regional cinemas.

May 11–22, 2005 Front cover: disclaimer? I returned from Cannes with my mind full of images, reflections and discussions about the 48 films from the various official and non-official selections (1) I sa...

Acclaimed filmmaker Claire Denis discusses her new feature and the evolving æsthetics of her art.

A film that has been widely condemned but seldom discussed, Anatomy of Hell is here elucidated matter-of-factly by its author.

The second half of an in-depth interview, covering Gordon's recent films, therein revealing an evolution of his thematic and stylistic concerns.

Philip Brophy has programmed his terrific yet frequently overstuffed new book, 100 Modern Soundtracks, like a CD. 100 two or three-page entries on films that apotheosise the modern “cinesonic womb” merge into a...