How to Do Things with Camera Movement: The Lure of the Image: Epistemic Fantasies of the Moving Camera, by Daniel Morgan Kyle Barrowman May 2022 Book Reviews To say that a book devoted to analysing camera movement is an exemplary instance of ordinary language philosophy may raise a few eyebrows. Indeed, it may lead some to wonder if I did not miss the point of the b...
Caine, Michael Wheeler Winston Dixon May 2022 Great Actors b. March, 18, 1933, London “I'll always be around because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.” – Michael Caine Sir Michael Caine, one of the most durable act...
Garbo, Greta Jeremy Carr May 2022 Great Actors b. 18 September 1905, Stockholm, Sweden d. 15 April 1990, New York City, U.S. “What, when drunk, one sees in other women, one sees in Garbo sober.” This often-quoted musing by Kenneth Tynan, published in the ...
Fritz Lang’s Spione (1928) Shari Kizirian May 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film It begins like any good spy thriller should, with a fast-paced action-filled set up, here done in a style so clipped and cryptic it leaves us breathless. That there’s a confession in the first few minutes only ...
An entertainment: Fritz Lang’s Ministry of Fear (1944) Andréas Giannopoulos May 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Graham Greene’s 1943 novel The Ministry of Fear – a “wrong man” story set during the London Blitz in which a recently institutionalised person accidentally obtains a cake containing secret Nazi microfilm – seem...
Breathless in El Dorado Murray Pomerance January 2022 Forms That Think: Jean-Luc Godard “Landscapes, faces, and objects ask only for their own beauty, unadorned, free of pathos, like the world seen for the first time.” - Nestor Almendros The well-worn adage of hindsight being 20/20 helps ma...
The Cry: Cinema, Sentiment, Minnelli Murray Pomerance January 2022 Feature Articles The European Magazine for January, 1783, describes as fashionable: Elliott’s Red-Hot Bullets and The Smoke of the Camp of St. Roche. It is manifestly impossible to identify exactly or to obtain authentic sample...
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 ...
Looking for Love at HitchCon 2021 Amelia Leonard and Jacob Agius January 2022 Festival Reports Hitchcon 2021 brought together twenty professors, scholars, authors and filmmakers from the United States, Canada and Britain for a celebratory weekend of all things Hitchcock. Though widely considered The Mast...
Bigger than life, or stranger: Pedro Costa’s Vitalina Varela: Part I Thomas Austin January 2022 Feature Articles Vitalina Varela (2019) is the seventh feature film by the Portuguese director Pedro Costa. It tells the true story of a woman from Cape Verde who travels to Lisbon to attend the funeral of her estranged husband...
A Wedding Suit (Abbas Kiarostami, 1976) Alicia Byrnes January 2022 CTEQ Annotations on Film Godfrey Cheshire, film critic and author of the volume Conversations with Kiarostami, describes A Wedding Suit as “a gem-like masterpiece that anticipates the accomplishments” of Abbas Kiarostami’s later work. ...
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...
When Everything is Said: Eisenstein’s Stone Lion in Histoire(s) du cinema and Godardian Historiography Pablo Gonzalez Ramalho January 2022 Forms That Think: Jean-Luc Godard Among the many spiralling sequences that make Bronenosets Potemkin (Battleship Potemkin, Sergei Eisenstein, 1926) a major example of what the Soviet director achieved in terms of montage, the stone lion sequenc...
A Cocktail of Lunacy and Love: Poetic Dimensions in Fabrice Du Welz’s “Ardennes” Trilogy Peter Verstraten July 2021 Feature Articles After a modest attempt to create a national film industry in bilingual Belgium had run aground in the 1950s, Belgian cinema was split into two separate small cinemas – a Flemish and a Walloon (French-speaking) ...
“I Myself am a Woman”: A Conversation with Han Shuai Maja Korbecka July 2021 Interviews Writer-director Han Shuai’s Summer Blur, the winner of the Grand Prix for Best Film in the Kplus competition at the 2021 Berlinale, is a mesmerising take on film noir. Its codes and conventions are used to expl...
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”?...
Too Soon, Too Late: The Temporality of Ecological Grief in Cinema Kasia Van Schaik July 2021 Feature Articles “Do you burst into tears at the mere mention of the shrinking Amazon rainforests?” the article I’m scrolling through over breakfast wants to know. “Does the question, ‘Paper or plastic?’ send you into a mental ...
George Romero’s Zombie Movies: The Fragmentation of America Robert Alpert May 2021 Feature Articles George Romero reimagined the zombie movie when he co-wrote and directed Night of the Living Dead (1968). This was certainly not the first movie about zombies. Earlier examples include Hollywood classics White Z...
The Seahorse Francisco Algarín Navarro May 2021 What Will Become of Cinema? Postcards for the Future Translated from Spanish by César Albarrán-Torres When we touch each other, we are a bit less of an image. That is the difference between images and living beings. We believe we can touch with our eyes when we ...
Wellman for the Win Lautaro García Candela May 2021 What Will Become of Cinema? Postcards for the Future Translated from the Argentinian Spanish by César Albarrán-Torres During these past few months, the times of lockdown, the apparatus in charge of feeding cinephilia just crumbled. This space, which we can und...
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...
A year later, alone together through film the editors May 2021 Editorial As we worked on issue 98 of Senses of Cinema from our lounge rooms, home offices and dinner tables across two continents, there was a sudden realisation among the editorial team: it has been a year since the CO...
The Ontology of Windows and Cinema in the Pandemic: e-flux and International Short Film Festival Oberhausen’s Film Series 2020 Shekhar Deshpande May 2021 Feature Articles WHOEVER leads a solitary life and yet now and then wants to attach himself somewhere….. he will not be able to manage for long without a window looking on to the street. -Franz Kafka If only someone would w...
Shimizu Redivivus: Nakinureta haru no onna yo (A Woman Crying in Spring, Hiroshi Shimizu, 1933) Joseph Sgammato April 2021 CTEQ Annotations on Film Among the many differences the widely acknowledged dean of Japanese film scholars in the Anglophone world, Donald Richie, likes to point out between Western and Japanese filmmakers is their response to the intr...
Beneath the Tuxedo Elegance: Cary Grant: The Making of a Hollywood Legend, by Mark Glancy Tom Ryan January 2021 Book Reviews Film stars are like mirages: although we can see them, we know that they’re not really what they appear to be. They play characters born of scripts, but they also exist independently of them. At the same time, ...
Korean Cinema’s Self-Portrait: The 25th Busan International Film Festival Marc Raymond January 2021 Festival Reports The 25th Busan International Film Festival was originally scheduled to take place in early October, as usual, with a full lineup and screenings, albeit with certain increased safety measures and reduced foreign...
“Sense of Place”: The 33rd Tokyo International Film Festival Kohei Usuda January 2021 Festival Reports The Tokyo International Film Festival commenced on October 31 under the most unusual of circumstances, in the backdrop of a deadly pandemic that upended 2020’s festival calendar and forced movie theatres to go ...
World Poll 2020 – Part 1 the editors January 2021 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 1: Antti Alanen Francisco Algarín Navarro Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett Arta Barzanji Raphaël Bassan Sean Bell Malik Berkati Lukas Brasiskis Samuel Bréan Samantha Broadhead Michael Bro...
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 8 the editors January 2021 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 8: Josh Timmermann Jon Towlson Tomas Trussow Koen Van Daele Nicholas de Villiers Peter Verstraten Fiona Villella Mark William Watkins Jason Philip Wierzba Barbara Wurm Neil Young ...
Claustrophobia and Intimacy in Alex Ross Perry’s Queen of Earth and Her Smell Zoë Almeida Goodall October 2020 Feature Articles Michelle: “Small world.” Catherine: “Increasingly.” – Queen of Earth Cinema can produce, through a variety of techniques, a sense of claustrophobia. Still, although featuring in genres ranging from horror to...
Come and See The Painted Bird: A Filmmaker’s Plea Salvador Carrasco October 2020 Feature Articles 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...
Cairo Station (باب الحديد, 1958) Darragh O’Donoghue October 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film Qinawi, the anti-hero of Youssef Chahine’s international breakthrough, is introduced into the main narrative by indirection. First, the ‘lame’ newspaper seller at Cairo Central Station is presented through the ...
Introduction: “How Do You Like It?” (Forty Years On) – The Shining in the Age of Global Quarantine Jeremi Szaniawski July 2020 The Shining at 40 “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...