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The 2010 edition of Tokyo’s Image Forum Festival once again coincided with the series of Japanese national holidays collectively known as “Golden Week” that fall between late April and early May. While many wor...

“Then I weave a square, and little by little the basket rises.” - Solrun Hoaas, There’s Nothing that Doesn’t Take Time (1981) Solrun Hoaas slipped into filmmaking innocuously, initially making films about thi...

Like many of his collaborators, filmmaker Jackie Raynal was present at the Cinémathèque Française’s memorial homage to Rohmer earlier this year. Sparked by the occasion, she looks back at her time with Rohmer in this heartfelt reminiscence.

Fellow critic and filmmaker Luc Moullet gives due consideration to Rohmer’s sketch in Paris vu par… highlighting its fidelity to location.

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.

This is an essential book on one of the most explosive film movements in recent memory, rivalling the prodigious output of Iranian films in the 1990s; the Nigerian feature film industry, which, working almost e...

With the recent release of the European Foundation Joris Ivens’ 5 disc-DVD set, Peter Hourigan takes the opportunity to look back at the career and work of one of the most famous of documentary filmmakers.

Though Eisenstein’s vision for ¡Que Viva México! was never fully realised, Gabrielle Murray argues that the version(s) we have reveals the twin influence of Russian icon painting and ethnographic film.

  21 January – 1 February 2009 Like so many film festivals, the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) has grown exponentially since its inception. Nearly 40 years hence, a newcomer might consi...

The director of Acéphale and Héraclite l’obscur looks back on the people, films and events that have shaped his work and thoughts.

Jenkins discusses one of McElwee’s early and seminal works, and discovers that, “Like all vérité filmmakers, he relies heavily on serendipitous events – what Dziga Vertov called ‘life caught unawares’.”

Roland-François Lack provides an informative lexicon to this early masterpiece by Godard.

Carlton + Godard = Cinema (2003 Australia 145 mins) Prod Co: Sunshine Picture Co. Prod, Dir, Sc: Nigel Buesst Leaving aside Giorgio Mangiamele’s singular pioneering films of the early ‘60s celebrated...

In this diary-essay, Linda Ehrlich offers some engaging impressions on three impressive films from Spain: El Cielo gira (2004), La Leyenda del tiempo (2006) and Unas Fotos … en la ciudad de Sylvia (2007).

Wide-ranging interview in which Bitsch discusses his youthful cinéphilia, his association with Cahiers du Cinéma, and his work with Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Melville, et al. So evocative, one can almost relive history in the making through his words.

6-7 October 2007 My annual pilgrimage this year to the Views from the Avant-Garde (the experimental film sidebar at the New York Film Festival) was coloured by viewing experiences in the two days prior t...

A comprehensive overview of the regional and global imperatives that shaped the historically fascinating 1960s avant-garde movement known as the Barcelona School.

I first came across Edgar Morin’s writings almost a decade ago. Having just finished a graduate seminar in classical film theory, I was eager to help recover pre-1968 approaches to cinema, and so it seemed fort...

A producer, director, screenwriter and activist for an Australian national cinema provides a first-hand socio-cultural account of the era surrounding the late 1960s-early ’70s revival in local film production.

Given that much of this Bob Dylan documentary sources its material from the archives of the Direct Cinema movement of the 1960s, this article addresses the historical reframing of such footage for contemporary use.

Famously, L'Âge d'or opens with a documentary on scorpions. The film was first screened publicly in Paris in November 1930. In honour of its 75th anniversary year, this article provides a critical overview of Surrealist uses and abuses of the documentary form.

A scholarly – and long overdue – analysis of the affinities and differences between these two filmmakers of immense stature.

The Entries George Papadopoulos Alan Pavelin Mark Peranson Jit Phokaew Mike Plante Jared Rapfogel Andy Rector Bérénice Reynaud Mark Richardson Peter Rist Vadim Rizov James ...

The Entries Acquarello Mubarak Ali Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Saul Austerlitz Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett Steve Benedict Alexander Bisley Stephen Brower Thomas Caldwel...

On the opening day of the 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) I find myself watching Abbas Kiarostami's 10 on Ten (2004). While not quite a manifesto, 10 on Ten is a kind of declaration of pri...

Reflections on Melbourne’s own ‘new wave’ from a participant and observer.

b. April 27, 1935, Athens, Greece d. January 24, 2012, Piraeus, Greece filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources In Theo Angelopoulos' haunting fable odyssey, Landscape in the Mist...

b. February 6, 1932, Paris, France d. October 21, 1984, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France translated by Tristan Vasquez filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Truffaut was cinema It ...

In 1969, Hollywood exile Nicholas Ray arrived in Chicago hoping to film a radical ‘documentary.’ His collaborator recalls the era, the project and the man.

Halligan's rich discussion of Sokurov's Russian Ark weaves together analyses of history, politics and art.

Denis Arkadievitch Kaufman b. January 2, 1896, Bialystok, Poland d. February 12, 1954, Moscow, Russia filmography bibliography web resources Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dream...

b. Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve (1) b. July 29, 1921, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France d. July 29, 2012, Paris, France filmography bibliography articles in Senses web...

Considering films recently screened at this national documentary festival, Julian digs deeper into questions of truth, reality and ethics in documentary and fiction filmmaking.

À Bout de souffle (1960 France 90mins) 35mm Source: NewVision Prod Co: Georges de Beauregard, Société Nouvelle de Cinéma Prod: Georges de Beauregard Dir, Scr: Jean-Luc Godard from story by François Truff...

Compiled by Fiona A. Villella The Entries Parts of this article are now hosted on the PANDORA archive of the National Library of Australia and Partners. Kent Jones Jon Jost Dmetri Kakmi ...

Celebrating its 25th year as the largest independent festival in the southeast United States, the Atlanta Film & Video Festival under the helmship of director Genevieve McGillicuddy amassed a record-bre...