Notes on the Death of Beauty, Art and Talent: A Correspondence with Ben Hackworth Matthew Clayfield August 2007 Feature Articles The co-writer and director of the recent Australian independent feature Corroboree discusses his film, and the broader issues of film culture and film funding that impact on lower-budget filmmaking.
Vanishing Point: The Last Days of Film Wheeler Winston Dixon May 2007 Feature Articles Not another standard eulogy to the death of cinema, but rather an impassioned reflection on how cinéphilia copes and adapts to the changing of the guard from celluloid cinema to digital movies.
2006 World Poll – Part 3 Various February 2007 2006 World Poll 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...
2006 World Poll – Part 2 Various February 2007 2006 World Poll 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...
2006 World Poll – Part 1 Various February 2007 2006 World Poll 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...
“What I Really Want to do is Direct”: Directors as Depicted on Film and Television Richard Franklin February 2007 The Moral of the Auteur Theory The director of, among others, Roadgames, Psycho II and Hotel Sorrento, offers an insightful reflection on an issue close to his heart and profession.
The Encyclopedia of British Film and Cinema of Britain and Ireland edited by Brian McFarlane Daniel Gritten February 2007 Book Reviews For much of its history, British cinema was deemed second-rate and unworthy of critical and popular attention. The resultant lack of care and research produced an incomplete history, which now has finally been ...
Effi Briest: Beyond Adultery Christa Lang Fuller November 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film Effi Briest (1974 West Germany 140 mins) Prod Co: Tango Film Prod, Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Scr: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, from the novel by Theodor Fontane Phot: Jürgen Jürges, Dietrich Lohmann Ed:...
Frankenheimer, John Stephen Bowie November 2006 Great Directors b. 19 February 1930, New York, USA d. 6 July 2002, Los Angeles, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources Along with Sidney Lumet, John Frankenheimer was the major direc...
When Hou Met Kuriyami: The Hong Kong International Film Festival Turns 30 Ben Cho July 2006 Festival Reports April 4–19, 2006 My opening night schedule was planned with the kind of meticulous care which would have even made Michael Haneke proud (although commentary on contemporary colonialism or audience implic...
Situations over Stories: Café Lumière and Hou Hsiao-hsien Tony McKibbin May 2006 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Hou Hsiao-hsien Made in homage to the cinema of Ozu, McKibbin argues that the film is far more than a simple tribute to the legacy of the Japanese master.
Queer and Queerer, or Fucking Different: The 16th Melbourne Queer Film Festival Cerise Howard May 2006 Festival Reports March 2–12, 2006 The 2006 Commonwealth Games’ wholesale usurpation of Melbourne events calendars impacted upon the scheduling of this year’s MQFF, bringing it forward a week and into a curious synchronic...
2005 World Poll – Part 1 Various February 2006 2005 World Poll 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 ...
Riding the New Wave: The Case of Bonnie and Clyde Elaine Lennon February 2006 Feature Articles 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.
Spielberg, Steven Stephen Rowley February 2006 Great Directors b. 18 December 1946, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources You're on to a much safer bet liking someone like Martin Scorsese, whose genius shows up in all the fully appro...
In a Box (Canyon) and on a Line: The 32nd Telluride Film Festival Sarah A. Heller February 2006 Festival Reports September 2–5, 2005 Geographically speaking, the Telluride Film Festival takes place on a line, a border of sorts. But this line need not be taken literally. Yes, the Rocky Mountains serve as a natural b...
What Price Cinema?: A Report from the 43rd New York Film Festival Kevin Lee February 2006 Festival Reports September 23–October 9, 2005 I would be remiss if this year’s recap of the New York Film Festival neglected a tip of the hat to my predecessor, Jared Rapfogel, whose astute and exhaustive coverage of the...
On the Decline of the New Hollywood and the Prescience of Network Greg Ng October 2005 American Cinema: The 1970s 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.
Claire Denis by Martine Beugnet John Orr October 2005 Book Reviews Martine Beugnet's study of Claire Denis is a highlight of the lively Manchester series on French film directors, and well worth an uninterrupted read from cover to cover. Ending with a full critique of Vendredi...
The Edge of Melancholy: Shampoo Elaine Lennon October 2005 Spotlight on Screenwriter Robert Towne I. Roots A number of factors, and people, contributed to the writing of Shampoo: in the late 1960s, I found myself in London. It was as far back as then that I began a first draft of my idea for Shampoo. B...
Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System by Sharon Waxman Lee Hill April 2005 Book Reviews Like Peter Biskind's Down and Dirty Pictures in 2004, Sharon Waxman's Rebels On The Backlot was launched by its publisher at this year's Sundance Film Festival to the kind of media fanfare given to a “state of ...
Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Essential Critic: Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons by Jonathan Rosenbaum Stephen Teo April 2005 Book Reviews Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University, 2004), takes a canonical view of cinema, asserting the importance of canons or critically ...
Punch Drunk Love: The Budding of an Auteur Cubie King April 2005 Feature Articles An auteurist study of P. T. Anderson's critically admired, yet perhaps still under-appreciated, film.
2004 World Poll – Part 3 Various February 2005 2004 World Poll 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 ...
2004 World Poll – Part 2 Various February 2005 2004 World Poll The Entries Ed Halter Shigehiko Hasumi Bruce Hodsdon Alexander Horwath Brian Hu Christoph Huber Anton Ivin Elric Kane Robert Keser Jonas Varsted Kirkegaard Gabe Klinger J...
2004 World Poll – Part 1 Various February 2005 2004 World Poll The Entries Acquarello Mubarak Ali Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Saul Austerlitz Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett Steve Benedict Alexander Bisley Stephen Brower Thomas Caldwel...
A Fistful of Metaphors: The Dream Life and The Magic Hour by J. Hoberman Robert Keser October 2004 Book Reviews 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...
Permanent Satisfactions: The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s edited by Thomas Elsaesser, Alexander Horwath, and Noel King Charles Leary October 2004 Book Reviews 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?...
Riders on the Storm: The 15th Human Rights Watch International Film Festival Ioannis Mookas July 2004 Festival Reports Uppermost on everyone's agenda right now, in New York as in the rest of the U.S., is purging our government of the malignancy that has subsumed it. So at five months and counting to election day, it was wit...
Loose Change(s): Pocket Money and the “Post-Western” Adam Bingham April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Pocket Money (1972 USA 102 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod Co: National General Pictures Prod: John Foreman Dir: Stuart Rosenberg Scr: John Gay, Terrence Malick, from the novel Jim Kane by J. P....
Ride with the Devil Noel King April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Ride with the Devil (1999 USA 138 mins) Prod Co: Universal Pictures Prod: Robert F. Colesberry, Ted Hope, James Schamus Dir: Ang Lee Scr: James Schamus, from the novel Woe to Live On by Daniel Woodrell P...
Minnelli, Vincente Joe McElhaney April 2004 Great Directors b. Lester Anthony Minnelli b. February 28, 1903, Chicago, Illinois, USA d. July 25, 1986, Beverly Hills, California, USA filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Images of Magic an...
2003 World Poll – Part 3 Various February 2004 2003 World Poll The Entries Miguel Marías Philip Matthews James May Olaf Möller Sarah Nichols Darragh O'Donoghue John Orr Alan Pavelin Alberto Pezzotta Jit Phokaew Mike Plante Jared Rapf...
2003 World Poll – Part 2 Various February 2004 2003 World Poll The Entries Cynthia Fuchs Chris Fujiwara Krin Gabbard John Gianvito Anthony I. Ginnane Aaron Goldberg Adam Hart Dave Heaton Grady Hendrix James Hewison Lee Hill Bruce Hod...
2003 World Poll – Part 1 Various February 2004 2003 World Poll The Entries Acquarello Peg Aloi Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Saul Austerlitz Matt Bailey Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett Nicholas Butler Peter Calder Thomas Caldwell Mark...
When You Cut Up the Frame: An Interview with Julie Talen Cara O'Connor February 2004 Feature Articles In this wide-ranging interview, Talen discusses her recent feature Pretend and the theory and practice of "multichannel" visual storytelling.
