AFI FEST: A View from the Freeway Bérénice Reynaud March 2017 Festival Reports In the fall 2016, US film festivals on the West Coast had the foresight, the clout and the good luck to uncover some significant gold nuggets: Telluride world premiered Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight, and AFI FEST P...
Figure of Light: On Persistence of Vision: The 21st-Century Film Criticism of Stanley Kauffmann by Bert Cardullo (ed.) Gary Bettinson September 2015 Book Reviews Feature image: Stanley Kauffmann, photographed in 1998. Credit: Jack Manning/The New York Times. For admirers of Stanley Kauffmann – chief film critic for The New Republic from 1958 until his death in 2013, at...
Night People and The Wild One John Flaus October 2014 John Flaus Dossier These two articles were originally published in consecutive issues of Voice: The Australian Independent Monthly, vol. 3, no. 11 and 12, August and September 1954. Written when Flaus was 20, they represent what ...
Towards a Single Cinephilia: On An Invention Without a Future: Essays on Cinema by James Naremore Nafis Shafizadeh September 2014 Book Reviews I’m a sucker for a good epigraph. A good epigraph can put the reader in the right state of mind for what follows, creating in her consciousness what film critic Manny Farber referred to as “negative space” – th...
A Sense of Space: The 32nd Sundance Film Festival & the 21st PanAfrican Film & Arts Festival Bérénice Reynaud March 2013 Festival Reports Fruitvale We were lucky. The cold front that had swept through most of the US in January receded on time, so we could enjoy the relatively mild weather, and even sunshine glittering on the snow, while waiti...
The Afterlives of Acting: Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America by George Kouvaros Justin Owen Rawlins June 2012 Book Reviews Writing in the midst of the Method’s postwar ascension within the public consciousness, Philip Hope-Wallace observes that “it is fair to remember that the public mind is generally in a great state of confusion ...
Haneke, Michael Mattias Frey December 2010 Great Directors This article is an updated and substantially revised version of his original essay from 2003. b. March 23, 1942, Munich, Germany A cinema of disturbance: the films of Michael Haneke in context My films a...
Arthur Shields and the Politics of Jean Renoir’s The River Antony Sellers February 2009 Feature Articles Irish actor and Nationalist Arthur Shields was a figure of considerable historical significance. While he worked with John Ford, arguably his collaboration with Jean Renoir was of more lasting import.
Under the Cover of Darkness: Expressionistic Experimentation in Howard Hawks’ The Criminal Code Christopher Weedman February 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Criminal Code (1931 USA 97 mins) Prod Co: Columbia Pictures Prod: Howard Hawks, Harry Cohn Dir: Howard Hawks Scr: Fred Niblo, Jr., Seton I. Miller, based on the play by Martin Flavin Phot: James Wong...
Male Irresponsibility and (Temporary) Redemption: Howard Hawks’ The Crowd Roars Tony Williams February 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Crowd Roars (1932 USA 84 mins) Prod Co: First National-Vitaphone/Warner Bros. Prod: Bryan Foy Dir: Howard Hawks Scr: Kubec Glasmon, John Bright, Seton I. Miller, Niven Busch, from a story by Howard H...
Vidor, King Dan Callahan February 2007 Great Directors b. 1894, Galveston, Texas d. 1982, Paso Robles, California Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources Committed to the most unyielding and almost brutally positive American determination, King V...
Griffith, D.W. John Steinle July 2006 Great Directors b. 22 January, 1875, Oldham County, Kentucky, USA d. 24 July, 1948, Los Angeles, California, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources The Birth of an Art Introduction ...
Portraits of Settler History in The Proposition Carol Hart February 2006 Australian Cinema Hailed as an antipodean Western, this Nick Cave scripted and John Hillcoat directed feature raises considerable debate about the representation of Australia’s colonial history.
Summer Holiday Oloruntoba John Olubunmi July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Summer Holiday (USA 1948 92 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: MGM Prod: Arthur Freed Dir: Rouben Mamoulian Scr: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Irving Brecher, Jean Holloway, from Eugene O'Neill's play A...
Flashing Spikes Quentin Turnour April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Alcoa Premiere Theatre: Flashing Spikes (1962 USA 53 mins) Source: PC Prod Co: Avista Productions/Revue Dir: John Ford Scr: Jameson Brewer, from the novel by Frank O'Rouke Phot: William H. Clothier Art D...
Allen, Woody Victoria Loy October 2003 Great Directors b. Allen Stewart Konigsberg b. December 1, 1935, Brooklyn, New York, USA filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Is Woody Allen a misanthrope? haphazard, morally neutral and unim...
Benning, Sadie Melissa Rigney October 2003 Great Directors b. 1973, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA filmography bibliography web resources Sadie Benning began making videos at age sixteen when her father, experimental filmmaker James Benning, gave her a pixelvisi...
Haneke, Michael Mattias Frey October 2003 Great Directors b. March 23, 1942, Munich, Germany filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources A cinema of disturbance: the films of Michael Haneke in context My films are intended as polemical statem...
Renoir, Jean James Leahy March 2003 Great Directors b. September 15, 1894, Montmartre, Paris, France d. February 12, 1979, Beverly Hills California, U.S.A. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources First Movement: Polemic Renoir's fi...
Mann, Anthony David Boxwell January 2003 Great Directors Emil Anton Bundmann b. June 30, 1906, San Diego, California, USA d. April 29, 1967, Berlin, Germany filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Anthony Mann's career trajectory form...
Favourite Film Things 2002 – Part 2 Various January 2003 Favourite Film Things 2002 compiled by Fiona A. Villella The Entries James Hewison Lee Hill Bruce Hodsdon Alexander Horwath Peter Hourigan Christoph Huber Darren Hughes Dina Iordanova Robert Keser Rai...
Film Culture in Paraguay: Interview with Hugo Gamarra Etcheverry Noel King July 2002 Feature Articles Hugo talks about his involvement in developing and sustaining a vital and active film culture in Paraguay.
Mirror, Muse, Medusa: Experiment Perilous Thomas Elsaesser December 2001 Film and the Other Arts An examination into the relations between cinema, painting, the painted portrait, and 'woman'.
A Report on the 46th Cork Film Festival Maximilian Le Cain November 2001 Festival Reports Stopping off in Ireland: perceptive comments on films playing at Cork.