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Over the course of his long career, the Dutch director Paul Verhoeven has been at the centre of many a success and many a controversy. His second feature film, Turks fruit (Turkish Delight, 1973), is still the ...

Abbas Kiarostami’s death this July, at the age of 76, was a moment of profound sorrow for the world’s film community. The affecting images of his public funeral – with the streets of Tehran teeming with mourner...

Abstract >> In a recent interview with Ann Turner, she shared with me her journey from disappointment to cordial acceptance of the promotion of Celia, her 1989 debut feature film, as horror. “At first ...

Abstract >> In the dead linen in cupboards, I seek the supernatural - Gaston Bachelard For a female filmmaker to forge space in a male dominated filmmaking industry and make a horror film on her own te...

The 2016 Wavelengths shorts program opened auspiciously with Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Sangrienta (Bloody Silhouette). Made in 1975 in Iowa City, the two-minute, Super-8 film begins with a high-angle shot of Mendi...

Roberto Gavaldón 7 June 1909, Chihuahua, Mexico 4 September 1986, Mexico City The so-called Golden Age of Mexican Cinema in the 1940s and ’50s remains a mythical terra incognita for most film lovers. We may...

Welcome to the final issue of Senses of Cinema for 2016. From Jerry Lewis to American Extreme cinema, Twin Peaks to British Experimental filmmaking, and Abel Ferrara to Jacques Rivette, the spotlights we have p...

This dossier brings together a collection of articles on a number of filmmakers and filmmaking practices a little beyond Senses of Cinema’s typical focus. This serves as an introduction to and consideration of ...

For 30 years, Bologna has been the home of Retrieved Cinema – Il Cinema Ritrovato. That idea of “retrieving” cinema is what makes this annual gathering of critics, archivists, restorers and ordinary film lovers...

2016 marked the 17th year for the Jeonju International Film Festival, held annually in early May in a small southern city in South Korea’s Jeolla Province. The festival has long been South Korea’s second major ...

On the fiftieth anniversary of the very first Brisbane Film Festival (BFF), and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF), the Queensland Film Festival has returned t...

 André Gaudreault and Philippe Marion’s The End of Cinema?: A Medium in Crisis in the Digital Age demonstrates that cinema has still not reached its end. At times their confidence gives way to feistiness, but t...

A touchstone for the highly politicised debates in film criticism during the 1960s and 1970s, the work of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet appeared, by the early 2000s, to have suffered a terminal decline...

"New directions” is certainly a key term in Issue 80 of Senses of Cinema. In our dossier on “American Extreme”, we are joined by guest co-editor Jack Sargeant: not, in this case, to make ‘sense’ of these fil...

Harun Farocki died suddenly in July 2014, but his formidable intellect lives on in a remarkable body of work, as acute and prescient now as ever before. In a ninety-film corpus as prolific as it is heterogeneou...

This article seeks to interrogate the role of the image in confronting changes to the ways they function within what we may term ‘new media’, and the effects these have had on the traditional “apparatus” of the...

This interview with Argentine filmmaker Matías Piñeiro took place at the Locarno Film Festival in August 2016. About all that needs be said about Piñeiro’s five previous movies can be read in Jason Di Rosso’s f...

It’s one of the oldest clichés in football. A team dominates the match and is ahead on the scoreboard at half-time, but throws their lead away after play resumes. Or the reverse: after meekly surrendering in th...

The corpus of Jacques Rivette’s critical writings for Cahiers du cinéma is as influential as it is modest in size. Roughly 50 articles appeared under Rivette’s name alone, although this total is bolstered by hi...

It’s one of the great gags in film theory. Writing in 1969, Cahiers du cinéma editors Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni devise a seven-part critical typology of the cinema, based on the political or ideologic...

March 16, 1926, Newark, New Jersey, USA August 20, 2017, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA To note that the films of Jerry Lewis are a rich, pleasurable and endlessly fascinating meditation on their medium is to say lit...

Bad Fit: The Ladies Man (1961) Players and painted stage too all my love And not those things that they were emblems of. William Butler Yeats, “The Circus Animals’ Desertion” What is it to love cinema – bey...

The Patsy and The Struggle of Jerry Lewis In 1995, the novelist and critic Gilbert Adair published his Flickers: An Illustrated Celebration of 100 Years of Cinema. The year, by most historical reckonings, mark...

Hitchcockian Comedy and Jewish Kabuki: Jerry Lewis’ The Big Mouth (1967) One way to think about The Big Mouth (1967) is to see it as Jerry Lewis’ parody – or better, his loose remake – of Alfred Hitchcock’s No...

The tagline for David Lynch’s Inland Empire (2006) describes the film as “a mystery” about a “woman in trouble”. This simple phrase coincides with much of what viewers see on the screen but proves less helpful...

“When it came to Fassbinder, ... one was made to feel that the real drama in film after film wasn't so much in the makeshift characters or the fruit-salad images but in the offscreen intrigues of a baby Caligul...

Beyond I had spent too much time designing my schedule before requesting press tickets for the first weekend of Sundance, and as a result, none of the films I wanted to see the Saturday of my arrival were avai...

Entries in part 1: Francisco Algarín Navarro Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Rowena Santos Aquino Miriam Bale Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett Raphaël Bassan Conor Bateman Gustavo Beck Sean Bell Y...

Entries in part 2: Michael Da Silva Fergus Daly Adrian Danks Dustin Dasig Henri de Corinth Monica Delgado Wheeler Winston Dixon Dzondunkellicht Gerónimo Elortegui Jeremy Elphick Miguel Faus...

Entries in part 3: Avi Hanner Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Michael Helms Alain Hertay Wai Ho Peter Hourigan Cerise Howard Brian Hu Felix Hubble Christoph Huber Darren Hughes Zachary Ingle Dari...

Entries in part 4: Josh Mabe Helen Macallan Miguel Marías Dmitry Martov Neil McGlone Duncan McLean Adrian Mendizabal Mads Mikkelsen David Miller Olaf Möller Brent Morrow Oona Mosna Jorge Mour...

Entries in part 5: Fidel Jesús Quirós Bérénice Reynaud Stuart Richards Jeremy Rigsby Peter Rist Eloise Ross Julian Ross André Roy Dan Sallitt Maria San Filippo Yianna Sarri Christine Sathiah ...

In September 1973, 26-year-old Steven Spielberg attended a press conference in Rome to promote his made-for-TV chase thriller, Duel (1971), which had been released theatrically in Europe with around fifteen min...

Since the mid 1980s, when educational institutions across the planet began to host course units dedicated to the horror film, there has naturally been much written about the genre. In fact, if you overlooked ma...

William V. Costanzo’s World Cinema through Global Genres is comprehensive and truly enjoyable. At 431 pages it never becomes dull or opaque, and instead provides clear, detailed investigations of world genres a...

Perhaps the most difficult thing about having a good reputation is the need to maintain it. There’s scarcely a festival more exalted for the quality of its programming than the Viennale, an intimate utopia of p...