Puya and Jerry Lewis Nafis Shafizadeh June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia Puya navigated the Los Angeles traffic like a seasoned pro, without the help of an app. Its streets, traffic lights, accidents, stalled cars, make-or-break freeway decisions, whimsical lane choices; but no horn...
Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director (Introduction) Daniel Fairfax July 2016 Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director 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...
Lewis, Jerry Chris Fujiwara July 2016 Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director, Great Directors 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...
Mr Lewis, “The Idiot-Kid” and Me Jennifer Sabine July 2016 Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director “At the same time, there is a contradiction because you don’t really think in terms of directing yourself. You refer and must refer to that ‘other being.’ He is another entity. He is called The Idiot or The Kid...
The Genius of the System: Robert Benayoun’s Bonjour Mr. Lewis (1982) Sam Di Iorio July 2016 Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director Rarely shown and never commercially released, Robert Benayoun’s six-hour mini-series Bonjour Mr. Lewis is as worth seeing as it is hard to find. This wide-ranging anthology of clips, interviews, and rarities wa...
Joseph H. Lewis Filmography Robert Mundy November 2000 Joseph H. Lewis - A Tribute (First appeared in Cinema (U.S.), v.7, n.1, Fall 1971) 1937 Navy Spy (Grand National), dir: Joseph H. Lewis and Crane Wilbur, sc: Crane Wilbur, prod: George A. Hirliman, phot: Mack Stengler, ed: Tony Mar...
Better than Good – A Tribute to Joseph H. Lewis William D. Routt November 2000 Joseph H. Lewis - A Tribute The ultimate compilation: A rich tapestry of criticism, quotations and anecdotes, over the last 50 years, on Lewis and his films.
A Journey through Serge Daney’s Cinema House Emmanuel Bonin August 2023 Book Reviews In a response to The Independent’s obituary of Serge Daney dated June 1992, Louis Skorecki wrote: “He was the only film critic of real value in France in the last 20 years and one of the only original writers ...
Fosse, Bob Sherry Johnson January 2023 Great Directors b. Robert Louis Fosse, Chicago, Illinois, June 23, 1927 d. September 23, 1987, Washington, D.C. Although Bob Fosse died at the relatively young age of 60, he had a career in show business extending for almost...
Issue 100: the Centennial Edition the editors January 2022 Editorial In 1999, the then 36-year-old Melbourne-based independent filmmaker Bill Mousoulis hatched an idea for an online film journal. The notion of starting a film journal that would purely reside on the Internet was ...
World Poll 2021 – Part 5 the editors January 2022 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 5: Jonathan Mackris Bob Manning Łukasz Mańkowski Miguel Marías Jack McCulloch Tim McQueen Adrian Mendizabal Jamie Mendonça Douglas Messerli Stefano Miraglia Olaf Möller Marcel Müller...
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...
Two Letters from São Paulo Aaron Cutler May 2021 What Will Become of Cinema? Postcards for the Future 1st October, 2020 Dear Cecilia, Marcelo, Pablo and colleagues, I hope that you are all doing all right. Your invitation to send a reflection on the future of cinema got me thinking about how hard it of...
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami, 1994) Darragh O’Donoghue July 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film From its first screening at the Cannes Film Festival in 1994, it was clear how deeply Through the Olive Trees was embedded in the past. It was the third and final part in what has come to be known as the Koker ...
Reagan at the Movies: Make My Day: Movie Culture in the Age of Reagan, by J. Hoberman Nafis Shafizadeh July 2020 Book Reviews My concern is with a general movement of reaction and conservative reassurance in the contemporary Hollywood cinema. — Andrew Britton in Blissing Out: The Politics of Reaganite Entertainment (1986) Certain ...
World Poll 2019 — Part 4 the editors January 2020 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 4: Michael Heath Claire Henry Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee Hill Phil Hobbins-White Jytte Holmqvist Peter Hourigan Brian Hu Yue Huang Christoph Huber Parviz Jahed Christopher Kear...
Secret Superstars : Revolt by Stealth in Modi-era Bollywood Darragh O’Donoghue October 2019 This is what defined cinema in the 2010s In 2014 India elected Narendra Modi Prime Minister with a landslide. A right-wing Hindu fundamentalist and former member of the elite, fascistic Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh paramilitary organisation, Modi has ...
World Poll 2018 – Part 1 the editors January 2019 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 1: Antti Alanen Francisco Algarín Navarro Victor Alicea Rowena Santos Aquino Luke Aspell Martyn Bamber Michael Bartlett Rhett Bartlett Arta Barzanji Raphaël Bassan Conor Bateman Gu...
Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia (Introduction) Daniel Fairfax June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia The cinema has always, it seems, been tightly connected with feelings of nostalgia, such that it is not hard to imagine a film-goer in the early 20th century pining for the lost past of the mid-1890s. With the ...
Comedy and the Castratrice: Věra Chytilová’s Traps (1998) Alexandra Heller-Nicholas June 2018 CTEQ Annotations on Film Rape-revenge films directed by women are a rarity, and rape-revenge comedies even rarer; somehow, connecting the two, we find queen of the Czech avant-garde Věra Chytilová and her 1998 film Pasti, pasti, pastič...
Le Goût du crime: Notes on Gangster Style in New-Wave Paris: Part II Murray Pomerance March 2018 Feature Articles In the second instalment of his two-part article, Canadian film scholar and regular Senses of Cinema contributor Murray Pomerance continues his thoughts on the trope of the gangster in four films shot in Paris ...
World Poll 2017 – Part 1 the editors January 2018 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 1: AFI Research Collection Antti Alanen Francisco Algarín Navarro Juan Carlos Ampie Michael J. Anderson Rowena Santos Aquino Sean Axmaker Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett Nick Bartlett R...
World Poll 2017 – Part 2 the editors January 2018 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Michael Campi Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Celluloid Liberation Front Daryl Chin Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn Roberta Ciabarra Joel Condemi Adam Cook Jordan Cro...
1924: The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks (Lev Kuleshov) Tony Williams December 2017 100 Years of Soviet Cinema Long recognised as the pioneer of the “Kuleshov effect”, teacher of future cinematic talents such as Sergei Eisenstein (who attended Kuleshov’s Film Workshop for three months during 1922-1923), Vsevolod Pud...
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...
World Poll 2016 – Part 2 the editors January 2017 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Raúl Camargo Bórquez Michael Campi Forest Cardamenis Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Daryl Chin Lesley Chow Roberta Ciabarra Cinema For All Martyn Conterio Ada...
World Poll 2016 – Part 7 the editors January 2017 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 7: Donatella Valente Carlos Valladares Jesue Valle Koen Van Daele Kaj van Zoelen Miha Veingerl Noel Vera Tom Vincent Ben Volchok Nicholas Vroman David Walsh Wang Yue ...
Welcome to Issue 81 of our journal the editors December 2016 Editorial 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...
Brooks, Albert Christian Long August 2016 Great Directors b. 22 July 1947, Beverly Hills, CA, USA When Success is Failure Albert Brooks has been called the “West Coast Woody Allen,” a nickname which acknowledges the similarities Brooks and Allen share: they both wri...
Welcome to issue 79 of our journal the editors July 2016 Editorial This absolutely bumper issue of Senses of Cinema not only adheres to our long tradition at looking back at film history and forward to its exciting futures, but also – in something of a first for Senses – consi...
Some Basic Characteristics of the Fool (1970) The Melbourne Film Bulletin July 2016 Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director “O dear god please give me the serenity to understand the things I can not change; to change things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference” The Bellboy (1960), The Errand Boy (1961) and The Ladies Man (1...
The Bellboy (1960) James L. Neibaur July 2016 Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director In 1946, when the hot new comedy team of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis burst onto the New York nightclub scene, their outrageous irreverence was just the sort of excitement weary post-war American audiences crave...
The Ladies Man (1961) Murray Pomerance July 2016 Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director 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 Errand Boy (1961) Marco Grosoli July 2016 Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director On what Jerry Lewis “has been”, the literature is abundant. And it is excellent at that: see, above all, Chris Fujiwara’s unsurpassable monography. Little, one feels, still remains to be said. There remains,...
The Nutty Professor (1963) Scott Bukatman July 2016 Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director Paralysis in Motion: The Nutty Professor (1963) The Nutty Professor is entirely devoted to Professor Julius Kelp’s attempts to surmount his deficiencies as a man. Unable to contend with his own desires, the in...
The Patsy (1964) Nafis Shafizadeh July 2016 Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director 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...