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...
Tashlin, Frank Ethan de Seife December 2003 Great Directors b. February 19, 1913, Weehawken, New Jersey, USA d. May 5, 1972, Hollywood, California, USA filmography bibliography web resources For almost fifty years, since the cineaste-filmmakers of the Frenc...
From the Beginning: Notes on Orson Welles’ Most Personal Late Film Peter Tonguette July 2003 Lost Films On the trail of the unfinished Isak Dinesen adaptation The Dreamers, Tonguette talks with Welles experts and associates about this crucial late work.
Skolimowski, Jerzy Bruce Hodsdon July 2003 Great Directors b. May 5, 1938, Lódz, Poland filmography bibliography web resources Eyes Wide Open Jerzy Skolimowski has said that he makes films to please himself. (1) Between 1964 and 1984 he completed six semi-au...
Positif Fifty Years: Selections From The French Film Journal edited by Lawrence Kardish and Michel Ciment Steve Erickson March 2003 Book Reviews (Museum Of Modern Art: New York, 2002) While four anthologies of writing from Cahiers du Cinéma have been published in English, it's taken 50 years for the release of a similar collection from their peers an...
Gorin, Jean-Pierre Erik Ulman January 2003 Great Directors b. April 17, 1943, Paris, France filmography bibliography articles in Senses Jean-Pierre Gorin first achieved international attention through his collaborations with Jean-Luc Godard as the Dziga Ver...
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...
Favourite Film Things 2002 – Part 1 Various January 2003 Favourite Film Things 2002 Compiled by Fiona A. Villella The Entries Acquarello Diego Batlle Fabien Boully Michael Campi Rose Capp Anthony Carew Jaime N. Christley Tom Clay Angela Costi Denis Côté ...
Interview with Sylvie Pierre Bill Krohn December 2002 Feature Articles In this personal discussion, evolving via email, Sylvie Pierre talks eloquently with Bill Krohn about her time at Cahiers, May '68, the impetus to leave France, discovering Brazil, and the changes brought upon her worldview by this 'magical' place.
Bad Girls Go to Dildo Heaven: An All-Nude Tribute to Doris Wishman Andrew Leavold December 2002 Feature Articles Not only afraid to go where no man had gone before, Wishman also proudly maintained total artistic control of her films.
Wishman, Doris Christopher J. Jarmick October 2002 Great Directors b. July 23, 1912, New York, New York, USA d. August 10, 2002, Miami, Florida, USA filmography sources for this profile articles in Senses web resources Remembering the grand dame of American sexploi...
Passage along the Shadow-Line: Farocki and Others – Approaching a Certain Filmkritik-style Olaf Möller July 2002 Harun Farocki Möller affectionately discusses the films, writing and philosophy of the cineastes who wrote for German film magazine, Filmkritik, a culture or 'movement' strong enough to rival Cahiers.
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Joe Ruffell May 2002 Great Directors b. May 31, 1945 Bad Wörishofen, Germany. d. June 10, 1982 Munich, Germany. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a filmmaker prolific to the point ...
Abbas Kiarostami: A Dialogue Between the Authors Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum November 2001 Abbas Kiarostami Saeed-Vafa and Rosenbaum discuss the singularity of Kiarostami and general problems of cross-cultural criticism and interpretation.
Walk The Talk Jake Wilson April 2001 Australian Film An astute discussion of characterisation and mise en scène in Shirley Barrett's latest film.
Spotlight on 49th Melbourne International Film Festival: Daily Reports Various July 2000 Festival Reports During the festival, short reviews and other comments were posted on this page.
Pumping Up the Volume: Cinesonic – 3rd International Conference on Film Scores and Sound Design Reviewed Fiona Villella July 2000 Festival Reports Three days of non-stop ideas, theories and experiences centred on sound in film.
43rd Annual San Francisco International Film Festival Jeff Lambert June 2000 Festival Reports April 20 to May 4, 2000 This year, San Francisco was Coppola ga-ga. Opening night saw Virgin Suicides (Sofia Coppola, 1999) consumed like jawbreakers stuffed in Marlon's maw. We like you, Sofia, we reall...
Mise en scène: Dead and Loving it… Some Notes on Mel Brooks Brad Stevens January 2000 Feature Articles Sharp, informed and insightful analysis of the 'specialised mise en scène practice' in the films of Mel Brooks.
World Poll 2023 – Part 6 the editors January 2024 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 6: Josh B Mabe Mattia Magi Bob Manning Miguel Marías Jack McCulloch Duncan McLeanTim McQueen Adrian D. Mendizabal Jamie Mendonça Stefano Miraglia Olaf Möller Josh B Mabe A libr...
A Man of Genius Has Been Seldom Ruined But By Himself: Ethan Warren’s The Cinema of Paul Thomas Anderson Hannah Bonner November 2023 Book Reviews When he was seven, Paul Thomas Anderson wrote in his diary, “I want to be a writer, producer, director, special effects man. I know how to do everything and I know everything” (p. 1). For this millennial wunder...
Caine, Michael Wheeler Winston Dixon May 2022 Great Actors b. March, 18, 1933, London “I'll always be around because I'm a skilled professional actor. Whether or not I've any talent is beside the point.” – Michael Caine Sir Michael Caine, one of the most durable act...
Promising Young Woman and the cinematic renegotiation of gender in rape-revenge Joy McEntee January 2022 Feature Articles This article was peer reviewed. Introduction How do we keep the past alive without becoming its prisoner? How do we forget it without risking its repetition in the future? Is it legitimate to sacrifice the t...
Lucas, George Dan Golding July 2021 Great Directors b. 14 May, 1944, Modesto, California, USA The place to start with George Lucas, director, is at the beginning. Aged 23, the then-USC film student won a scholarship from Columbia to hang out on the set of Mac...
Creating the Appearance of Being: The Art of American Screen Acting 1960 to Today, by Dan Callahan Tony McKibbin July 2020 Book Reviews There are very good books and articles on actors, about stardom, about performance, on acting and about acting. David Thomson and Pauline Kael have often been astute concerning the thin line between the person ...
World Poll 2018 – Part 4 the editors January 2019 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 4: Lauren Carroll Harris Andy Hazel Glenn Heath Jr. Michael Heath Claire Henry Jhon Hernandez Marissa Hernandez Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee Hill Lili Hinstin Jytte Holmqvist Pet...
World Poll 2017 – Part 4 the editors January 2018 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 4: Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Ricardo Köhler Ehsan Khoshbakht Rainer Knepperges Adam Kuntavanish Eugenia Lai Elaine Lennon Raúl Liébana Liébana Kimberly Lindbergs Tara Loma...
Le Goût du crime: Notes on Gangster Style in New-Wave Paris: Part I Murray Pomerance December 2017 Feature Articles In this, the first instalment of a two-part article, Canadian film scholar and regular Senses of Cinema contributor Murray Pomerance presents his thoughts on the trope of the gangster in four films shot in Pari...
Thank you to our Patrons the editors November 2017 A huge thank you to our current supporters on Patreon who are helping to keep us online and sustainable so that we can continue publishing timely, accessible and eclectic high-calibre writing on cinema and scre...
The Roaring Twenties (Raoul Walsh, 1939) James L. Neibaur September 2017 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Roaring Twenties opens with three men on the battlefield during World War I. James Cagney is Eddie Bartlett, a working-class type doing his best in challenging circumstances. Humphrey Bogart is George Hal...
World Poll 2015 – Part 4 the editors January 2016 World Poll 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...
Back to Freud! Superbitch! Alfred Hitchcock’s 50-Year Obsession with Jack the Ripper and the Eternal Prostitute. A Psycho-analytic Interpretation by Theodore Price Ken Mogg December 2013 Book Reviews The explanation for the Woman Double theme of The Virgin and The Whore, which I would like to believe is common cultural knowledge by now, is brilliantly enunciated by Freud in two of his most famous and influe...
Renegotiating Romanticism and the All-American Boy Child: Alfred Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry Adrian Schober September 2013 Feature Articles, Uncategorized In the unusual opening credits for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Trouble with Harry (1955), the camera tracks from left to right over primitive, cartoon-like drawings depicting an autumn pastoral: birds and trees of ...
2012 World Poll – Part One the editors January 2013 2012 World Poll THE ENTRIES PART ONE Antti Alanen Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Sean Axmaker Martyn Bamber Michael Bartlett Paolo Bertolin Pamela Biénzobas Cis Bierinckx Yvette Biro James Brown...
2012 World Poll – Part Two the editors January 2013 2012 World Poll Geoff Gardner Antony I. Ginnane Chiranjit Goswami Jaime Grijalba Lee Hill Alexander Horwath Florent Houde Peter Hourigan Cerise Howard Christoph Huber Dominik Kamalzadeh Daniel Kasman Christop...