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It’s 1958 and scientists and engineers are in the final stages of launch preparation on Florida’s Cape Canaveral. The weather is unseasonably cold for January, but the Explorer 1 satellite — America’s response ...

A scalpel lacerates the painting by Vermeer. Margaret, her legs apart, raped, in the kitchen. The portrait of Jekyll’s father destroyed by sulphuric acid. - Extract from Borowczyk’s script. Two images form ...

The recent release on DVD of the long-lost and unlamented Collections Privées has Murray exploring the labyrinthine world of Walerian Borowczyk’s remarkable episode, “L’Armoire”, based on a short story by Guy de Maupassant.

A timely essay that reconsiders the career of Walerian Borowcyzk, particularly in relation to his depiction of female sexuality and desire.

Ruffell argues for Borowczyk as one of the most important filmmakers of '70s cinema.

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 ...

The unpredictable notion of control is beneficial for conflict in storytelling, particularly in the features and documentaries of the 22nd Revelation Perth International Film Festival, seemingly spilling out of...

The reason why a socially awkward, conservative Anglican Deacon and Oxford mathematician became a leading pop cultural icon in the swinging sixties is one of the most curious stories surrounding Alice in Wonder...

ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Jeremy Elphick John K. Emelianoff Kaya Erdinc Eliú Escamilla Adalberto Fonkén Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Mark Freeman Hugo Gamarra E. Sachin Gandhi Stephen Gaunson ...

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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...

Few more controversial figures have enlivened cinema than the Polish polymath Walerian Borowczyk; far fewer still experienced so massive a fall from critical grace. At the epicentre of this fall lay La Bête (Th...

Each of Walerian Borowczyk's fourteen features has one thing in common. There's no toplessness in Blanche (1972) so it can't be that. The answer must be that they're all consistently nice to look at. Amongst th...

There are two elements of Walerian Borowczyk’s work more broadly that are useful in thinking about La Marge (1976). The first of these relates to Borowczyk’s interest in the particular presence of objects: they...

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...

Luciano Tovoli’s reputation as one of the great Italian cinematographers is commonly framed in reference to his work on Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1975 film, The Passenger. But although very different movies, it ...

A long, long time ago English film magazines arrived in Melbourne after a journey by boat that often took several months. They could arrive in a rush, several issues at a time. The place where they were sold wa...

On January 25, 2015, a new day dawned on Europe. For the last half-decade, the old continent has been immersed in a miasma of despair, as it has struggled with the effects of an economic crash that, under the o...

Entries in part 1: Antti Alanen Francisco Algarín Navarro Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Martyn Bamber Lynden Barber Michael Bartlett Nicolas Bartlett Conor Bateman Gustavo Beck Sean Bell Pa...

In the DVD extras to the new BFI Alain Robbe-Grillet box set, the interviewer Frédéric Taddeï asks the novelist and filmmaker what it felt like filming his fantasies as Robbe-Grillet shows in Trans-Europ-Expres...

Numerous contributors from across the globe offer their selections and thoughts on their movie-going experiences in 2009. Readers should find it a fascinating overview of cinema from a multitude of countries and cultures.

18-29 March 2009 (1) In 2009, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) can – and does – still boast of being the second biggest film festival in Melbourne, quite an accomplishment in a city where, barrin...

Every film lover in Australia owes David Stratton an enormous debt of gratitude. He was largely responsible for the growth and success of the Sydney Film Festival, which he directed for 17 years; he did alm...

I’ve always preferred mythology to history. History is composed of truths that become lies, mythology of lies that become truths. One characteristic of our age is that it creates instant myths in every field....

b. Arthur Harold Lipsett b. Montreal, Canada, May 13, 1936 d. Montreal, Canada, May 1, 1986 Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources Almost two decades after his death ...

It's no surprise that the third annual Melbourne Underground Film Festival (MUFF) embraced sex and themed this year's Festival “sexuality”. Sex has become synonymous with the underground, a cliché in itself...

Back to Daily Updates Posted Wednesday 24 July - Saturday 10 August Posted Monday 12 August (Festival Wrap-Up) * * * by Anthony Carew Kathleen Hanna was working with obvious satirical intent when...

b. Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve (1) b. July 29, 1921, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France d. July 29, 2012, Paris, France filmography bibliography articles in Senses web...

From Rivette to Cantet: discussions on five films playing at this year's French Film Festival.

Compiled by Fiona A. Villella The Entries Parts of this article are now hosted on the PANDORA archive of the National Library of Australia and Partners. Acquarello Richard Armstrong Nicol...

Well, it's hard to believe yet another year has just passed. Banal observations aside, it seems that the more technologically advanced Western society becomes, the faster the pace of everyday life: greate...

This wide-ranging conversation with Peter Strickland is centred around work, as theme of his films, and his theory and practice of it as filmmaker. The interview was conducted over Skype in June 2019, and then ...