Police
Police (1985 France 113 mins) Prod Co: Gaumont International/TF1 Film Productions Prod: Emmanuel Schlumberger, Daniel Toscan du Plantier Dir: Maurice Pialat Scr: Catherine Breillat, Sylvie Danton,...
View ArticleThe Grandmother
The Grandmother (1970 USA 34 mins) Prod, Dir, Scr, Phot, Anim: David Lynch Mus: Tractor Sound: Alan R. Splet Cast: Richard White, Dorothy McGinnis, Virginia Maitland, Robert Chadwick When David Lynch...
View ArticleThe Straight Story
The Straight Story (1999 USA/France/UK 111 mins) Prod Co: Asymmetrical Productions/Canal +/Channel Four Films/CiBy 2000/Les Films Alain Sarde/The Picture Factory/The Straight Story Inc./Walt Disney...
View ArticleVan Gogh
Van Gogh (1991 France 158 mins) Prod Co: Canal +/CNC/Club des Investissments/Cofimage 2/Erato Films/Films A2/Les Films du Livradois/Sofiarp/Sofica Investimage Dir, Scr: Maurice Pialat Phot: Gilles...
View ArticleBuongiorno, Notte
Buongiorno, Notte/Good Morning, Night (2003 Italy 105 mins) Prod Co: Filmalbatros S.r.l/Rai Cinemafiction/Sky Prod: Marco Bellocchio, Sergio Pelone Dir: Marco Bellocchio Scr: Marco Bellocchio, based on...
View ArticleEraserhead
Eraserhead (1977 USA 89 mins) Prod: David Lynch with the cooperation of the American Film Institute Center for Advanced Film Studies Dir, Scr, Ed, Prod Des: David Lynch Phot: Frederick Elmes, Herbert...
View ArticleIdeology and Reality: Society and Vsevolod Pudovkin’s Mother
This article examines Pudovkin’s 1926 silent classic in regard to the central image of mother in both Soviet ideology and Russian society of the time
View ArticleOtto Preminger and the End of Classical Cinema
One of Hollywood’s finest exponents of mise en scène, Preminger, it can justly be argued, is instrumental in defining the transition from classical to modernist cinema
View ArticleThe Last Man: An Epitaph for Sam Peckinpah
“His femininity is the femininity of the witness. Of the artist. Of the eye behind the camera.” A radical reappraisal of Peckinpah’s œuvre
View ArticleMiyazaki’s Heroines
This essay examines the Shojo archetype (androgynous cute young girl) that figures prominently in Miyazaki’s films and its relevance to Japanese culture
View ArticleLiving Life as an Opera Lover: On the Uses of Opera as Musical Accompaniment...
Composer and musicologist Charalampos Goyios provides an insightful analysis of opera as dramatic form in Allen’s recent film
View ArticleGods on Earth: The Players of Kings and Queen
One of the best films in recent years receives extended appraisal
View ArticleThe Kinescope as Mirror: George Clooney Slyly Bites the Hand that Feeds Him
Good Night, and Good Luck as radical political cinema? Chamberlin astutely states the case for Clooney’s smuggler’s instinct for getting subversive political thought into mainstream cinema
View ArticleOn Painting and History in Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma
“What are all these paintings doing in a history of cinema?” The author gives an answer in her analysis of Godard’s monumental video work, which approximates André Malraux’s concept of the imaginary...
View ArticleJean-Pierre Melville: Encounters with Conscience
Philosophical meditations on the existential and moral landscape of Melville’s cinema
View ArticleThe Polysemous Coathanger: The Sydney Harbour Bridge in Feature Film, 1930-1982
The cinema has long been attracted to photographing great cultural icons. This article provides a thorough account of the celluloid life of one of Australia’s most distinctive landmarks
View ArticleThe Hedonistic Modernity of Sydney in They’re a Weird Mob
Michael Powell’s 1966 satire on Australian life-style made extensive use of Sydney locations. Collins discusses a range of cultural discourses that frame conceptions of the city, both real and imaginary
View ArticleSins of Commitment: Adorno, Chaplin and Mimesis
Discussion of Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator as illuminated through the prism of Adorno’s Marxist thought
View ArticleOn Brazilian Cinema: From Mário Peixoto’s Limite to Walter Salles
For many decades, Peixoto’s avant-garde film remained a mostly unseen treasure of Brazilian cinema. This article brings the film’s historical context to light, and discusses its enduring influence on a...
View ArticleJean-Luc Godard Exhibition: Travel(s) in Utopia, Jean-Luc Godard 1946-2006,...
Insightful reflections on the major Godard exhibition at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
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