Directed by the unique figure of Luchino Visconti – heir to one of Milan’s richest families, a communist, and gay – Rocco e i suoi fratelli (Rocco and his Brothers) was one of three huge Italian films released in 1960 along with Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’avventura and Federico Fellini’s La dolce vita. Visconti’s work was always [...]
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Hamish Ford is a lecturer in Film, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle, and a regular contributor to Senses of Cinema.
Articles by Hamish Ford:
Andrei Tarkovsky’s epic film about Andrei Roublev, Russia’s most famous icon painter, is a remarkable, deeply reflexive examination of the artist’s role in his particular social-historical reality. It is also concerned with the split that occurs between an artist’s elevated desire to create an art of clear, transcendent beauty and one that is responsive to [...]
Tystnaden/The Silence (1963 Sweden 96 mins) Prod Co: Svensk Filmindustri (SF) Prod: Allan Ekelund Dir, Scr: Ingmar Bergman Phot: Sven Nykvist Ed: Ulla Ryghe Art Dir: P. A. Lundgren Mus: Ivan Renliden Cast: Ingrid Thulin, Gunnel Lindblom, Jörgen Lindström, Håkan Jahnberg, Birger Malmsten The Silence is one of Ingmar Bergman’s most important and most perfect [...]
4–22 June 2008 The 2008 Sydney Film Festival was a bigger event – longer, and with more films – than previously, and the first year the festival has included work “in competition”. I managed to see around 50 features, the more notable – in one way or another – of which I’ll discuss here. One [...]
8-24 June 2007 By almost any measure, the 2007 Sydney Film Festival has been the best since at least 2004. The range of films was good, even if there weren’t an abundance of surprises; many of the highlights came with much festival and critical weight behind them. New director Claire Stewart picked up the pace [...]
Paris nous appartient/Paris Belongs to Us (1961 France 140 mins) Prod Co: Ajym Films/Les Films du Carrosse Prod: Roland Nonin Dir: Jacques Rivette Scr: Jacques Rivette, Jean Gruault Phot: Charles Bitsch Ed: Denise de Casabianca Mus: Phillipe Arthuys Cast: Betty Schneider, Giani Esposito, Françoise Prévost, Daniel Crohem, François Maistre, Jean-Claude Brialy Paris nous appartient, or [...]
It seems extraordinary that Alberto Elena’s The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami is the first book in English devoted to a reference-style coverage of Kiarostami’s filmmaking career, even if it is a translated and updated edition of the original 2002 Spanish version (1). There have been various books about Kiarostami’s films, such as Jean-Luc Nancy’s L’evidence [...]
June 10–25, 2005 Despite procuring State Government funding, the 52nd Sydney Film Festival featured a reduced number of films (170) compared to previous years, the most notable effect of the management’s efforts to “save” the event from economic ruin. Although organisers have since claimed an increase in the number of sell-out screenings this year, the [...]
Deleuze’s concept of the “time-image” offers insights into Antonioni’s still-radical treatment of time and space.
Summer with Monika (1952 Sweden 96 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Svensk Filmindustri Prod: Allan Ekelund Dir: Ingmar Bergman Scr: Ingmar Bergman and Per Anders Flogelström, from a story by Flogelström Phot: Gunnar Fischer Ed: Tage Holmberg, Gösta Lewin Art Dir: P. A. Lundgren Mus: Erik Nordgren Cast: Harriet Andersson, Lars Ekborg, Dagmar Ebbesen, Åke [...]
b. July 14, 1918, Uppsala, Sweden d. July 30, 2007, Fårö, Sweden filmography bibliography web resources The radical intimacy of Bergman Prologue: facing the void I came out of that movie house reeling like a drunkard, drugged speechless, with the film rushing through my bloodstream, pumping and thudding. Gunnel Lindblom, star of The Silence, describing [...]
