The Blindfold Mike Walsh July 2012 2012 MIFF Dossier Garin Nugroho’s Rindu kami padamu (Of Love and Eggs, 2004) is a warmly utopian picture of Indonesian village life that stresses a supportive community with the mosque – literally and figuratively – at its centr...
Shifting Focus: The 36th Hong Kong International Film Festival Mike Walsh July 2012 Festival Reports The Hong Kong International Film Festival keeps on changing pretty radically every year because… well, Hong Kong changes pretty radically as it is buffeted by the advantages and disadvantages of proximity to th...
Post-Classical Hollywood: Film Industry, Style and Ideology Since 1945 by Barry Langford Mike Walsh December 2011 Book Reviews The idea that Michael Mann’s films are different from those of Anthony Mann or that Paramount Pictures under Sumner Redstone might share little more than its trademarks and maybe its library with the company co...
Encyclopedia of Early Cinema edited by Richard Abel Mike Walsh October 2011 Book Reviews If I had to claim one area of development that signified the importance of cinema studies in the last two decades of the twentieth century, I would argue for the work done on early cinema. Film history once ski...
Camouflage Mike Walsh December 2010 CTEQ Annotations on Film There was a time in the late 1970s when Krzystof Zanussi was the toughest-minded filmmaker in the world, and Barwy ochronne/Camouflage is among his finest achievements. It comes in the middle of a ferociously f...