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      Paul Macovaz
      May 2002
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      Anthony McKibbin
      August 2022
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      Will Hair
      July 2022
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      Selen Ozturk
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      Matthew Michaud & Justin Richardson
      July 2022
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      Michael James Beck
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      Thomas Austin
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      Paul Macovaz
      January 2021
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      Victor Paz
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      Paul Macovaz
      June 2017
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      Paul Macovaz
      December 2015
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      Jonathan Mackris
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      Paul Macovaz
      December 2011
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      July 2021
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      April 2005
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      Wheeler Winston Dixon
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      Wheeler Winston Dixon
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      Tiia Kelly
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      Danica van de Velde
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      Boyd van Hoeij
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      David Melville
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Author Paul Macovaz

Paul Macovaz

Paul Macovaz is writing a doctoral thesis at the University of Sydney and is an occasional contributor to Senses of Cinema.

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1969: We (Artavazd Peleshian)

Paul Macovaz
December 2017
100 Years of Soviet Cinema
Negentropic Montage: We (Artavazd Peleshian, 1969)  “The crowd grips the land with its polycephalic claws. A façade of watchers sees across time into the sublime haziness of Mount Erevan: negentropic montage.”...
Hardly Working

Hardly Working (1980)

Paul Macovaz
July 2016
Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director
Jerry Lewis’ Hardly Working is situated at the end of a long, uncomfortable hiatus. It was made in Florida, released first in Europe, then much later in the United States. While American critics, for the most p...
Mise en Scène decoupage montage book reviews

Three Books from Kino-Agora: Mise en Scène by Frank Kessler, Découpage by Timothy Barnard, and Montage by Jacques Aumont

Paul Macovaz
September 2015
Book Reviews
Three recent additions to Caboose’s Kino-Agora series are dedicated to fundamental terms in the history of film theory and criticism: Frank Kessler writes on mise en scène, Jacques Aumont on montage, and ...

Something for Somebody: The 59th Sydney Film Festival

Paul Macovaz
August 2012
Festival Reports
At the Sydney Film Festival (SFF) no one expects many world premieres. Because of its early June slot, much of Cannes never makes it, but a lot of Berlin does, and usually a portion of Venice too. Everyone had ...

A Double World of Undigested Memory: The 57th Sydney Film Festival

Paul Macovaz and Daniel Fairfax
July 2010
Festival Reports
Pioneer Room Rhapsody A slightly cagey throng of greying cinemagoers mill nervously in the lower foyer of Sydney’s State Theatre. Red liveried ushers assure us the theatre will be opened soon. A quick trip t...

Corporal Punishment is Better than Nothing: The 3rd Sydney Underground Film Festival

Paul Macovaz
December 2009
Festival Reports
On the edges of Sydney’s inner city, as the terrace housing thins, depots and warehouses begin to mingle with a vast suburban prairie. Here, in the aptly named Factory Theatre, the still youthful, one might say...

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