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Author Rolando Caputo

Rolando Caputo

Rolando Caputo is co-editor of Senses of Cinema, and lectures on film and the creative arts at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

California Dreaming:  P.T. Anderson’s Take on Pynchon’s Inherent Vice

Rolando Caputo
March 2015
Feature Articles
“We are interested in the plot of a play or film because it stages a problem whose solution we expect: we are expecting the plot to be resolved. So long as it is not (and in principle it is not resolved until t...

Alain Robbe-Grillet and the Nouveau Roman: An Interview

Rolando Caputo
October 2014
Feature Articles
In 1986 Alain Robbe-Grillet, accompanied by his wife Catherine, visited Australia as guest of the cultural institute Alliance Francaise to give a series of lectures and talks in a number of selected cities, mos...

Il sorpasso, or Two for the Road

Rolando Caputo
July 2014
2014 Melbourne International Film Festival Dossier
Mainly, it’s a question of speed. Two characters, one sports car, and as much velocity as you can muster on Italian freeways. Yet, it’s also about the speed of life, of desire, of language and gestures, and lin...

Defeating the Irremediable Solitude of the Guest: An Interview with José Luis Guerin

Rolando Caputo
April 2011
Feature Articles
José Luis Guerin discusses his recent film Guest, based around the year-long itinerary of the director visiting many film festivals and cultures.
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Interview with Richard Lowenstein

Rolando Caputo and Peter Tapp
July 2009
MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers
This is an edited version of an interview originally published in Filmviews, No. 131 (Autumn 1987), pp. 2-7. It is reproduced with the kind permission of the authors. (1) Richard Lowenstein graduated fro...
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A Report on the 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival

Rolando Caputo
October 2004
Festival Reports
On the opening day of the 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) I find myself watching Abbas Kiarostami's 10 on Ten (2004). While not quite a manifesto, 10 on Ten is a kind of declaration of pri...

Five to Ten: Five Reflections on Abbas Kiarostami’s 10

Rolando Caputo
December 2003
The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered
Utilising a prism-like structure, Caputo arrives at a range of observations and conclusions about Kiarostami's latest feature, Ten, his cinematic style in general and digital cinema today.

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