Author Tim O’Farrell

Most academic literature on cinema uses familiar framing mechanisms such as author studies, national cinema or genre lenses. A less typical organising principle animates Igor Krstić’s book: the representation o...

Eva Orner is an Australian filmmaker now based primarily in Los Angeles, who began her career working in Australian television in the 1990s. She moved to New York in 2005 and soon after began working as produce...

After a decade plagued by financing imbroglios and enervating battles with financiers, producers and distributors, the period between 2008 and 2010 saw a turn to the real in Abel Ferrara’s oeuvre as he directed...

The recent death of Albert Maysles set me reminiscing. I visited him at his spacious midtown Manhattan 54th Street offices in March 2005 while completing my PhD thesis, which examined a series of direct cinema ...

With Paul Thomas Anderson’s auteur standing complementing Thomas Pynchon’s literary eminence and pop culture savvy, Inherent Vice (2014) promises to be a cinephile’s dream. Set against the backdrop of the Nixon...

Given that much of this Bob Dylan documentary sources its material from the archives of the Direct Cinema movement of the 1960s, this article addresses the historical reframing of such footage for contemporary use.