Welcome to Issue 60 of our journal the editors October 2011 Editorial Dear readers At Senses we have recently been busy with a new project, which you may have already heard about. The team at Senses of Cinema has recently launched our very first Pozible campaign. For those of ...
Gualtiero Jacopetti (1919-2011): The Carnivorous Eye Celluloid Liberation Front October 2011 Feature Articles Jacopetti’s fame will always be tied to the phenomenal success of Mondo Cane; a ground breaking film in more ways than could have been anticipated at the time.
Either and Or: On Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life Moritz Pfeifer October 2011 Feature Articles Terrence Malick’s poetic and ambiguous film has for the most part divided critics. Moritz Pfeifer offers his thoughts on a film where choosing sides may be inevitable.
godard english cannes: The Reception of Film Socialisme‘s “Navajo English” Subtitles Samuel Bréan October 2011 Feature Articles Samuel Bréan, founding member of the French Association of Audiovisual Translators, offers some absorbing insights in to Godard’s subtitling strategies.
She Works Hard for the Money: Women and Fashion in Weimar Cinema Alexandria Placido October 2011 Feature Articles The socio-cultural currents that informed the Weimer Republic have always provided a fascinating backdrop to German silent cinema. This article weaves a range of issues around an analysis of Joe May’s 1929 classic, Asphalt.
Cowboys & Aliens: The Exhaustion of History & the Re-Genesis of Illusions Joseph Natoli October 2011 Feature Articles Joseph Natoli digs into this genre-blending hybrid of a film, which inadvertently has much to say about America’s fading sense of history.
Biting Back at the Machine: Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times Gregory Stephens October 2011 Feature Articles Gregory Stephens provides an indepth analysis of Chaplin’s classic allegory on the machine-age.
Kansas: Towards a Rhetoric of the 1980s Farm Debt Crisis and the New Depression Film Stephen Larson October 2011 Feature Articles How much damage did the policies of the Reagan administration inflict on American rural communities? Stephen Larson provides the answers.
“Westalgie” in Leander Haußmann’s Herr Lehmann Dorothea Otto October 2011 Feature Articles A supposed nostalgia for the old West Germany before the fall of the Berlin Wall has made its appearance in a number of films. Dorothea Otto discusses Herr Lehmann and other titles pertinent to the theme.
Knife in the Head: German Social Realism Meets Cinema Verité Robert M. Stowe October 2011 Feature Articles Neurologist and cinephile, Robert Stowe, looks at Reinhard Hauff’s 1979 political drama about a man recovering from brain trauma.
Objects of Memory in Contemporary Catalan Documentaries: Materiality and Mortality Abigail Loxham October 2011 Feature Articles Abigail Loxham discusses the documentary work of José Luis Guerín, Albert Solé and Carla Subirana in the light of Catalan history.
No Country for Old Men, Visual Regime, Mental Image and Narrative Slowness Thierry Jutel October 2011 Feature Articles Taking his cue from a number of Deleuzian concepts, Thierry Jutel casts a fresh look at the Coen brothers film.
Korean Independent Films (and Youth) in Jeonju: The 12th Jeonju International Film Festival Nikki J. Y. Lee October 2011 Festival Reports The key aim of the Jeonju International Film Festival (hereafter JIFF) is to showcase independent films from around the world and from South Korea. In...
Eclectic and Open to the World: The 9th Annual Paris Cinema Festival Kath Dooley October 2011 Festival Reports With support from the city of Paris and presided over by actress Charlotte Rampling, the Paris Cinema Festival is touted as a democratic and offbeat a...
Hawksian Girls Meet Weimar Cinema at 25th Cinema Ritrovato Federico Passi October 2011 Festival Reports In the crowded calendar of film festivals Bologna’s Cinema Ritrovato stands out for being one of the very few which persistently investigates cinema’s...
A Soul Nourishing Pilgrimage: The 35th Frameline San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival Stuart Richards October 2011 Festival Reports Frameline is a film festival that is flourishing alongside the dramatic changes in queer and LGBT identity politics. The larger, more prominent screen...
I was a Captive Audience at the 57th Flaherty Seminar Sergey Levchin October 2011 Festival Reports Having flown the coop of the Flaherty family farm in Dummerston, VT, back in 1958, the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar has been migrating ceaselessly thr...
The Tree of Cinema: The 46th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Bill Mousoulis October 2011 Festival Reports In any good film festival, one’s life flashes before one’s eyes. And the history of cinema. Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF) is a good...
Naked Ambition: The 14th Shanghai International Film Festival 2011 Brandon Wee October 2011 Festival Reports There are certain film festivals whose films and business politics always inspire great discussion. There are others where the warmth of community bea...
Generational Syncretisation and MIFF’s Diamond Jubilee: The 60th Melbourne International Film Festival Alice G. Burgin October 2011 Festival Reports Renewal, when generational change finally occurs, may well unleash an explosion of energy that will burst the log jam and permit the nation to resume ...
Santos, Nelson Pereira dos Hudson Moura October 2011 Great Directors b. October, 22, 1928 — São Paulo, Brazil Nelson Pereira dos Santos, considered the initiator of modern Brazilian cinema in the 1950s, is also its m...
“I have this special issue of Cahiers du cinéma in front of me”: Remembering Claudine Paquot (1951-2011) Bérénice Reynaud October 2011 Obituary Framed as an introduction to her translation of Serge Toubiana’s tribute, Bérénice Reynaud pays homage to Claudine Paquot, long time head-of-publications at Cahiers.
Claudine Paquot, My Friend for Thirty Years Serge Toubiana October 2011 Obituary The former editor of Cahiers du cinéma pays tribute to his colleague and friend.
Minding Movies: Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson Tony McKibbin October 2011 Book Reviews David Bordwell is undeniably one of the great “quantitative” critics in the world, one of those writers who trust strongly in common sense and what is...
Jacques Rivette by Douglas Morrey and Alison Smith Daniel Fairfax October 2011 Book Reviews Jacques Rivette: Phantom of the Cinema could well be an alternative title for this book, the long overdue first English-language monograph on the enig...
Baz Luhrmann by Pam Cook Ben Goldsmith October 2011 Book Reviews Baz Luhrmann’s fifth feature film, an adaptation in 3D of The Great Gatsby, will begin production in Sydney this month. Although the story may be fami...
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 ar...
Whose Lives Are They Anyway? The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre by Dennis Bingham Frank P. Tomasulo October 2011 Book Reviews Dennis Bingham’s recently published volume, Whose Lives Are They Anyway?: The Biopic as Contemporary Film Genre, illustrates the author’s versatility....
Widescreen Worldwide edited by John Belton, Sheldon Hall and Steve Neale Simon Howson October 2011 Book Reviews Film historians have long shown an interest in the economic, technical, and aesthetic aspects of widescreen film formats. When widescreen became popul...
La Niña santa Carlota Larrea October 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film Lucrecia Martel is one of the most distinctive auteurs to be associated with the “New Argentine Cinema”, an umbrella term used to describe the films o...
La Ciénaga Gwendolyn Audrey Foster October 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film As Lucrecia Martel demonstrates in La Ciénaga (The Swamp), there is more twisted banal horror and caustic humour to be discovered in the forms of pers...
Losing Your Head – Lucrecia Martel and The Headless Woman David Melville October 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film Is there one person in our family who has died sane? - (Tía Lala) María Vaner, The Headless Woman As a “poster girl” for what is wishfully called th...
Europa Europa Pasquale Iannone October 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film Who was my friend? Who was my enemy? How could they be kind to me and at the same time kill others so horribly? What set us apart? A simple foresk...
Provincial Actors Pedro Blas Gonzalez October 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film It is general knowledge that in communist societies no aspects of human life ever go unnoticed or unscrutinised by the cyclopic, tyrannous intentions ...
Olivier Olivier Tamara Tracz October 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film A child in a red cap goes to deliver lunch to Grandmother’s house but never returns. Except 6 years later, he does, cut from the belly of the big bad ...
Fever Michael Da Silva October 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film An adaptation of socialist writer Andrzej Strug’s 1910 novel The Story of a Bullet (1), Agnieszka Holland’s Goraczka. Dzieje jednego pocisku (Fever) –...
Être et avoir: The Medium and the Moment Shari Kizirian October 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film It’s great to have an excuse to re-watch a fondly remembered film. Repeated viewings can deepen our appreciation as favourite moments are relived, hig...
Retour en Normandie Darragh O’Donoghue October 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film Memory is also found brilliantly manifested in a large number of madmen. - Dr. Vastel (1) In 1991, documentary film student Alison Millar recorded l...
In the Land of the Deaf Martyn Bamber October 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film The film starts in virtual silence. There is no music or dialogue, and the only sound we hear is some faint background noise. We see four people stand...
“The Raw and the Cooked”: The Peculiar Poetics of Nicolas Philibert’s Un animal, des animaux Adrian Danks October 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film Filmed between 1991 and 1994, Nicolas Philibert’s Un animal, des animaux is a gently extraordinary documentary that follows the refurbishment and even...
Nénette Louise Sheedy October 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film The film is as much about ourselves as it is about orang-utans . Nénette is a mystery. We don't know what she thinks or if she thinks at all… She is a...
Acto de Primavera and the Uncompromising Vision of Manoel de Oliveira Wheeler Winston Dixon October 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film When people ask me who my favorite contemporary director is, I answer without hesitation: Manoel de Oliveira. At 102, he is the oldest living filmmake...
Karl May Peter Hourigan October 2011 CTEQ Annotations on Film The finest deeds of a nation have always emerged from its soul. And however great a writer’s imagination is, he could never force an idea on his peopl...
The Filmmaker as Adaptor: Fred Schepisi Takes on Patrick White in The Eye of the Storm Brian McFarlane October 2011 Fred Schepisi Dossier It needs real nerve to come out of a film based on a famous novel and declare unreservedly that you enjoyed the film much more than the book. I mean, ...
Shooting Dialogue as Action: An Interview with Fred Schepisi Fincina Hopgood October 2011 Fred Schepisi Dossier Fred Schepisi has been writing, directing and producing films in Australia, America and Britain since the 1970s. Along with Peter Weir, Gillian Armstr...
Schepisi’s Celluloid Australia Daniel Eisenberg October 2011 Fred Schepisi Dossier Fred Schepisi has been labeled as a “major force in the Australian film industry” (1). Two of the three features he has made in Australia prior to thi...
Across the Borderline Adrian Danks October 2011 Fred Schepisi Dossier Barbarosa (1982) was the first feature to be made in America by any of the key figures of the Australian film “renaissance” of the 1970s. It sits alon...
It Runs in the Family: Sons, Sins and Structural Complexity in Fred Schepisi’s Six Degrees of Separation Rose Capp October 2011 Fred Schepisi Dossier Six Degrees of Separation (1993) sits precisely mid-career in Fred Schepisi’s filmography. The third in a series of stage adaptations the filmmaker un...
People Make Papers Anna Daly October 2011 Fred Schepisi Dossier People Make Papers (1965 Australia 16 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Cinesound Productions Dir: Fred Schepisi Phot: Peter Purvis Ed: Brian...
ReViewing Jimmie: The Critical Reception of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith Glen Donnar October 2011 Fred Schepisi Dossier The inclusion of Pauline Kael’s 1980 New Yorker review of The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith in An Australian Film Reader (1) has been credited with rehab...
