Welcome to Issue 81 of our journal the editors December 2016 Editorial Welcome to the final issue of Senses of Cinema for 2016. From Jerry Lewis to American Extreme cinema, Twin Peaks to British Experimental filmmaking, and Abel Ferrara to Jacques Rivette, the spotlights we have p...
World Poll 2016: Introduction the editors January 2017 World Poll Welcome to 2017, and the results of the Senses of Cinema 2016 World Poll. Although so many retrospectives at the end of 2016 focused on tragedy and loss, here at Senses of Cinema, we're looking to wipe away th...
World Poll 2016 – Part 1 the editors January 2017 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 1: Australian Film Institute Research Collection Francisco Algarín Navarro Julien Allen Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Sam Ankenbauer Rowena Santos Aquino Luke Aspell Sean Axmaker ...
World Poll 2016 – Part 2 the editors January 2017 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Raúl Camargo Bórquez Michael Campi Forest Cardamenis Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Daryl Chin Lesley Chow Roberta Ciabarra Cinema For All Martyn Conterio Ada...
World Poll 2016 – Part 3 the editors January 2017 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Russell Edwards Randall Egan Hossein Eidizadeh Kaya Erdinç Ted Fendt Felicity Ford Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Mark Freeman Kenji Fujishima Anders Furze Gavin Ga...
World Poll 2016 – Part 4 the editors January 2017 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 4: Andy Hazel Paul Healy Alexandra Heller-Nicholas Peter Henné Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee Hill Colin M. Hill Peter Hourigan Cerise Howard Brian Hu Yue Huang Christoph...
World Poll 2016 – Part 5 the editors January 2017 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 5: Josh B. Mabe Bob Manning Giovanni Marchini Camia Miguel Marias Josephine Massarella Neil McGlone Tim McQueen Adrian Mendizabal Douglas Messerli Hind Mezaina Richie Mill...
World Poll 2016 – Part 6 the editors January 2017 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 6: Fidel Jesús Quirós Stuart Richards Peter Rist Kate Robertson Eloise Ross Julian Ross Paula Arantzazu Ruiz Lisi Tribble Russell Dan Sallitt Maria San Filippo José Sarmie...
World Poll 2016 – Part 7 the editors January 2017 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 7: Donatella Valente Carlos Valladares Jesue Valle Koen Van Daele Kaj van Zoelen Miha Veingerl Noel Vera Tom Vincent Ben Volchok Nicholas Vroman David Walsh Wang Yue ...
Making Monsters in László Nemes’ Son of Saul Chari Larsson December 2016 Feature Articles Abstract >> But if I must continue to write, to look, to frame, to photograph, to show my pictures and think of all this, it is precisely to re...
A French Connection: Paul Verhoeven’s Elle in Tandem with Jean Renoir’s The Rules of the Game Peter Verstraten December 2016 Feature Articles Over the course of his long career, the Dutch director Paul Verhoeven has been at the centre of many a success and many a controversy. His second feat...
Carrying the Fire: Paternal Relationships in the Films of Viggo Mortensen Rowan Righelato December 2016 Feature Articles Interwoven with the complex anti-heroes Viggo Mortensen has portrayed in genre pieces such as Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma, 1993), A Perfect Murder (...
“People Say I Frighten Them”: An Interview with Glenda Jackson Gerard Corvin December 2016 Feature Articles Glenda Jackson stepped off the number 53 bus. She was a picture of conspicuous normality: fleece, jeans, bags of shopping. We had arranged to meet at ...
Bringing The Dead Back to Life: Don Sharp’s Psychomania (1973) Wheeler Winston Dixon December 2016 Feature Articles BFI’s Flipside series continues with another excellent release, a completely restored version of Don Sharp’s “zombie biker” film Psychomania (1973), s...
Body-Time: Rethinking the Radical Edge in Video Performance by Australian Women Artists Anne Marsh December 2016 Feature Articles In this paper I want to look at a few case studies from recent Australian performance art, to examine the ways in which video performance is being pre...
Shock, Horror, Spirit: Hitchcock’s Psycho (1960): Part Two Ken Mogg December 2016 Feature Articles This two-part essay basically concerns Alfred Hitchcock’s relation to Catholicism. My thanks to Senses of Cinema for allowing its publication over two...
Chrono-Maps: The Time of the South in Antonio Gramsci, Luchino Visconti, and Emanuele Crialese Lorenzo Fabbri December 2016 Feature Articles This article engages with cinema’s cartographic potential by exploring its capacity to either reinforce or problematise mainstream geopolitical imagin...
Farewell Michel Delahaye Daniel Fairfax December 2016 Feature Articles “Critic and actor!” trumpeted the press-kit for François Truffaut’s 1972 comedy Une belle fille comme moi (A Gorgeous Girl Like Me). Few have successf...
Affect, Identification and Communion: The New Generation of Polish Documentary Masha Shpolberg December 2016 Feature Articles In 1971, Krzysztof Kieślowski, Bohdan Kosiński and Tomasz Zygadło, three eminent if then still young documentarians, co-signed a manifesto entitled “D...
Lo and Behold: The 60th BFI London Film Festival Tara Judah December 2016 Festival Reports In his new documentary, Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World, Werner Herzog positions the internet, and technological advancement more widel...
Wavelengths at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival Darren Hughes December 2016 Festival Reports The 2016 Wavelengths shorts program opened auspiciously with Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Sangrienta (Bloody Silhouette). Made in 1975 in Iowa City, the two...
The Festival That Almost Wasn’t: The 21st Busan International Film Festival Marc Raymond December 2016 Festival Reports In 2014, the Busan International Film Festival screened the documentary Diving Bell (The Truth Will Not Sink with Sewol), co-directed by Lee Sang-ho a...
DOK Leipzig Carmen Gray December 2016 Festival Reports The rise of populist parties in Europe, Brexit, and Trump: all were mentioned by DOK Leipzig festival director Leena Pasanen in her opening speech as ...
DIY, independent, guerrilla: the 10th Sydney Underground Film Festival Whitney Monaghan December 2016 Festival Reports SUFF revels in the weird and wonderful, the avant-garde, alternative and experimental, in low-budget, DIY, independent and guerrilla, in “black comedy...
Let Your Mind Wander: 65th Melbourne International Film Festival Dominic Barlow December 2016 Festival Reports Print is dead, we’re told, though you wouldn’t know it at film festivals. We reach for paper programs by instinct and carry them from venue to venue, ...
New Galician Cinema at Curtocircuito Victor Paz Morandeira December 2016 Festival Reports Santiago de Compostela is a picturesque medieval town located in Galicia in northern Spain. A place for pilgrimage, it is the Catholic Mecca in Europe...
Kazan, Elia Jeremy Carr December 2016 Great Directors Elias Kazancioglu, 7 September 1909, Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey) 28 September 2003, New York City, USA “The direc...
Gavaldón, Roberto David Melville December 2016 Great Directors Roberto Gavaldón 7 June 1909, Chihuahua, Mexico 4 September 1986, Mexico City The so-called Golden Age of Mexican Cinema in the 1940s and ’50s rem...
Kiarostami, Abbas Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa May 2002 Great Directors, The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered b. June 22, 1940, Tehran, Iran. d. July 14 2016, Paris, France filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Abbas Kiarostami ...
In Memory of A.K. André Habib December 2016 Obituary, The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered Abbas Kiarostami’s death was announced on July 4. The news reached you during the summer holidays, somewhat out of kilter with the time of year. You a...
Of Myth and Madness: Mad Dog Morgan (Australian Screen Classics), by Jake Wilson Stephen Morgan December 2016 Book Reviews If Mad Dog Morgan (Philippe Mora, 1976) is one of the grubbiest films of the first phase of Australia’s post-1970 feature film revival, it also stands...
Ethical Encounters: Teaching Transnational Cinema: Politics and Pedagogy, by Katarzyna Marciniak and Bruce Bennett (eds.) Shabnam Piryaei December 2016 Book Reviews In the context of incessant war and war-rhetoric, state-sanctioned torture, refugee crises, fear of terrorism, and increasing animosity toward immigra...
Two or Three Things I Know About Her: Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema, by Janice Loreck Alison Taylor December 2016 Book Reviews There’s a moment in Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992) when Dr. Beth Garner tries to warn her on-again off-again lover, Detective Nick Curran, of t...
Entering the Chiastic Multimedia: Encounters with Godard: Ethics, Aesthetics, Politics, by James S. Williams Jonathan Wright December 2016 Book Reviews Much of Jean-Luc Godard’s most innovative intriguing work occurred after his period of militant Marxism in the late 1960s. Although far fewer of his “...
Public, Politics and Independent Documentaries in China: Independent Chinese Documentary: Alternative Visions, Alternative Publics, by Dan Edwards Judith Pernin December 2016 Book Reviews In this volume, adapted from his PhD dissertation defended at Monash University in 2014, Dan Edwards introduces the reader to Chinese independent docu...
Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women’s Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic the editors December 2016 Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women's Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic The global success of Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook in 2014 put the focus on Australian women filmmakers, simultaneously giving us an opportunity to ex...
Trust Your Instinct: An Interview with Ann Turner Craig Martin December 2016 Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women's Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic Set in the Melbourne suburb of Surrey Hills during the summer of 1958, Ann Turner’s remarkable 1988 debut feature Celia follows eponymous nine-year ol...
The Spectre at the Window: Tracey Moffatt’s beDevil (1993) Kate Robertson December 2016 Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women's Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic Tracey Moffatt is one of Australia’s most successful artists, and has been producing ground-breaking film, photography and video work for almost thirt...
Monsters, Masks and Murgatroyd: The Horror of Ann Turner’s Celia Craig Martin December 2016 Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women's Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic Abstract >> In a recent interview with Ann Turner, she shared with me her journey from disappointment to cordial acceptance of the promotion ...
Who’s Knocking in My Little House? Ursula Dabrowsky’s Inner Demon (2014) Donna McRae December 2016 Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women's Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic Abstract >> In the dead linen in cupboards, I seek the supernatural - Gaston Bachelard For a female filmmaker to forge space in a male domina...
“You’re a frigid bitch and your friend is a homo”: Coming of Age in Girl Asleep Michelle J. Smith December 2016 Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women's Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic Rosemary Myers’ Girl Asleep (2015) is preoccupied with crossing borders, from its medium and genre to its narrative focus on the dreamlike imaginings ...
Making Magic: An Australian Women Horror Filmmakers Roundtable the editors December 2016 Beyond The Babadook: Australian Women's Filmmaking and the Dark Fantastic The recent global success of Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook in 2014 put the focus on Australian women filmmakers, and simultaneously gave voice to horro...
The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered (Introduction) Daniel Fairfax December 2016 The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered Abbas Kiarostami’s death this July, at the age of 76, was a moment of profound sorrow for the world’s film community. The affecting images of his publ...
Abbas Kiarostami Gallery André Habib December 2016 The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered In memory of A.K., some pebbles strewn at random in the guise of a grave. ...
In Memory of A.K. André Habib December 2016 Obituary, The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered Abbas Kiarostami’s death was announced on July 4. The news reached you during the summer holidays, somewhat out of kilter with the time of year. You a...
Wind: Serendipity and Cinephilia Negar Mottahedeh December 2016 The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered In my night, so brief, alas The wind is about to meet the leaves. My night so brief is filled with devastating anguish Hark! Do you hear the whispe...
Drinking from a Mirage Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa December 2016 The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered “I have often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it’s inside a frame.” “You won’t believe it but I quenc...
Poetry and Subversion: Kiarostami’s Films for One Diasporic Iranian Shabnam Piryaei December 2016 The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered I react with sorrow to any sort of change that would not be consistent with the freedom of people. I write this four days after the 2016 American pre...
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.
Kiarostami, Abbas Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa May 2002 Great Directors, The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered b. June 22, 1940, Tehran, Iran. d. July 14 2016, Paris, France filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Abbas Kiarostami ...
A Mirror Facing a Mirror Jared Rapfogel November 2001 The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered A thoughtful analysis of contemporary Iranian cinema's unique brand of neo-realism as exemplified in Close-Up.
Taste of Kiarostami David Sterritt September 2000 The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered The fact that Kiarostami likes The Godfather is not the only interesting thing we learn from this revealing interview.
