Welcome to Issue 89 of our journal the editors December 2018 Editorial Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. This is a very special issue for Senses of Cinema, as it marks our first international collaboration with a fellow cinema journal, as well as our first joint bi...
World Poll 2018 – Part 7 the editors January 2019 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 7: Maria San Filippo Christopher Sanda José Sarmiento Hinojosa Adrian Schober Howard Schumann Vladimir Seput Christopher Sikich Christopher Small Jordan M. Smith Ben Soper Mark Spra...
World Poll 2018 – Part 6 the editors January 2019 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 6: Nick P. George Papadopoulos Andreea Pătru Yoana Pavlova Jesse Percival Antoni Peris Grao Simon Petri-Lukács Andréa Picard Fidel Jesús Quirós Christopher Llewellyn Reed Bérénice R...
World Poll 2018 – Part 5 the editors January 2019 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 5: Eugenia Lai Marc Lauria Elaine Lennon Raúl Liébana Thomas Logoreci Tara Lomax Josh B. Mabe Ioannis Makris Bob Manning Miguel Marias Jack McCulloch Brian McFarlane Kenta McGrath...
World Poll 2018 – Part 4 the editors January 2019 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 4: Lauren Carroll Harris Andy Hazel Glenn Heath Jr. Michael Heath Claire Henry Jhon Hernandez Marissa Hernandez Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee Hill Lili Hinstin Jytte Holmqvist Pet...
World Poll 2018 – Part 3 the editors January 2019 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Geronimo Elortegui Kaya Erdinç Eliú Escamilla Fernando Chaves Espinach Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Mark Freeman Hugo Gamarra E. Steve Gaunson Sachin Gandhi Flora Geor...
World Poll 2018 – Part 2 the editors January 2019 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Michael Campi Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Celluloid Liberation Front Jeremy Chamberlin Daryl Chin Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn Roberta Ciabarra Adam Cook Jesús...
World Poll 2018 – Part 1 the editors January 2019 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 1: Antti Alanen Francisco Algarín Navarro Victor Alicea Rowena Santos Aquino Luke Aspell Martyn Bamber Michael Bartlett Rhett Bartlett Arta Barzanji Raphaël Bassan Conor Bateman Gu...
World Poll 2018 – Introduction the editors January 2019 World Poll It’s our favourite time of year when the World Poll rolls around, and the 2018 edition is no exception. There is something intensely gratifying in getting such a wide-reaching snapshot of the year in film. Our ...
The Sense of Feminism Then and Now: Yours in Sisterhood (2018) and Embodied Listening in the Cinema Praxis of Irene Lusztig D. Andy Rice December 2018 Feature Articles In 1972, Ms. editor Jane O’Reilly coined the term “click!” in an article titled “The Housewife’s Moment of Truth.” “Click,” she said, referred to “tha...
Audience and Performance in Kid Auto Races at Venice Macy Todd December 2018 Feature Articles I. Intro: Where Are We? The film begins with a literal unity of text and image. The opening intertitle promises “Kid Auto Races at Venice, California...
Over-identification in The Castle: Recovering an Australian Classic’s Subversive Edge Matthew J. Mason December 2018 Feature Articles “My name is Dale Kerrigan, and this is my story. Our family lives at 3 Highview Crescent, Coolaroo. Dad bought this place 15 years ago for a steal...
Four Years of the Nitrate Picture Show, Part 1: Beautiful Colour – Tinting and Toning Peter Rist December 2018 Feature Articles The rationale behind the Nitrate Picture Show is that film projection is the goal of film preservation. It is only in a theatre that film curators del...
Post-Human Post-Cinema: The Opening Titles of Westworld Philip Brophy December 2018 Feature Articles Introduction HBO’s Westworld is new, modern, innovative, polyphonic, self-reflexive and existential. Yet it is simultaneously classical, postmodern, ...
Under the Cover of Cloud: An Interview with Ted Wilson and James Vaughan Annabel Brady-Brown December 2018 Feature Articles On the heels of Alena Lodkina’s Strange Colours (2017) and Soda_Jerk’s Terror Nullius (2018) comes Ted Wilson’s Under the Cover of Cloud (2018), the l...
#Youmustsee: The 2018 Adelaide International Film Festival Saige Walton December 2018 Festival Reports The last Adelaide Film Festival under the stewardship of Artistic Director Amanda Duthie proved to be a decidedly populist affair— a programming bent ...
Towards the De-masculinisation of Korean Cinema: The 23rd Busan International Film Festival Marc Raymond December 2018 Festival Reports The latest edition of the Busan International Film Festival featured the usual lineup: a number of films getting their Asian or Korean premieres after...
Between Hollywood and the Socialist/Colonial East: The 5th Hanoi International Film Festival Lucian Tion December 2018 Festival Reports Already at its fifth edition, the Hanoi International Film Festival (HANIFF) cannot exactly be said to have made world headlines. However, in a countr...
Film Culture and Corporate Enterprise at the 62nd BFI London Film Festival Tara Judah December 2018 Festival Reports The British Film Institute (BFI) is both the physical home and funding body behind the lion’s share of film activity in the UK. It is a beacon for fil...
American Drama: The 56th New York Film Festival Jackson Arn December 2018 Festival Reports Film festivals – like film shoots, or warzones – waver between exhilarating and dull. One minute you’re thanking the heavens that something as wondrou...
In Stockholm, Bergman is (Literally) on the Money Randy Malamud December 2018 Festival Reports A movie ticket with popcorn in Stockholm costs about 200 kroner, and if you pay cash you’ll notice that the 200 kroner bill features Ingmar Bergman’s ...
Leadership Transitions, Critical Voices and Experimental Cinema at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival Darren Hughes December 2018 Festival Reports In 2018, the Toronto International Film Festival joined Sundance, Berlin, Locarno and Vienna in announcing major changes in leadership. After 36 years...
Vancouver 2018 – Not-so-strange Bedfellows Bérénice Reynaud December 2018 Festival Reports Beyond the Great (Digital) Divide Posited at both ends of the aesthetic spectrum (French auteur cinema versus Sundance alum), Doubles Vies (Non-Ficti...
New Stars, Old Dreams: The 75th Venice Film Festival Leonardo Goi December 2018 Festival Reports In the weeks leading up to the 75th Venice film festival, buzz around the festival had less to do with its stellar lineup (arguably the most promising...
The Frame as a Border: Defining Cinema’s Political Territories at the 56th Viennale Maria Giovanna Vagenas December 2018 Festival Reports In mid-October, slender, elegant pink flamingos appeared on the walls of buildings in the monumental and austere centre of the Austrian capital, annou...
“Reality” as Embattled Story: Donbass in Odesa and Their Own Republic at Doclisboa Carmen Gray December 2018 Festival Reports The notion all reality is just an opinion is something you hear a lot these days in documentary circles. That cinema is always an edit, and an act – w...
Thin Air, Long Lines: 45th Telluride Film Festival Maria San Filippo December 2018 Festival Reports This will not be a typical festival review, in that it will not offer in-depth commentary – or even a “best of” roundup – on a sizable selection of wh...
Takahata, Isao Ruth Richards December 2018 Great Directors Takahata, Isao b. October 1935, Ise, Mie Prefecture, Japan d. April 2018, Tokyo, Japan “Without Isao Takahata, Studio Ghibli wouldn’t exist.” ...
Dovzhenko, Alexander Jeremy Carr December 2018 Great Directors b. 10 September, 1894, Sosnitsa, Ukraine d. 25 November, 1956, Moscow, Russia “I sit down beside Pudovkin,” writes Sergei Eisenstein in 1928, afte...
Bertolucci, Bernardo Bilge Ebiri October 2004 Great Directors b. March 16, 1941, Parma, Italy. d. November 26, 2018, Rome, Italy. Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources Exorc...
Roeg, Nicolas Lee Hill May 2002 Great Directors Nicolas Jack Roeg b. August 15, 1928, London, England. d. November 23, 2018, London, England. filmography bibliography articles in Senses ...
Beyond Thumbs Up or Down: Aesthetic Evaluation and Film, by Andrew Klevan Dominic Lash December 2018 Book Reviews In 1996 Guitar Player magazine ran a feature on the future of heavy metal which included a short section on the pros and cons of the guitar solo. A nu...
Film in a Multiple Mirror: Reframing Luchino Visconti: Film and Art by Ivo Blom Hajnal Király December 2018 Book Reviews By promising a new approach to a director whose work has been and still is – as the author himself admits – largely discussed by film scholars, the ti...
McCarthyism’s Hollywood Year: Show Trial: Hollywood, HUAC, and the Birth of the Blacklist, by Thomas Doherty Michael Kitson December 2018 Book Reviews Thomas Doherty, the author of Show Trial, is professor of American Studies at Brandeis University, Massachusetts, associate editor of Cineaste, as wel...
The Semiotics of Wes Anderson: Wes Anderson’s Symbolic Storyworld: A Semiotic Analysis, by Warren Buckland Francesco Sticchi December 2018 Book Reviews D. H. Lawrence believed that the proper function of the critic was to trust the tale instead of the artist, and ultimately to save the tale from the a...
Latin American Cinema today: an unsolved paradox (Introduction) the editors December 2018 Latin American Cinema Today: An Unsolved Paradox Latin American cinema is one of the most vibrant and diverse in the world. Contrary to the stereotypical image – built on postcolonial exoticism – the...
Argentine cinema after the New: Territories, languages, medialities Jens Andermann December 2018 Latin American Cinema Today: An Unsolved Paradox Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. One of the subtler coincidences between Zama (2017) and Jauja (2014), Lucrecia Martel’s and Lisandro...
Contemporary Chilean cinema: a provisional cartography of an expanding field Valeria de los Ríos Escobar and César Albarrán-Torres December 2018 Latin American Cinema Today: An Unsolved Paradox Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. By Valeria de los Ríos Escobar Translated by César Albarrán-Torres In their 2010 book Novísimo c...
Contemporary Colombian cinema: the splintered mirror of a country Pedro Adrián Zuluaga and Gabriella Munoz December 2018 Latin American Cinema Today: An Unsolved Paradox Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. By Pedro Adrián Zuluaga Translated by Gabriella Munoz Colombia has gained a place in the interna...
Healing through curation: a conversation between three indigenous image curators in the Abya Yala movement Amalia Córdova, David Hernández Palmar, Francisco Huichaqueo and Mauricio Rivera December 2018 Latin American Cinema Today: An Unsolved Paradox Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. A conversation between Amalia Córdova (writing from Piscataway territory), David Hernández Palmar (W...
Of Mechanisms and Machines: Brazil’s New New Cinema Stefan Solomon December 2018 Latin American Cinema Today: An Unsolved Paradox Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. To think of Brazil today is to think foremost of a country in a state of crisis, or indeed of a coun...
The dream of a Mexican film industry Abel Muñoz Hénonin December 2018 Latin American Cinema Today: An Unsolved Paradox Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. By Abel Muñoz Hénonin Translated by Gabriella Munoz In Mexico, cinema is not something that is t...
“The Film is the Sweat”: An Interview with João Moreira Salles Marco Abel December 2018 Latin American Cinema Today: An Unsolved Paradox Late in one of the greatest filmic encounters with what scholars have started to conceptualise as the “long 1968,” we listen to a voiceover (VO) calml...
The (non-exhaustive) cinephile’s guide to 21st century Latin American cinema(s) the editors December 2018 Latin American Cinema Today: An Unsolved Paradox We have gathered a list of films based on the most relevant discussions on the dossier but widening the scope to add some very relevant films from Lat...
Cleverman and Australian Superheroes (Introduction) Angela Ndalianis and Liam Burke December 2018 Cleverman and Australian Superheroes It was early 2016 when the buzz started to build. Stories began to appear on the news and social media about the airing of the new television series C...
We Need Another Hero: The Incompatibility of Superheroes and Australia Liam Burke December 2018 Cleverman and Australian Superheroes Australia loves superheroes. In 2018, the four highest grossing films at the Australian box office were superhero movies, Melbourne hosted the interac...
Dreamtime Mutants and Urban Vigilantes: Aboriginal Superheroes in American Comics Kevin Patrick December 2018 Cleverman and Australian Superheroes The television series Cleverman has been hailed for its sympathetic and complex portrayal of Aboriginal people, as well as for its trenchant commentar...
Visualising Life: Cleverman and the Vitalist Body Paul Atkinson December 2018 Cleverman and Australian Superheroes The ABC series Cleverman is notable for the introduction of an Indigenous superhero, the Cleverman, and a race of superhumans, the Hairypeople. It als...
“Too Busy Building a World to Tell a Story”: Between World-Building and Storytelling in the Cleverman Storyworld Tara Lomax December 2018 Cleverman and Australian Superheroes The notion of storyworlds – that is, “worlds provoked by narratives” – is not new to storytelling or narratology; even so, transmedia storytelling and...
