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The Farrelly brothers prove that beauty is truly “in the eye of the beholder”.

The prolific British novelist and all-round provocateur discusses his film work.

The cultural horizons are less narrowly diminished than when I covered the first Brisbane International Film Festival (as a then-time local, for Filmnews) 12 years back, but Brisbane remains a thriving Petr...

b. July 7, 1899, New York City, USA d. January 23, 1983, Los Angeles, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources That's fun, dancing on the edge! – Little Emily in David C...

Equally masterful at depicting small, awkward dilemmas as he is the human condition, the director of Uzak proves to be just as honest and compassionate in conversation.

Homicide ep. 56: “Flashpoint” (1965 Australia 48 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia, courtesy Crawfords Australia Prod Co: Crawford Productions Prod: Dorothy Crawford Dir, Scr: Ian Jones Phot: Alan Arno...

b. September 19, 1930, Rome, Italy d. November 4, 2002, Viterbo, Italy Filmography Select Bibliography Works Also Cited Web Resources Antonio Margheriti: Pastor of Perversion Take any literary work...

“The essential Ford composition is a person acting freely within a geometric space,” writes Gallagher in this close look at the first half of a great and complex career.

Matters of truth and perception, style and representation, ethics and political responsibility, history and human error all come to the fore in Morris' latest documentary, and are discussed here.

Crumb (1994 USA 119 mins) Source: Sharmill Films Prod Co: Crumb Partners I/Superior Pictures Prod: Lynn O'Donnell, Terry Zwigoff Dir: Terry Zwigoff Phot: Maryse Alberti Ed: Victor Livingston Mus: David B...

Witchfinder General/The Conqueror Worm (1968 Britain 88 mins) Source: Sharmill Films Prod Co: Tigon Prod: Arnold L. Miller, Louis Heyward Dir: Michael Reeves Scr: Michael Reeves, Tom Baker Phot: Johnny C...

PARK CITY – An overwarmed room somewhere in the Sodom of the Wasatch. People are looking at me with dog-eyes. They flit them down to my press-pass, which, to torture them, I have half tucked into my jacket....

There is a seductive cliche that runs through “cultural circles”: writing about dance makes about as much sense as dancing about architecture. What is implied here is not only a suspicion at the “folly” of ...

Festival reports typically give the impression that their writers surveyed the proceedings from a high chair – no matter how intelligent the observations, there's seldom an indication of how the writer's ex...

b. June 17, 1927, Rome, Italy d. March 13, 1996, Rome, Italy filmography references bibliography web resources “And you will face the sea of darkness, and all therein that may be explored.” – ”The ...

The Entries Miguel Marías Philip Matthews James May Olaf Möller Sarah Nichols Darragh O'Donoghue John Orr Alan Pavelin Alberto Pezzotta Jit Phokaew Mike Plante Jared Rapf...

I might have been the only accredited journalist who did not see a single American film at the latest American Film Institute (AFI) Film Festival last November (6-16) in Los Angeles. A mainstream filmmaking...

b. September 2, 1929, Ogden, Utah, USA d. December 27, 1988, Malibu, California, USA filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources I was born in Ogden, Utah, the last of four children. M...

Kiarostami's government-sponsored educational shorts have gained attention thanks to his later, acclaimed features; pointing to their example, Knox argues that some of the most rewarding cinema lies far outside the world of officially recognised "art".

This short essay argues that most recent Australian comedy films have been all too "ordinary" – but nominates one or two new directors as talents to watch.

Back from the dead? Despite prophecies of doom, the Hong Kong film industry is now stronger than ever, with horror films a speciality. Hendrix provides all the gory details in this blow-by-blow account.

Hold Your Man (1933 USA 87 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Prod: Sam Wood Dir: Sam Wood Scr: Anita Loos (and story) and Howard Emmett Rogers Phot: Harold Rosson Ed: Frank Sullivan Art...

Ex-Lady (1933 USA 67 mins) Source: Library of Congress Prod Co: Warner Bros-The Vitaphone Corporation Prod: Darryl F. Zanuck Dir: Robert Florey Scr: David Boehm, from the story by Edith Fitzgerald and Ro...

The gap between the public face of the Toronto Film Festival and the experience of festival-goers continues to widen. Improbably enough, mild-mannered Toronto has come to signify movie stars and red carpets...

Please note: discussions of individual films reveal plot details. Year after year I find myself frustrated by the New York Film Festival's extreme selectivity, its policy of showcasing only a handful of ...

2003 wasn't a particularly good year for Korea, or Pusan, the port city located at the southern most tip of South Korea. A strong-arm hurricane “Maemi” of an intensity not seen for five decades stormed Pusa...

b. Pittsburgh, Pensylvania, USA, 1954 filmography bibliography web resources All serious art presents a challenge to its interlocutors, resists paraphrase and frustrates interpretation. The strange ...

A sweeping analysis of the rise and history of documentary filmmaking in China, its significance as a formally innovative medium and a voice for the marginalised.

Examining the 1953 Japanese film Twenty-Four Eyes, Ayako unravels how affective discourses such as crying have been appropriated for "higher" purposes in Japanese history, making women's tears rarely their own.

Yue looks at the late '60s, early '70s moment when cinema and video intermingled in the gallery space; in particular, she examines Anthony McCall's Line Describing a Cone and Bruce Nauman's Live-Taped Video Corridor as exemplars.

Tscherkassky's career, which ranges from work on Super 8 to 35mm, is distinctly post avant-garde, characterised by a unique approach to traditions of filmmaking, film theory, the physicality of film, the self and the history of cinema.

Hidden Agenda (1990 UK 108 mins) Source: Chapel Films Prod Co: Hemdale/Initial Prod: Eric Fellner Dir: Ken Loach Scr: Jim Allen Phot: Clive Tickner Ed: Jonathan Morris Art Dir: Martin Johnson Mus: Stewar...

(New York: Columbia University Press, 2002) In the Wachowski brothers' latest Matrix instalment, The Matrix Reloaded (2003), a featured scene presents a battle between Keanu Reeves' Neo and what appear to be...

David Thomson's film criticism continues to incite passion and debate. Harper takes a chilly view of the latest edition of his New Biographical Dictionary of Film...

b. September 8, 1912, Boston, USA d. December 22, 1993, Los Angeles, USA filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Alexander Mackendrick was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1912 a...

b. November 5, 1934, Soroki, Romania (now Moldova) filmography web resources Of all the great Soviet film directors, Kira Muratova is considered to be the most esoteric. Not because she is a woman or...