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Although Sam Peckinpah’s films are routinely described in terms of their often-fetishistic fascination with violence, influential deployment of such devices as slow motion, split screen and contrapuntal editing...

If asked about the film that has most affected me, then I want to answer with Godard’s Weekend (1967), Straub/Huillet’s Othon (1969), Bresson’s Pickpocket (1959), Pasolini’s Accatone (1960), Stroheim’s Greed (1...

For film scholars interested in the narrative settings of cinema examined through a “cultural materialist approach to film history” (p. 4), combined with digital cartography, Christian B. Long’s The Imaginary G...

Catalan filmmaker José Ramón Larraz’s psychological horror film Symptoms – a UK production – was the British entry at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974. Despite this, the film was considered all but lost for dec...

ENTRIES IN PART 2: Thomas Caldwell Michael Campi Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Celluloid Liberation Front Daryl Chin Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn Roberta Ciabarra Joel Condemi Adam Cook Jordan Cro...

ENTRIES IN PART 4: Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Ricardo Köhler Ehsan Khoshbakht Rainer Knepperges Adam Kuntavanish Eugenia Lai Elaine Lennon Raúl Liébana Liébana Kimberly Lindbergs Tara Loma...

ENTRIES IN PART 6: Maria San Filippo José Sarmiento Hinojosa Howard Schuman Christopher Sikich Matthew Singleton Christopher Small Mark Spratt Brad Stevens Josh Timmermann Gorazd Trušnovec Matt Tur...

Cristi Puiu’s first feature, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, put the Romanian New Wave on the international map, winning Cannes’ Un Certain Regard prize in 2005. The film’s success created a road map for other Roma...

Over time, the kind of relationship that regular film criticism maintains with the films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet could be perfectly described as a sort of class relations. Straub and Huillet...

Between 1999 and 2008, the Dutch director Martin Koolhoven made eight feature films, none like any of the others. In 2005 he shot the multicultural rom-com Het schnitzelparadijs (Kitchen Paradise), about a Moro...

Nash Edgerton, the older brother of Australian film star Joel Edgerton, is primarily known in his country of birth, perhaps, for his early and cheeky short films, often seen at the early iterations of Tropfest....

Peter Biskind’s sensationalist bestseller Easy Riders, Raging Bulls (1998) paints the picture of the great but crumbling Hollywood institution at the close of the sixties being stormed by a group of young and r...

That Candy Box of Vulgarity: Valley of the Dolls (Mark Robson, 1967) Upon the fifty-year anniversary of the release of Jacqueline Susann’s bestselling novel Valley of the Dolls in February 2016, many noted how...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 Deptford Cinema, a volunteer-run project that brings the wor...

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, even as smartphones and barcode scanners come to dominate th...

For 30 years, Bologna has been the home of Retrieved Cinema – Il Cinema Ritrovato. That idea of “retrieving” cinema is what makes this annual gathering of critics, archivists, restorers and ordinary film lovers...

Using the starting point of the MoMA retrospective of the works of Bruce LaBruce, this article confronts the shifting perceptions of LaBruce as a transgressive provocateur of cinema. I argue that his most recen...

December 18, 1943, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Alan Rudolph is one of cinema’s most unashamed romantics, and a distinctively self-reflexive one. Although his films yearn for an emotional tie to the world, Rudolph’s ...

This paper argues for a concept of auteur television, in which the director expresses a consistency of style and theme that is similar to their other work, using David Lynch and Twin Peaks as a case study. This...

Special Dossier edited by the Senses of Cinema editorial team Since his earliest feature films from the 1970s, the work of American director Abel Ferrara has resisted easy cblassification. Across his lengthy c...

Entries in part 2: Michael Da Silva Fergus Daly Adrian Danks Dustin Dasig Henri de Corinth Monica Delgado Wheeler Winston Dixon Dzondunkellicht Gerónimo Elortegui Jeremy Elphick Miguel Faus...

Entries in part 4: Josh Mabe Helen Macallan Miguel Marías Dmitry Martov Neil McGlone Duncan McLean Adrian Mendizabal Mads Mikkelsen David Miller Olaf Möller Brent Morrow Oona Mosna Jorge Mour...

Luciano Tovoli’s reputation as one of the great Italian cinematographers is commonly framed in reference to his work on Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1975 film, The Passenger. But although very different movies, it ...

In the opening paragraph of their introduction to A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard, Tom Conley and T. Jefferson Kline situate a particular cinephilic response to the great Swiss filmmaker’s work in terms of where...

A long, long time ago English film magazines arrived in Melbourne after a journey by boat that often took several months. They could arrive in a rush, several issues at a time. The place where they were sold wa...

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...

Feature image: Queen of Earth (dir. Alex Ross Perry, 2015) As a historian of German cinema, I used to cringe when people said, “German cinema? Oh, like Fassbinder, Wenders and Herzog.” As if there were no othe...

“When it's possible – in terms of the type of scene it is, where the camera is, how close the actors are to the lens and to the camera itself –Paul gets himself down in and under and around the camera. He curls...

Boogie Nights (1997),Paul Thomas Anderson’s first fully formed film after the frustration and battles of his debut feature Hard Eight (1996), was conceived when he was 17 years old. Ten years later, after Ander...

Entries in part 2: Toni D'Angela Fergus Daly Adrian Danks Dustin Dasig Michael Da Silva Mónica Delgado Wheeler Winston Dixon Patrick Dorner Marie-Pierre Duhamel Dzondunkellicht Vassilis Economo...

Entries in part 3: Lucas Hammer Michael Helms Alain Hertay Lee Hill Wai Ho Joshua Hoffmann Alexander Horwath Peter Hourigan Brian Hu Christoph Huber Zachary Ingle Tara Judah Dominik Kamalzade...

The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013) is a repulsive affair. A hybrid of Wall Street (Oliver Stone, 1987) and American Pie (Chris and Paul Weitz, 1999) it comes short of the former as well as the latt...