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I must confess, loyal reader, that there can occasionally be something of a lag between the end of a film festival that I am covering and the moment when I finally transform my scattered thoughts into a legible...

ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Geronimo Elortegui John K. Emelianoff Fernando Chaves Espinach Ted Fendt Adalberto Fonkén Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Mark Freeman Sachin Gandhi Steve Gaunson Flora G...

ENTRIES IN PART 5: Josh B Mabe Ioannis Makris Bob Manning Miguel Marias Jack Mcculloch Joe Mcelhaney Adrian D. Mendizabal Jamie Mendonça Stefano Miraglia Olaf Möller Marcel Müller Peter Nagels An...

Transcendental style seeks to maximize the mystery of existence; it eschews all conventional interpretations of reality: realism, naturalism, psychologism, romanticism, expressionism, impressionism, and... rati...

In his recent book, Clear Bright Future, the British political theorist Paul Mason admits to having recently experienced a moment of uncanny bewilderment. Walking down a UK high street, he was struck by the see...

Among important Italian directors, Ermanno Olmi occupies a curious middle ground. Critics and fans alike may sense that his works offer more substance than many – indeed, perhaps even the majority of – films of...

One handy way to think about Peter Strickland’s cinematic work is through its pronounced, indeed insistent historical referentiality to the cinema of the past, and, in particular, to an immediately recognisable...

On Oct 30, the day before the American Film Market opened in Santa Monica, the Asian Society of Southern California had organised the US-China Entertainment Summit at the Skirball Center, allowing the speakers ...

In the cinema, the long take is an instrument of multifaceted – sometimes paradoxical – power. In a film like Ladri di Biciclette (Bicycle Thieves, Vittorio de Sica, 1948) or Deux jours, une nuit (Two Days, One...

Cinephile, historian, filmmaker and one of the most knowledgeable persons I’ve ever met, Thom Andersen visited the Austrian Filmmuseum during the fall of 2017 where I interviewed him about Red Hollywood (1996),...

Darryl F. Zanuck hated it. After the masterful American producer screened the relentlessly downbeat, anti-capitalist spaghetti Western Il grande silenzio (The Great Silence, Sergio Corbucci, 1968), he refused t...

For so many cinephiles, our love for cinema is also wrapped up in our personal biographies: films watched are difficult to disassociate from the people we were when we watched them, and returning to the same wo...

Highly prolific Catalan filmmaker Ventura Pons (born 25 July 1945) sees the world through a cinematic lens. He argues that “a film is based on three essential fundamental pillars: concept, story and cast”. stor...

A 2003 New York Times article described 1950s matinee idol Tab Hunter as having “Malibu beach boy looks”, and that description is apt. Even today, well into his eighties, Hunter holds the appearance of the blon...

Russian Ark/Russkiy kovcheg (2002 Russia 99 mins) Prod Co: Egoli Tossell Film/For a Film/The Hermitage Bridge Studio Prod: Andrei Deryabin, Jens Meurer Dir: Aleksandr Sokurov Scr: Anatoli Nikiforov, Alek...

Translated by Jaimey Fisher This conversation among writer/director Christian Petzold, senior programmer Robert Fischer, and Prof. Jaimey Fisher of University of California, Davis was part of the “Filmmaker Li...

It’s an old postcard view of Bologna, the colonnaded street unchanged since this image was made over a hundred years ago, women in long skirts and parasols, the men all in dark suits and heavy moustaches, horse...

Editorial It has been 50 years since 1967 and it struck us at Senses of Cinema that not only was this a notable anniversary, but that it also made for an interesting throughline to our cultural experience in t...

“I felt annoyed. I could not remember being in love. That pain. Defencelessness. I thought – We wish their destruction” – Nicholas Mosley, Accident (1965) Following his foray into big-budget commercial filmmak...

For all its central importance and stature in the history of Golden Age Mexican cinema, Fred Zinnemann and Emilio Gómez Muriel’s Redes (The Wave, 1936) has attracted remarkably little critical or scholarly atte...

Albert Serra’s recent La Mort de Louis XIV (The Death of Louis XIV, 2016), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as the ailing king, has been rightly hailed a masterpiece. Its central preoccupation with aging and/or dying...

Towards the end of the 67th iteration of the Berlin International Film Festival, one of Germany’s best contemporary directors, Dominik Graf, showcased his latest essay film, Offene Wunde deutscher Film (Open Wo...

Big Deal on Madonna Street is such a great, catchy, and memorable title that you would hate to lose it. It was the third (at least) tried out by the film’s English-language distributors after Persons Unknown an...

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 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 ...

What I don’t like is the persistent denial by blubbering sentimentalists of man’s basic nature. Away with those who would sterilize life, or, as they call it, ‘spiritualize’ life. - Erich von Stroheim In Gree...

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...

Entries in part 5: Fidel Jesús Quirós Bérénice Reynaud Stuart Richards Jeremy Rigsby Peter Rist Eloise Ross Julian Ross André Roy Dan Sallitt Maria San Filippo Yianna Sarri Christine Sathiah ...

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 ...

January 15, 1893, Dublin, Ireland. d. July 24, 1950, Los Angeles, USA The world’s greatest director. Erich von Stroheim Rex Ingram may be the best-known enigma in film history. We are aware of him, these d...

Cinema today should be tied to the truth rather than to logic. And the truth of our daily lives is neither mechanical, conventional nor artificial, as stories generally are, and if films are made that way, they...

Entries in part 1: Antti Alanen Francisco Algarín Navarro Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Martyn Bamber Lynden Barber Michael Bartlett Nicolas Bartlett Conor Bateman Gustavo Beck Sean Bell Pa...

Jean-Luc Godard may not have invented the filmic convergence of la grande Histoire and la petite histoire, of the way that art and, especially, cinema can highlight the intersection between personal history and...

STANDARD GRAMMAR: CUT ON EYELINE Two glances meet – he looks down, to see Worlds emerging in a coffee cup. See: Deux ou trois choses que je sais d’elle (1967) (1) John Flaus introduced me to the word ...

Originally published in Masque vol. 1, no. 5, May-June 1968, pp. 14-17. This article appeared within a special film issue of this relatively short-lived but significant dramatic and performing arts magazine. Th...

b. 1964, Miami-Dade County, Florida, USA Kelly Reichardt is a most unlikely ambassador of current American independent cinema. Her films are not remotely violent or boundary pushing. She has never competed for...