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Tiger Shark (1932 USA 80 mins) Prod Co: First National-Vitaphone/Warner Bros. Prod: Bryan Foy Dir: Howard Hawks Scr: Wells Root , from the story Tuna by Houston Branch Phot: Tony Gaudio Ed: Thomas Pratt ...

If…. (1968 UK 107 mins) Prod Co: Memorial Enterprises Prod: Michael Medwin, Lindsay Anderson Dir: Lindsay Anderson Scr: David Sherwin Phot: Miroslav Ondriček Prod Des: Jocelyn Herbert, Brian Eatwell Ed: ...

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: Alexandr Sokurov Scr: Anatoli Nikiforov, Alexa...

23 September – 10 October 2007 While I couldn’t make the trek to the 2007 Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), there were murmurs amongst those who attended of a less-than-stellar program a...

b. 14 May 1971, New York, New York, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources Sofia Coppola is a visually stylish film director. Undoubtedly, her self-confessed predilect...

The Professionals (1966 USA 123 mins) Prod Co: Columbia Dir: Richard Brooks Scr: Richard Brooks, based on the novel A Mule for the Marquesa by Frank O’Rourke Phot: Conrad Hall Ed: Peter Zinner Art Dir: E...

20 March - 4 April 2007 Much of what I saw at this year’s Hong Kong International Film Festival gave new relevance to Paul Schrader’s 1972 book Transcendental Style in Film. (1) Schrader focused on the w...

I Vitelloni (1953 Italy 103 mins) Prod Co: Peg-Film, Roma/Cité Films Dir: Federico Fellini Scr: Federico Fellini, Tullio Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano Phot: Otello Martell Ed: Rolando Benedetti Prod Des: Mario ...

What is an Italian giallo film? Mikel J. Koven’s latest book La Dolce Morte: Vernacular Cinema and the Italian Giallo Film attempts to illuminate this under-appreciated cultural phenomenon and is in fact the fi...

In a rare 1967 monograph, now long out of print, the Italian director Valerio Zurlini published a poetic account of an evening in the company of the great painter Balthus (Balthazar Klossowski, 1908-2001), ...

With his book, Fabio Vighi has accomplished something that has been eagerly awaited by those familiar with Italian cinema and psychoanalysis: an examination of Italian films through the psychoanalytic theories ...

In the course of Gérard Courant’s hugely engaging 2001 documentary portrait of Luc Moullet, L’Homme des roubines (The Man of the Badlands), Moullet approvingly cites Howard Hawks’ opinion that a filmmaker shoul...

Editors’ Note Welcome to the annual Senses of Cinema World Poll. Readers should find it a fascinating overview of cinema from a multitude of countries and cultures. As some readers will seek and search entr...

Editors’ Note Welcome to the annual Senses of Cinema World Poll. Readers should find it a fascinating overview of cinema from a multitude of countries and cultures. As some readers will seek and search entr...

The director of, among others, Roadgames, Psycho II and Hotel Sorrento, offers an insightful reflection on an issue close to his heart and profession.

French critics coined the term Nouvelle Vague Allemande in response to the rise of a new wave of filmmaking in Germany. In this wide-ranging interview, the filmmaker and co-editor of the magazine Revolver discusses the current state of German cinema in the light of its history, and the cultural and æsthetic ideas that impact on his films and thinking.

The striking series of DVD releases from Masters of Cinema celebrates an eclectic mix of directors and genres. Cinéphiles should rejoice that there are now such accessible and essential titles providing extende...

b. 28 June, 1922, Pistoia, Italy d. 14 May, 2001, Rome, Italy Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources The Melancholy of Sex Love destroys your will. And where there is no...

“What are all these paintings doing in a history of cinema?” The author gives an answer in her analysis of Godard’s monumental video work, which approximates André Malraux’s concept of the imaginary museum.

Composer and musicologist Charalampos Goyios provides an insightful analysis of opera as dramatic form in Allen’s recent film.

April 4–19, 2006 Immediate and full disclosure: I spent only nine full days in Hong Kong, saw 27 movies, (1) and ate way too much dim sum. (2) Below is a list of what I saw, (3) reactions fearlessly summ...

April 4–19, 2006 My opening night schedule was planned with the kind of meticulous care which would have even made Michael Haneke proud (although commentary on contemporary colonialism or audience implic...

The first thing that impresses one about Max Ophuls’ Liebelei is its rich simplicity. Based upon a short story by Arthur Schnitzler, it was Ophuls’ fifth feature and was completed only two years after his c...

b. Wilhelm Anton Frohs b. 7 April, 1903, Vienna, Austria-Hungary d. 11 August, 1980, Vienna, Austria Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources A specific blend of historical and aestheti...

Editors’ Note As readers may seek and search entries, rather than read from beginning to end, full titles, director credits and years of release have been included with each reference. Several authors have ...

Editors’ Note As readers may seek and search entries, rather than read from beginning to end, full titles, director credits and years of release have been included with each reference. Several authors have ...

It seems extraordinary that Alberto Elena’s The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami is the first book in English devoted to a reference-style coverage of Kiarostami’s filmmaking career, even if it is a translated and up...

An exploration of the Straubs' majestic œuvre, countering much of the received dogma that has surrounded perception of their work.

For Renoir, “first love” is an attitude toward life, in all its beauty and complexity.

The Entries George Papadopoulos Alan Pavelin Mark Peranson Jit Phokaew Mike Plante Jared Rapfogel Andy Rector Bérénice Reynaud Mark Richardson Peter Rist Vadim Rizov James ...

The Entries Acquarello Mubarak Ali Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Saul Austerlitz Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett Steve Benedict Alexander Bisley Stephen Brower Thomas Caldwel...

This tribute to the distinguished cinematographer (1925–2004) focuses on his 11-film collaboration with Woody Allen.

Film has always involved a certain materiality and a certain immateriality, a certain technology and a certain semiology. And a film festival reflects this on a larger scale: it is a total fact that always ...

b. July 31, 1914, San Remo, Italy d. April 25, 1980, Rome, Italy filmography articles in Senses web resources Mario Bava directed (or co-directed) twenty-four features during an eighteen year perio...

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...