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The Far Country (1954 USA 97mins) Source: CAC Prod Co: Universal Prod: Aaron Rosenberg Dir: Anthony Mann Scr: Borden Chase Phot: William Daniels Ed: Russell Schoengarth Art Dir: Bernard Herzbrun, Alexander G...

(Mike Figgis, 2000) Mike Figgis' new film deserves a certain degree of skepticism if only for its self proclaimed 'revolutionary' approach to cinema and for its radical posturing. In several statements c...

In this vivid and fascinating account, Brad Stevens gives due to the trailer.

(Paul Verhoeven, 2000) "What would you do if you were invisible?" This is not a question posed by Paul Verhoeven in his latest film, Hollow Man. Rather, it is a question he is more inclined to answer in ...

This dossier represents emerging writers from RMIT University’s undergraduate Film Genre course, as they explore ways that an individual film may use, knowingly play with or revise genre tropes, in the midst of...

My initial viewing of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920) took place in 2022. As a 21st-century moviegoer, I had been educated by technically refined psychological hor...

Locarno is, and can feel, half a world away from Hollywood, but much of the press talk leading up to this year’s 76th Locarno Film Festival concerned the concurrent SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild strikes in the US...

Upon arriving at the beach house to which he has fled – ostensibly escaping the treacherous warfare that threatened to interrupt his attempts to escape the mobster lifestyle he has lived up to this point – Mura...

“The fact that I consider myself a film critic first and a feminist second means that I feel an obligation to the wholeness and complexity of film history.”– Molly Haskell While researching her portrait of the...

“It’s a movie for kids, they’re not going to dig it, man!” Peter Tork, Head The story is, by now, familiar. Amidst dwindling cinema attendance and the migration of the mass audience to television, Hollywood’s...

Listen. If you listen closely, intensely, you will hear the sounds of loneliness scoring the most profound encounters found on our screens and in their relatable, traceable senses. Sounding loneliness is ...

Film co-ops were born out of necessity – both economic and political. During the 1960s and 1970s, avant-garde and experimental cinema, “expanded cinema” and varying strands of independent filmmaking sought to g...

Nowadays there are no more traditional storytellers. I think that a filmmaker can replace them. To be properly heard, a storyteller needs to know how to strike with his instruments, whether the tam-tam or a cam...

Andrew Plain who died at the age of 60 in Sydney in December, gained his national and international reputation as one of Australia’s most distinguished film sound designers because of the high quality and innov...

Lucas Hammer Lee Hill Wai Ho Alexander Horwath Peter Hourigan Cerise Howard Brian Hu Christoph Huber David Hudson Darren Hughes Tara Judah Dominik Kamalzadeh Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney...

‘Social films’ (Film-e ejtema'i), understood in Iranian film reviews and journalistic discourse as socio-politically committed films characterized by realist aesthetics and mode of narration, have been a major ...

This article provides a penetrating analysis of the often over looked importance of audio elements and their design in a range of 1950’s film noirs.

“The films I most eagerly look forward to will not be documentaries but works of fiction, played against and into and in collaboration with unrehearsed and uninvented reality.” – James Agee (1) Introduction ...

Your fearless film critic, Alice, was getting ready to cover the new edition of the AFI Fest which, this year again, was Presented by Audi and offering free tickets to the audiences – the former explaining the ...

This article is an updated and substantially revised version of his original essay from 2003. b. March 23, 1942, Munich, Germany A cinema of disturbance: the films of Michael Haneke in context My films a...

Exiled/Fongchuk (2006 Hong Kong 100 mins) Prod Co: Milkyway Image Production Prod, Dir: Johnnie To Scr: Szeto Kam-yuen, Yip Tin-shing, Milkyway Creative Team Phot: Cheng Siu-keung Ed: David M. Richardson...

Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical is a beautifully crafted book which seamlessly blends wit, entertainment and academic rigour to produce a work that is as rewarding and stimu...

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...

February 10–20, 2006 Last year, I took the opportunity to write for this journal on the state of affairs of contemporary German cinema in the form of a festival report on the 55th Berlin Film Festival. At th...

The study of sound in film has proven to be an increasingly stimulating and diverse field of academic endeavour. Particularly exciting and invigorating is the work that has been undertaken in the area of the co...

July 2–9, 2005 Few, if any, film festivals can match the extraordinary range of material on offer at Bologna's Cinema Ritrovato, now in its 19th year as the leading showcase for film restoration. From ...

Philip Brophy has programmed his terrific yet frequently overstuffed new book, 100 Modern Soundtracks, like a CD. 100 two or three-page entries on films that apotheosise the modern “cinesonic womb” merge into a...

b. February 22, 1944, Baldwin, Long Island, New York, USA d. April 26, 2017, Manhattan, New York, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources Born on Long Island in the shortest month of 1944...

Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933 USA 97 mins) Source: Chapel Films Prod Co: Warner Bros. Prod: Robert Lord Dir: Mervyn LeRoy, Busby Berkeley (all musical numbers) Scr: Erwin Gelsey, James Seymour, David Boehm,...

An examination into the martial arts genre that reveals the extent of its ambivalence and complexity toward questions of gender, femininity and the submissiveness of 'woman'.

b. May 30, 1928, Ixelles, Belgium d. March 29, 2019, Paris, France filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Discovering Agnès Varda My introduction to Agnès Varda is at the 2001 Sy...

The Long Riders (1980 USA 100 minutes) 35mm Source: Chapel Prod Co: Huka Films for United Artists Prod: James Keach, Stacy Keach Dir: Walter Hill Scr: Bill Bryden, Steven Phillip Smith, Stacy Keach, Jame...

Women are once again the centre in Nair's latest offering, abundant in optimism, colour, and movement.

It's sad that it took Pauline Kael's death to send me back to her early criticism. She had guts and style. She was way ahead of her American contemporaries in celebrating the pleasures of popular cinema, be...

Learn here exactly what films - both contemporary and from the past - Rivette both admires and detests.