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In its obituary for the sui generis director David Lynch (1946-2025), who recently gave up the ghost, The New York Times barely mentioned The Straight Story (David Lynch, 1999), a film that is more often than n...

Rita (Laura Harring), the femme fatale with amnesia, wakes in the night having remembered something: “Go with me somewhere,” she whispers to her lover, Betty (Naomi Watts). It’s around two o’clock in the mornin...

“As Gregor Samsa woke one morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed into some kind of monstrous vermin. He lay on his hard, armor-like back, and if he lifted his head a little, he could see his c...

Richard Martin’s The Architecture of David Lynch arrived just ahead of the director’s return to television. The reviews of Season 3 of Twin Peaks (2017) make much of the characters, the slowly unfolding mysteri...

(H)e(r)metic Art Ad Nauseam: David Lynch's Six Men Getting Sick (1967)  Part of our makeup as social animals is that certain of our activities, when visualised, tend to create a mirror effect in the viewer. Se...

Given the copious amounts of material already published exploring David Lynch’s artistic landscape, it is not without foundation to wonder what Dennis Lim’s new book on Lynch could possibly offer. Lynch’s cinem...

“Damn fine coffee!” Agent Cooper exclaims, but he’s not praising the fresh brew of the Double R Diner or the Great Northern Hotel – in this context, Cooper prefers the smooth taste of Georgia brand canned coffe...

The tagline for David Lynch’s Inland Empire (2006) describes the film as “a mystery” about a “woman in trouble”. This simple phrase coincides with much of what viewers see on the screen but proves less helpful...

WOOOOSH – Zoom deep into blackness.  Thump.  A metallic blue box drops to the carpet:  this sequence, nearly two hours into David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive (2001), opens up a seam in what has for the most part b...

If Inland Empire, released in 2006, has proved one of the strangest films of the last decade, David Lynch’s activities since then have only increased the mystery surrounding its director. In recent years, Lynch...

I have been a David Lynch fan for many years. His cryptic narratives and the sense of dread that pervades his films have always gripped me. As a former cinema studies student, I have also enjoyed his intertextu...

Lost Highway (1997 France/USA 135 mins) Prod Co: Asymmetrical Productions/CiBy 2000/Lost Highway Productions LLC/October Films Prod: Deepak Nayar, Tom Sternberg, Mary Sweeney Dir, Sound Des: David Lynch ...

An appraisal of Lynch's career to date and its various modes, where the difference between weird and strange is all-important.

b. January 20, 1946, Missoula, Montana, USA. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources The Evil That Men Do In 1988 David Lynch painted "Shadow of a Twisted Hand Across My House"...

When I was halfway through reading David Thomson’s new book, I saw Vincente Minnelli’s musical The Band Wagon (1953) in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. It felt like a perfect David Thomson moment. The Band Wagon immer...

If Pauline Kael is often pugnacious, Jonathan Rosenbaum belligerent, Anthony Lane frivolous, then what word should we bestow upon David Thomson? Perhaps impertinence fits best, as Thomson so often takes a small...

I come to praise Bordwell, not to bury him. He is the greatest academic film critic writing in the English language and his latest brace of books, companion volumes really, leave us in no doubt of this – if the...

b. March 25, 1908, Croydon, Surrey, England d. April 16, 1991, London, England filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to ...

David Lynch goes straight? This "family" film is anything but Disney-cosy.

2026 marks the 60th anniversary of the release of Operazione paura (Kill, Baby… Kill!, 1966), the film widely considered to be horror maestro Mario Bava’s finest. Set in 1907, the story opens with a coroner, Dr...

Margaret Lindsay: A Recovered Treasure Behind the Scenes I was inspired to write this article on Margaret Lindsay while researching to develop a single-actor focused unit for an upcoming college film studies ...

ENTRIES IN PART 5: Christoph Huber Darren Hughes Darik Janik Ioannis Kanonakis Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Simon Killen Rainer Knepperges Bogna Konior Gary M. Kramer Peter KrauszEugenia Lai Ma...

ENTRIES IN PART 8: Tyson Stewart Iván Suárez Tyler Thier Josh Timmermann Donato Totaro Mustafa Uzuner Diana Vagas Eli VannataNoel Vera Peter Verstraten Nicholas Vroman David Walsh James Waters Nadi...

It’s uncomfortable; sitting next to someone in an otherwise sparsely populated cinema, me gutturally affected by the film, them gasping and gripping their trousers is dismay at what they will later tell me is “...

The slippery, slow-burn drama, The Things You Kill, is an intense psychological thriller set in Turkey and written and directed by American Iranian filmmaker, Alireza Khatami (Terrestrial Verses ). The story...

This review considers analogue 16mm films in the Rotterdam International Film Festival; shorter, marginal works experimenting with form; Tiger Award winners; and terminates with a deep dive into the trauma, the...

ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Cristóbal Escobar Andre Ferreira Adalberto Fonkén Giampiero Frasca Pablo Gamba Sachin Gandhi John GianvitoSean Gilman Antony I. Ginnane Andrew Goode Jared Gores Mi...

ENTRIES IN PART 4: George Kapaklis Christopher Kearney Max Kleger Rainer Knepperges Botagoz Koilybayeva Gary KramerEugenia Lai Reynaldo Lastre Marc Lauria Richard Leathem Wyeth Leslie Tara Lomax Geo...

Welcome, dear readers, to a new year and a new issue of the eclectic and serious discussion of cinema. As with every rotation around the sun, this one too brings the results of our hefty World Poll. Composed of...

As a self-proclaimed “longtime genre film fan”, it felt fortuitous to end up at Spain’s 57th Sitges Film Festival (or in its extended form, the Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia, running...

This year at the London Film Festival, Stranger Eyes emerged as a compelling embodiment of three prevalent themes – not just within the festival but across some of the most significant films of 2024. Like a cin...

“If you’re going to tell people the truth, be funny, or else they’ll kill you.” – Billy Wilder Billy Wilder was an amazingly versatile cinematic artist of the highest order, and one somehow capable of making ...

There could hardly be a less auspicious way to start a filmmaking career than as a producer on a Matías Piñeiro film, and it wasn’t long after producing Hermia and Helena (2016) that Graham Swon began to clearl...

Interviewing Mariano Llinás, one of the most creative minds in today's cinematic landscape, has been both a significant and challenging endeavour that I have pursued over the past six years. My quest to intervi...

One key takeaway from Alejo Moguillansky’s films is that by telling one's personal story, you can illuminate broader topics and issues. In an effort to elucidate his cinematic approach and truly describe his di...

Introduction: Intuitions and Intersensoriality The multiple. Water, the sea. Perceptional bursts, inner and outer, how can they be told apart? In ‘Science and the Humanities’, Michel Serres discusses the pain...