“A ghost mob”: Interview with Sandra Wollner Alison Taylor October 2020 Interviews In February this year, Sandra Wollner’s contentious film, The Trouble with Being Born (2020) debuted at Berlinale, earning a Special Jury prize. In August, the film was due to have its Australian premiere as pa...
Tangled Worlds – The Natural and Fantastic in Peter Strickland’s Katalin Varga and Berberian Sound Studio Alison Taylor July 2019 The Analogues of Peter Strickland "But round the castle there began to grow a hedge of thorns, which every year became higher, and at last grew close up round the castle and all over it, so that there was nothing of it to be seen, not even the ...
The Avoidance of Love: The Piano Teacher (2001) as Anti-Melodrama Alison Taylor February 2017 CTEQ Annotations on Film In 1991, Isabelle Huppert starred in Claude Chabrol’s Madame Bovary, a film that charts the fall of Gustave Flaubert’s tragic heroine. Emma’s idealistic longing for earth-shattering romance is unmet in the real...
Two or Three Things I Know About Her: Violent Women in Contemporary Cinema, by Janice Loreck Alison Taylor December 2016 Book Reviews There’s a moment in Basic Instinct (Paul Verhoeven, 1992) when Dr. Beth Garner tries to warn her on-again off-again lover, Detective Nick Curran, of the danger posed by his prime suspect in a homicide investiga...
Bold Origins, Unfolding Futures: The Second Annual Queensland Film Festival Alison Taylor September 2016 Festival Reports On the fiftieth anniversary of the very first Brisbane Film Festival (BFF), and the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first Brisbane International Film Festival (BIFF), the Queensland Film Festival has returned t...
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne (Walerian Borowczyk, 1981) Alison Taylor May 2016 CTEQ Annotations on Film A scalpel lacerates the painting by Vermeer. Margaret, her legs apart, raped, in the kitchen. The portrait of Jekyll’s father destroyed by sulphuric acid. - Extract from Borowczyk’s script. Two images form ...
