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      Benjamin Halligan
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Author Benjamin Halligan

Benjamin Halligan

Benjamin Halligan's critical biography of Michael Reeves is published by Manchester University Press.

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Russian Soul, Eurotrance: Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids edited by Giovanni Chiaramonte and Andrei A. Tarkovsky

Benjamin Halligan
February 2005
Book Reviews
If only because of the softness of the image, and that unavoidably yellowy-brown colour palette characteristic of Polaroid snaps, these photographs could not deserve recognition on their own merits. But as arte...
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Against Cinephiliphobia: Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum and Adrian Martin

Benjamin Halligan
July 2004
Book Reviews
The disappointment of Peter Cowie's recent Revolution! The Explosion of World Cinema in the '60s (1) is in the failure of the book to capture the evolving as-it-happens aspect of his four-decades-worth of the I...
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Leeds International Film Festival, 2003

Benjamin Halligan
December 2003
Festival Reports
The 11 days of the 17th Leeds International Film Festival delivered a diverse and challenging programme. Leeds has always been adventurous and iconoclastic: the 2002 program included Miklós Jancsó films and...
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Visconti Revisited Take 2: Luchino Visconti by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith

Benjamin Halligan
July 2003
Book Reviews
(Third edition, London: BFI, 2003) The received wisdom on Luchino Visconti involves citing his apparently contradictory nature as the basis for the uniqueness of his work. He, and it, embodies the seemingly ...
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The Remaining Second World: Sokurov and Russian Ark

Benjamin Halligan
March 2003
Film in the Eye of History
Halligan's rich discussion of Sokurov's Russian Ark weaves together analyses of history, politics and art.
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The Felliniesque Besieged: Fellini Lexicon by Sam Rohdie

Benjamin Halligan
January 2003
Book Reviews
(London: BFI Publications, 2002) “I first met your name in the Pasquino cinema in Rome. In Trastevere. They show films in English there. You had written the sceneggiatura for a film I saw that I liked. An Angl...
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On the Interval between Reality and Unreality

Benjamin Halligan
November 2001
Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium
As a counterpoint to Slavoj Žižek's interpretation of September 11th – the World Trade Centre Twin Towers as symbols of “virtual capitalism” and “the stark separation between the digitised First World and the T...
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Notes on Negative Space

Benjamin Halligan
February 2001
CTEQ Annotations on Film
Negative Space (1999 UK 39 mins) Source: CAC/NLA Prod Co: Illuminations Television Prod: Keith Griffiths Dir, Scr, Ph: Chris Petit Ed: Emma Matthews Mus: Tracks by Don Covay, Bob Dylan, Lee 'Scratch' Per...
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WR: Mysteries of the Organism by Raymond Durgnat

Benjamin Halligan
December 2000
Book Reviews
(BFI London 1999) An early book by Raymond Durgnat - a monograph published in 1963 by Motion Publications (London) - was called Nouvelle Vague: the first decade. Whatever Nouvelle Vague activity was going on...

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