Author Benjamin Halligan

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...

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...

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...

(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 ...

Halligan's rich discussion of Sokurov's Russian Ark weaves together analyses of history, politics and art.

(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...

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...

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...

(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...