A Reflection David Sterritt and Mikita Brottman November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium One need not be a psychologist or a semiotician to recognize that the destruction of the World Trade Center's arrogant Twin Towers was a symbolic castration, annihilating the world's most widely known symbol of...
Report on the 4th Bermuda International Film Festival David Sterritt June 2001 Festival Reports (April 20-26 2001) www.bermudafilmfest.com Quite apart from the movies it presented, the 4th annual Bermuda International Film Festival had one attraction no other such event can offer: Bermuda itself...
Thanatos ex Machina: Godard Caresses the Dead David Sterritt June 2001 Jean-Luc Godard - Pt 1 The Godardian entanglement of desire, cars, death and narrative, especially in Contempt.
Taste of Kiarostami David Sterritt September 2000 The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered The fact that Kiarostami likes The Godfather is not the only interesting thing we learn from this revealing interview.
Renaldo & Clara Meet John Cage: Aleatory Cinema and the Aesthetics of Incompetence David Sterritt April 2000 Society for Cinema Studies Conference 2000 This paper was presented at the Society for Cinema Studies Conference 2000 at the Congress Plaza Hotel, Chicago on March 11, 2000, as part of the panel I2: Giving Hollywood the Slip(page): The Carnivalesque...
Permanent Ghosts: Cinephilia in the Age of the Internet and Video – Essay 3 David Sterritt March 2000 Cinephilia Special Feature "Cinephilia" has become a surprisingly common term, spanning the generation range from Susan Sontag to Steve Erickson, and while I have no objections to it, I'm not sure it captures my own relationship to the w...
