Andrew Sarris: The Last of a Kind John Conomos December 2012 Feature Articles “If Sarris became the critic I read and reread more than any other, it was perhaps for the sense that at the centre of his writing was a reverence for film history – his kind of film history – as a secret poem ...
Underground/Overground: The 1st Sydney Underground Film Festival John Conomos March 2008 Festival Reports 7–10 September 2007 Last September, from the 7th to the 10th, the Sydney Underground Film Festival was staged at the Factory Theatre, Enmore. As a site the Factory Theatre is ideally located, demogra...
Les Cousins John Conomos October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Les Cousins/The Cousins (1959 France 105 mins) Source: NFSA Prod Co: Ajym Films Prod, Dir: Claude Chabrol Scr: Paul Gégauff, from a story by Chabrol Phot: Henri Decaë Ed: Jacques Gaillard Prod Des: Berna...
Unseen Cinema: An Interview with Bruce Posner John Conomos and Bill Mousoulis July 2002 Festival Reports This interview was conducted on June 18, 2002. One of the two outstanding hallmark programs of this year's Sydney Film Festival was, besides the extraordinary unforgettable Jean Eustache films, “Unseen C...
Only the Cinema John Conomos June 2001 Jean-Luc Godard - Pt 1 Conomos celebrates Godard in relation to his own video work.
47th Sydney Film Festival: Errol Morris and the New Documentary John Conomos July 2000 Festival Reports During the last decade or so, there has been a dramatic interest in the documentary film and video, particularly in the postmodern documentary form as it applies to both theory and production. For too long th...
Truffaut’s The 400 Blows, or the Sea, Antoine, the Sea… John Conomos May 2000 François Truffaut An appreciation of Truffaut the auteur, and especially of his debut film, which launched the career of Jean-Pierre Léaud.
The Vertigo of Time John Conomos May 2000 Conference: For the Love of Fear This paper was presented at the Alfred Hitchcock conference For the Love of Fear convened by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, held from 31 March to 2 April 2000. A shorter version of it appeared in A...
A Top Ten List John Conomos December 1999 Feature Articles A cinephile's musings on the impossible task of nominating 10 films as the best of all time.
