Bridges and Streams: the 7th Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival Maximilian Le Cain December 2013 Festival Reports Returning for its seventh edition after a three-year hiatus, the Greek Film Archives’ Athens Avant-Garde Film Festival proved an ambitiously programmed event taking place over ten days almost entirely within th...
Hungarian Rhapsody: The Experimental Forum at the 49th Thessaloniki International Film Festival Maximilian Le Cain April 2009 Festival Reports 14-23 November 2008 This year saw the addition of an “Experimental Forum” to the Thessaloniki International Film Festival. The Forum’s six screenings, programmed by Vassilis Bourikas, offered a rare and valu...
Deval in ’68: An Interview with Patrick Deval Fergus Daly and Maximilian Le Cain August 2008 Before the Revolution The director of Acéphale and Héraclite l’obscur looks back on the people, films and events that have shaped his work and thoughts.
Snow Drift: The 2007 Lucca Film Festival Maximilian Le Cain March 2008 Festival Reports 28 September – 6 October 2007 The Lucca Film Festival was set up in tribute to the late Italian critic Marco Melani. Run by a group of young cinephiles, this remarkable event is distinguished not only by...
Luc Moullet 6-Film Boxset (Blaq Out) Maximilian Le Cain May 2007 DVD Reviews In the course of Gérard Courant’s hugely engaging 2001 documentary portrait of Luc Moullet, L’Homme des roubines (The Man of the Badlands), Moullet approvingly cites Howard Hawks’ opinion that a filmmaker shoul...
Trajectories of Decay: An Interview with Bill Morrison Maximilian Le Cain and Barry Ronan November 2006 Special Dossiers, The Films of Bill Morrison Bill Morrison is one of the most distinctive voices in the independent film scene. On the occasion of a retrospective of his films at the Cork Film Festival in Ireland, he speaks about the practice of his found-footage æsthetic.
Battle in Heaven: An Interview with Carlos Reygadas Maximilian Le Cain February 2006 Feature Articles One of the more controversial films of 2005, Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas discusses the merits of his film.
Being Michael Brynntrup Maximilian Le Cain July 2005 Experimental Cinema German filmmaker Michael Brynntrup is the subject of his films. Le Cain dissects Brynntrup's self-portrait magnum opus E.C.G. Expositus: The Broadcast and the Artistic Media.
Free, Radical: The 49th Cork Film Festival Maximilian Le Cain February 2005 Festival Reports October 10–17, 2004 Like any substantial film festival, the Cork program presents an imposingly dense block of cinema out of which each viewer must carve his or her own micro-festival defined by the exi...
Support Your Local Filmmaker: Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision by Brad Stevens Maximilian Le Cain February 2005 Book Reviews The '90s was an extraordinary decade for the cinema. As the elephantine decadence of the mainstream increased in grossness, a dizzying constellation of alternatives seemed to spring into existence all over the ...
Love in Flight: François Truffaut’s La Peau Douce Maximilian Le Cain October 2004 Feature Articles To mark the 20th anniversary of Truffaut's death, we present this re-appraisal of one of his finest and most underrated films.
Tarantino and the Vengeful Ghosts of Cinema Maximilian Le Cain July 2004 Beyond the Grave of Genre Kill Bill's battle-of-the-exploitation-genres both fascinates and disappoints.
Before the Revolution: Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers Maximilian Le Cain July 2004 Feature Articles This misunderstood film is not a nostalgic reconstruction of May '68 but a maturing cinephile's reverie on Utopian Possibility.
Monkey Screwball: MGM’s Afrikareise and Other Observations Maximilian Le Cain December 2003 Feature Articles A personal reflection on how one relates to and remembers cinema, Le Cain re-discovers the early MGM Tarzan movies, finding therein a complex interplay of social values and an innocence not found in contemporary cinema.
Dreams of Fassbinder: An Interview with Juliane Lorenz Maximilian Le Cain and Chris Neill December 2003 Feature Articles A distinguished film editor, Juliane Lorenz was closely associated with Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the final years of his life. She shares some memories of working with this "extraordinary" genius.
The Frontiers of Genre and Trance: Five Films by Jess Franco Maximilian Le Cain July 2003 Feature Articles Despite having seen only a portion of Franco's incredibly vast oeuvre, Max's discussion is nevertheless insightful, uncovering the workings of what he refers to as "a paroxysmal non-narrative cinema based on the director's sensations".
Do the Right Thing: the Films of Michael Haneke Maximilian Le Cain May 2003 Michael Haneke Fragmented yet logical, estranging yet compassionate, Haneke's films find new ways to dramatise and diagnose contemporary alienation.
Orphans of the Storm: Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York Maximilian Le Cain March 2003 Film in the Eye of History Max celebrates Scorsese's latest offering, an event in contemporary cinema, in particular its electrifying, visceral re-telling of history.
Interview with Alex Cox and Tod Davies Maximilian Le Cain January 2003 Alex Cox In this freewheeling interview, Cox and Davies discuss Revengers Tragedy, politics and society, Buñuel as a major influence, Cox's acting experience, Highway Patrolman, the Moviedrome series, and their next project.
Revengers Tragedy Maximilian Le Cain January 2003 Alex Cox Max explores Cox's latest effort, a futuristic adaptation of Jacobean drama and disguised social commentary.
Jack Cardiff: Source Of Light Maximilian Le Cain January 2003 Feature Articles Emanating from a personal discussion with Cardiff, Max explores the career, technique and wisdom of a living cinema legend.
Anger, Kenneth Maximilian Le Cain January 2003 Great Directors Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer b. February 3, 1927, Santa Monica, California filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Offering a description of himself for the program of a 1966 screeni...
Cammell, Donald Maximilian Le Cain December 2002 Great Directors b. January 17, 1934, Edinburgh, Scotland d. April 22, 1996, California, USA filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources The only performance that makes it, that really makes it, that m...
The 47th Cork Film Festival – A Report Maximilian Le Cain December 2002 Festival Reports The 47th Cork Film Festival took place between the 6th and 13th of October at three venues around Cork City. Although known mainly as a short film festival, there was so much by way of exciting features tha...
Fresh Blood: Baise-moi Maximilian Le Cain October 2002 Feature Articles Drawing particular comparisons with Godard and Rivette, Max discusses the peculiar cinematic realism and energy of this contemporary cinema landmark.
The Shadow of Time Passing: Ghost World Maximilian Le Cain July 2002 Feature Articles A genuine and poignant portrait of 'being different', Ghost World comes close to being a masterpiece in the tradition of Ozu.
Vigo, Jean Maximilian Le Cain July 2002 Great Directors b. April 26, 1905, Paris, France. d. October 5, 1934, Paris, France. filmography bibliography web resources Of all cinema's illustrious martyr figures, none is more romantic than Jean Vigo, poet ma...
Carmelo Bene: A Short Obituary Maximilian Le Cain May 2002 Feature Articles Max pays tribute to an eccentric Italian filmmaker and theatre director, actor and writer.
Storytime: The Royal Tenenbaums Maximilian Le Cain May 2002 Feature Articles Wes Anderson's stylised soap opera, The Royal Tenenbaums, tells of prodigal patriarch Royal Tenenbaum's (Gene Hackman) attempts to reconcile himself with his family. He walked out on them some 20 years befo...
Tarkovsky, Andrei Maximilian Le Cain May 2002 Great Directors Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky, sometimes Andrey Tarkovski, Tarkowski, Tarkovskij b. April 4, 1932. Zavrazhe, Ivanono, Russia (now Belorus). d. December 28, 1986. Paris, France. filmography bibliograp...
In Dreams: A Review of Mulholland Drive Maximilian Le Cain March 2002 David Lynch and Mulholland Drive Making sense of its narrative shards, Max offers an insightful and poignant reading of Mulholland Drive, Lynch's latest cinematic rendering of troubled identity and subjectivity.
Bruno Dumont (Dis Voir, 2001) by Philippe Tancelin, Sébastien Ors and Valérie Jouve Maximilian Le Cain March 2002 Book Reviews Though Dumont's current filmography comprises only two films, Max argues a book length study is certainly not premature.
Visconti’s Cinema of Twilight Maximilian Le Cain December 2001 Feature Articles A detailed examination of Visconti's later period films, their majestic style and personal resonance.
A Report on the 46th Cork Film Festival Maximilian Le Cain November 2001 Festival Reports Stopping off in Ireland: perceptive comments on films playing at Cork.
Identity in the Films of Cassavetes Maximilian Le Cain September 2001 John Cassavetes Cain traces the rise of character-studies and the theme of identity and performance in Cassavetes' late phase.
A Tale of Two Conferences: For Ever Godard and Garrel Éternel Maximilian Le Cain July 2001 Festival Reports For Ever Godard, June 21 - 24, Tate Modern, London Garrel Éternel, June 26 - 27, Irish Film Centre, Dublin "Jean-Luc Godard? Is he still working? I thought... well, I thought he was dead." It's a depres...