Trafic at 30, End of a Film Journal Emmanuel Bonin July 2022 Book Reviews Being a French speaker brings many advantages in this world, but few so dear to my heart as being able to read through any release of Trafic, the cine...
How to Do Things with Camera Movement: The Lure of the Image: Epistemic Fantasies of the Moving Camera, by Daniel Morgan Kyle Barrowman May 2022 Book Reviews To say that a book devoted to analysing camera movement is an exemplary instance of ordinary language philosophy may raise a few eyebrows. Indeed, it ...
The Depths of Empiricism: Werner Herzog: Ecstatic Truth and Other Useless Conquests, by Kristoffer Hegnsvad Tony McKibbin January 2022 Book Reviews A beautifully presented account of Herzog’s work, Kristoffer Hegnsvad’s book finds its purpose in both its design and in its sense of affiliation. Heg...
Hollywood, Reinvented: Shooting Midnight Cowboy: Art, Sex, Loneliness, Liberation, and the Making of a Dark Classic, by Glenn Frankel Elroy Rosenberg January 2022 Book Reviews “It’s my idea,” said Ken Kesey while held in the visitation of a California jail in 1966, “that it’s time to graduate from what has been going on, to ...
Rhythm and Light: Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gift in the Films of Pabst, Parajanov, Kubrick, and Ruiz, by Laleen Jayamanne Steven Shaviro July 2021 Book Reviews Laleen Jayamanne’s beautiful new book, Poetic Cinema and the Spirit of the Gify, enlivens the spirits of its readers every bit as much as the movies i...
West Side Story Redux: West Side Story: The Jets, the Sharks, and the Making of a Classic, by Richard Barrios Adrian Schober July 2021 Book Reviews Later this year will mark the 60th anniversary of the release of West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins, 1961), the landmark American music...
Foraging in a Transforming Mediascape: Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India, by Lalitha Gopalan Megan Carrigy July 2021 Book Reviews In Cinemas Dark and Slow in Digital India Lalitha Gopalan brings to life the complexities of contemporary independent feature production in India. She...
Time Machines: After Kubrick: A Filmmaker’s Legacy, edited by Jeremi Szaniawski Joy McEntee May 2021 Book Reviews Interviewed in Jeremi Szaniawski’s After Kubrick: a Filmmaker’s Legacy, Gaspar Noé is asked about his relationship to Stanley Kubrick: I am a dwarf ....
The Politics of Ambiguity: After Authority: Global Art Cinema and Political Transition, by Kalling Heck Jennifer Ruth May 2021 Book Reviews When Mao died in 1976, the Great Proletarian Chinese Cultural Revolution drew to a close and a paralysed film industry began to function again. For a ...
Revising a Concept: Cinema Expanded: Avant-Garde Film in the Age of Intermedia, by Jonathan Walley Holly Willis January 2021 Book Reviews “Expanded cinema” as a term is invitingly grandiose, connoting expansion, breadth, inclusivity, even possibility. Something bigger. Something better. ...
When Everything Seemed Possible: London’s Arts Labs and the 60s Avant-Garde by David Curtis Wheeler Winston Dixon January 2021 Book Reviews In the 1960s, the experimental cinema scene was exploding on a world wide basis. In the era before digital technology, cellphones and email, film was ...
“Memories Are Made of This”: Juliane Lorenz and Lothar Schirmer’s R.W. Fassbinder: Film Stills, 1966-1982 Eric Gudas January 2021 Book Reviews Rainer Werner Fassbinder, who would have turned 75 this past May, used the frames of the movie and television screen to create a pervasive sense of en...
