Editorial

Dear Readers: welcome to Issue 111 of Senses of Cinema, a journal in which the serious and eclectic discussion of moving images past, present, and future never dies, no matter the historical ruptures all around...

Welcome to Issue 110 of the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema, packed as always with incisive contributions on moving images historical and contemporary, popular and underrecognized. At its cinephili...

Welcome, dear readers, to Issue 109 of the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema. True to our spirit, the contributions herein are wide-ranging, sharp and timely, starting with a 16-text dossier (guest-edit...

Welcome to Issue 108 of Senses of Cinema, where we begin the year by looking backwards. Our World Poll brings together film-goers from all corners of the globe to reflect on what cinema stood out in 2023. Amid ...

As we move through the spooky season to summer blockbusters, the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema continues. Issue 107 covers Senses of Cinema founding editor, Bill Mousoulis’, latest film, My Darling ...

It's a beautiful day on the unceded lands of the Kulin nations. The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is in full swing and the climate crisis has delivered some sunshine on the land down under this w...

Fresh from the lands of the Kulin Nations, welcome to Issue 105 of Senses of Cinema! Guest editor Xiang Fan has curated a dossier on Cinema and Piracy that honours the diversity of filmgoing experiences across ...

As is customary for the sensible folks at Senses of Cinema, we begin the new year by looking backwards. Our annual World Poll invites authors and audiences to reflect on their cinematic highlights of the previo...

This All Hallows Eve, Senses of Cinema is publishing our first sustained inquiry into nonfiction cinema from the territories of former Yugoslavia. At a time when new nationalisms are again on the horizon, what ...

This MIFFmas, we’re bringing you two dossiers derived from what’s on offer at the 70th edition of the Melbourne International Film Festival. Guest editors John Edmond and Alison Taylor cover the breadth and dep...

After 101 Issues and 23 years of publications, Senses of Cinema takes a deep dive into Indian popular cinema, the world’s largest film industry: Bollywood. While Bombay cinema is generally ignored by critics in...

In 1999, the then 36-year-old Melbourne-based independent filmmaker Bill Mousoulis hatched an idea for an online film journal. The notion of starting a film journal that would purely reside on the Internet was ...

As we write the Cannes film festival has just ended and triumphantly claimed itself a “return to cinema!”. 2021, which is turning out to be a lot more like 2020 than we were expecting, is certainly banging out ...

As we worked on issue 98 of Senses of Cinema from our lounge rooms, home offices and dinner tables across two continents, there was a sudden realisation among the editorial team: it has been a year since the CO...

Welcome to this year’s first issue of Senses of Cinema. Who could have imagined that a mere twelve months after we last published a World Poll the planet would be a very different place. The COVID-19 pandemic w...

Welcome everyone to another issue of Senses of Cinema, our last for 2020. The year has certainly not panned out the way anyone could have predicted 12 months ago. The COVID pandemic is still raging across the w...

As COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc on lives and societies around the world, the likes of which we have never seen (except in a disaster movie or dystopian fiction), we wanted to investigate further the impact...

In the face of mass death and economic devastation on a worldwide scale, matters of art and entertainment may seem trifling. But the COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound impact on the cinema. With theatres shut...

It’s a new year and a new decade, and for Senses of Cinema this milestone also represents the dawn of our third decade. In this issue, we continue one of our longest and most popular traditions: the annual worl...

This issue marks the 20th anniversary of Senses of Cinema, and we are pleased to present to you a bumper issue with a full range of film writing, provocative ideas and interviews and reports from around the wor...

This being our mid-year issue, we are thrilled to be presenting another dossier in conjunction with a film program devoted to a great contemporary film auteur, this time Peter Strickland, screening at the Melbo...

Welcome to Issue 90 of Senses of Cinema. Our 90th issue, and the first for 2019, is bountiful, to say the least. Though her cinema output is small (so far), Valérie Massadian is, in our estimation, one of th...

Spanish version / Versión en Español. Icónica. This is a very special issue for Senses of Cinema, as it marks our first international collaboration with a fellow cinema journal, as well as our first joint bi...

In the popular imagination, modern French cinema began around 1959 and hit its peak in the 1960s, with the revolutionary filmic works of Cahiers du cinéma's critics-turned-directors and their Left Bank contempo...

For so many cinephiles, our love for cinema is also wrapped up in our personal biographies: films watched are difficult to disassociate from the people we were when we watched them, and returning to the same wo...

To coincide with the Wonderland exhibition at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image running in Melbourne from 5 April to 7 October, we are thrilled to have collaborated with ACMI on a dossier focusing on t...

Hello and welcome to Issue 85 of Senses of Cinema. Tying in with the centenary of the fall of the Romanov dynasty in Russia and the ensuing October revolution, the centrepiece of this issue is our blockbuster d...

Welcome to Issue 84 of Senses of Cinema, where we proudly once again have the privilege of sharing a range of writing on cinema from around the world, with our focus as always as much on contemporary cinema as ...

Welcome to issue 83 of Senses of Cinema, where we feature two exciting dossiers. The first focuses on the present state of cinema studies. “Contemporary Cinema Studies: A Discipline with a Future?” includes int...

Welcome to Issue 82 of Senses of Cinema. To begin 2017, we decided to celebrate films that turn 50 this year in a bumper dossier we've simply titled 1967: Love Letters. As the title indicates, this is not an at...

Welcome to the final issue of Senses of Cinema for 2016. From Jerry Lewis to American Extreme cinema, Twin Peaks to British Experimental filmmaking, and Abel Ferrara to Jacques Rivette, the spotlights we have p...

"New directions” is certainly a key term in Issue 80 of Senses of Cinema. In our dossier on “American Extreme”, we are joined by guest co-editor Jack Sargeant: not, in this case, to make ‘sense’ of these fil...

This absolutely bumper issue of Senses of Cinema not only adheres to our long tradition at looking back at film history and forward to its exciting futures, but also – in something of a first for Senses – consi...

As we reflect on the first few months of 2016, it’s already been an emotionally bumpy ride. With the passing of Chantal Akerman - and guest editor Bérénice Reynaud’s memorial dossier in Issue 77 - still fresh, ...

Celebrating, appraising and dissecting the work of film artists is the great joy of Senses of Cinema. But when such work is demanded by the passing of a major figure, it is overlain by an inescapable melancholy...

What is Asia? It seems a simple question, yet the answers vary depending whom – and when – you are asking. Our focus on documentary in Asia in this issue is not, to quote one of our contributors, intended to su...