Unearthing a Forgotten Television Work by Jean-Luc Godard Michael Witt July 2020 Feature Articles In 2016 I was conducting research for an article about a forgotten experimental montage film that Jean-Luc Godard had created and screened at the Rott...
Recollections of Coproducing Two Videos by Jean-Luc Godard for Prime-Time on Télévision Suisse Romande: Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie)) (1981) and Scénario du film Passion (1982) Raymond Vouillamoz July 2020 Feature Articles Spécial Cinéma Spécial Cinéma was a weekly programme on Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR, public broadcaster in French-speaking Switzerland). First bro...
“Reality Is Always Magic”: Experience (Abbas Kiarostami, 1973) John Hughes July 2020 Feature Articles When Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami unexpectedly passed away in 2016, he was deeply mourned by lovers of cinema. Martin Scorsese gave voice to the ...
Hidden Images: The Disappearance and Re-appearance of the Leader Lady Wendy Haslem July 2020 Feature Articles This article has been peer-reviewed. I am in a darkened back room of The Australian Mediatheque watching one of the 128 films that were donated to ...
Eisenstein as Curator Oksana Bulgakowa July 2020 Feature Articles Over the last 25 years we have witnessed a trend: films moved from the black boxes of movie theatres into the white cubes of galleries and museums; fi...
Soul-Surviving: Blinded by the Light Bill Mousoulis July 2020 Feature Articles Can a “feel-good” mainstream film ever be considered a great film? I think it can, but I don’t think Blinded by the Light (Gurinder Chadha, 2019) quit...
Pictures of You: Allison Chhorn’s The Plastic House Louise Sheedy July 2020 Feature Articles Early shots of Allison Chhorn’s The Plastic House (2019) tell a grim story. It’s dark. Headlights make a cemetery almost visible through a rained-on w...
Werner Hochbaum’s Forgotten Austrian Masterwork: Visual Experimentation, Proto-noir and the Hitchcock Connection in The Eternal Mask (1935) Robert von Dassanowsky July 2020 Feature Articles Since the clerico-authoritarian regime, often referred to as ‘Austrofascism’ (1933–38), which arose through Chancellor Dollfuss and his Fatherland Fro...
“To All Beautiful Losers”: Political Pessimism and the Hong Kong Sports Movie Brian Hu July 2020 Feature Articles This article has been peer-reviewed. In the sports drama Dim ng bou (Weeds on Fire, Chan Chi-fat, 2016), high school principal Lo Kwong-Fai propose...
Being There Without Being There in the Era of COVID-19: A Filmmaker’s Perspective Salvador Carrasco July 2020 Feature Articles Under the current restrictions of lockdown and quarantine, in which we are being asked not to leave our homes, “hands-on filmmaking” has become virtua...
An Ambiguous Gesture: Judith Anderson Turns the Table Murray Pomerance July 2020 Feature Articles Windows or Doors: Doors and Windows John Szarkowski’s 1978 show (and book) Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960 explored the movement...
Ennio Morricone and the Stuff of Cinema Dan Golding July 2020 Feature Articles There are those who write music for the movies, and then there are those whose music reshapes the stuff of cinema. Ennio Morricone, who died in July t...
