Feature Articles

This article has been peer reviewed. It was the winter of 1637 and tulipmania was in full swing. In Holland, the price of tulips – an exotic new ex...

In France, Dreams, Sex and Love came out over three weeks in the summer of 2025. I was like a restless teenager in my discovery of these intricate, su...

The 2020s have seen a renaissance of radical politics from its neoliberal slumber. In a survey by the right-wing Cato Institute, 62% of American adult...

Susan Bee’s painting “Pickpocket” (2013), like many of her paintings – there are five in the “Pickpocket” series alone – is based on a film still. In ...

An expanded version of this article was originally published in French in the peer-reviewed journal Images Secondes. Film can control not only what...

Introduction: A Night at the Movies Imagine it's February 1958. You're in Phnom Penh and you want to go to the movies. Which film would you choose? ...

Lorcan Finnegan’s The Surfer (2024) is not really a surf film. It is a psychedelic horror that transposes the 1970s Australian “Outback Noir” traditio...

The Shock of the New In Melbourne 1906, a practically new type of film premiered to Australian audiences: The Story of the Kelly Gang (Charles Tait, ...

1. Introduction In Krzysztof Kieślowski’s cinema, action is often postponed, suspended, or rendered ethically impossible. Characters wait, for a tra...

Introduction Alison Rudd states in her provocatively titled essay Australian Gothic: The Uncanny and Abject Hauntings of Lost Innocence and Guilt, “F...

Few collaborations in cinema feel as oddly inevitable as the one that emerged (without ever being formal) between Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Leonard...

The final eight minutes of Michelangelo Antonioni’s L’Eclisse (1961) present a horrifying vision: the film’s world bereft of its characters. When Pier...

When the Hot Priest (Andrew Scott) whispered “kneel” through the lattice of a confession booth in Fleabag (Harry Bradbeer, 2016-2019), audiences lost ...

To accompany this essay, read Hamed Sarrafi’s ‘Part 2’ interview with Mariano Llinás published in this issue.  The difficulty of writing about Mari...

I At the origin of all our lives is the mystery of what came before: the circumstances and events that led to our arrival. This mystery remains. It i...

Following his international reputation established with Lubian yecan (Kaili Blues, 2015) and Diqiu zuihou de yewan (Long Day’s Journey into Night, 201...

In the perpetual domestic debate on the state of Dutch fiction film and the conditions for filmmaking in general, we keep on seeing the return of more...

Maria Plyta is the first Greek female director. She helmed her first film in 1950 and directed her swan song in 1970. She worked within the commercial...

Ailleurs, partout (Everywhere, anywhere), 2020, 1h 27m Director(s): Isabelle Ingold, Vivianne Perelmuter Les Recommencements (New Beginnings), 202...

At the release of Justine Triet’s acclaimed film Anatomy of a Fall (2023), child actor Milo Machado-Graner was praised for an exceptionally emotive pe...

Set in the sun-scorched interiors of rural Tamil Nadu, Pebbles (P.S. Vinothraj, 2021) explores the emotional and psychological toll of surviving in an...

Film is a sequence of photographs. Any two individual cells in a reel may resemble each other. But when shown in rapid sequence, they reveal movement....

Halina Reijn is the first Dutch filmmaker to have a breakthrough in Hollywood since Paul Verhoeven, who made six feature films in America between 1987...

Cinema has long served as a battleground for political resistance, particularly in the works of filmmakers who have faced persecution, censorship, and...