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...
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 ...
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...
In Memoriam: Sarah Maldoror (July 19, 1929–April 13, 2020) Masha Shpolberg July 2020 Feature Articles Some filmmakers make their mark with a searing unity of vision. Film after film, they impose their inner landscapes or, perhaps, their unique way of s...
Founding Father: A Tribute to Thomas Elsaesser (1943–2019) Daniel Fairfax July 2020 Feature Articles Thomas Elsaesser, a truly titanic figure in film studies, passed away unexpectedly at the age of 76 on December 4, 2019, while on a teaching assignmen...
The 21st century plague: Cinema in the age of COVID-19 Wheeler Winston Dixon April 2020 Feature Articles We’ve seen this scenario before, but only in the cinema: a mysterious plague, for which there is no cure, suddenly appears out of nowhere and ravages ...
And Then We Danced: Queer sounds and movement Stuart Richards April 2020 Feature Articles And Then We Danced had its premiere in Georgia on 8th December 2019. I got to first experience this tender film at the Melbourne International Film Fe...
