Feature Articles

In the midst of the present devastating economic and social planetary pandemic, the Collectif Jeune Cinéma (CJC) is celebrating its 50th anniversary o...

Few are so beholden to normalcy as the provocateur. Whether satirically or advantageously, the transgressor fanatically attests to the strength of a m...

Molly Haskell describes La Vérité (The Truth, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2019) as “an anxious and lyrical family drama,” noting how it presents “the way in wh...

There is the kind of cinema which reassures people that the world is as they prefer to think it is. That there is some kind of meaning and sense to li...

George Romero reimagined the zombie movie when he co-wrote and directed Night of the Living Dead (1968). This was certainly not the first movie about ...

Vanley Burke’s photograph Boy with Flag, Winford in Handsworth Park, 1970 appears in films by two of the most important figures in British cinema of t...

To my daughter Cassandra Before the first consumer-grade videotapes came out in the mid-1970s, it stands to reason that movies were not that readil...

According to legend, a mermaid once surfaced in the Vistula river and was captured by a traveling merchant. When she sang out in distress, a group of ...

It begins with a landscape. The cinematic depictions of the Sonoran desert in El Mar La Mar (2017) and A Shape of Things to Come (2020), both co-direc...

WHOEVER leads a solitary life and yet now and then wants to attach himself somewhere….. he will not be able to manage for long without a window lookin...

The first thing you see in Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1966 film, Le Samouraï, is an apartment. It’s a bare studio, undecorated and almost wholly bereft of...

i: ceaseless calls for impossible devotions But my tendency, body and mind, is to make it. To get there, from anywhere, going wherever, always. By ...

In the middle of an empty parking lot, a lonely snack stall promises roadside indulgence. Its red and white marquee speaks of sunnier days, seaside va...

Recently I saw what will most likely be my favourite film of the past year and foreseeable future, especially in light of the pandemic: The Painted Bi...

Previously unseen materials donated by the Stanley Kubrick estate to the London University of the Arts Special Collections Archive sheds new light on ...

“…I am dispended”, says Dujuan Hoosan, the Arrente/Garrwa little Aboriginal boy at the centre of the documentary, In My Blood it Runs (2020). “… suspe...

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...

Spécial Cinéma Spécial Cinéma was a weekly programme on Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR, public broadcaster in French-speaking Switzerland). First bro...

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 ...

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...

Since the clerico-authoritarian regime, often referred to as ‘Austrofascism’ (1933–38), which arose through Chancellor Dollfuss and his Fatherland Fro...

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...

Windows or Doors: Doors and Windows John Szarkowski’s 1978 show (and book) Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960 explored the movement...

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...