The Black And White Epic No Budget Digital Feature Film Rob Nilsson July 2021 Feature Articles When I think about contemporary American cinema there are things to be thankful for and, as with cell phone addiction and social media mania, a good d...
A Cocktail of Lunacy and Love: Poetic Dimensions in Fabrice Du Welz’s “Ardennes” Trilogy Peter Verstraten July 2021 Feature Articles After a modest attempt to create a national film industry in bilingual Belgium had run aground in the 1950s, Belgian cinema was split into two separat...
Collectif Jeune Cinéma at 50: A Subjective Conversation Raphaël Bassan, Théo Deliyannis and Viviane Vagh July 2021 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...
Favouritism In The Field of Vision: Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite Cam Scott July 2021 Feature Articles Few are so beholden to normalcy as the provocateur. Whether satirically or advantageously, the transgressor fanatically attests to the strength of a m...
Too Soon, Too Late: The Temporality of Ecological Grief in Cinema Kasia Van Schaik July 2021 Feature Articles “Do you burst into tears at the mere mention of the shrinking Amazon rainforests?” the article I’m scrolling through over breakfast wants to know. “Do...
Relative Truth: The Truth and Invented Memories Linda Ehrlich July 2021 Feature Articles 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...
A Boundless Experience: Mark La Rosa’s Boundless David King July 2021 Feature Articles 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...
Dreams of Italy’s Past: Giuseppe Rotunno’s Cinematography in Amarcord and The Leopard Mark Lager May 2021 Feature Articles Giuseppe Rotunno (born March 19, 1923) passed away at the age of 97 on February 7, 2021. Rotunno was a cinematographer whose eye for the frame was esp...
George Romero’s Zombie Movies: The Fragmentation of America Robert Alpert May 2021 Feature Articles 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 ...
Boy with Flag and Black British experience in Akomfrah’s Handsworth Songs and McQueen’s Red, White and Blue Thomas Austin May 2021 Feature Articles 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...
“Cinematic Comrades”: Bong Joon-ho’s Auteurism and Song Kang-ho’s Performance Nandana Bose May 2021 Feature Articles “For filmmakers, it’s simple, we just want to work with great actors and Song Kang-ho is such a great actor that it’s fearful how good he is…” Bong J...
Luis Buñuel’s El in the Face of Cultural Appropriation and the #MeToo Movement: A Filmmaker’s Reappraisal Salvador Carrasco May 2021 Feature Articles 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...
