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...
Reclaiming the Warsaw Mermaids: Female Agency in ‘80s Communist Poland and The Lure Jessica Hudson May 2021 Feature Articles 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 ...
Listening Across Difference: Feminist Conversation, Sisterhood, and the ‘70s Irene Lusztig May 2021 Feature Articles “This magazine is not meant to preach to the converted – it’s for everyone,” editor Mary Peacock grandly announced to the L.A. Times in a 1971 article...
Deserted: Notes on J.P. Sniadecki and Lisa Malloy’s Speculative Borderlands Documentary A Shape of Things to Come Jay Kuehner May 2021 Feature Articles 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...
The Ontology of Windows and Cinema in the Pandemic: e-flux and International Short Film Festival Oberhausen’s Film Series 2020 Shekhar Deshpande May 2021 Feature Articles 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...
Baron Lands: Environmental Upheaval and the Texas Oil Movie Adam Wyatt May 2021 Feature Articles The first gusher in Texas erupted over Spindletop, Beaumont in 1901 and took prospectors and engineers two full days to cap. By day ten, Spindletop pr...
Criminals Against Decoration: Modernism as a Heist Andy Reischling October 2020 Feature Articles 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...
