For Bérénice Michelle Carey November 2023 Obituary Some people leave a pronounced mark on you in life, and Bérénice is that person for me. During my 20 years at Senses of Cinema, I worked with her regularly and came to think of her as a friend. After hearing of...
Man of Cinema: Jean-Louis Comolli (July 30, 1941–May 19, 2022) Daniel Fairfax July 2022 Obituary Critic, film theorist and filmmaker, Jean-Louis Comolli died in his adoptive home city of Paris on May 19, 2022, at the age of 80. An editor of Cahiers du Cinéma from 1965 to 1973, his international reputation ...
Lesley Stern: Outlaw of Genre Marion May Campbell May 2021 Obituary She charges space, she rakes and ruffles her cropped and bleached hair, her dark eyes narrow as her thought uncoils with the lasso of smoke from her cigarette, and she moves, lean and feline-slinky in her riot ...
Two or Three Things Tom Knew About: In Memoriam Tom O’Regan (1956-2020) Ben Goldsmith January 2021 Obituary Tom O’Regan, much loved scholar and author of the ground-breaking book Australian National Cinema, died in July 2020 after a short illness. Tom made extraordinary contributions to media, communications and cult...
Founding Father: A Tribute to Thomas Elsaesser (1943–2019) Daniel Fairfax July 2020 Obituary 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 assignment in Beijing. His death casts a long shadow over the field. ...
The lecturer’s legacy: In memory of Professor Peter Wollen Victoria Duckett January 2020 Obituary Peter Wollen, the famous British scholar, essayist, screenwriter, filmmaker, theorist and curator, has died after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Peter was my lecturer, PhD supervisor, mentor and friend during ...
In Memory of A.K. André Habib December 2016 Obituary, The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered Abbas Kiarostami’s death was announced on July 4. The news reached you during the summer holidays, somewhat out of kilter with the time of year. You almost could have ignored it. But then, all of a sudden, you ...
Creator of Sounds as Shapes: Andrew Keith Plain (1953 – 2013) Helen Macallan March 2014 Obituary Andrew Plain who died at the age of 60 in Sydney in December, gained his national and international reputation as one of Australia’s most distinguished film sound designers because of the high quality and innov...
In Memoriam: Miklós Jancsó (1921-2014) Christopher Mildren March 2014 Obituary The great Hungarian director Miklós Jancsó has died at the age of 92, leaving behind one of the more indisputably unique bodies of work in cinema history. Over the course of fifty years, Jancsó’s body of work r...
“I have this special issue of Cahiers du cinéma in front of me”: Remembering Claudine Paquot (1951-2011) Bérénice Reynaud October 2011 Obituary Framed as an introduction to her translation of Serge Toubiana’s tribute, Bérénice Reynaud pays homage to Claudine Paquot, long time head-of-publications at Cahiers.
Claudine Paquot, My Friend for Thirty Years Serge Toubiana October 2011 Obituary The former editor of Cahiers du cinéma pays tribute to his colleague and friend.
