Welcome to Issue 106 the editors August 2023 Editorial It's a beautiful day on the unceded lands of the Kulin nations. The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) is in full swing and the climate crisis has delivered some sunshine on the land down under this w...
Films of the Queer Film Festival Stuart Richards & Antoine Damiens August 2023 Pride on the Margins This article has been peer reviewed Queer cinema exists on a spectrum, with films that have crossover appeal to mainstream audiences (such as Portra...
Embracing the Queer Film Festival: Interview with Everett Lewis Gary M. Kramer August 2023 Pride on the Margins Unapologetically queer writer/director Everett Lewis burst on the film scene in 1990 — one year before the “New Queer Cinema” movement — with his grit...
Up from the Depths – Rediscovering Il Mare David Melville August 2023 Pride on the Margins Oh, the soft sound of rain On the ground, on the town. For the heart in its pain Oh, the sound of the rain! - Paul Verlaine, “ Il pleure dans mo...
Mapping an Emotional Geography in Farewell, My Concubine and East Palace, West Palace: Imaginary Queer Space and Beijing Queer Film Festival Nashuyuan Wang August 2023 Pride on the Margins With the Reform and Opening Up of the late 1980s, China saw an increase in the visibility of queer representation. Chinese queer cinema in the early 1...
Archival Traces: Trans Women in European Film Christopher Wolff August 2023 Pride on the Margins While promoting her film Monica (Andrea Pallaoro, 2022) at the Venice Film Festival, Hollywood actress Trace Lysette spoke about the legacy of transfe...
Viewing Daughters of Darkness through the lens of Queer Fear Samantha Broadhead August 2023 Pride on the Margins This article has been peer reviewed Leeds International Film Festival (LIFF) was founded in 1987 and is supported by Leeds City Council, West Yorkshi...
Meet Cute in the Margins: Establishing Gay Community Contexts in the Gay Romcom Damien O'Meara August 2023 Pride on the Margins This article has been peer reviewed Abstract This essay argues that the gay romcom is a genre that modifies the generic conventions of the mainstrea...
On Refusal, Negativity, and Hustler White Kyler Chittick August 2023 Pride on the Margins This article has been peer reviewed The oeuvre of the Canadian icon and “reluctant pornographer” Bruce LaBruce is largely absent from both academic a...
The Dialectic of Grey and Burgundy: Surrealism as Film Form and Queer Viewing Experience of The Duke of Burgundy Heidi Ka-Sin Lee August 2023 Pride on the Margins This article has been peer reviewed Sadomasochism has been a largely heteronormatively perceived subject in mainstream cinema. But then, The Duke of ...
Film Criticism and the Grotesque: A Very American Tár & an Oz Elvis Laleen Jayamanne August 2023 Feature Articles Cate Blanchett: “There’s so much to talk about.” Todd Field: “There’s a lot to talk about.” CB: “In fact, it’s very hard to pin the movie down, whic...
The aesthetics and politics of melodrama, reconsidered: Delitto d’amore / Crime of Love Thomas Austin August 2023 Feature Articles This article has been peer reviewed Two lovers walk in silence along a riverbank. They are framed in a long shot, on a path bordered by green grasses...
Towards A Domestic Cinephilia: The 24th Jeonju International Film Festival Marc Raymond August 2023 Festival Reports The Jeonju International Film Festival has gone through a transformation in its now 24-year history, one that has some overlap with the broader moveme...
Direct Cinephilia: Play-Doc 2023 Fedor Tot August 2023 Festival Reports A wise man - and a festival director to boot - once said to me, “Film festivals are not about the films. Neither are they about the Q&As with the ...
Stardust chronicle, a report from the 69th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen Arindam Sen August 2023 Festival Reports To begin with, a brief note on the possibilities or impossibilities of film criticism within the ambit of festival reports. I have not written one in ...
Rising from the ashes: The 47th Hong Kong International Film Festival Maja Korbecka August 2023 Festival Reports After three years of pandemic-related hiatus, Hong Kong International Film Festival returns to its regular late March/early April dates. The festival ...
The 22nd Transilvania International Film Festival: Open-world Stimulations Peter Virginas August 2023 Festival Reports The Transilvania International Film Festival has taken place since the early 2000s in Cluj-Napoca, one of the most significant towns in Romania. Slowl...
Searching for Eros: the 76th Cannes Film Festival Savina Petkova August 2023 Festival Reports For some, their first experience of attending the Cannes film festival is love at first sight: the slow-burning infatuation with the idea of sharing t...
Prismatic Ground 2023: Labour Seen Will DiGravio August 2023 Festival Reports The first full day of Prismatic Ground began on an overcast morning in Harlem, Manhattan, at the Maysles Documentary Center, following a sold out, ope...
“Can You Prefigure Reality?”: A Conversation with Christoph Hochhäusler on his new film, Bis ans Ende der Nacht (Till the End of the Night) Marco Abel August 2023 Interviews Christoph Hochhäusler’s noirish Bis ans Ende der Nacht (Till the End of the Night) premiered on the final day of the 73rd Berlin International Film Fe...
The Klezmer Project (Adentro Mío Estoy Bailanado): A Conversation with Leandro Koch and Paloma Schachmann Maria Giovanna Vagenas August 2023 Interviews In the maze of a major festival event such as the Berlinale, The Klezmer Project, a debut feature by Argentinian filmmakers Paloma Schachmann and Lean...
Chunky Shrapnel: A Conversation with John Angus Stewart C.S. Harper August 2023 Interviews Few concert films have stood the test of time in the way that Chunky Shrapnel (John Angus Stewart, 2020) has. Originally set to premiere at the Astor ...
A Cinematic Sojourn to the Land of Awe and Astonishment: Interview with Laura Citarella about El Pampero Cine and Trenque Lauquen Hamed Sarrafi August 2023 Interviews In the enigmatic realm of Trenque Lauquen, Laura Citarella brings to fruition the very essence of El Pampero Cine's bold cinematic vision. This latest...
Stanwyck, Barbara Eloise Ross August 2023 Great Actors Before beginning, I offer the disclaimer that I am not an unbiased writer of this Great Actors profile. I have a tattoo of Barbara Stanwyck. It’s an i...
The Rebellious and the Rigorous: The Red Years of Cahiers du cinéma (1968-1973), by Daniel Fairfax Tony McKibbin August 2023 Book Reviews There are so many ways into Daniel Fairfax’s vast and very impressive account of Cahiers du cinéma during the properly tumultuous period between 1968 ...
A Journey through Serge Daney’s Cinema House Emmanuel Bonin August 2023 Book Reviews In a response to The Independent’s obituary of Serge Daney dated June 1992, Louis Skorecki wrote: “He was the only film critic of real value in Franc...
It Was Ildikó Enyedi’s 20th Century, and We Just Lived In It: My Twentieth Century (1989) Cerise Howard July 2023 CTEQ Annotations on Film Dualities and parallels abound in Ildikó Enyedi’s remarkable Az én XX. századom (My Twentieth Century, 1989), a singularly playful, magical realist, r...
Of What is Merata Mita/Mauri the Name? Simon Sigley July 2023 CTEQ Annotations on Film Mauri (1988) is the only feature-length fiction film that Merata Mita (1942–2010) made across her decades-long engagement with audio-visual narrative....
In Dreams: Ildikó Enyedi’s On Body and Soul (2017) Adrian Danks July 2023 CTEQ Annotations on Film Coming almost 30 years after Ildikó Enyedi’s extraordinary breakthrough feature, Az én XX. századom (My Twentieth Century, 1989), and 18 years since h...
