Introduction the editors January 2024 Editorial Welcome to Issue 108 of Senses of Cinema, where we begin the year by looking backwards. Our World Poll brings together film-goers from all corners of the globe to reflect on what cinema stood out in 2023. Amid ...
World Poll 2023 – Part 1 the editors January 2024 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 1: Jacob Agius Antti Alanen Hussain Al-Dubaisi Francisco Algarín Navarro Julien Allen Michael J. Anderson Dan Auiler Swapnil Azad Jessica Balanzategui Martyn Bamber Jennifer Lynde Bar...
World Poll 2023 – Part 2 the editors January 2024 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: José Cabrera Betancort Thomas Caldwell Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Kevin Cassidy Guilherme Cavalcanti Daryl Chin Kristen Marie Coleman Jesús Cortés Jordan Cronk Joe CruzBrian...
World Poll 2023 – Part 3 the editors January 2024 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 3: John Edmond William Edwards Geronimo Elortegui Cristóbal Escobar Javier H. Estrada Adalberto Fonkén Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Simon Foster Giampiero Frasca Cynthia FuchsFlora Georgiou...
World Poll 2023 – Part 4 the editors January 2024 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 4: Michael Heath Maggie Hennefeld Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee Hill Kierran A. HornerBrian Hu Christoph Huber Darik Janik Paul Jeffery Matthew Jordan Michael Heath Screenwrite...
World Poll 2023 – Part 5 the editors January 2024 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 5: George Kapaklis Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney Aryan Tauqeer Khawaja Simon Killen Rainer Knepperges Gary M. Kramer Jan Křipač Jay KuehnerMark Lager Eugenia Lai Reynaldo Lastre ...
World Poll 2023 – Part 6 the editors January 2024 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 6: Josh B Mabe Mattia Magi Bob Manning Miguel Marías Jack McCulloch Duncan McLeanTim McQueen Adrian D. Mendizabal Jamie Mendonça Stefano Miraglia Olaf Möller Josh B Mabe A libr...
World Poll 2023 – Part 7 the editors January 2024 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 7: Jayanth Naga Sai Pasupulati Peter Nagels Virat Nehru Boris Nelepo Andy Norton Veton Nurkollari Gabrielle O’Brien Darragh O’Donoghue Wilfred Okiche SvenErik Olsen Andreea Pătru Ant...
World Poll 2023 – Part 8 the editors January 2024 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 8: Maria San Filippo Rowena Santos Aquino Jack Sargeant Hamed Sarrafi Christine Sathiah Andrea Schmidt Dr James Slaymaker Valerie Soe Öykü Sofuoğlu Karina Solórzano Mark Spratt Vedan...
Film Genre Now: RMIT University Student Dossier Djoymi Baker & Lucie McMahon January 2024 Film Genre Now: RMIT University Student Dossier This dossier represents emerging writers from RMIT University’s undergraduate Film Genre course, as they explore ways that an individual film may use,...
The Industrial Nightmare of Tetsuo: The Iron Man Malachy Lewis January 2024 Film Genre Now: RMIT University Student Dossier 鉄男 (Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto, 1989) is excruciatingly metal in every sense of the word. An intensely horrifying and fast-paced Japanese ...
Constantly Coming of Age: He Died with a Felafel in His Hand Amy Maher January 2024 Film Genre Now: RMIT University Student Dossier Richard Lowenstein’s 2001 film He Died with a Felafel in His Hand, a loose adaptation of John Birmingham’s 1994 memoir of the same title, follows Dann...
Tusk: Kevin Smith’s take on body horror Lachlan Campbell January 2024 Film Genre Now: RMIT University Student Dossier Often recognised for his catalogue of self-referential, comic-book-inspired films, director Kevin Smith is seldom acknowledged for his influence upon ...
From Caligari to Psychological Horror Ji Li January 2024 Film Genre Now: RMIT University Student Dossier My initial viewing of Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Robert Wiene, 1920) took place in 2022. As a 21st-century moviegoer, ...
Holding the Man: Love Beyond Conventions – A Cinematic Tribute to Queer Resilience and Enduring Love. Drew Baker January 2024 Film Genre Now: RMIT University Student Dossier It’s been six years since the passing of the marriage equality act, and 43 years since the decriminalization of homosexuality in Victoria (1980). With...
Echoes of Illusions: Mythical Reverberations: Exploring Folklore and Ta’zieh in Ballad of Tara Amir Hossein Siadat January 2024 Feature Articles Cherike-ye Tārā (Ballads of Tara, 1979), the fourth feature film by Bahram Beyzaie,[1. For more information about Bahram Bayzaei's career, refer to: S...
Cinema and Guerrilla: An Incomplete Biography of the Film Iracema – Uma Transa Amazônica Orlando Senna January 2024 Feature Articles Translated from Portuguese by Matt Losada. This text originally appeared in Revista Piauí, no. 180, September 2021. Translated and reprinted here w...
The Future Made and Unmade: Andrew Legge’s LOLA (2021) Wheeler Winston Dixon January 2024 Feature Articles In 1941, during World War II, two sisters in Great Britain, Thomasina “Thom” Hanbury (Emma Appleton) and Martha “Mars” Hanbury (Stefanie Martini), inv...
Looking to the other side: Dismantlement and reimposition of borders in Sicario and The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada Callum McGrath January 2024 Feature Articles Introduction Recent political events, such as the “Title 42” expulsions, have led to growing prominence in United States-Mexico border discourses. Th...
A place to live in: An Interview with Leonor Teles Susana Bessa January 2024 Interviews Leonor Teles’s mirror-surfaced, headily constructed Baan opens at a moment of contemplation. Against the backdrop of a lilac-infused blue cityscape of...
Crime and Choreography: An Interview with Rodrigo Moreno Hamed Sarrafi January 2024 Interviews Despite Argentina's present socio-political and economic situation being shrouded in uncertainty and instability, its film industry is robust, consist...
Gazing into the Abyss: An interview with Wei Shujun Maja Korbecka January 2024 Interviews I first talked with Wei Shujun back in 2020 when his debut film, Yema fenzhong (Striding into the Wind), had its US theatrical release. However, we me...
“The Way We Are Looked at Transforms Us”: An Interview with Catherine Breillat Savina Petkova January 2024 Interviews When Last Summer (2023) premiered at the Cannes Main Competition earlier this year, everyone expected a scandalous film. A massive age gap, incestuous...
An Interview with Martín Rejtman James Vaughan January 2024 Interviews Nine-tenths of our movements obey habit and automatism. It is anti-nature to subordinate them to will and to thought. - Robert Bresson, Notes on t...
Interview with Martín Shanly Gary M. Kramer January 2024 Interviews Although he has written and directed only two features, Martín Shanly has developed a distinctive voice in Argentine cinema. His style is low-key, and...
Crossing Borders into Abstraction: an Interview with Paul Winkler Dirk de Bruyn January 2024 Interviews In 2022 the National Film and Sound Archive acquired the hand-made filmmaking material Paul Winkler constructed to make his innovative films from the ...
Steve Doughton and Jon Raymond On Earthlings Nolan Kelly January 2024 Interviews In the United States, regional filmmakers rarely get the same attention as their big-city counterparts, at least until they premiere in New York or L....
Was I thinking of death?: The 61st New York Film Festival James Vaughan January 2024 Festival Reports “I know that Creation is a Great Wheel that cannot move without crushing someone!” La Roue (1923) “If cinephilia is dead, then movies are dead too...
The 7th Pingyao International Film Festival: In the heat of the sun Maja Korbecka January 2024 Festival Reports After the zero-Covid policy lockdown pushed the previous edition of Pingyao International Film Festival to January 2023, Jia Zhangke and the festival ...
DON’T FORGET THE STRUGGLE, DON’T FORGET THE STREETS: DOK Leipzig 2023 Neil Young January 2024 Festival Reports Does protest work? Can cinema make a difference? These were the two questions implicitly posed by "Film and Protest: Popular Uprisings in the Co...
Seeing in the Dark at the Adelaide Film Festival Sid Christie, Daniel Kopeikin, Adela Teubner, Will Singleton, Daniel Tune & Travis Jenner January 2024 Festival Reports For its first iteration as an annual event, the Adelaide Film Festival invited audiences to “see in the dark”. Enticing hot-pink branding accompanied ...
4th Indian Documentary Film Festival, Bhubaneshwar (IDFFB) 2023 continues to attract film-lovers in a quaint Indian city Dr. Sneha Krishnan January 2024 Festival Reports With input from Subrat Beura Several film enthusiasts in the city of Bhubaneshwar, Odisha warmly embraced several independent films screened between ...
DocLisboa 2023: The Slow Change Daniel Ribas January 2024 Festival Reports In the middle of last October, DocLisboa presented again, as a window on the present – its tagline: “In October, the whole world fits in Lisbon”. Impo...
The Great Presence. Asian Representation at the 71st San Sebastian International Film Festival Łukasz Mańkowski January 2024 Festival Reports Over the past several years, San Sebastian IFF has slowly become one of the major European platforms for showcasing Asian Cinema. Priority might be gi...
Welcome to the Multipolar World: The 36th Tokyo International Film Festival Kohei Usuda January 2024 Festival Reports The mid-1980s ushered in an unprecedented flourishing of a vibrant, fervent cinephile culture in Tokyo. The bubble economy was in full swing, some of ...
The Smallest Big Film Fest: 27th Black Nights Film Festival Tallinn Joshua Bogatin January 2024 Festival Reports Five hundred-plus films and a cold, dark Baltic city filled with medieval churches and Soviet high-rises: what more could a cinephile ask for? Where y...
Dalianidis, Yannis Frankie Kanatas January 2024 Great Directors b. 31 December 1923, Thessaloniki, Greece d. 16 October 2010, Piraeus, Greece Before the emergence of Theo Angelopoulos in the mid-1970s, Greek Cine...
Bonello, Bertrand Ryan Akler-Bishop January 2024 Great Directors b. 11 September 1968, Nice, France Bertrand Bonello’s movies coalesce into a saga of political disillusionments. His characters are would-be revoluti...
Frequently Illuminating, but Sometimes Misjudged: Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties by Foster Hirsch Tom Ryan January 2024 Book Reviews Across its 600-plus pages, Foster Hirsch’s ambitious account of Hollywood and the films made there during the 1950s covers the terrain with comprehens...
Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories: Efrén Cuevas’ Filming History from Below Vladimir Rosas-Salazar January 2024 Book Reviews In recent decades, a burgeoning scholarly attention has turned to how documentaries problematise the private through the reworking of amateur films. B...
Modulating the Rhetorical: The Eloquent Screen, by Gilberto Perez Tony McKibbin January 2024 Book Reviews Gilberto Perez’s The Eloquent Screen has less a thesis than a theme. It doesn’t argue for the importance of rhetoric in film; more it muses over how i...
Western Martyn Bamber December 2023 CTEQ Annotations on Film The first thing you should know is that Western is not really a western. Just because a film features horses, guns and the great outdoors doesn’t me...
History and Oblivion: Radu Jude tells a “new” story an old way with Aferim! Shari Kizirian December 2023 CTEQ Annotations on Film From the opening moments of Romanian director Radu Jude’s Silver Bear-winning Aferim! (2015) we instantly recognize the cinematic terrain. In a low-co...
