Welcome to Issue 30 of our journal! the editors February 2004 Editorial As in previous years, our first issue for 2004 leads off with a collection of lists of the best films of the last 12 months, by a wide range of cinephiles and critics. We're honoured by the unprecedented nu...
Night Surfing: On Telephilia Tim Groves February 2004 Feature Articles Cinephilia is a familiar concept to this journal's readers, but is the telephile a distinctively different breed? A personal and theoretical perspective.
Off-Key: What the Critics Missed in The Singing Detective Peter Tonguette February 2004 Feature Articles Critics who dismissed Keith Gordon's The Singing Detective as a failed adaptation or musical have missed the point, argues Tonguette, who sees the film as the latest instalment of a remarkable body of work.
What Goes Around, Comes Around: Infernal Affairs II and III and Running on Karma Charles Leary February 2004 Feature Articles Jumping back and forward in time, these recent blockbusters offer multiple allegories of Hong Kong's past, present and future.
Violence, East and West: The Last Samurai Alain Silver February 2004 Feature Articles A detailed exploration of the samurai genre and its contemporary reworkings
When You Cut Up the Frame: An Interview with Julie Talen Cara O'Connor February 2004 Feature Articles In this wide-ranging interview, Talen discusses her recent feature Pretend and the theory and practice of "multichannel" visual storytelling.
Going to the Theatre at the Movies: Re-Examining the Film Criticism of Otis Ferguson Colin Burnett February 2004 Feature Articles Much more than a historical curiosity, the critical work of Otis Ferguson remains exemplary in its flexible style, technical authority and commitment to its readership.
On Some Motifs in Poe: Jean Epstein’s La Chute de la maison Usher Darragh O’Donoghue February 2004 Feature Articles Epstein's Poe adaptation is outwardly faithful to its source material, but all is not as it seems...
It Came from the Mystic Carloss James Chamberlin February 2004 Feature Articles Revenge, innocence and the search for lost time are among the many motifs touched upon in this bold and original exegesis of one of Eastwood's most complex works.
The Tracking Shot in Kapo Serge Daney February 2004 Feature Articles A seminal piece of contemporary film criticism, written late in Daney's career, which interweaves personal reflection and sharp analysis in a moving meditation on cinema, history and criticism.
Sergei Eisenstein Dan Shaw February 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film, Feature Articles b. January 23,1898, Riga, Latvia d. February 11, 1948, Moscow, USSR filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources With Eisenst...
Report from the AFI Film Festival: Bruno The Dog and Other Dreamers Bérénice Reynaud February 2004 Festival Reports I might have been the only accredited journalist who did not see a single American film at the latest American Film Institute (AFI) Film Festival ...
The People Are Missing: The 25th Taipei Golden Horse International Film Festival (and 40th Golden Horse Awards) Charles Leary February 2004 Festival Reports Sometimes the third world film-maker finds himself before an illiterate public, swamped by American, Egyptian or Indian serials, and karate films, a...
What the Eye Sees: A Report on the International Experimental Cinema Exposition Genevieve Yue February 2004 Festival Reports 14-16 November, 2003 It was the last night of the Festival, and after an impressive program of Gregory Markopoulos films and Jean Genet's rare ...
World and Experimental Cinema at the 47th London Film Festival George Clark February 2004 Festival Reports 22 October - 6 November The 47th London Film Festival came on strong this year. It commenced two weeks earlier than in previous years. Now it r...
Lean, David Alain Silver February 2004 Great Directors b. March 25, 1908, Croydon, Surrey, England d. April 16, 1991, London, England filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources F...
Cocteau, Jean Richard Misek February 2004 Great Directors b. July 5, 1889, Maisons-Laffitte, Île-de-France, France d. October 11, 1963, Milly, Île-de-France, France filmography bibliography articles...
Ashby, Hal Darren Hughes February 2004 Great Directors b. September 2, 1929, Ogden, Utah, USA d. December 27, 1988, Malibu, California, USA filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resour...
Quay, Stephen and Timothy James Rose February 2004 Great Directors b. 1947, Norristown, Philadelphia, USA filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Where the dust has settled: The Brothers Q...
Sirk, Douglas Tom Ryan February 2004 Great Directors b. Detlef Sierck b. April 26, 1900, Hamburg, Germany d. January 14, 1987, Lugano, Switzerland filmography bibliography web resources Your ...
Japanese Documentary Film: The Meiji Era Through Hiroshima by Abe Mark Nornes Freda Freiberg February 2004 Book Reviews (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003) Film scholars have rightly become sceptical about the value of books published under the imprint...
Monte Hellman: His Life and Films by Brad Stevens Noel King February 2004 Book Reviews (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland & Co., 2002) What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author...
Soundscape: The School of Sound Lectures 1998-2001 edited by Larry Sider, Diane Freeman, and Jerry Sider Jeff Smith February 2004 Book Reviews (London and New York: Wallflower Press, 2003) In 1998, Jerry Sider and Diane Freeman founded the School of Sound in an effort to draw scholarly and...
Underground USA: Filmmaking Beyond the Hollywood Canon edited by Xavier Mendik and Steven Jay Schneider Brian L. Frye February 2004 Book Reviews (London: Wallflower Press, 2002) The non-obviousness requirement was once the bête noire of patent law. Many a brilliant invention looks quite obvi...
Film in South East Asia: Views from the Region edited by David Hanan James Brown February 2004 Book Reviews (Hanoi: SEAPAVAA, 2001) Given the paucity of English language literature regarding South East Asian cinema, this rather erratic anthology contribut...
Sergei Eisenstein Dan Shaw February 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film, Feature Articles b. January 23,1898, Riga, Latvia d. February 11, 1948, Moscow, USSR filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources With Eisenst...
2003 World Poll – Part 3 Various February 2004 2003 World Poll The Entries Miguel Marías Philip Matthews James May Olaf Möller Sarah Nichols Darragh O'Donoghue John Orr Alan Pavelin ...
2003 World Poll – Part 2 Various February 2004 2003 World Poll The Entries Cynthia Fuchs Chris Fujiwara Krin Gabbard John Gianvito Anthony I. Ginnane Aaron Goldberg Adam Hart Dave Heato...
2003 World Poll – Part 1 Various February 2004 2003 World Poll The Entries Acquarello Peg Aloi Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Saul Austerlitz Matt Bailey Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett ...
Excess and Resistance in Feminised Bodies: David Cronenberg’s Videodrome and Jean Baudrillard’s Seduction Martin Ham February 2004 Perversion An exploration of the politics of representation, in particular, notions of excess and resistance, as they are worked through in both Baudrillard's Seduction and Cronenberg's Videodrome.
Whips and Bodies: The Sadean Cinematic Text Lindsay Hallam February 2004 Perversion Hallam examines the paradigms of sadism and masochism and traces their dramatisation in cinema.
Perversion – An Introduction Patricia MacCormack February 2004 Perversion An introduction to the concept of the "perverse" and to this special spotlight on perversion within cinema, representation, and theory.
Hot, Hard Cocks and Tight, Tight Unlubricated Assholes: Transgression, Sexual Ambiguity and “Perverse” Pleasures in Serge Gainsbourg’s Je t’aime moi non plus Jack Sargeant February 2004 Perversion If certain body parts and functions are coded as normal and acceptable, Sargeant examines a film that turns these presuppositions on their head.
A Kind of (Perverse) Loving: The Gothic Horror Films of Joe D’Amato Xavier Mendik February 2004 Perversion Mendik digs deep into the world of European trash cinema to bring to the surface the extreme films of Joe D'Amato and their unique psychosexual concerns.
Towards a Perverse Neo-Baroque Cinematic Aesthetic: Raúl Ruiz’s Poetics of Cinema Michael Goddard February 2004 Perversion Both Ruiz's writings and his cinema are underpinned by a truly unique, radical and perverse aesthetic.
