Issue 57

Numerous contributors from across the globe offer their selections and thoughts on their movie-going experiences in 2010. Readers should find it a fascinating overview of cinema from a multitude of countries and cultures.

Meticulously researched, Olivier Assayas’ film is both a complex factual reconstruction of an era and a deconstruction of the myths attendant to the political climate of the time.

As a stand-alone piece, this essay dates back to 1958, and subsequently reprinted in the 1972 French edition of Morin’s seminal study Les Stars. Published here for the first time in English translation.

On the surface, Anton Corbijn’s film is a pared down tale of a professional gunsmith-for-hire adrift in Europe, but in Joseph Natoli’s allegorical reading the film also has its finger on the pulse of a conflicted and disorientated nation.

Self evidently, Citizen Kane is a biographical drama of a public figure, but it is also one of the great reflections on the very nature of the biographical phenomenon itself.

Digitalisation throws up all kinds of problems and challenges for the very physical and corporeal nature of theatrical or cinematic performance. Digitalisation insists that the body is immaterial, freed from gravity, visually able to roam space at accelerating or de-accelerating speeds, adaptable to the many scales and stretched expectations of spectatorship, and in a way, immortal.

In recent years many reevaluations of film and film theory have focused upon the way in which digital technologies of production and distribution alter the relationship between film and our broader audiovisual culture. Leon Gurevitch discusses examples of how digital cinema content increasingly originates on, and migrates across, multiple platforms that render old dichotomies of film and television incomplete.

This article examines the ways in which the Disney film related website invites an embodied performance from its intended audience of young girls.

If we can say that the 48th New York Film Festival offered films that were for the most part concerned with social issues, we certainly cannot accuse ...

It is difficult to describe the Lucca Film Festival due to its informal nature, which is very different from many other Italian realities. However, in...

The celebration of the 15th anniversary of the Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF) this year was a bit of a balancing act. On the one hand, festi...

In most parts of Quito, Ecuador, the fact that you make, study or are passionate about cinema can only be understood as a hobby, a recreation, a pastt...

It was a vintage year in Vancouver, as the organisers had secured a series of programming “coups”. Two “special events” introduced audiences to epic-l...

b. 25 March 1897, Warsaw, Poland d. 2 April 1953, Paris, France I. Jean Epstein was an important figure in the school of filmmaking variousl...

b. 31 May, 1917, Paris, France d. 18 February, 2004, Birni N’Konni, Niger   When Jean Rouch travelled to Niger in 1954 to screen Bataill...

In terms of theoretical scope, the book I currently hold in my hands could hardly be more comprehensive; in terms of ambition, it could hardly be more...

Towards the end of Pedro Almodóvar’s Broken Embraces (Los abrazos rotos, 2009) – his sad, playful, colour-saturated tribute to his own and so many oth...

Advances in digital technology have caused a radical shift in moving image culture. This has occurred in both modes of production and sites of exhibit...

Keith Beattie’s monograph on the seminal British documentary filmmaker Humphrey Jennings is a significant contribution to the scholarship on this fasc...

There was a time in the late 1970s when Krzystof Zanussi was the toughest-minded filmmaker in the world, and Barwy ochronne/Camouflage is among his fi...

Krzysztof Zanussi’s Zycie jako smiertelna choroba przenoszona droga plciowa (Life as a Fatal Sexually Transmitted Disease) follows the final weeks of ...

“The image of a Socialist paradise is a false one, false because it is static. What is beautiful in life is movement, development, change, part of a p...