Welcome to Issue 67 of our journal the editors July 2013 Editorial Feature image: Michelangelo Antonioni during the filming of Chung Kuo: Cina (China) “It was a harsh and courteous battle that had neither winners or losers. A compromise came out of it, and the film that I f...
Cinematic Scar Tissue: An Interview with Joshua Oppenheimer on The Act of Killing Dan Edwards September 2013 Feature Articles Surreal, sickening and profoundly disturbing – The Act of Killing (2012) may not be easy to watch, but it has turned the documentary form on its head....
“So Have Things Gone”: A Place Beyond the Pines Joseph Natoli July 2013 Feature Articles "Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult." –Hippocrates Manifold are thy shapings, Providence! Ma...
‘When Ordinary Seeing Fails’: Reclaiming the Art of Documentary in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1972 China Film Chung Kuo Alice Xiang July 2013 Feature Articles Introduction and Context: (Up)Setting the Stage “It was the mid-1970s,” reminisces a Chinese blogger, writing over three decades later in November 20...
Chantal Akerman’s Là-bas: The Suspended Image and the Politics of Anti-Messianism Chrysanthi Nigianni July 2013 Feature Articles It is this double exigency-recognition of the closure of the political and practical deprivation of philosophy as regards itself and its own authority...
Creativity Beyond Originality: György Pálfi’s Final Cut as Narrative Supercut Miklós Kiss July 2013 Feature Articles György Pálfi’s Final Cut – Ladies & Gentlemen (2012) is a movie made out of other movies, literally. It is YouTube’s beloved film mashups and supe...
Westward Wellman Josh Anderson July 2013 Feature Articles William A. Wellman enjoyed pushing buttons. His cinema bears the mark of a man careening through life, ripping the extraneous bits off and plastering ...
The Strange Object of the Voice: A Bad Lip Reading Mats Carlsson July 2013 Feature Articles Michel Chion starts his book The Voice in Cinema by asking what is left, if we eliminate everything that is not the voice itself; in this short text w...
The Appearance of Appearance: Absolute Truth in Abbas Kiarostami’s ABC Africa Mathew Abbott July 2013 Feature Articles In Ten on Ten, a 2004 documentary featuring ten short scenes in which Abbas Kiarostami speaks in a car on his work in filming 2001’s Ten, itself a ten...
The Porterfield Touch: An Interview with Matthew Porterfield Brigitta Wagner July 2013 Feature Articles When can a filmmaker be said to have ‘a touch’? Ernst Lubitsch had a touch, but what exactly was this? A penchant for comic timing, for finding just t...
Assaulting Wall Street Pour la Beauté du Geste Celluloid Liberation Front July 2013 Feature Articles “I don’t initiate violence, I retaliate.” –Chuck Norris Plot Synopsis (major spoiler alert): Jim (Dominic Purcell) is the kind of working class dude...
Ageing and Memory in Agnès Varda’s Les plages d’Agnès Maryann De Julio July 2013 Feature Articles S’imaginer très vieille est amusante (To imagine yourself very old is amusing) Agnès Varda celebrates her eightieth birthday during the making of Le...
An Analysis of the Character Animation in Disney’s Tangled Chris Carter July 2013 Feature Articles Introduction In the short time since PIXAR Animation created the first 3D computer animated feature film, Toy Story (John Lasseter, 1995), 3D compute...
Fan Filmmaker and Star-struck Celebrity: An Interview with Michael Winner Christopher Hogg and Douglas S. Kern July 2013 Feature Articles Orson Welles, Sophia Loren, Marlon Brando, Lauren Bacall, Michael Caine, John Gielgud and Ben Kingsley: whilst this list offers a roll-call for some o...
“Fulgurant Jolts”: The 66th Cannes Film Festival Daniel Fairfax June 2013 Festival Reports In a rare idle moment at Cannes, amidst the hectic schedule of screenings, I found myself nursing a glass of mineral water on the terrace of the Caffé...
A Place for Underground Cinema Made in Ecuador: Notes from the Festival Ecuador Bajo Tierra II and Ronda de Negocios de DVD, Manta City Libertad Gills June 2013 Festival Reports In January 2013 I flew to Manta, the largest fishing port in Ecuador, to attend the second annual Festival Ecuador Bajo Tierra. As its title suggests,...
Mainland Chinese Genre Cinema Comes of Age: The 15th Far East Film Festival Chris Berry June 2013 Festival Reports Udine's Far East Film Festival (FEFF) is Europe's only festival focused on East Asian popular cinema. It is also one of the most pleasant and relaxed ...
After Cinema, Back to Celluloid: The 59th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen Tara Judah June 2013 Festival Reports The very existence of this unique six-day festival is a provocation. The oldest short film festival in the world, Oberhausen was established in 1962, ...
When the “Real” is Not Enough: The 35th Cinéma du Réel Philip Cartelli June 2013 Festival Reports The Cinéma du Réel in Paris has acquired a largely deserved reputation for operating outside of a non-fiction cinematic mainstream. Some of the works ...
The Proof and the Pudding: Indie Lisboa’s 10th Anniversary Edition Jorge Mourinha June 2013 Festival Reports Ten years is always a nice age for any film festival to reach, especially in a country in a deep recession where the investment in culture has shrunk ...
In the Shadow of the Giant: the 37th Hong Kong International Film Festival Nicholas Godfrey June 2013 Festival Reports One of the last big film festivals, running at 17 days, the Hong Kong International Film Festival offers the hardy filmgoer plenty of opportunities to...
In the Spotlight and Beyond: The Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film Barbara Wurm June 2013 Festival Reports There are biannual festivals, so why not try out a biannual festival report? Looking back might also help to distinguish between what will remain and ...
Reaching Audiences: the 15th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival Lydia Papadimitriou June 2013 Festival Reports Located in the second largest city of Greece, the Thessaloniki Documentary Festival was founded 15 years ago by its current director Dimitri Eipides, ...
On Moroccan Identity: the 14th Festival National du Film Sally Shafto June 2013 Festival Reports Very few countries, even in Europe, have a national film festival. It’s a masterstroke on the part of the government to have created and developed the...
Petzold, Christian Jaimey Fisher July 2013 Great Directors Christian Petzold b. 14th September 1960, Hilden, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Christian Petzold When the Association of German Film Critics ...
Phenomenology and the Future of Film: Rethinking Subjectivity beyond French Cinema by Jenny Chamarette Victoria Grace Walden June 2013 Book Reviews Phenomenological notions of slippery subjectivity and the ‘chiasmic in-betweenness’ of the film experience are beautifully illustrated in Chamarette’s...
Beyond Bruce Lee: Or How Paul Bowman Never Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Movies Kyle Barrowman June 2013 Book Reviews At the risk of crying wolf, it seems accurate to characterize academic film studies as being more than simply interdisciplinary, as more perilously re...
Beyond Green: Ecocinema Theory and Practice, edited by Stephen Rust, Salma Monani and Sean Cubitt Adam O'Brien June 2013 Book Reviews This book can reasonably be described as marking the arrival of eco film criticism into mainstream film studies discourse. Over the past ten to fiftee...
Third Time’s the Charm: Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches by Claire Perkins and Constantine Verevis Radha O'Meara June 2013 Book Reviews As the cover image suggests, serve à la Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette: Lie back with this book and a selection of gateaux. “Great trilogies come...
Outsider Documentary and the Technologically Mediated Self: Ferocious Reality by Eric Ames. Carolyn Elerding June 2013 Book Reviews With Ferocious Reality, Eric Ames makes a valuable contribution to the literature on documentary, offering a thoughtful and philosophically adept anal...
New Vampire Cinema by Ken Gelder Enrique Ajuria Ibarra June 2013 Book Reviews 2012 was the year for vampires and the cinema. If the topic seemed somehow exhausted, there were plenty of reasons to look back at it, hopefully with...
More than Meets the Eye: Siren City: Sound and Source Music in Classic American Noir by Robert Miklitsch Carl Laamanen June 2013 Book Reviews Known for its expressionistic lighting and shadows, tight, claustrophobic urban settings, and frequent use of dream sequences and flashbacks, film noi...
Response to Dimitrios Latsis’ review ofFilm, Art, New Media: Museum without Walls Sally Shafto June 2013 Book Reviews Since so many academic books go unnoticed, it was initially a pleasure to see Dimitrios Latsis’ recent review of Angela dalle Vacche’s edited antholog...
D’Est: Spectres of Communism Steven Ball May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film In Ken McMullen’s 1983 film Ghost Dance, Jacques Derrida, improvising the role of a professor, is asked by Pascale Ogier, improvising the role of a st...
X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes Murray Pomerance May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Let us say that I am in London’s National Gallery, looking at Giovanni Battista Viola’s “Landscape with a Hunting Party”, which could not have been pa...
Raw Deal Eloise Ross May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Anthony Mann had been working in Hollywood for almost a decade before he made himself widely known as a distinctive filmmaker, an impact that was augm...
Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles Jenny Chamarette May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film There is something very subversive about watching a woman, in an old-fashioned housecoat, lovingly dusting the ornaments in her glass cabinet, prepari...
The Man From Laramie Tony Williams May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Due to conflict and an eventual breach over the making of Night Passage (James Neilson, 1957), The Man From Laramie (1955) became the final collaborat...
Little Dieter Needs to Fly Darragh O’Donoghue May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Flight – the defiance of gravity by humans using various technologies – has always been an ambiguous motif in Werner Herzog’s cinema. It can be an emb...
Winchester ’73 Jonathan Dawson May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film By 1950 television as the prevailing mass medium had come to stay in American cultural and social life, as well as colonising the Yankee imagination a...
The Wild Blue Yonder Tyson Wils May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Werner Herzog’s The Wild Blue Yonder (2005) defies easy categorisation. It can be described simply as an experimental film or, more specifically, an e...
Fighting for Their Right to Party: Roger Corman’s The Wild Angels Margaret Barton-Fumo May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film In the mid-1960s, the young sports writer Hunter S. Thompson spent a year living and riding with the notorious Hells Angels, leading to the publicatio...
Realism Painted with Darkness: T-Men and the Docu-noir Aesthetic of Anthony Mann and John Alton Christopher Weedman May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Anthony Mann’s T-Men (1947) is a significant entry in the classic American film noir cycle and, arguably, the best of the subcycle of “docu-noirs” tha...
“Death Has No Master” – Roger Corman and The Masque of the Red Death David Melville May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film There were delirious fancies such as the madman fashions. There were much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the ...
Man of the West Christopher Sharrett May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Anthony Mann is among the key American filmmakers who brought a strong psychological note to the postwar genre film, beginning with very distinguished...
Je tu il elle Tamara Tracz May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Some readings of Chantal Akerman’s Je tu il elle (I, You, He, She, 1974) assign the character Akerman portrays to je (me), the viewer to tu (you), the...
The Intruder Wheeler Winston Dixon May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film In the early 1960s, director Roger Corman was on fire. Coming off a wave of ultra-exploitational titles for the fledgling film production/distribution...
The Dark Glow of the Mountains Andrew Grossman May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film The image of the Olympian mountain – the towering intermediary between the physical and spiritual realms – has long loomed as an icon and motif in Ger...
Mann of the Southwest: Border Incident (1949) Adrian Danks May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film This is a revised version of an essay that first appeared in a 1997 edition of CTEQ: Annotations on Film. Border Incident (1949) sits within the cy...
Bells From the Deep: Faith and Superstition in Russia Ioana-Lucia Demczuk May 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film In the establishing shot of Werner Herzog’s Glocken aus der Tiefe: Glaube und Aberglaube in Rußland (Bells From the Deep: Faith and Superstition in Ru...
62nd Melbourne International Film Festival Dossier (2013) the editors July 2013 Uncategorized To coincide with the 2013 Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), Senses of Cinema has commissioned a series of articles that cover two particul...
“There is still time… brother”: On the Beach and Lawrence Johnston’s Fallout Adrian Danks July 2013 Uncategorized “Swimming”, he told her. “He wants to have a swim.” “Sailing? There’s a race on Saturday.” “I didn’t ask him. I should think he sails. He’s the sort...
“Trouble in my brain… everything inside is turning blue…” Lisa French July 2013 Uncategorized In the early eighties, The Sunnyboys were the greatest band on the planet… - Stuart Coupe, Music Journalist (interviewed in The Sunnyboy) Kaye Har...
The Girl in the Yellow Pyjamas Gino Moliterno July 2013 Uncategorized After graduating from the Italian National Film School in the immediate postwar period Flavio Mogherini became one of the most esteemed and sought-aft...
Un tranquillo posto di campagna/A Quiet Place in the Country Pasquale Iannone July 2013 Uncategorized Between 1961 and 1968, Elio Petri established himself as one of the most distinctive voices of Italian post-neo-realist cinema. His 1961 feature debut...
The Parallel Universe Haydn Keenan July 2013 Uncategorized June 2013: It’s not often that you find yourself in another world, a parallel universe that’s real, has sentient beings passing through it and you ...
“‘Pathetic Little Perv’: Patrick Rises Again” Rose Capp July 2013 Uncategorized In Mark Hartley’s Not Quite Hollywood (Mark Hartley, 2008), the writer/director explores a substantial group of underappreciated Australian genre film...
Dario Argento: Giallo and Profondo Rosso (Deep Red) Tyson Wils July 2013 Uncategorized Argento’s World of Giallo Dario Argento (b. 1940-) has been making gialli for a long time. His first three features – L’uccello dalle piume di crista...
No Place Like Home: The Late-Modern World of the Italian giallo Film Alexia Kannas July 2013 Uncategorized In the final shot of Dario Argento’s Profondo Rosso (Deep Red, 1975), the amateur detective/jazz pianist Marcus Daly (David Hemmings) stares icily at ...
