Welcome to issue 93 of our journal the editors January 2020 Editorial It’s a new year and a new decade, and for Senses of Cinema this milestone also represents the dawn of our third decade. In this issue, we continue one of our longest and most popular traditions: the annual worl...
World Poll 2019 — Introduction the editors January 2020 World Poll It is the project here at Senses of Cinema that we love to present every single year – the annual World Poll. It’s a mammoth effort involving contributors from across the world from a wide range of film-centric...
World Poll 2019 — Part 1 the editors January 2020 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 1: Asif Ahmed Antti Alanen Francisco Algarín Navarro Victor Alicea Rowena Santos Aquino Martyn Bamber Jennifer Lynde Barker Christopher Barkman Mike Bartlett Rhett Bartlett Arta Bar...
World Poll 2019 — Part 2 the editors January 2020 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 2: Jose Cabrera Betancort Thomas Caldwell Michael Campi Michelle Carey Nicolas Carrasco Michael J. Casey Jeremy Chamberlin Daryl Chin Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn Roberta Ciabarra Jesú...
World Poll 2019 — Part 3 the editors January 2020 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 3: William Edwards Geronimo Elortegui John K. Emelianoff Fernando Chaves Espinach Ted Fendt Adalberto Fonkén Gwendolyn Audrey Foster Mark Freeman Sachin Gandhi Steve Gaunson Flora G...
World Poll 2019 — Part 4 the editors January 2020 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 4: Michael Heath Claire Henry Alain Hertay David Heslin Lee Hill Phil Hobbins-White Jytte Holmqvist Peter Hourigan Brian Hu Yue Huang Christoph Huber Parviz Jahed Christopher Kear...
World Poll 2019 — Part 5 the editors January 2020 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 5: Josh B Mabe Ioannis Makris Bob Manning Miguel Marias Jack Mcculloch Joe Mcelhaney Adrian D. Mendizabal Jamie Mendonça Stefano Miraglia Olaf Möller Marcel Müller Peter Nagels An...
World Poll 2019 — Part 6 the editors January 2020 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 6: Andreea Pătru Yoana Pavlova Jesse Percival Antoni Peris-Grao Fidel Jesús Quirós Christopher Llewellyn Reed Daniel Ribas Stuart Richards Peter Rist Kate Robertson Jonathan Rosenba...
World Poll 2019 — Part 7 the editors January 2020 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 7: Maria San Filippo Jose Sarmiento Hinojosa Christine Sathiah Adrian Schober Howard Schumann Christopher Sikich Christopher Small Rachel Small Jordan M. Smith Valerie Soe Mark Spra...
World Poll 2019 — Part 8 the editors January 2020 World Poll ENTRIES IN PART 8: Josh Timmermann John Tuttle Donatella Valente Koen Van Daele Miha Veingerl Peter Verstraten Tom Vincent Nicholas Vroman David Walsh Rick Warner Jason Wierzba Virginia Wright Wex...
Eisenstein as Curator Oksana Bulgakowa July 2020 Feature Articles Over the last 25 years we have witnessed a trend: films moved from the black boxes of movie theatres into the white cubes of galleries and museums; fi...
Korean Cinema in the Shadow of Parasite: The 24th Busan International Film Festival Marc Raymond January 2020 Festival Reports Busan 2019 marked a year of celebration, with multiple retrospective screenings in honour of the 100th anniversary of Korean cinema coinciding with Bo...
Dispatch from Reykjavík: Hot Films at a Cool Festival Randy Malamud January 2020 Festival Reports At Reykjavík International Film Festival’s 16th edition, strong opening and closing feature films – End of Sentence and Parasite – bookended a program...
StopTrik from Head to Toe and the Eisenstein International Network Amanda Barbour January 2020 Festival Reports The 9th edition of StopTrik and the inaugural conference of the Eisenstein International Network (EIN) took place, borderline consecutively, in Octobe...
About the Cliché in Films, or the Opportunity for a New Consciousness at a German Film Festival: A Report on the FilmFest Hamburg Vivien Buchhorn January 2020 Festival Reports Two women by the sea, their faces framed by cloth that give protection from the wind. They look at each other, the sea is foaming, the beach studded w...
Right-wing Conservatives Against Film Lovers: The 20th Tbilisi International Film Festival Levan Tskhovrebadze January 2020 Festival Reports In Georgia, a country empty of non-commercial movie theatres, the local cinephiles’ only destination for art-house cinema is the Tbilisi International...
The Grain of the Real, The Grain of the Surreal, and the Grain of Light: Vancouver International Film Festival 2019 Bérénice Reynaud January 2020 Festival Reports The Grain of the Real Always the champion of the most cutting-edge documentaries from Asia, the Vancouver International Film Festival (VIFF) presente...
Forests of Life and Death: 2019 in Documentary Festivals Carmen Gray January 2020 Festival Reports Forests in flames dominated some of most searing media images to round out the decade, as their link to human failing, greed and potential extinction ...
A Report from the Cottbus Festival of Eastern European Cinema Jendrik Walendy January 2020 Festival Reports From the wide avenues around the train station, the bus lines meander through narrow streets with renovated historic buildings. The streets open up ag...
Experimental Cinema in Times of Protest: IV Cámara Lúcida Libertad Gills January 2020 Festival Reports Cámara Lúcida began in 2016 as a small gathering of friends in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador’s third most important city after Quito and Guayaquil. At t...
“A Hundred Years Ago”: 1919 in Cinema, at Il Cinema Ritrovato, 32nd edition, Bologna, Italy, June 22-30, 2019 Peter Rist January 2020 Festival Reports It has become a tradition for the annual festival of rediscovered and restored films, Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, Italy to focus one of its “Time ...
Autumn in a Small Town: The 3rd Pingyao International Film Festival Daniel Fairfax January 2020 Festival Reports It has become a truism, now, to speak of the global proliferation of film festivals in the last few decades. Worldwide, they presently number in the t...
The lecturer’s legacy: In memory of Professor Peter Wollen Victoria Duckett January 2020 Obituary Peter Wollen, the famous British scholar, essayist, screenwriter, filmmaker, theorist and curator, has died after a long battle with Alzheimer’s. Pete...
Voices from an Empty Room: Ernst Lubitsch and Angel (1937) David Melville March 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood. – Oscar Wilde The term “sophisticated comedy” has become a lazy critical shorthand for any film i...
“Welcome to Bottleneck”: Peak Hollywood in Destry Rides Again (George Marshall, 1939) Adrian Danks March 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film Despite a directorial career in film and television that spread from the mid-1910s to the early 1970s, taking in a series of sustained collaborations ...
Carnal Spirituality: Desire (Frank Borzage, 1936) Rolland Man March 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film There seems to be a curious near-unanimity among critics and historians of cinema that attributes the paternity of Desire (1936) to its producer, Erns...
Death in an Italian Garden: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Vittorio De Sica, 1970) David Melville February 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film Dear friend, I congratulate you. Disaster endears beyond Fortune. – Emily Dickinson Il giardino dei Finzi Contini (The Garden of the Finzi-Contin...
Resisting War and Patriarchy: Two Women (Vittorio De Sica, 1960) Gwendolyn Audrey Foster February 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film Vittorio De Sica’s wartime drama La ciociara (Two Women, 1960) had a decidedly peculiar genesis. Adapted from a 1957 novel by Alberto Moravia, with a ...
The Flipside of Neorealism: Miracle in Milan (Vittorio De Sica, 1951) Joseph Sgammato February 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film What are we to make of Miracolo a Milano (Miracle in Milan, 1951), Vittorio De Sica’s comic fantasy about postwar poverty produced within the artistic...
The Tribulations of the Working Class: Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica, 1948) Sandra E. Lim February 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film Ladri di biciclette (Bicycle Thieves, 1948) marked Vittorio De Sica’s eighth directorial credit in a prolific filmmaking career, which had included wo...
Behind the Veil: The Nun (Jacques Rivette, 1966) Danica van de Velde January 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film In a 1968 interview with Cahiers du cinéma, former Cahiers editor-in-chief and filmmaker Jacques Rivette made the provocative comment that “the cinema...
Into the Web: The Spider’s Stratagem (Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970) Wheeler Winston Dixon January 2020 CTEQ Annotations on Film There’s an overwhelming sense of stasis in the images of Strategia del ragno (The Spider’s Stratagem, 1970), as the film effortlessly embraces both na...
