Issue Archive
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Fantasia International Film Festival, 2020 (and a 2021 look see)
- We Have Fantasia at Home
- Fantasia 2020: The Pandemic Year
- Canadiana at Fantasia 2020
- Graveyards of Honor (The Arrow Box)
Watching from Home During Fantasia's Year Without Takashi Miike
- Expatriate Indie Filmmaker Philippe McKie Talks about His Debut Feature Dreams on Fire
- Preview: Canadian Films at Fantasia 2021
- We Have Fantasia at Home
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Independent Cinema
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Cult Cinema
- The Style of Sleaze: The American Exploitation Film, 1959-1977 (2018)
- Dual Plots, Demon Possession, De Palma: Ruby as Interesting Failure
- Laugh, Scream and Meow!?: The Voices of Cult Cinema Audiences
- Shudder’s Joe Bob Briggs’ Last Drive-In: Sledgehammer and Things
Shot-on-Video Horror
- Starship Troopers (Paul Verhoeven, 1997): A Different Kind of Bug Movie
- The Style of Sleaze: The American Exploitation Film, 1959-1977 (2018)
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Modern Forms (and maybe COVID-19)
- The contemporary cinemas of the resistant form
- About Endlessness (Roy Andersson, 2019, Sweden): A Priest, Baby Carriages and a Flying Couple
- Meditation on Modernity: Tesla and The Current War, The Young Karl Marx, and A Dangerous Method; and Questions for Fordham University Press Director Fredric Nachbaur
- The Place-Museum and the Problem of Culture in Russian Ark
- LFF 2020: Festival Preview
- The contemporary cinemas of the resistant form
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Asian Cinema
- The Tragic Life and Career of Ruan Lingyu
- Interview with Hong Kong Director Nora Lam
- Interview with Vincent Chui
Hong Kong Independent Filmmaker and Artistic Director of Ying E Chi
- The Surprisingly Conservative Gender Politics of Parasite
- The Loss and Recovery of Identity: Appearance and Reality, Friendship and Betrayal in Asghar Farhadi’s film About Elly
- Gojira (Ishirō Honda, 1954), Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (Ishirō Honda & Terry O. Morse, 1956)
- Birha (Ekta Mittal, 2018): Cinema of Ellipses
- The Evolution of Mediated Youth Culture: OTT as “New Television” in India
- Gendering In the Mood for Love (2000, Wong Kar-Wai, Hong Kong)
- Wong Kar-wai’s In the Mood for Love (2000): Postmodern Melodrama
- The Tragic Life and Career of Ruan Lingyu
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About War
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Mario Bava’s 40th Anniversary
- A Private Fear of the Unknown: Planet of the Vampires (Mario Bava, 1965)
- Forty years without Bava: myths and discoveries by Alberto Pezzotta
- “La donna è mobile…” Mario Bava and the Eternal Feminine
- Roberto Curti & Blood and Black Lace (Sei donne per l’assassino (1964, Mario Bava)
- One, No One and One Hundred Thousand The “Man Without a Face” in 6 donne per l’assassino and its many incarnations
- Tales of Mystery and Just Plain Imagination: The literary sources of Mario Bava’s cinema
- Hatchet for the Honeymoon : Optic Zooms and the Haptic Hatchet
- Mario Bava’s La Maschera del Demonio: A Symphony of Camera Movement
Mario Bava (1914-1980)
- The Courage of Compassion – Akira Kurosawa’s Red Beard
- Catastrophe (It Was Like a Movie): On The China Syndrome, Twister, The Perfect Storm, Titanic, Deep Impact, World Trade Center, and Contagion
Films give us a common reference point—we can discuss problems and arrive at solutions
- A Private Fear of the Unknown: Planet of the Vampires (Mario Bava, 1965)
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la lumière collective & VISIONS
- How do we film our memories? A short essay about Aaron Zeghers’ Memoirs
- Just Dandy
- Roots of Resistance: A Few Notes on Prop Roots and Thoughts from Below
- “Uncontrollable Misinterpretations”: An Interview with Adán De La Garza
- Embracing Fantasy to Better Reflect Reality: El Mar la Mar (Joshua Bonnetta and J.P. Sniadecki, 2017)
- On Chooka (2018)
Recognition: A film by Parastoo Anoushahpour, Faraz Anoushahpour and Ryan Ferko
- We Chose the Milky Way
Cosmic Glitter
- Waiting for the Fire
Focus on a few films by Guillaume Mazloum
- When Nature Makes Cinema: The Power and Beauty of Phenomena in Wilderness series by Karel Doing
- Kiss Me Deadly: A Conversation About Love in Fourth Gear
- If We Seized the Surface of White Water With Both Hands…
- When It’s going badly: Building by Anouk de Clercq
- In the Shade of Volcanoes, Valpi (Richard Tuohy, Diana Barrie, 2019)
- Not Moldova, 1937 by Madi Piller: Flickering Memory
- Speculations , Garden City Beautiful, News from Nowhere: Ben Balcom in Three Films
- How do we film our memories? A short essay about Aaron Zeghers’ Memoirs
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Film Noir Triple Issue
- NOIR CITY INTERNATIONAL: the 18th Annual San Francisco Film Noir Festival, 24 January – 2 February, 2020, “It’s a bitter little world”. Part 1
Part 1: Defining Film Noir
- NOIR CITY INTERNATIONAL: the 18th Annual San Francisco Film Noir Festival, 24 January – 2 February, 2020, “It’s a bitter little world” Part 2
International Film Noir
- NOIR CITY INTERNATIONAL: the 18th Annual San Francisco Film Noir Festival, 24 January – 2 February, 2020, “It’s a bitter little world”, Part 3
International Noir from Republic of Korea, Italy, (the former) Czechoslovakia, England, Japan, and (the former) West Germany
- Charles Laughton’s Uniquely Noir Night of the Hunter (1955)
- Adam Nayman on Ben Wheatley
Ben Wheatley: Confusion and Carnage
- The Women Who Ran Hollywood?
Book Review
- Blood Simple
Noir Meets New Hollywood
- In conclusion, John Boorman
- The Brain Eaters (Bruno VeSota, 1958): Science-Fiction Meets Noir
- Blast of Silence: Noir at the End
- A Matter of Principal (Jeffrey Goodman , 2003) & The Last Lullaby (Jeffrey Goodman, 2008)
Hard Case Crime, Film Noir style
- The Velvet Touch (Jack Gage, 1948)
- The Woman in the Window and Scarlet Street (Fritz Lang, 1944/1945)
- Sex & Pen: the representation of writers in Sunset Boulevard and In a Lonely Place
- Nothing Is Wrong: Notes on Costume in Klute (1971)
- NOIR CITY INTERNATIONAL: the 18th Annual San Francisco Film Noir Festival, 24 January – 2 February, 2020, “It’s a bitter little world”. Part 1
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Fantasia 2019 (and ahead to 2020)
- Fantasia 2019, edition 23: A Report From the Trenches
- Fantasia 2019: A Report from the Front lines
- Virus / Film / Festival
Decoder between Fantasia 2019-20
- Jennifer Reeder at Fantasia 2019: Knives and Skin
- Canadian Movies at Fantasia
From 1996 to 2019
- Fantasia 2020 Preview: The Festival is Coming From Inside the House
- Fantasia 2019, edition 23: A Report From the Trenches