Issue Archive
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Comparative Analysis
- Experiments in Polyphonic Cinema: Observations of Precision Temporal Matching Between Solaris and 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Polyphonic Cinema
The case for a precision temporal relationship between Tarkovsky's Solaris and Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Comparative Openings: The Mummy (1932) Meets The Exorcist (1973)
- From “Eh?” to Zedd: R.I.P. founder of The Cinema of Transgression
- Circles, Myth, and Darwinism: Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey and Peter Greenaway’s A Zed and Two Noughts (ZOO)
- The Neutral, Onirosigns and Any-Body-Whatevers in Nostalghia
On the rhythm of any-space-whatever in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia
- Thug Nation: Russia in Leviathan and The Student
- Play Misty for Me (Clint Eastwood, 1971) Still Shocks and Mesmerizes 50 Years Later
- Leeds International Film Festival 2021: the conundrum of how to end a film.
- LFF: 2021, A Festival Report
- Experiments in Polyphonic Cinema: Observations of Precision Temporal Matching Between Solaris and 2001: A Space Odyssey
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Cinema and the Other Arts
- A Deep Dive in a Yellow Submarine
Some Notes on the Filmmakers and References in the Classic Animated Feature
- On Adding Dimensions: A Long-Overdue Conversation With Waking Life’s Tech Wizard, Bob Sabiston
- The Dialectics of Dance
Levan Akin’s 2019 film And Then We Danced
- An Interview with Gritt director Itonje Søimer Guttormsen
The cost of standing out in modern-day Scandinavia
- In His Father’s Steps: Jean Renoir’s Evolving Relationship with Impressionism in Partie de campagne and Le déjeuner sur l’herbe
- “Meet Me in Montauk”: Michel Gondry’s Incorporation of Avant-Garde Surrealist Practices in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
- Transgressing the Frame: Onscreen Art Between Form and Formlessness
- Time-Ghost: Art After Andy The Biography of Andy Warhol by Blake Gopnik
- The Cost of Transcendence: Painter-Filmmaker Julian Schnabel, Mark Rothko, and the Art Market
- Stars in Red and Gold: The American Myth Recuperated in American Vampire (2010)
- Addio Monica: A Tribute to Monica Vitti
Monica Vitti: RIP (1931-Feb 2, 2022)
- A Deep Dive in a Yellow Submarine
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Commemorating the Life and Art of Shahin Parhami
- An Act of Love
- My Homeland
- Five conditions for experiencing poetry: on Shahin Parhami’s Every Angel is Terrifying
- Untitled
- Shahin Parhami: Showing Us the Way
- Shahin Parhami and Amin in Moscow
- Stateless Memoirs
A Screenplay by Shahin Parhami
- Reference Works on Shahin Parhami
- Shahin Parhami, the poet
- Shahin Parhami: A Life in Pictures
- An Act of Love
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From Bill Gunn to Barry Jenkins
- Writer and filmmaker Kathleen Collins (Losing Ground): An Appreciation
- Queen and Slim and Deconstructive Protest Cinema
- The Uniqueness of Bill Gunn’s Ganja & Hess
- A Meditation on Haptic Visuality in Bill Gunn’s Avant-Garde Horror, Ganja & Hess
- Love and Resistance in the Work of Barry Jenkins
- Humanity’s Children: Charles Dickens, James Baldwin, Boyhood, and Moonlight
Are categories such as majority and minority art arbitrary?
- Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989): Still Relevant
- The BlackKklansman (Spike Lee, 2018)
- For My People, All People: Cicely Tyson, Angela Bassett, Viola Davis, Regina King; and Sharrell Luckett’s books Black Acting Methods: Critical Approaches and African American Arts: Activism, Aesthetics, and Futurity
- Decoding the Politics of Hollywood Whitewashing through M. Night Shyamalan’s The Last Airbender
- Writer and filmmaker Kathleen Collins (Losing Ground): An Appreciation
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The Festival of Nouveau Cinema, 49th Edition
- FNC 2020: A Report From My Apartment
- Les Ordres (Michel Brault, 1974) at FNC
Quebec Classic Plays at the 49th Edition of the Festival of New Cinema
- Out of the Blue (Dennis Hopper, 1980)
Retro Event at the 2020 FNC
- Telluride Film Festival Report 2021
- Matthias et Maxime (Xavier Dolan, 2019)
- FNC 2020: A Report From My Apartment
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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