Issue Archive
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Fantasia 2012
- Fantasia 2012: The Best of the International Selection
- David Bordwell Interview
Bordwell at Fantasia 2012
- The Tall Man as Sociological Horror
- White: Melody of the Curse
The Horrors of K-Pop
- Book Review of Tom Mes’ Re-Agitator: A Decade of Writing on Takashi Miike
Author's Second book on Japan's Highly Idiosyncratic Director
- Fantasia 2012: The Best of the International Selection
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Crime-Action Issue
- Blockbuster Ideology: Steven Seagal and the Legacy of Action Cinema – Part 1
- Blockbuster Ideology: Steven Seagal and the Legacy of Action Cinema – Part 2
- The Art Of Dying: Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967)
- I Knew You Before I Ever Saw You: In a Lonely Place (1950), Part 1
- Hollywood Can Be a ‘Lonely Place’: In a Lonely Place (1950) Part 2
- Blockbuster Ideology: Steven Seagal and the Legacy of Action Cinema – Part 1
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Nicolas Winding Refn Special
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Oddball Auteurs
- Mirroring History: Fassbinder’s The BRD Trilogy
- Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes: Equal Stars of A Woman Under the Influence
- Running the Lunatic Asylum: Tracing the Grotesque Body in Jan Svankmajer’s Lunacy (2005)
- The Journey Itself is Home: John Akomfrah’s film meditation on immigration in Britain, The Nine Muses
“You get settled, and then you too become part of the strangeness”
- Evil Under the Sun: Ace in the Hole
- Mirroring History: Fassbinder’s The BRD Trilogy
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Festivals 2012
- Broken Cameras: On the 2012 Boston Palestine Film Festival
- The 69th Venice International Film Festival: Women Emerge—or Do they?
- American movies in Cannes 2012
The Last Great National Cinema
- Skyfall: Bond and Modernity
- Friendship, Ideas, Sex, and a New Movement: A Dangerous Method, directed by David Cronenberg
Analysis Can Lead to Understanding, Freedom, and Transformation
- Broken Cameras: On the 2012 Boston Palestine Film Festival
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Film Comedy Double
- Bergson’s Comic Theory and Jacques Tati’s Les vacances du Mr. Hulot
- Two Minds on Comedy: Arthur Koestler vs. Henri Bergson
Comedy as an act of Creativity
- He Looked Into The Grim Reaper’s Eyes and Nervously Laughed - Bergsonian Comedy Theory, Office Space, and the Fear of Losing Reality
- Mon Oncle: Tati, Bergson and Cinematic Comedy
- An Analysis of Filmic Satire: the Modern and Vernacular in Jacques Tati’s Mon Oncle
- Bad Lieutenant: Beyond Expectations
- Now Playing in an America Near You: The National Threat of Sacha Baron Cohen
Laughing at Whom?
- Hollywood Rom Com & British Comedy
Hollywood Romantic Comedy & Tears of Laughter
- Shtick’em up: Remembering the Three Stooges
Ya Knucklehead
- Chopsocky Slapstick: Violence as Humorous Excess in the Kung-Fu Comedy
From Jackie Chan to Stephen Chiau
- Bergson’s Comic Theory and Jacques Tati’s Les vacances du Mr. Hulot
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Acting in the Cinema
- A Dimension Beyond Characterization
The Poetics of Performance in Experimental Narrative, David Lynch’s Inland Empire
- Disavowing Transgressive Pleasures: Christina Ricci, Stardom, and the Margins of the Horror Genre
- Peccadillo and Taboo in Piccadilly (1929)
The Entrancing 'otherness' of Anna May Wong
- A Double Life: Bette Davis’ Twin Roles, Part 1: A Stolen Life
- A Double Life: Bette Davis’ Twin Roles, Part 2: Dead Ringers, or Whatever Happened to Bette Davis?
- The Role of Star Persona in Character Development in The Departed
- Herzog and Kinski: Taming the Madman
- Diverging Directorial Styles & Performance
The Case of Midnight Cowboy and Husbands
- The New Candor in Male Friendship Films: Will Reiser’s screenplay 50/50, as directed by Jonathan Levine
Blurring the Lines Regarding Gender and Sexuality
- An Attempt to Reconcile Everything: A Warm December, a film starring and directed by Sidney Poitier, and the Legacy of the Great Actor
Poitier, as an exemplary man, was expected to reconcile what society could not
- A Dimension Beyond Characterization
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Tribute to Louis Goyette
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Politics, Social Analysis and Film
- Light Comes Through a Hole in the World: Palestinian film director Elia Suleiman’s The Time That Remains
The image transgresses the boundaries of its locale
- Luchino Visconti’s The Leopard and Those Who Are Not Rich in A Country of Arrangements
Human Understanding is More Important than Social Categories
- Props, Things and Do the Right Thing
Overlooked Aspect of Mise en Scene
- The Representation of Non-Violent Political Activism in Bloody Sunday and Omagh
- The Evolution of “Third Cinema” in a Brazilian Context: from Santos to Bianchi
- Light Comes Through a Hole in the World: Palestinian film director Elia Suleiman’s The Time That Remains
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Issues of Authorship