Issue Archive
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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
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Fantasia 2011
- Fantasia: Turning the Rear View Mirror
Ten Years and Counting at Concordia
- “Unmasking” The Phantom of the Opera
Gala Fantasia 2011
- Robin Hardy: A Chat with the wicker man
Fantasia, July 21, 2011
- 18th Bradford International Film Festival
April 2012
- New Age goes big screen: Jonathan Livingston Seagull
A look back at a watershed New Age moment
- Fantasia: Turning the Rear View Mirror
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The Turin Horse & The European Art Film
- The Turin Horse and the End of Civilization As We Know It
- The Turin Horse: A Numbers Game
Bela Tarr's Final Film
- Melancholia, a speculative film on spirit and space by Lars von Trier
Using the Imagination of Disaster as Justification for Misanthropy
- Inquietude
- Nature and Grace, Image and Thought: Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life
Consciousness is Enriched by an Original Perception of the Living World
- The Turin Horse and the End of Civilization As We Know It
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The Art of Science Fiction: Kubrick, Tarkovsky, and Spielberg
- 2001: A Space Odyssey Uncovering the intelligence from what may appear to be an unintelligible text
- Connection between Different Realities through Video Screens
Analysis of the “Berton’s Report” film sequence from "Solaris" directed by Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)
- A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (Steven Spielberg, 2001) as Intertextual, Reflexive Monster
- History and Imagination: the book Steven Spielberg’s America by Frederick Wasser
An Entertainer Attempts the Work of an Artist
- Horror in History: The film Schindler’s List by Steven Spielberg
Difficult Facts Survive Sentimental Sensibility
- 2001: A Space Odyssey Uncovering the intelligence from what may appear to be an unintelligible text
