Issue Archive
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British Cinema
- The Trouble With Harry: The Third Man (1949), Part 1
- The Trouble With Harry: The Third Man (1949), Part 2
- The Day the Earth Caught Fire
BFI Restored Blu Ray
- Civilization and Savagery: Painter Joseph Mallord William Turner, the subject of Mike Leigh’s film Mr. Turner
- “They Affect Dogs as Well”- Crime and British Video Censorship in the Early 1980s
The Video Nasties
- The Trouble With Harry: The Third Man (1949), Part 1
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The Independent Spirit Continues
- Charm, Courage, and Eruptions of Vulgar Force: Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel
An Interpretation of Violence’s Threat to Civilization
- An Interview with Scooter McCrae: The Patron “Saint” of Low Budget Horror
- Jug Face and the Legacy of The Lottery
Sacrificial Horror
- Jug Face: An Interview with Chad Crawford Kinkle and Lauren Ashley Carter
- Baby Rosemary (1976) Dir: John Hayes (as Howard Perkins) DVD from Vinegar Syndrome
- Charm, Courage, and Eruptions of Vulgar Force: Wes Anderson’s The Grand Budapest Hotel
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Kamal Aljafari Retrospective
- Cinema as a country
The cinematic act as reappropriation of a contested territory in Kamal Aljafari’s Recollection
- Letter for an aborted interview
Kamal Aljafari Retrospective
- Appropriate, Re-mix, Erase, Zoom-in: The Transformative Power of Film-Making in Kamal Aljafari’s Recollection
- The Circulation of Palestinian Images
- Brazilian Marginal Cinema
- Cinema as a country
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Interviews With Independent Filmmakers
- The Many Tales of Shahrzaad’s Tale: An Interview with Shahin Parhami
- I am the Blues (2016, Daniel Cross): Keeping the Blues Alive With Daniel Cross
- Psycho-geographies of the World to Come: A Conversation with Trevor Mowchun at the Montreal Premiere of His First Feature Film
- As Far as the Eye Can See: An Interview with David Franklin
Texas on Screen
- Whole Lotta Motherlove: The Baby (1973)
Independent Cult Classic
- The Many Tales of Shahrzaad’s Tale: An Interview with Shahin Parhami
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From Parts of Europe
- Innocent Laughter, Intellectual Legacy: Margarethe von Trotta’s film Hannah Arendt
- Out of the infinite Meadows: Peter Baumann’s Machines of Desire
- Bridgend: Dark Poetry
At Fantasia 2015
- “Nature Is Satan’s Church”: Depression and the Politics of Gender in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist
- Towards a Recasting of Forms: The Cinematic Experience of/in Epic Theatre in Sokurov’s Alexandra and Tarr’s The Turin Horse
- Innocent Laughter, Intellectual Legacy: Margarethe von Trotta’s film Hannah Arendt
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Gender and Genre
- The Vernal, The Visceral and The Violent: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Final Girl
- “Not in my Movie”: The 90s Slasher Cycle and Grrrl Power
- Proud People Breed Sorrows for Themselves: the film Wuthering Heights, directed by Andrea Arnold
Heathcliff: “A half-civilized ferocity lurked yet in the depressed brows and eyes full of black fire”
- Far From Heaven and Carol: Channeling 1950s Melodrama
- Are Women Magic? Ray Carney’s Speaking the Language of Desire
- The Vernal, The Visceral and The Violent: The Texas Chain Saw Massacre and The Final Girl
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Fantasia 2015
- Artifacts of Age
A Fragmentary Recollection of Fantasia 2015
- Fantasia 2015: The Dirty Dozen (or so)
- Home Is Where The Horror Is: Representations of Family at Fantasia 2015
- Sonny Mallhi at Fantasia 2015
Interview with Donato Totaro
- Programming Cult: Fantasia Film Festival and Programming Oppositional Taste
- Artifacts of Age
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Science Fiction Cinema of the ‘Quiet’ Kind
- Engineering Shock: Part 1 of a Study of the Use of the Startle Effect in The Thing
- The Startle as Art: Part 2 of a Study of the Use of the Startle Effect in The Thing
- Against Demonologies: Character, Cognition, and Circumstance in Z for Zachariah and The Martian
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson and writer Samuel Delany’s insights illuminate science fiction
- The Passion of the Zone (Pt. 1)
Ecological Shortsightedness and the Limits of Auditory Extension in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker
- The Passion of the Zone (Pt. 2)
Ecological Shortsightedness and the Limits of Auditory Extension in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker
- Engineering Shock: Part 1 of a Study of the Use of the Startle Effect in The Thing
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Contemporary Auteurs
- Interview with Philippe Grandrieux
- Substance is Subject: A ‘Compass’ to Lars von Trier’s Antichrist
- Todd Haynes, I’m Not There and the Postmodern Biopic
- Sophisticated People, Simple Place, Stress: Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s film Winter Sleep, inspired by Chekhov
- Death, time and the possibilities of renewal in Carlos Reygadas’ Silent Light and Carl T. Dreyer’s Ordet
- Interview with Philippe Grandrieux
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Movies About War and Hatred
- The Crisis of National Identity and Nation: A Comparative Analysis of La Grand Illusion and Bashu, The Little Stranger
- A Harrowing Exploration of War and the Meaning of Human Existence: The Ascent (Voskhozhdeniye, Larisa Shepitko, 1977)
- Volker Schlöndorff’s Diplomatie: Dramatizing Peace
- The Angel Must Hang: Herman Melville’s Billy Budd, and Peter Ustinov’s film interpretation of it
Envy and malice are offended by the beauty of innocence
- The Hateful Eight (2015, Quentin Tarantino): The Big Show Returns
- The Crisis of National Identity and Nation: A Comparative Analysis of La Grand Illusion and Bashu, The Little Stranger
