Issue Archive
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Theo Angelopoulos: The Praxis of History as Style
- The Aesthetics of the Long Take in Theo Angelopoulos’s The Travelling Players
- Historical Argument, Involuntary Memory, and the Subversion of Balkanist Discourse within Theo Angelopoulos’ Ulysses’ Gaze
- Theo Angelopoulos: On the Road between Story and History
- The Suspended Step of the Stork: Theo Angelopoulos among the Greats
- Willem Dafoe: A Master Class and an Interview
- The Aesthetics of the Long Take in Theo Angelopoulos’s The Travelling Players
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A Sense of the Political
- The Cosmopolitan Perspective, the Rebellious Impulse: The Matrix trilogy and Snowpiercer ( Part 1)
How are we to make freedom real?
- The Cosmopolitan Perspective, the Rebellious Impulse: The Activist, Belle, Dear White People, Omar, Selma and Proposals for the Future (Part 2)
- Decoding The Secret in Their Eyes: Domestic and Transnational Meanings
- Koji Wakamatsu: Sex is Politics 24 Times a Second
- Lost at Sea: A Reappraisal of Ridley Scott’s 1492: Conquest of Paradise
- The Cosmopolitan Perspective, the Rebellious Impulse: The Matrix trilogy and Snowpiercer ( Part 1)
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Book and Film Reviews
- The Man Who Loved Children: László Nemes’ Son of Saul
- Sam Peckinpah: Piece by Piece
Review of New Book on Sam Peckinpah
- Books about Directors: Five Came Back and Fred Zinnemann and the Cinema of Resistance
- Pilgrim of the World: on Liliana Cavani’s Francesco
New Blu Ray
- Expressions of Generational Conflict: Elia Kazan’s film interpretation of John Steinbeck’s East of Eden, featuring James Dean
- The Man Who Loved Children: László Nemes’ Son of Saul
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Sex and Desire at the Cinema
- The Mordant Geography of Desire in Barbet Schroeder’s More (1969)
- The Last Taboo: Necrophilia in Kissed and Nekromantik
- Our Passion Is Our Task: Sexual Ethics in the films Splendor in the Grass And The Paperboy
Pleasure versus Virtue, an ongoing struggle
- Stoker (2013, Park Chan-Wook): A Stylish Cocktail of Incest and Murder
- Like a Charm
Movies That Put a Warm Smile on Your Face (but not sex)
- The Mordant Geography of Desire in Barbet Schroeder’s More (1969)
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Festival of New Cinema (FNC) & Experimental Film
- Paul Sharits: Expanding Cinema to the Beyond
A documentary film by François Miron
- An interview with François Miron on Paul Sharits
Talking Experimental at the FNC (Festival de Nouveau Cinema)
- J.P. Sniadecki’s Radical Vision of Ethnography
- TIFF 2015: Some Tentative First Impressions
The Wavelengths Section
- Philippe Gandrieux: Reflections Unheard
- Paul Sharits: Expanding Cinema to the Beyond
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Sexuality in the Cinema
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Japanese Cinema
- Musical Peace-Pact: Sound and Music in Heinosuke Gosho’s The Neighbour’s Wife and Mine (1931)
- An Inn in Tokyo and Mr. Thank You Seen through the Lens of Bazinian Realism
- Individualism in the Land of the Rising Sun: Youth and Rebellion on the Cusp of the Japanese New Wave
- The Tragic Hero as Drifter in Yoji Yamada’s Films
- Anxiety in a Technological World: Tetsuo: the Iron Man
- Musical Peace-Pact: Sound and Music in Heinosuke Gosho’s The Neighbour’s Wife and Mine (1931)
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Viewing Habits
- The Maltese Falcon and the Case of the Mystery Square
and other things lurking in the background
- Nanarophelia and the danger of praising the mediocre
Losing Our Standards
- London Made Me: Personal History, Film History and My Home Town
- The Subject Was Rose
Joseph Cornell and Rose Hobart
- Beautiful Light, Vibrant Things, Speaking Minds: Terrence Malick’s To the Wonder
Faith is tested in Malick’s film of love and spiritual devotion, To the Wonder
- The Maltese Falcon and the Case of the Mystery Square
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Documentary
- New Documentaries at BAMcinemaFest (June 17-28, 2015)
- Fact, fiction and eccentricity in Parviz Kimiavi’s images from “the garden of stones”
- Room 237: Experimenting with documentary and film criticism
- Foreign Correspondence: El Ambulanté and The Act of Killing
Cinema of Death Meets Cinema of Life
- Poet of Body and Soul: Walt Whitman, Allen Ginsberg, and the film Kill Your Darlings
What does a film canon respecting mind, spirit, and homoeroticism look like?
- New Documentaries at BAMcinemaFest (June 17-28, 2015)
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Cinematic Pleasures
- Enlightenment: Wes Anderson’s film The Darjeeling Limited, featuring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman
- Not the Long Goodbye: Some Thoughts on the Role of the Web in the Survival of Celluloid
- The Pleasure of Walter White’s Grotesque Odyssey: Complex Narrative Escalation in AMC’s Breaking Bad (2008-2013)
The Return of the White Male Psychopath
- The pleasures of the Genre: the Falcon films
- ‘En-gendering’ Philosophies of Horror: A Zizekian Perpsective
- Enlightenment: Wes Anderson’s film The Darjeeling Limited, featuring Owen Wilson, Adrien Brody, and Jason Schwartzman