Directors Actors Genre Film Culture Tributes Book reviews Interviews
DIRECTORS
Chantal Akerman: A Primer NEW (11 Sep 2020)
The Case Against Woody Allen (1992)
Dario Argento's World of Terror
Olivier Assayas: Adolescence and History
Letters from an Unknown Woman: Rita Azevedo Gomes NEW (14 Aug 2020)
Surgically Imprecise Notes on the Great Carmelo Bene
Stoic Glory: Budd Boetticher
Alas, Poor Boro(wczyk), I Knew Him Well ...
Stan Brakhage: A Tribute
The Eternal Return of Luis Buñuel
Tim Burstall Retrospective
Mr Capra Goes to Heaven
Four Myths that Stand in the Way of the Proper Appreciation of John Cassavetes
Ruptures: Five Propositions on Claude Chabrol
A Larry Clark Portrait
De Palma, Pure and Impure NEW (20 Nov 2020)
Another Kind of River (A Note on Bob Dylan and the Cinema)
Blake Edwards’ Sad Songs of Love NEW (20 Nov 2020)
The Scandal of Jean Eustache (1938-1981)
Federico Fellini: Preserving the Core NEW (18 Dec 2020)
The Intensity of William Friedkin
Comment, Think, Analyse, Experience and Learn: The Neglected Film Work of Ivan Gaal
Philippe Garrel: Tell-Tale Heart NEW (11 Sep 2020)
Godard in the Gallery: Story of a Ruination
Time and the Cities: Amy Heckerling NEW (20 Nov 2020)
'My Mind's All Unsatisfied With It': The Films of Monte Hellman
Hou Hsiao-hsien: A Retrospective
Halls of (James) Ivory
Elsewhere: Anna Kannava (1959-2011) NEW (17 Jul 2020)
Abbas Kiarostami (1940-2016): Three Essays NEW (19 Jun 2020)
Rank and File: The (Re)Discovery of William Klein
Jerry Lewis: Nothing Succeeds Like Excess
Paul Morrissey: An Introduction
The Comings and Goings of Mikio Naruse
Yuri Norstein: The Tender and the Tragic NEW (6 Nov 2020)
The Paradoxes of F.J. Ossang NEW (14 Aug 2020)
Sergei Parajanov and Frontality
Image and Voice: The Audiovisual Essays of Mark Rappaport
Éric Rohmer Paints His Masterpiece
Paul Schrader’s Manhood NEW (11 Sep 2020)
Werner Schroeter: An Extreme Emotion NEW (20 Nov 2020)
Douglas Sirk: Only Semi-Detached
Curiosity/Exigency (on Straub-Huillet)
Quentin Tarantino: Just Another Bullet in the Head
Jimmy and Bugsy (on James Toback)
Agitated Faces, Open Window, Disordered Furniture: Cassandra Tytler NEW (18 Dec 2020)
Broken Links: The Cinema of Teresa Villaverde NEW (12 Feb 2021)
Andy Warhol, Filmmaker Without Qualities
A Cut Is Not An Accident: Memories of Peter Watkins in '80s Melbourne
An Abandoned Mine: Notes on Orson Welles' Radio Work
Woo’s Words: A Lexicon for the Cinema of John Woo (1998) NEW (9 Oct 2020)
Marty versus Clint NEW (20 Nov 2020)
ACTORS
Brando's Ghost
The Phantom: Leslie Cheung (1956-2003)
The Incomparable Charisma of Chow Yun-fat
“Keep Your Hands on the Wheel, Ashleigh”: Elle Fanning in A Rainy Day in New York NEW (25 Sep 2020)
Good Will Hunting: Five Propositions on Ferrell Cinema NEW (19 Jun 2020)
Isabelle Huppert: The Absent One NEW (11 Sep 2020)
Attitudes and Postures: Jean-Pierre Léaud
GENRE
The Adventures of Cliff Ingersoll ... And Other Evil Artists of the Movies
Families and Friends
The Long Path Back: Medievalism and Film NEW (17 Jan 2020)
14 Uneasy Pieces of Teenage Life
The Mirror Cracked: Film on Film
Better Send Some People Down: Suburbia in Australian Cinema (and Beyond)
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Smooth Operators
Thrillers
Lady, Beware: Female Gothic Variations
Modern Horror Cinema: From Screams to Scream
Bad to the Bone
Trash Comedy: Rear End Window
In Defence of Trash TV
Ode to Pop Cinema NEW (19 Jun 2020)
Game Space and Play Time: A Partial History of American Screen Comedy (Lubitsch, Sturges, Tashlin)
Exploring Themes in Film: The Example of Radio Days
French Film Musicals
Dance Fever NEW (17 Jul 2020)
On Experimental Film: Contribution to an Internet Discussion Group in 1997
I Dream of Austria
The Call of Fiction
FILM CULTURE
Artistic Tension: What is Collaboration?
Australian Film Culture: An Obscurely Desired Object
Ballad of an Audio Commentator NEW (26 Feb 2021)
Cinema, Tears, Catharsis
The Cruel and the Callow
A Festive Threesome
Film and Video, Cain and Abel NEW (17 Jul 2020)
Good and Bad Nostalgia
If The Man Can't Dance / He Gets No Second Chance
Intimate Metamorphosis: Film and Architectural Space
Light My Fire: The Geology and Geography of Film Canons
Lit Cigarettes: The 1990s NEW (19 Jun 2020)
Literary Cinephilia: A Survey NEW (17 Jul 2020)
A Lyric Space: From Cinema to Media Art
Main Street USA
Manifesto of the Disinvited (Free Gesture) NEW (12 Feb 2021)
What is Mise en scène? Entry for a Film Theory Encyclopedia
News for Whom?: Critical Coverage of the 10th Jeonju International Film Festival
On Auteurism
On the Corner: Peta Carlin
The Palace and the Bunker
Phantom Europe: A Mosaic
(R.A.) Lafferty Looper
Sign Your Name Across My Heart, or: “I Want to Write About Delbert Mann” NEW (25 Sep 2020)
Some Filmmakers are Gangsters
A Streetcar Named the Movies
Top Ten Films of 2017 (Annotated)
A Translation Policy: Rouge Magazine
Undignified NEW (17 Jan 2020)
The Weimar Shuffle (Call It What You Want) NEW (17 Jan 2020)
We Shall Be Released
The Western Australia Project (1988) NEW (18 Dec 2020)
TRIBUTES
For Nika Bohinc and Alexis Tioseco
In Raymond Durgnat’s Crazy Mirror
Stephen Dwoskin (Obituary for The Guardian)
Bubbles in the Coffee Cup of John Flaus (1986)
Luminous Blows and Unforeseen Encounters: An Introduction to Petr Král NEW (18 Dec 2020)
Frank Lovece (1956-2018)
A Tribute to Poli Papapetrou (1960-2018)
VOLA X: Vikki Riley (1962 – 2012)
Sam Rohdie (1939-2015)
A Ghost at Noon: A Tribute to Raúl Ruiz (1941 – 2011)
For the Love of Valerie Solanas NEW (25 Sep 2020)
There It Was: A Tribute to David Stratton
Paul Taylor (1957-1992), Impresario
Remembering Paul Willemen (1944-2012)
BOOK REVIEWS
Contemporary French Cinema: An Introduction by Guy Austin NEW (25 Sep 2020)
The Hidden God: Film and Faith Edited by Mary Lea Bandy and Antonio Monda
The Cinema Hypothesis: Teaching Cinema in the Classroom and Beyond by Alain Bergala NEW (17 Jan 2020)
Untimely Meditations The BFI Film Classics Series
Critical Disallowance David Bordwell’s On the History of Film Style
Minding Movies: Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson
Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody
Companion-Piece The Error of My Ways by Edward Colless
In the Vernacular: A Generation of Australian Culture and Controversy by Stuart Cunningham NEW (25 Sep 2020)
Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity by Edward Dimendberg
To Wax Zizekian Un-American Psycho: Brian De Palma and the Political Invisible by Chris Dumas
The Essential Durgnat edited by Henry K. Miller
Masters of Starlight: Photographers in Hollywood by David Fahey and Linda Rich
Weights and Measurements: On Delia Falconer’s The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers
The Time is Ripe: Rosalind Galt’s Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image
Impressed and Expressed Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television by Jean-Luc Godard
Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller’s War Movies by Marsha Gordon NEW (26 Feb 2021)
The Films of Fritz Lang: Allegories of Vision and Modernity by Tom Gunning NEW (17 Jul 2020)
Culture, Technology and Creativity in the Late Twentieth Century Edited by Philip Hayward
Me: Stories of My Life by Katharine Hepburn
Safe Roads and Backwaters American Movie Critics: An Anthology from the Silents Until Now Edited by Phillip Lopate
Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at 70 by Colin MacCabe
Jane Campion's The Piano edited by Harriet Margolis NEW (17 Jan 2020)
Maltin vs. Martin TV Movies and Video Guide later renamed Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide
Unworthy Companion A review of The Oxford Companion to Australian Film edited by Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer & Ina Bertrand Hollywood Talks Turkey: The Screen’s Greatest Flops by Doug McClelland NEW (8 May 2020)
Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image by Laura Mulvey
Deadly Cadenza by Paul Myers Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma’s Cinematic Education of the Senses by Eyal Peretz NEW (8 May 2020)
Proof Positive Positif 50 Years: Selections from the French Film Journal Eds. Michel Ciment and Laurence Kardish L’amour du cinema: 50 ans de la revue Positif Ed. Stéphane Goudet
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, edited by James Quandt
The ABCs of Classic Hollywood by Robert B. Ray
The Passion and the Paradox The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini by Sam Rohdie
I Am a Passenger Hacia una imagen no-tiempo. Deleuze y el cine contemporáneo by Sergi Sánchez
Citizen Sarris, American Film Critic: Essays in Honor of Andrew Sarris
Letter to Comrade Girish Shambu (on his The New Cinephilia)
Kracauer: A Biography by Jörg Später NEW (1 Jan 2021)
Screen Media: Analysing Film and Television by Jane Stadler with Kelly McWilliam
The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible by David Sterritt
Introduction to Memory Trade: A Prehistory of Cyberculture by Darren Tofts & Murray McKeich
The Man in the Ironic Mask Warren Beatty: A Life And A Story by David Thomson Film Remakes by Constantine Verevis NEW (8 May 2020)
The Virtual Republic: Australia’s Culture Wars of the 1990s by McKenzie Wark NEW (8 May 2020) Mapping the Imaginary: Ross Gibson’s Camera Natura by Deane Williams NEW (8 May 2020)
Paris Hollywood: Writings on Film by Peter Wollen
INTERVIEWS
Grupo Kane Interview (2009-2010) NEW (19 Jun 2020)
Responses to a Cineaste Questionnaire about Contemporary Television (2014)
Responsibility and Criticism: Cinemascope (Italy) Interview
