ISSN 1717-9559
All Reviews
1.
A review essay of the brand new translation of André Bazin's What is Cinema?.
2.
An analysis of Samira Makhmalbaf's latest and controversial film, Two-Legged Horse, which incorporates Makhmalbaf's own responses at the Q & A following the world premiere of her film at the Toronto International Film Festival.
3.
An overview of the group of films included in a mini-retrospective of the Japanese Nikkatsu studio’s “B-movie” production of the late 1960s.
5.
Steffen Hantke reviews a book on David Cronenberg by Mark Browning which attempts to read Cronenberg through a literary rather than cinematic landscape.
6.
A review of the much anticipated recent Severin Films DVD release of a difficult to see giallo, Sergio Bergonzelli's In the Folds of the Flesh.
7.
A review of Tarsem Singh's splendorous fantasy epic, loosely based on the 1981 Bulgarian film Yo Ho Ho.
8.
The sensuality of this rare, painterly-like Parguayan feature film is discussed by writer Donato Totaro.
9.
A personal account of encountering the 'difficult' works of Alain Robbe-Grillet, and then the man himself.
10.
Author Daniel Garrett takes on a trio of items on the great French filmmaker Jean Renoir, a commentary on his 1939 classic The Rules of the Game, and two books, a collection of interviews and a section of a book detailing Pauline Kael’s appreciation of Renoir.
11.
An in-depth analysis od Wong Kar-Wai's first US film, ??My Blueberry Nights??.
12.
A review of Eric Guirado's The Grocer's Son that focuses on the social and inter-personal dynamics of a French family and life in a small town in Provence.
13.
A critical look at the past and present of French cinema as reflected through two recent books on French cinema.
15.
An in-depth humanist analysis of Haaz Sleiman's The Visitor.
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