Directors Actors Genre Film Culture Tributes Book reviews Interviews
DIRECTORS
The Case Against Woody Allen
Dario Argento's World of Terror
Olivier Assayas: Adolescence and History
Surgically Imprecise Notes on the Great Carmelo Bene NEW (8 Jun 2018)
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
Another Kind of River (A Note on Bob Dylan and the Cinema)
The Scandal of Jean Eustache (1938-1981)
The Intensity of William Friedkin
Comment, Think, Analyse, Experience and Learn: The Neglected Film Work of Ivan Gaal UPDATED (31 Mar 2018)
Godard in the Gallery: Story of a Ruination
'My Mind's All Unsatisfied With It': The Films of Monte Hellman
Hou Hsiao-hsien: A Retrospective
Halls of (James) Ivory
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
Sergei Parajanov and Frontality
Image and Voice: The Audiovisual Essays of Mark Rappaport NEW (8 Dec 2017)
Éric Rohmer Paints His Masterpiece
Douglas Sirk: Only Semi-Detached
Curiosity/Exigency (on Straub-Huillet)
Quentin Tarantino: Just Another Bullet in the Head
Jimmy and Bugsy (on James Toback)
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
ACTORS
Brando's Ghost
The Phantom: Leslie Cheung (1956-2003)
The Incomparable Charisma of Chow Yun-fat
Attitudes and Postures: Jean-Pierre Léaud
GENRE
The Adventures of Cliff Ingersoll ... And Other Evil Artists of the Movies
Families and Friends
14 Uneasy Pieces of Teenage Life
The Mirror Cracked: Film on Film
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Smooth Operators NEW (20 July 2018)
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
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
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
Cinema, Tears, Catharsis
The Cruel and the Callow
A Festive Threesome
Good and Bad Nostalgia
If The Man Can't Dance / He Gets No Second Chance
Light My Fire: The Geology and Geography of Film Canons NEW (8 Dec 2017)
A Lyric Space: From Cinema to Media Art
Main Street USA
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 NEW (9 Nov 2017)
The Palace and the Bunker
Phantom Europe: A Mosaic
(R.A.) Lafferty Looper
Some Filmmakers are Gangsters
A Streetcar Named the Movies NEW (20 July 2018)
Top Ten Films of 2017 (Annotated) NEW (22 Dec 2017)
A Translation Policy: Rouge Magazine
We Shall Be Released
TRIBUTES
For Nika Bohinc and Alexis Tioseco
In Raymond Durgnat’s Crazy Mirror
Stephen Dwoskin (Obituary for The Guardian)
Frank Lovece (1956-2018) NEW (19 Jan 2018)
A Tribute to Poli Papapetrou (1960-2018) NEW (27 Apr 2018)
VOLA X: Vikki Riley (1962 – 2012)
Sam Rohdie (1939-2015)
A Ghost at Noon: A Tribute to Raúl Ruiz (1941 – 2011)
There It Was: A Tribute to David Stratton
Paul Taylor (1957-1992), Impresario
Remembering Paul Willemen (1944-2012)
BOOK REVIEWS
The ABCs of Classic Hollywood by Robert B. Ray
Safe Roads and Backwaters American Movie Critics: An Anthology from the Silents Until Now Edited by Phillip Lopate
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, edited by James Quandt
Citizen Sarris, American Film Critic: Essays in Honor of Andrew Sarris
Culture, Technology and Creativity in the Late Twentieth Century
Deadly Cadenza by Paul Myers
Death 24x a Second: Stillness and the Moving Image by Laura Mulvey
Companion-Piece The Error of My Ways by Edward Colless
The Essential Durgnat edited by Henry K. Miller
NEW (2 Feb 2018) Everything is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard by Richard Brody
Untimely Meditations The BFI Film Classics Series
Film Noir and the Spaces of Modernity by Edward Dimendberg
The Films of Jean-Luc Godard: Seeing the Invisible by David Sterritt
NEW (2 Feb 2018) Godard: A Portrait of the Artist at 70 by Colin MacCabe
I Am a Passenger Hacia una imagen no-tiempo. Deleuze y el cine contemporáneo by Sergi Sánchez
The Hidden God: Film and Faith Edited by Mary Lea Bandy and Antonio Monda
Impressed and Expressed Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television by Jean-Luc Godard
NEW (2 Feb 2018) Weights and Measurements: On Delia Falconer’s The Lost Thoughts of Soldiers
Masters of Starlight: Photographers in Hollywood by David Fahey and Linda Rich
Introduction to Memory Trade: A Prehistory of Cyberculture by Darren Tofts & Murray McKeich
Me: Stories of My Life by Katharine Hepburn
Minding Movies: Observations on the Art, Craft, and Business of Filmmaking by David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson
Letter to Comrade Girish (on his The New Cinephilia)
Critical Disallowance David Bordwell’s On the History of Film Style
Unworthy Companion A review of The Oxford Companion to Australian Film edited by Brian McFarlane, Geoff Mayer & Ina Bertrand
Paris Hollywood: Writings on Film by Peter Wollen
The Passion and the Paradox The Passion of Pier Paolo Pasolini by Sam Rohdie
NEW (9 Aug 2017) The Time is Ripe: Rosalind Galt’s Pretty: Film and the Decorative Image
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
NEW (22 Dec 2017) Screen Media: Analysing Film and Television by Jane Stadler with Kelly McWilliam
Maltin vs. Martin TV Movies and Video Guide later renamed Leonard Maltin’s Movie Guide
To Wax Zizekian Un-American Psycho: Brian De Palma and the Political Invisible by Chris Dumas
The Man in the Ironic Mask Warren Beatty: A Life And A Story by David Thomson
INTERVIEWS
Responses to a Cineaste Questionnaire about Contemporary Television (2014)
Responsibility and Criticism: Cinemascope (Italy) Interview
