DIRECTORS

The Case Against Woody Allen

Dario Argento's World of Terror

Olivier Assayas: Adolescence and History

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

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

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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Thrillers

Lady, Beware: Female Gothic Variations

Modern Horror Cinema: From Screams to Scream

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Bad to the Bone

Trash Comedy: Rear End Window

In Defence of Trash TV

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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

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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

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

The Palace and the Bunker

Phantom Europe: A Mosaic

(R.A.) Lafferty Looper

Some Filmmakers are Gangsters

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)

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

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

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

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

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