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An analysis of masculinity in three key Jamaican films.
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An analysis of Freddie Francis' minor masterpiece in psychological and supernatural horror.
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An exclusive look at one of the lesser known Hammer films from its peak period, starring Christopher Lee and directed by Hammer stalwart Terence Fisher.
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Review of the DVD release of this fascinating speculative science-fiction film pitting humans against ants.
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Authors Hans-Bernhard Moeller and George Lellis contextualise the German film Ulzhan as a Western which riffs on the classic American genre but within a contemporary multinational, geo-political landscape.
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In this essay on the Australian western The Proposition author James Rose situates the film within the familiar yet strange expanse of the Australian outback, as a space which plays out the age-old Western theme of garden vs. jungle, civilization vs. wildnerness, and the individual vs. the community.
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An introduction to the theme of nostalgia in the films of Sergio Leone.
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An in-depth analysis of Andrew Dominik's fascinating study of melancholia in the guise of a Western
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Author Guan-Soon Khoo looks at the symbiotic relationship between a contemporary Brazilian 'western' (The House of Sand) and earlier American westerns, as well as the science fiction genre.
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A thematic and formal analysis of the environmental thread across a group of mainly low budget, independent horror films that showed at Fantasia 2007.
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Relying on secondary sources and an in-depth formal analysis, author Richard Wallace takes a plunge into defining the ineffable: the Lubitsch Touch.
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An essay on the Soviet Science Fiction films which played at the 2007 Fantasia International Film Festival.
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An interview with Doug Harris, writer/director of the Canadian film Remembering Mel.
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An brief look back at the capital cost allowance period in Canadian cinema, which acts as an introduction to the interview with Doug Harris.
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An examination of trends in the recent horror film, focusing on the intimate relationship that exists between viewer/film in the venerable horror genre.
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The end of the world is hot on US screens of late, culminating in the intriguing technological experiment, Cloverfield.
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An interview with Philippe Spurrell, director of the Canadian supernatural mystery, The Descendant (2007).
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An earnest, DIY account of a sighted creature in the New Orleans, Louisiana area.
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An interview with the indie masters of camp aesthetics and underground trash (in the best term), the Kuchar bros.
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An analysis of Touch of Evil which argues that a formal analysis grounded in cognitivism is better suited than most (i.e. psychoanalytical) in taking into consideration issues of meaning (authorial intention, the collaborative nature of filmmaking) and the particularities of cinema's unique 'autographic' and 'discursive' language.
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While most reviewers of Abel Ferrara’s (arguably masterpiece) The Bad Lieutenant tended to laud Harvey Kietel’s performance in spite of his character’s morally reprehensible nature, and the film’s overall harsh subject matter, Jason Mark Scott argues that Ferrara’s stylistic mix of ‘naturalism’ (which is likened to Pier Paolo Pasolini) and lyricism amounts to a poignant treatment of Catholic angst.
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An in-depth overview of the Italian crime films of overlooked auteur Fernando di Leo. One of the first essays in English on the director.
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A textual analysis of the variant versions of Sergio Martino's excellent giallo, All the Colors of the Dark.
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An introduction to the Italian crime film (the poliziotteschi), a mainstay of Italian popular cinema of the 1970s.
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An historical overview of the guapparia crime filone, which was especially popular in the Southern parts of Italy in the 1970s.
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A psychoanalytical analysis of the unique Greek cult film??Singapore Sling??, a postmodern melange of classic film noir tropes, melodrama, gothic horror, Expressionism, and exploitation cinema (extreme gore, explicit sex).
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An analysis of the true crime elements of Brian De Palma's contemporary film noir The Black Dahlia. Author Catherine Benoit also considers the film's intertextuality with respect to previous film noir.
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A Left-Handed Form of Human Endeavour: Narrative Comparisons & Contrasts Between the Noir Heist Film
An analysis comparing the narrative structures of two seminal noir heist films, The Asphalt Jungle and The Killing.
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A structural analysis of film noir openings. Part 2.
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A structural analysis of film noir openings. Part 1.
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A review of the NFB's much anticipated DVD box set of Pierre Perrault's seminal Île-aux-Coudres trilogy.
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A close textual analysis of Elie Suleiman’s Chronicle of a Disappearance which demonstrates how the director's understanding of form informs the complex political landscape of the everyday Palestinian experience.
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Author Guan-Soon wrestles through the virutes and ambiguities of Zhang Yimou’s Hero, a film which, according to Guan-Soon, negotiates between a Hollywood style blockbuster and a culturally savvy Chinese martial arts epic.
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An theoretical analysis of what makes the cult film fan tick, from a psychoanalytical standpoint.
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A review essay of one of the most intriguing low budget American horror films ever made, taking into account production history and how director Herk Harvey uses the film's technical limitations to its benefit.
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A tribute to the Hammer great Freddie Francis, cinematographer par excellence and director of countless horror films, including the film given extensive analysis here, The Creeping Flesh.
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A thoughtful overview of the 13th rendition of the Bradford International Film Festival, which ran from March 9-24, 2007.
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In-depth review of the Fantasia International Film Festival's first DVD release, a compilation of outstanding shorts shown at the festival over the past several years.
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In-depth review of the three short film DVDs from Cinema 16, with volumes dedicated to British, American and European cinema. Includes early short films by Ridley Scott, Asif Kapadia, Lynne Ramsey, Christopher Nolan, DA Pennebaker, Tim Burton, Todd Solondz, Jean-Luc Godard, Tom Tykwer, and Lars von Trier.
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An in-depth analysis of David Lynch's animated series Dumbland that convincingly argues for its likeness to Dadiast art and Absurdist drama.
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An historical contextualisation of Santiago Álvarez' bold political/experimental short films.
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An overview of Richard Kerr's multimedia installation, Industrie/Industry.
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A comparative analysis between the styles of Robert Bresson and Sergio Leone.
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A review of Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain tracing the film's literary roots in Allegory, Romanticism and Epic poetry.
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The recent video work series of four 50-minute filmic essays by Québécois giant Jean Pierre Lefebvre is analyzed for its cultural and aesthetic depth.
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An in-depth interview with one of the driving forces behind the promotion and critical appreciation of Asian cinema, Tony Rayns.
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A report on the 2006 edition of the Festival of New Cinema in Montreal, with a preamble on the etiquette of big theatre experience in the era of the multiplex experience.
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A broad survey of the trends and patterns of the American horror film since 1991, the year Silence of the Lambs won several Academy Awards.
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An interview with director, cast and select production people of the refreshingly original indie horror film, Shallow Ground.
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A look at how two recent documentaries on the slasher/stalker film signals a paradigm shift in the horror genre.
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An analysis of how the representation of the modern male plays out in visceral dynamics of Alexandre Aja's The Hills Have Eyes, while also comparing it to Wes Craven's original.
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An analysis of the representation of the disabled across the broad spectrum of fantastic cinemas.
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Rist celebrates the Honk Kong Film Festival as it celebrates its 30th Year Anniversary.
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A report on Fantasia Film Festival 2006, discussing issues related to form-content, style for style's sake, and short films featuring man eating cats.
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An interview with the director of Strange Circus and The Suicide Club, Sion Sono.
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A report on the 10th Year Anniversary of Fantasia, focusing on films featuring particularly nasty male pyschos.
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A review of François Miron's revisionist, Sapphic film noir, which imagines a world where women act like Humphrey Bogart and men are nervous, jittery and timid.
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An interview with San Francisco-based curator, critic, theorist, writer, producer Jenni Olson
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A review essay on three recent books, two focusing on Charlie Chaplin and one on the American critic/playright James Agee.
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A review essay of a multi-author reader on one of the greatest of Scottish films, The Wicker Man.
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A trans-gendered analysis of Hitchcock's Marnie.
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Using the critical status of Stanley Kubrick, David Church analyzes how the films of a revered art film auteur can also be held up examples of cult cinema.
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An interview with David Grieco, Italian director of serial killer film Evilenko.
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A psychoanalytical defense of Dario Argento against claims of misogyny.
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An report on teh 26th installment of the Syracuse based Cinefest festival, a four-day fiesta of early cinema.
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An exploration of the art of fight choreography as defined by wuxia pan master King Hu.
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An analysis of curator Jenni Olson's collection of Black American Cinema Trailers, 1946 - 1976.
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Review essay of Guy Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World which concentrates on issues of National and cultural identity.
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A review essay of Maddin's most recent docu-short on Roberto Rossellini.
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A comparative analysis of social/political meaning in Charlie Chaplin's The Immigrant and Busby Berkeley and Mervyn Le Roy's Golddiggers of 1933.
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A cultural analysis of the Canadian comic phenomena of the Trailer Park Boys.
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An overview analysis of Spain's enfant terrible, unique auteruist Agustin Villaronga, director of In A Glass Cage, 99.9, and others.
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A report on the 46th International Film Festival of Thessaloniki, Greece (TIFF, 18 – 27 November 2005).
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An in-depth review essay of the notorious horror film In a Glass Cage, released on DVD by Cult Epics.
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An analysis of the recent Index DVD compilation of Austrian experimental director Peter Tscherkassky.
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A report on the 29th International Hong Kong Film festival.
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An in-depth interview with co-writer and co-director of the Canadian noirish horror film Eternal.
