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Essays
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The Road Movie meets pure movement in the form of Henri Bergson. Part 1.
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The Road Movie meets pure movement in the form of Henri Bergson. Part 2.
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Should feminist scholarship be looking beyond American horror for a more varied representation of female desire and sexuality?
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Part two of David Neo's subtle analysis of Fractal memory images in Sokoruv's Mother and Son.
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Gilles Deleuze Meets the Mandelbrot set in this theoretical exploration of the memory images in Sokoruv's modern day Kammerspiel classic Mother and Son.
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Offscreen presents for the first time in its orginal English language, this revised version of an essay that appeared in a French translation in Séquence magazine in 1995. Read on to see how Peter Jackson revolutionized horror (or comedy?) with his startling early feature films.
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Part two of Peter Rist's critical assessment of Iranian films that played at the most recent of the major Montreal film festivals.
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The first of a two-part critical assessment of recent Iranian cinema seen through the eyes of Montreal film critic and film professor Peter Rist.
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A look at Atom Egoyan's Family Viewing as both a springboard and touchstone for an inquiry into the nature of time and how shifting perceptions and attitudes toward it have effected society and the individual.
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Using the theories of Lacan, Freud, and Zizek, Gullatz explores the depth of psychic horror across a selection of classic and contemporary horror films.
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One of the grand masters of contemporary cinema visits Montreal. Read an exclusive interview here at Offscreen.
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Why is French philosopher Henri Bergson relevant for today's film theory?
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What happens when Hollywood begins to copy Hong Kong, and Hong Kong begins to copy Hollywood?
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Will Buster Keaton ever date? Unlikely, as this recent retrospective demonstrates.
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Historically, Halloween has its origins with the ancient Druids, who believed that on the eve of All Saints' Day, the lord of the dead, Saman, would summon a host of evil spirits. In modern days the only evil spirits called on during Halloween (excluding all those little tyrants running around in costumes!) are those emanating from movie screens.
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