New SENSES OF CINEMA!

Frame grab from Sans Soleil/Sunless (Chris Marker, 1983)

Oooh! Film Studies For Free's Sunday is complete: a new issue of Senses of Cinema is out. It has some eye-wateringly good items. Just skim, scan and click below.


Senses of Cinema, Issue 66 , March 2013
Editorial Introduction

Features

• To the Viewer: On Nicholas Ray’s We Can’t Go Home Again by Susan Ray
• Sirk, Hollywood and Genre by Tom Ryan
• Bodies in Filmic Space: The Mise en Scène of ‘Courtship Readiness’ in The Big Sleep by Warren Buckland
• Notes on Sans Soleil by Murray Pomerance
• Thank God We Don’t Have a Pope: Habemus Papam, Moretti’s Apocalypse by Marko Bauer
• The Angels’ Share: Ken Loach and Paul Laverty Lift Scotland’s Kilts to Expose Its Darker Parts by David Martin-Jones
• Poetry in the Air: Mad Bastards and Toomelah by Lorraine Mortimer
• It All Flows Back: Treed Murray and the Limits of Urban Community by Zachary Abram
• Umwelt, Landscape and Lupu Pick’s Sylvester by Tyson Wils
• In Dreams and Imagination: Surrealist Values in Mulholland Dr. and Inland Empire by Michael Pattison
• Vertigo: The Best Film of All Time? by Peter Wertz

Great Director:

• Cecil B. DeMille by Anton Karl Kozlovic

Albie Thoms Dossier – Contents 
Adrian Danks's Introduction to the Dossier

1. The Ubu Moment and Australian Experimental Film: Interviews with Albie Thoms by Danni Zuvela for OtherFilm 
2. Albie – A Well-Directed Life by Tina Kaufman 
3. Albie Thoms (dissimilis aliqua alia) by Peter Mudie 
4. Why Albie Thoms? – A Singular Commitment and a Figure Displaced by Barrett Hodsdon 
5. Days of Future Past: Albie Thoms’ Polemics by Jake Wilson 
6. Memoir of Albie by John Flaus 
7. Albie Thoms as an Historian by Graham Shirley 
8. Albie Thoms Refractions by Danni Zuvela for OtherFilm

Cinémathèque Annotations on Film

• Darragh O’Donoghue on Ballad of Narayama 
• Brian Darr on Carmen Comes Home 
• Gregory Dolgopolov on Khrustalyov, My Car! 
• Tara Judah on Comrades 
• Hamish Ford on Two or Three Things I Know About Her 
• Christopher Weedman on Notre musique 
• Lee Hill on Prénom Carmen 
• David Melville on Carmen Jones 
• Rachel Brown on The Man With the Golden Arm
• Matthew Sorrento on Laura 
• John Fidler on Anatomy of a Murder 
• Pasquale Iannone on L’assassino 
• Wheeler Winston Dixon on La decima vittima 
• Gino Moliterno on Property is No Longer a Theft
• Federico Passi on I giorni contati 
• Gino Moliterno on Todo modo 
• Pasquale Iannone on Trial of the Road 
• Cerise Howard on A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Hand
• Peter Hourigan on The Sun in a Net

Book Reviews

• Dimitrios Latsis on Film, Art, New Media: Museum without Walls?
• Kath Dooley on The Beauty of the Real: What Hollywood Can Learn From Contemporary French Actresses
• Daniele Rugo on To Sign One’s Life (With Cinema)
• Federico Passi on Giorgio Mangiamele
• Nick Herd on Local Hollywood: Global Film Production and the Gold Coast
• Lia McCrae-Moore on Jedda
• Daniel Fairfax on Alexander Kluge: Raw Materials for the Imagination
• Tony Mc Kibbin on Film After Film

Festival Reports

• Matthew Flanagan on BFI London’s Experimenta Weekend 
• Bérénice Reynaud  on AFI FEST & American Film Market (AFM)
• Dirk de Bruyn on the Alternative Film/Video Festival
• Bérénice Reynaud  on Sundance
• Marc Saint-Cyr on Rotterdam  
• Lisa Franek on Art House Convergence
• Daniel Fairfax on Berlin 
• Gemma King on Festival du film fantastique and Festival des cinémas différents et expérimentaux