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Is there a more convincing definition of Aotearoa New Zealand cinema than Geoff Murphy’s three-film directorial run of Goodbye Pork Pie (1981), Utu (1983), and The Quiet Earth (1985)? Films had always been made in New Zealand, but they were largely foreign productions, with a cast and crew of professionals brought into the country. At […]
This article has been peer reviewed. It was the winter of 1637 and tulipmania was in full swing. In Holland, the price of tulips – an exotic new export from Central Asia – soared to record highs. Bulbs were being sold for more than most farmers’ houses, as fortunes were won, lost, and gambled anew. […]
In France, Dreams, Sex and Love came out over three weeks in the summer of 2025. I was like a restless teenager in my discovery of these intricate, sustainable and secret worlds – breathlessly waiting until the next instalment for another revelation. To me, the triptych of films constitutes a utopian portrayal of consent in […]
Giulio Bertelli’s remarkable feature debut, Agon, depicts three women competing in a fictional Olympics at Ludoj in 2024. But this is not an inspirational sports film. Bertelli is probing the physical and mental capacities of these athletes. His protagonists – Alice (Alice Bellandi), a judoka, Alex (Sofija Zobina), a sharpshooter, and Giovanna (Yile Yara Vianello), […]
This third edition by Dr Karen Pearlman, entitled Cutting Rhythms: Creative Film Editing, marks an important revaluing of intuition as an overarching descriptor for a wide range of acquired skills and maturing expertise – identifying the director’s desires in expression, designing the story structure, noticing and responding to potential emotional nuances, perceiving potential visual and […]
Korean film festivals, like the industry itself, have wrestled with an existential crisis since the COVID pandemic, with declining audiences and many filmmakers unable to secure financing for their projects. Even the most recent Busan International Film Festival, which celebrated its 30th anniversary with a much glitzier event than usual last September, still left attendees […]
b. 19 July 1951, New York City, United States “I do think that filmmaking is sacred.“ – Abel Ferrara1 Discussions of Abel Ferrara – who celebrates his 75th birthday this year – have long been shaped by a popular mythology that has proved remarkably persistent: “the folk hero of New York independent film,”2 the eccentric […]
The opening title card of La battaglia di Algeri (The Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) announces that this is “the first great Algerian film production”. This makes it technically an African film delving into Arab content, directed by a European, specifically an Italian Neorealist director, Gillo Pontecorvo. It premiered on 31 August 1966 at […]
On what should have been an inconspicuous and inconsequential morning in Tehran, Mahboobeh Kalaee boarded a flight bound for Vienna on February 28, 2026. She was headed to the 25th edition of the Tricky Women/Tricky Realties Film Festival. At 9:35am, the United States Central Command announced that it had begun airstrikes against Iran. Her flight […]
Welcome, dear Readers, to the 118th edition of the Internet’s most eclectic and serious discussion of cinema! As ever, we open the Issue with a slate of original, timely, and impressively researched Features. Max Bowens and Candice Strongwater address The New Red Order’s Never Settle with political accuracy, establishing nodal points for a wider understanding […]