TIFF 2014, part 2: Loznitsa, Alonso
Maidan (Sergei Loznitsa). If the interaction of aesthetics and politics is a key theme that runs through the history of
TIFF 2014, part 1: Dardennes, Hausner
Some thoughts on a couple of films I caught in Toronto … Two Days, One Night (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne,
TIFF 2014: The Round-Up
I returned from Toronto last night, and will put up a couple of posts later in the week on some
On Video Essays, Cinephilia and Affect
Even though I don’t teach in the cinema studies discipline, I have made a habit, in the last few years,
Savannah Film Festival + Links
Last month, cinema scholar Caryl Flinn and I spent a few days at the Savannah Film Festival as guests of
TIFF 2013: The Round-Up
For me, the star of this year’s TIFF wasn’t a director or performer but instead the brilliant programmer Andréa Picard.
Vulgar Auteurism
The idea of “vulgar auteurism” has generated a flurry of posts and discussions in Internet film culture recently. Let me
Teen Films
I can trace my enduring fascination with teen films back to a specific moment in my personal history: when I
On Thickness and Thinness in Cinema
It is a long acknowledged axiom, vividly demonstrated as early as the films of the Lumières in the late nineteenth
Tous les garçons et les filles
I find it curious that one of the most ambitious European film projects of the 1990s has slipped away from