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Film Studies

Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s filmmakers changed movie storytelling by David Bordwell

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June-July 2018, no. 402
Desley Deacon reviews 'Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s filmmakers changed movie storytelling' by David Bordwell

With the Harvey Weinstein scandal and the #MeToo movement reminding us all too vividly of flesh and blood Hollywood, David Bordwell’s cerebral Reinventing Hollywood: How 1940s filmmakers changed movie storytelling seems to come from another planet. But Bordwell, who is the Jacques Ledoux Professor of ...

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'La Parisienne' in Cinema: Between art and life by Felicity Chaplin

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June-July 2018, no. 402
Philippa Hawker reviews '"La Parisienne" in Cinema: Between art and life' by Felicity Chaplin

On the cover of Felicity Chaplin’s La Parisienne in Cinema: Between art and life, Audrey Hepburn, arms aloft, reigns triumphant in a strapless scarlet evening gown and organza shawl. This is a scene from Funny Face (1957), in which she plays a shy Greenwich Village bookshop employee transformed into a high-profile ...

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On 'Black Panther' by Dilan Gunawardana

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June-July 2018, no. 402

The Marvel film Black Panther has currently earned more than US$1.3 billion dollars at the box office worldwide since its release on 13 February 2018, which places it high among the most financially successful films of all time. Such an achievement isn’t necessarily indicative of quality – the Fast and the Furious and Minions ...

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News from the Editor's Desk - March 2018

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March 2018, no. 399

News from the Editors Desk

The Best Film I Never Made: And other stories about a life in the arts by Bruce Beresford

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January–February 2018, no. 398
Desley Deacon reviews 'The Best Film I Never Made: And other stories about a life in the arts' by Bruce Beresford

Reading Bruce Beresford is enough to make any aspiring filmmaker think twice about following in his footsteps. ‘The Best Film I Never Made’, the title article of this collection of Beresford’s occasional writing over the last fifteen years, says it all. This is the sad, but in its way hilarious, story of his attempt to put together a ...

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#18 Dilan Gunawardana in conversation with Greg Sestero

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The ABR Podcast

ABR Deputy Editor Dilan Gunawardana spoke to Greg Sestero: actor, model, author and co-star of the 'best/worst film ever made', The Room (2003).

His award-winning memoir The Disaster Artist: My life inside The Room, the greatest bad ...

Shakespeare’s cinema of love: A study in genre and influence by R.S. White

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June-July 2017, no. 392
David McInnis reviews 'Shakespeare’s cinema of love: A study in genre and influence' by R.S. White

Does William Shakespeare still matter? The question was posed frequently throughout 2016, the quatercentenary of his death. Those sceptical of Shakespeare’s enduring relevance faced the challenge of explaining the seemingly endless proliferation of films and adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays in an age ostensibly dislocated from early modern sensibilities and po ...

Steven Spielberg: A life in films by Molly Haskell

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May 2017, no. 391
Jake Wilson reviews 'Steven Spielberg: A life in films' by Molly Haskell

Steven Spielberg may be the most beloved filmmaker alive, but this has rarely stopped critics from patronising him. ‘Such moods as alienation and melancholia have no place in his films,’ ...

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The Day the Music Died: A life lived behind the lens by Tony Garnett

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December 2016, no. 387
Michael Shmith reviews 'The Day the Music Died: A life lived behind the lens' by Tony Garnett

Tony Garnett, one of the most respected figures in British television drama, is also one of its most reclusive. Most people these days have almost certainly never heard of him, or, if they have, probably think he is a distant relation of Alf Garnett, of Till Death Us Do Part fame.

Even though the cantankerous Alf was a fictional character (played by ...

Latin American Cinema: A Comparative History by Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez

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December 2016, no. 387
Sarah McDonald reviews 'Latin American Cinema: A Comparative History' by Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez

Latin America – the term – is an invention of a would-be emperor of Mexico, French in origin, trying in vain to strengthen the imperial project through a link to a Latinate origin, including and privileging the language and culture of the romance languages and excluding the Anglophone in the quest for colonial pre-eminence. However, long before the empire of Nap ...

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