Film Studies
Transgressions in Anglo-American Cinema: Gender, sex and the deviant body edited by Joel Gwynne
Movie Journal: The rise of new American cinema 1959–1971 by Jonas Mekas
Scorsese, currently showing at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image in Melbourne, is not exactly the exhibition that is advertised, and that is a very good thing. Martin Scorsese's career has stretched over half a century and involves nearly sixty films. Yet anyone who has seen advance press ...
... (read more)Dancing to His Song: The singular cinema of Rolf de Heer by Jane Freebury
Gay Directors, Gay Films?: Pedro Almodóvar, Terence Davies, Todd Haynes, Gus Van Sant, John Waters by Emanuel Levy
As with London buses, one waits for ages for a film based on the life of that vocal phenomenon Florence Foster Jenkins (1868–1944), and then two arrive simultaneously. Add to the mix Maggie Smith's Miss Shepherd in The Lady in the Van and it seems to be open season on eccentric ladies of ...
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The evocative Prologue to this book has a poetic precision that bodes well for its treatment of this too-long neglected film, and what follows more than answers such expectations.
Jake Wilson's analysis (resuscitation might be a better word) of the 1976 Australian bushranging adventure,
Directory of World Cinema, Volume 19: Australia and New Zealand edited by Ben Goldsmith, Mark David Ryan, and Geoff Lealand
Eloise Ross reviews 'Women He's Undressed' directed by Gillian Armstrong
The first time that I really took notice of Orry-Kelly’s name was when I began researching the 1933 pre-code film Baby Face a number of years ago. I became obsessed with Barbara Stanwyck’s sharp Manhattan business attire, her intricate gloves, and the fur-draped costumes she later wore as a kept woman. That the costumes were, at heart, Australian m ...