Johan Van Der Keuken
Van der Keuken had an illustrious career and was not recognized to the degree…
Spectre: James Bond and his Ghosts
I was flying back from Montreal to Vancouver (of course I was not flying, traveling perhaps)…
Wim Wenders, Nicholas Ray, and Lightning Over Water
Lightning Over Water ... the narrator is Wim Wenders... he is also the film's…
Wim Wenders in 3 Dimensions
There was a wonderful conference in Toronto that began on Saturday, June 11…
Artificial Worlds and the Cinema
The cinema was dominated for a hundred years by a certain kind of…
Cine-Tracts Issue Number 2
Cine-Tracts was one of the first Journals of Film and Cultural Studies published…
Picasso Filmed in 1950
‘Visite à Picasso’ (1950) 20m, dir. Paul Haesaerts A poetic treatment…
One of these Mornings
A beautiful film about the most important election day in American History in 2008…
Quentin Tarantino’s Inglorious Basterds
Jay Hoberman, the Village Voice's best reviewer and one of the top film critics in…
A Review of Screen Media Arts: An Introduction to Concepts and Practices
Screen Media Arts by Hart Cohen, Juan Salazar and Iqbal Barkat is a superb book…
ADORATION: Atom Egoyan’s New Film
“Adoration,” the new film by Atom Egoyan is a profound and extended exploration…
The Class - A Film with no Class
The Class directed by Laurent Cantet won the Palme D'Or at Cannes and is in the running for…
Reflections on the Documentary Cinema
In 1981 during a public presentation in Paris at La Cinémathèque Française, Jean Rouch said the following . . .
The Dark Knight
There are films and then there is cinema. The difference is not in the degree or strength…