Past Issues
Issue 10. 2022-23
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Articles
The Lumet Touch
Gary Bettinson
Loneliness in the films of Aki Kaurismäki
Jaakko Seppälä
The uses of perplexity: A conversation with Robert B. Ray on the art of film, music and pedagogy
Trevor Mowchun
Student Essays
Approaching the Unapproachable: The Cinema of Mass Shootings & the Limits of Classical Form
Leo Kim
Audiovisual essays
Dance, Camera, Dance: Directorial Choreography in the Live Anthology Drama
Peter Labuza (author's statement)
The V. F. Perkins Dossier
Introduction
Andrew Klevan
The Phantom Thread of Victor Perkins
Adrian Martin
The World of Film and World Particles in the Criticism of Victor Perkins
George Toles
Integrating Criticism into the Philosophy of Art: V. F. Perkins, Dead Poets Society, and 'Value Interaction'
Andrew Klevan
V.F. Perkins and Television
James Walters
Why did Film Studies ignore Perkins?
Robert B. Ray
Upstairs, Downstairs: Victor Perkins and Nicholas Ray's Domesticity
Murray Pomerance
Dossier: The Politics of Close Analysis, and its Object
Introduction
Lucy Fife Donaldson and Lisa Purse
Eileen Rositzka, 1988-2021
Lisa Purse and Lucy Fife Donaldson
The spirits of African cinema: redemptive aesthetics in Mati Diop's Atlantics
Rosalind Galt
Tracing the threads of influence: George Hoyningen-Huene and Les Girls (1957)
Lucy Fife Donaldson (author's statement)
No compromise: Jan Němec's rough diamond
Anne Rutherford
Roundtable - Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism and the past, present, and future of film criticism
Lucy Fife Donaldson, John Gibbs, Lisa Purse, Doug Pye, Girish Shambu
This issue edited by Lucy Fife Donaldson and Lisa Purse, and designed by Adam Powell with Kate Stolyarova.
Issue 9. 2020-21
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Articles
Close to you: Notorious Proximity in Cinema
Murray Pomerance
'A fair curve from a noble plan': Certain Women
Dominic Lash
El Sur (The South), or the Memory of Cinema
George Kouvaros
Two Rode Together
Deborah Thomas
Nonprofessional Acting in El Perro
Miguel Gaggiotti
A Plea for Intention: Stanley Cavell and Ordinary Aesthetic Philosophy
Kyle Barrowman
'Why Does It Look Like This?' A Visual Primer of Early CinemaScope Composition
Marshall Deutelbaum
Closing Choices in Hostiles: Stepping onto a Moving Train
David G. Hughes
Student essays
Introduction
Kathrina Glitre
Ozu's frames: Form and narrative in Late Spring
Joshua J. Taylor
Audiovisual essays
Desegregating the Two Shot: The Use of the Frame in The Defiant Ones
Henry Rownd (author's statement)
Music and Point of View in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
By Patrick Keating (author's statement)
The Sacred and the Profane: Visualising Patriarchal Capitalism in There Will Be Blood
By Ryan Bedsaul (author's statement)
This issue coordinated by Alex Clayton and Kathrina Glitre, and designed by Elizabeth Johnston.
Issue 8. June, 2019
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Articles
Moments Apart
James Walters
Inarticulate lives: a reading of the opening to Terence Davies’ The Long Day Closes
Benedict Morrison
Fold upon fold: figurative logics and critical priorities in Nicole Brenez’s work on Abel Ferarra
Dominic Lash
Manhattan Melodrama (W.S. Van Dyke, 1934)
Michael Walker
Badness: an issue in the aesthetics of film
V. F. Perkins (edited by Andrew Klevan)
Interviews
Introduction
John Gibbs
Ian Cameron
(24 July 1996)
V. F. Perkins
(22 May 1997)
Charles Barr
(19 June 1997)
Alan Lovell
(13 April 1999)
Audiovisual essays
'Say, have you seen the Carioca?’ An experiment in non‐linear, non‐hierarchical approaches to film history
By John Gibbs (author's statement here.)
Three Video Essays on Lighting and Time
By Patrick Keating (author's statement here.)
This issue coordinated by Andrew Klevan and Douglas Pye, and designed by Martha Macri.
Issue 7. May, 2017
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Opening Choices
Introduction
Edward Gallafent & John Gibbs
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy: Significantly Ordinary
Nathaniel Deyo
Rio Bravo: Dude Walks into a Saloon
Pete Falconer
Similar Means to Different Ends: Lola Montés as a Punch in the Gut
Anthony Coman
Intimacy, ‘Truth' and the Gaze: The Double Opening of Zero Dark Thirty
Christa Van Raalte
Under the Skin: Cosmology and Individuation
Catherine Constable
Otto Preminger's Hand in the Initial Moments of Bunny Lake is Missing
Lola Breaux
Articles
Intoxicating Stagecraft: Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend and the Mysteries of Theatre in Film
George Toles
Daisy Kenyon (Otto Preminger, 1947)
Michael Walker
V. F. Perkins, 1936-2016: A Tribute
A Tribute to V. F. Perkins
Editorial board
Obituary
Charles Barr
The Cinema of Nicholas Ray
V. F. Perkins
Letter From an Unknown Woman
V. F. Perkins
Audiovisual Essays
The Phantom Carriage: A Revaluation, Parts 1 & 2 (Read authors' statement here.)
John Gibbs and Douglas Pye
Motifs of Movement and Modernity (read author's statement here.)
Patrick Keating
Opening Choices: Notorious (read the authors' statement here.)
John Gibbs and Douglas Pye
This issue edited by Edward Gallafent and John Gibbs. Designed by Katy O’Hare.
Issue 6. December, 2015
Use No Hooks: Maurice Pialat / Manny Farber
Adrian Martin
Only in Dreams: The Big Sleep and Hollywood Fantasy
Nathaniel Deyo
Déjà Vu: Textures of Time
Steen Ledet Christiansen
Moments of Texture
Introduction
Lucy Fife Donaldson
Brokeback Mountain: A Toast
Adam O'Brien
Surfaces, Textures and the Long Take in Death Line
Ian Banks
Reading Space in Cracker
Lucy Fife Donaldson
Passing Time in Frances Ha
James Zborowski
The Best Years of Our Lives: A Dossier
Introduction
James MacDowell
Among My Souvenirs: Couples, Conventions and the America to Come in The Best Years of Our Lives
Nicolas Pillai
Performance and Style in The Best Years of Our Lives
Sarah Thomas
Black Extras in The Best Years of Our Lives
Steve Neale
Viewing the World in Till the End of Time
Edward Gallafent
Book Reviews
A Companion to Jean-Luc Godard (Tom Conley, T. Jefferson Kline, eds)
Douglas Morrey
Découpage (Timothy Barnard)
Douglas Pye
This issue edited and designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson and James MacDowell.
Issue 5. December, 2014.
The Art of Indirection in Trouble in Paradise
Andrew Klevan
Dear Friend: The Shop Around the Corner and In the Good Old Summertime
Josh Cluderay
The Inexpressible: The Sense of the Metaphysical in The Thin Red Line
Katerina Virvidaki
Complex Staging: The Hidden Dimensions of Roy Andersson’s Aesthetics
Julian Hanich
Jim Hillier: 1941 – 2014 - A Tribute
A Tribute to Jim Hillier
Editorial Board
(nostalgia)
Jim Hillier
Ma Nuit chez Maud
Jim Hillier
This issue edited by Alex Clayton and Kathrina Glitre. Design by Lucy Fife Donaldson and Kathrina Glitre.
Issue 4. June, 2013.
Regional Horizons in The Last Detail
Adam O'Brien
Luxury and Largesse in Film
George Toles
Talking Space in Vertigo
Murray Pomerance
Rereading A Countess from Hong Kong: Action, Speech, and Style in Charlie Chaplin's Final Feature
Donna Kornhaber
Only Yesterday
Charles Barr
The Wonderful Country
Pete Falconer
Andrew Sarris: A Tribute
The Devil and the Nun
Andrew Sarris
A Robin Wood Archive (2)
Mashed Marlowe
Robin Wood
Controlling the Situation
Robin Wood
Poet of the Cinema
Robin Wood
Mad Smile of a Hollow Civilisation
Robin Wood
A Matter of Life and Death
Robin Wood
Issue edited by Andrew Klevan and Victor Perkins. Designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, John Gibbs, and James MacDowell.
Issue 3. January, 2012.
The Fritz Lang Dossier, Part 2
Rush to Judgement: Imperfect Justice in Fury (1936)
Stella Bruzzi
You Only Live Once (1937)
V. F. Perkins
Going Straight: The Past and the Future in The Return of Frank James (1940)
Edward Gallafent
The Woman in the Window (1944)
Mark Rappaport
Guess-Work: Scarlet Street (1945)
Adrian Martin
The Big Heat: Acts of Violence (1953)
Peter William Evans
Human Desire (1954)
Deborah Thomas
Lang With Lacan: The Power of the Gaze in Moonfleet (1955)
Peter Benson
Bonjour Tristesse and the Expressive Potential of Découpage
Christian Keathley
The Texture of Performance in Psycho and its Remake
Alex Clayton
The Cry of the Owl: Investigating Decision-Making in a Contemporary Feature Film
John Gibbs
Issue edited by Douglas Pye and Michael Walker. Designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, John Gibbs and James MacDowell.
Issue 2. May, 2011.
The Fritz Lang Dossier, Part 1
Notes on Metropolis
Michael Walker
M: Leading the Blind
Douglas Pye & Iris Luppa
Das Testament des Dr Mabuse
Michael Walker
Susan Hayward in the 50s
Edward Gallafent
Madame Bovary, C’est Moi – Signed, Vincente Minnelli
Mark Rappaport
Psychoanalyse de Psycho / Psychoanalysis of Psycho
Robin Wood
Attitudes in Advise and Consent
Robin Wood
In Memoriam Michael Reeves
Robin Wood
Sense of Dislocation
Robin Wood
Signs and Motifs
Robin Wood
Moments of Release
Robin Wood
Call Me Ishmael
Robin Wood
Issue edited by Douglas Pye and Michael Walker. Designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, John Gibbs and James MacDowell.
Issue 1. August, 2010.
Ian Cameron: a Tribute
V. F. Perkins
Films, Directors and Critics
Ian Cameron, reprinted from Movie 2
Access and Excess in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Lucy Fife Donaldson
Sleeping with Half Open Eyes: Dreams and Realities in The Cry of the Owl
John Gibbs
Fugitive Physicality and Female Performance in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss and Lola
Kate Leadbetter
Notes on Quirky
James MacDowell
Limbo: Frustrated Narration
Deborah Thomas
Acting Ordinary in The Shop Around the Corner
George Toles
The Rhetoric of The Wire
James Zborowski
Review: Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, 3 – 10 October 2009
Michael Walker
Issue edited by Edward Gallafent and John Gibbs. Designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, John Gibbs and James MacDowell.