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The Hands of Time
A personal report on the first half of Il Cinema Ritrovato, courtesy of our editor-in-chief.
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Canned Borscht and Nurses’ Underwear: William Wellman at the Ritrovato
Half way through Il Cinema Ritrovato, Tom Paulus reflects on the William Wellman retrospective and late twenties Hollywood.
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Les Trucs de Machin: La Fille de Delft and Maudite soit la guerre.
Reporting from Il Cinema Ritrovato, Anke Brouwers on Alfred Machin's visual strategies and the color scheme of 'Maudite soit la guerre'.
Moments
Le Moment Suprême – Belgian Directors, Cinephiliac Moments
Photogénie kicks off its series of Belgian moments, in which homegrown talents wax poetic about their cinematic epiphanies.
Essay
The Use of an Illusion: Childhood cinephilia, object relations, and videographic film studies
Issue 0. - Reviving Photogénie: Catherine Grant and Christian Keathley on the spectatorial experience and the process of writing criticism.
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Remembering Miklós Jancsó: A Long Take on His Early Oeuvre
Tim Deschaumes takes a long look at the early work of the seminal filmmaker who left us at the beginning of this year.
Essay
The Attractions of Cinema: Movie Love after the Sixties – Part Two
Tom Paulus continues his account of post-Sixties cinephilia.
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The Attractions of Cinema: Movie Love after the Sixties
Tom Paulus traces the history of cinephilia after the Sixties.
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Too Pretty to Eat: The Grand Budapest Hotel
Tom Paulus on Wes Anderson's mannerisms.
In Retrospect
IN RETROSPECT: The Congress: Ari Folman’s Nightmare of Cinema
The fourth entry in our ‘In Retrospect’ series: Pieter Van Ballaer on Ari Folman’s 'The Congress'.
Essay
A Critique of Judgment: Movies and Morality
Tom Paulus takes on the complex relationship between art and morality, ethics and aesthetics.
In Retrospect
IN RETROSPECT: It’s Not About Computers or Chess! Andrew Bujalski’s Computer Chess
In the third entry in our 'In Retrospect' series, David Gunzburg on the peculiarities of Andrew Bujalski's 'Computer Chess'.
In Retrospect
IN RETROSPECT: To the Wonder. The Naive Malick
The second entry in our series on 'overlooked' films of 2013: Tom Paulus on Terrence Malick's 'To the Wonder'.
In Retrospect
IN RETROSPECT: Coming of Age in the Postmodern Age. The Imaginarium of Chan-wook Park’s Stoker
The first in our series on 'overlooked' films of 2013: Vanity Celis on Chan-wook Park’s 'Stoker'.
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9th Seminar on the Origins and History of Cinema: Objectivity and the Effects of Truth – Early Cinema and the Realist Tradition
Vito Adriaensens reports on the 9th Girona Seminar, on Early Cinema and the Realist Tradition.
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Experiencing Abel Gance’s Napoléon in London: A Polyphony
Ruben Demasure on seeing Abel Gance's 'Napoléon' - one of the cinephiliac events of 2013 - and the joy of synchronicity.
Essay
That Slightly Nighttime Feel: A Story of Children and Film
Anke Brouwers on Mark Cousins' latest film and the ambiguity of children's performances.
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Realistic, Like in a Movie: On Facts, Procedurals and Memories of Murders
Issue 1. - Just the Facts – A New Realist Cinema?: David Gunzburg offers a historical overview of the police procedural in film.
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The Unsilent Initial: Monuments, Swamps and Politics Before the Law in Steven Spielberg´s Lincoln
Issue 1. - Just the Facts – A New Realist Cinema?: Drehli Robnik on Steven Spielberg's 'Lincoln'.
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Scripting in the Dataverse
Issue 1. - Just the Facts – A New Realist Cinema?: Stefaan Decostere's text about the development of a script.