New SENSES OF CINEMA: Haneke, Méliès, Hanoun, Bergman, Villaverde and more

Frame grab from Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012). Read Roy Grundmann's article on this film.

Film Studies For Free brings you glad tidings of a new issue of Senses of Cinema. All the contents are linked to below. FSFF hasn't pored over all of these yet, but so far the standout piece of interest may well be Haneke scholar extraordinaire Roy Grundmann's article on the Austrian filmmaker's latest film, which argues that

[Amour]’s particular take on the moral tale becomes clearer when we compare it to the moral tales of French New Wave filmmaker Eric Rohmer. As Rohmer explains, the conte moral does not pivot on characters’ actions, but on their inner conflicts and on how characters rationalize their motivations that arise from these conflicts. It has been noted that Rohmer’s films, like many examples of the Nouvelle Vague, are filled with dialogue in which the protagonists verbalize their feelings, perceptions, and mental states. Haneke’s new film harkens back to this pattern. 

FSFF also liked Marc Saint-Cyr's take on one of its favourite films Fanny and Alexander. And there's lots more that catches the eye in this issue.... 

Issue 65, 2012, Editorial 

Feature Articles

• Love, Death, Truth–Amour by Roy Grundmann
• The Way Wakamatsu Chose His Own Fate: Political Mortality and Radical Dramaturgy by Philip Brophy
• Quotidian Melancholy: Marcel Hanoun’s Une simple histoire by Philip Cartelli
• A Conversation with Nicolas Rey by Darren Hughes
• The Kids Are Not All Right: Fanny and Alexander Thirty Years Later by Marc Saint-Cyr
• “One day, the swan sang this with its wings”: An Interview with Teresa Villaverde by Ela Bittencourt
• To Accept the Unacceptable: Reflections on Three Films by Teresa Villaverde by Ela Bittencourt
• ‘Chromatic Frankenstein’s Monsters?’: Restoration, Colour and Variants of Georges Méliès’s Voyage dans la Lune by Wendy Haslem
• The Films of James Gray: Old Testament Narratives by Robert Alpert
• The Yet Unclaimed Baggage of Robert Zemeckis’ Flight by Joseph Natoli
• Wild and Precious –A Film by Bill Mousoulis by Fiona Villella
• Bref Magazine, or, A Tribute to Short Films and thus to the Cinema in General by Viviane Vagh
• The Desire and the Exception by Jacques Kermabon
• Andrew Sarris: The Last of a Kind by John Conomos

Great Directors

• Shirley Clarke by Angelo Koutsourakis

Special Dossier on Tasmania and the Cinema

• Introduction
• Seeing With Green Eyes: Tasmanian Landscape Cinema and the Ecological Gaze by Jane Stadler
• Jewelled Nights: ‘Can Good Movies Be Made in Australia?’ by Jeannette Delamoir
• “What sort of spot is Port Arthur?”: For the Term of His Natural Life and the Tasmanian Gothic by Stephen Gaunson
• Manganinnie– The First Tasmanian Feature Film by John Honey
• Van Diemen’s Land by Jonathan auf der Heide
• Eating and Othering in Jonathan auf der Heide’s Van Diemen’s Land by Guinevere Narraway
• A Culture Cleft in Two – The Documentaries of Scott Millwood by Dan Edwards
• Errol Flynn: A Life at Sea by Robert de Young
• “Change – why should I? I never pretended to be anything than I am”: The Films of Errol Flynn and Raoul Walsh by Adrian Danks

Festival Reports

• Jorge Mourinha DocLisboa
• Pierce Conran on Busan
• Michael Laff on Busan
• Daniel Fairfax and Joshua Sperling on New York
• Pamela Cohn on CPH:DOX
• Bérénice Reynaud on Vancouver
• Ben Cho on Lisbon & Estoril
• Ma Ran on Beijing
• Darren Hughes on Toronto

Cinémathèque Annotations on Film

• José Sarmiento on The Battle of Chile
• Christopher Sharrett on Nostalgia for the Light
• Louise Sheedy on Salvador Allende
• Lee Hill on The Pinochet Case
• Gino Moliterno on Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
• Carlota Larrea on Gomorrah

Book Reviews

• Nicholas Godfrey on The long game: Conversations with independent iconoclasts Roger Corman, George A. Romero, and Charles Burnett
• Douglas Gomery on America’s Corporate Art: The Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures
• Richard Martin on The Cinema of Michael Haneke
• Tessa Chudy on Polanski and Perception
• Cassandra Lovejoy on Deleuze and World Cinemas
• Martin Potter on Challenge for Change
• Ryan Taylor on Terrorism TV
• Vrasidas Karalis on Greek Cinema, Texts, Histories, Identities
• Ravi Sundaram on Shadow Economies of Cinema