By Cleaver Patterson. Running during the August bank holiday weekend each year at the Empire Cinema in London’s Leicester Square, the FILM4 FrightFest has now become a regular fixture on the annual horror film festival circuit. The event, celebrating its fourteenth anniversary this year, will be the biggest yet featuring […]
Ten Mantras of Man of Steel: or How to Make a Blockbuster
By Matthew Sorrento. The prologue on Krypton, detailing Superman’s birth, will play as the start of an intriguing science fiction adventure – and then shall be exploited in a bizarre sf-horror invasion of Earth. Zack Snyder should take his title too literally and pack his film with imagery of steel […]
Coming Soon: Film International 62
May 20, 2013
‘The Last Silent Star Standing’: An Oral History of 1920s Film with Diana Serra Cary To delve into her life – almost Zelig-like in the manner she appears in photographs sparring playfully with Jack Dempsey, performing a graceful pose with Irene Castle, being held in Edgar Rice Burroughs’s arms – […]
Call for Contributions: Special issue of Film International on Iranian Independent Cinema
May 10, 2013
Guest editor: Parviz Jahed (parviz.jahed@cine-eye.com) Associate editor Amir Ganjavie (ganjavie@yorku.ca) Articles are invited for publication in an edited volume of Film International on the topic of Iranian independent cinema. Independent Iranian cinema consists of the low budget Iranian films with limited affiliation to the government and its financial resources that […]
New Narratives for the 21st Century
By Wheeler Winston Dixon and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. With the exhaustion of film narrative an accomplished fact, it would seem that new, “anti-narratives” might be an early clue to a new direction. Inspired by the famous comment by Jean-Luc Godard that a film should “have a beginning, a middle and […]
A Note on the Digital Implosion
An account on the difference between celluloid and the nowaday omnipresent digital film experience by Mats Carlsson. I would argue that the fear of the digital (felt by some) and the claim of a different feel attributable to the digitalized watching experience, grounds itself on a level other than that […]
Streaming: Movies, Media, and Instant Access
February 27, 2013
Wheeler Winston Dixon presents his new book. Film stocks are vanishing, but the image remains, albeit in a new, sleeker format. Today, viewers can instantly stream movies on demand on televisions, computers, and smartphones. Long gone are the days when films could only be seen in theaters: Videos are now […]
Off to the Printers: Film International 61
February 22, 2013
How to Escape from Brazil? An interview with Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek and British director Sophie Fiennes ‘You know that I am still a radical leftist precisely due to my pessimism. For the true Utopia is to think that things can somehow go on as they are. No, if we […]
Film Scratches Blog #4
By Liza Palmer, Review Section Editor. The long-awaited call for reviews is finally here. Film International is actively seeking reviews for publication online or in print (at our discretion) of the following books and DVDs: Books Bollywood: Gods, Glamour and Gossip, Kush Varia (Wallflower) — TAKEN The Cinema of Michael […]
Call for proposals: The Lives and Deaths of the Yuppie
February 18, 2013
The Lives and Deaths of the Yuppie is the working title of a book project co-edited by Daniel Lindvall and Saër Maty Bâ. The aim of the book is to present a range of analyses of ‘the yuppie’ and ‘yuppiedom’ within late 20th and early 21st century film and television. […]