A Book Review by Ali Moosavi. Its format of selecting representative films from various parts of the Arab world and analyzing them in detail is quite refreshing and very conducive to understanding the cinema from these parts of the world.” Any book with the title “Arab World Cinemas” immediately raises […]
Rebel Revelations – Mavericks: Interviews with the World’s Iconoclast Filmmakers
A Book Review by Jeremy Carr. The variance of the interviews in Mavericks is part of what makes the book such an engaging read. No two are exactly alike, and any given conversation yields surprising and rewarding conclusions.” Gerald Peary makes it clear, from the very beginning, what readers can […]
Temporal and Spatial Movement – Journeys on Screen: Theory, Ethics, Aesthetics, Edited by Louis Bayman and Natália Pinazza
Embrace the Serpent (2015) A Book Review by Thomas Puhr. Movement, both literal and figurative, is an inherent aspect of cinema: the actors, the camera, and even the filmstrip itself – speeding through a projector – are largely defined by their movements. Perhaps most emblematic of this fundamental quality is […]