Major Dundee
Famously, and infamously, the majority of the films of Sam Peckinpah were made – and unmade – in the editing room. For instance, as two UK film scholars, John Gibbs and Douglas Pye, demonstrate in a...
View ArticleSome Came Running
Some Came Running (1958 USA 135mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: MGM Prod: Sol C. Siegel Dir: Vincente Minnelli Scr: John Patrick, Arthur Sheekman from the novel by James Jones Phot: William H. Daniels...
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Detour (1945 USA 69 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: PRC Prod: Leon Fromkess Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer Scr: Martin G. Goldsmith Phot: Benjamin H. Kline Ed: George McGuire Art Dir: William Clihan Jr. and...
View ArticleNothing Behind the Screen: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Boasting a big cast and a 100% simulated setting, Sky Captain sadly amounts to nothing more than a simulacra of cinema and points to worrying tendencies in Hollywood. The post Nothing Behind the...
View ArticleResonant Textuality: Visualising and Conceptualising the Cinema of Wong...
A while back, Senses of Cinema offered a mini-dossier on Wong Kar-wai’s cinema on the occasion of the release of his In the Mood for Love (2000). A number of writers were invited to pick a word that...
View ArticleNow, Voyager
Now, Voyager (1942 USA 117 mins) Prod Co: Warner Bros. Prod: Hal B. Wallis Dir: Irving Rapper Scr: Casey Robinson, based on the novel by Olive Higgins Prouty Phot: Sol Polito Art Dir: Robert Haas Cost:...
View ArticleAu hasard Balthazar
Au hasard Balthazar (1966 France/Sweden 95 mins) Prod Co: Argos Films/Athos Films/Parc Film/Svensk Filmindustri/Svenska Filminstitutet Prod: Mag Bodard Dir, Scr: Robert Bresson Phot: Ghislain Cloquet...
View ArticleSome Came Running
This annotation previously appeared in Senses of Cinema, no. 19, March–April 2002. Some Came Running (1958 USA 135 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: MGM Prod: Sol C. Siegel Dir: Vincente Minnelli Scr:...
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