Malick’s Music of the Spheres: The Tree of Life
The small but accelerating output of Terrence Malick has largely been approached via its visual poetry. Balancing this, each film has also brought a distinctive soundtrack, in particular the extended…
Fassbinder, and Fassbinder/Peer Raben
Uploaded 1 March 2001 Fassbinder and auteurism Fassbinder's own indelible presence largely operated within a tightly knit, even claustrophobic, group of regular colleagues. Hanna Schygulla for one is remembered as…
Film at the Millennium
Abstract Approaching the millennium, and in its immediate wake, a strong sense of historical lateness emerged, a very particular fin de siècle. In film history, this was immediately preceded by the…
Alexander Kluge: The Last Modernist
Peter C. Lutze, Alexander Kluge: The Last Modernist. Wayne State University Press. Detroit, 1998. ISBN 0 814326 560 (pb) 296pp US$29.95 (Review copy supplied by Wayne State University Press) Uploaded…
Celluloid Symphonies: Texts and Contexts in Film Music History
Julie Hubbert (ed.), Celluloid Symphonies: Texts and Contexts in Film Music History Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011 ISBN: 9 780 5202410 22 US$34.95 (pb) 528pp (Review copy supplied by…
Beyond the Subtitle: Remapping European Art Cinema
Mark Betz, Beyond the Subtitle: Remapping European Art Cinema. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4036-2 US$25.00 (pb) 384pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press…