It is said that during the 1951 shoot for Twentieth Century Fox’s Kangaroo, the first Technicolor feature shot in Australia, Adelaide ran out of green paint. The reasons are not…
What e'er thou hearest or seest, stand all aloof. Romeo and Juliet v.3 Prelude We have all worried through this labyrinth many times. And virtually every scholar who really cares…
On 24 September 1896, the Lumière representative to Bombay and Australia, Marius Sestier, received a telegram from the home office in Lyon. The films he had made in India and…
[1] Production still from Dad And Dave Come To Town (Australia 1938). Dir. Ken Hall. Cast: Bert Bailey (Dad Rudd), Connie Martyn (Mum). [2] The joke here is a sound…
Introduction: On Cinematic and Anthropocenic Dreams How to think about cinema in a way that truly takes the measure of what this celluloidal gathering of collectable and projectable light has…
2018 marked the fortieth anniversary of John Carpenter’s pivotal slasher film Halloween (1978) and the release of yet another sequel, Halloween (David Gordon Green, 2018), in which Laurie Strode (Jamie…
In the early 1950s Hollywood explored several new technologies in order to fight a major box office decline. In 1948, more than 90 million Americans had visited the theatre at…
English-language Ozu scholarship was established by the pioneering work of Paul Schrader (1972), Donald Richie (1974), Noël Burch (1979), David Bordwell (1976 and 1988) and Kristin Thompson (1976 and 1988).…
In a two-day event dedicated to the work of a film scholar whose published writings are not vast, it was inevitable that some choice quotes and passages got repeated mention…
From its beginning and for nearly a decade, the AIDS crisis in the United States was characterised by inaction. ACT UP (AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power) was founded in 1987…