Category Archive for: ‘Issue 46 – Reviews’

Robert Sinnerbrink, Terrence Malick: Filmmaker and Philosopher Bloomsbury Academic, 2019 ISBN: 9781350063624 Au$46.99 (pb) 272pp (Review copy supplied by Bloomsbury publishing) Not many filmmakers started their careers as philosophers. Terrence Malick, however, pursued an academic, philosophical path before turning to cinema. This small but remarkable biographical fact has inspired many scholars to examine how his philosophical background influenced his filmmaking. …

Mark Harris, Mike Nichols: A Life Penguin Random House, 2021 ISBN: 978039956242 US$35 (hb) 673pp (Review copy supplied by Penguin New York) Robert E. Kapsis (ed), Nichols and May: Interviews University Press of Mississippi, 2020 ISBN: 9781496828330 / 9781496831040 US$99 (hb) / US$25 (pb) 269pp (Review copy supplied by University Press of Mississippi) Mike Nichols (1931 – 2014) is probably …

Tom Ryan, The Films of Douglas Sirk: Exquisite Ironies and Magnificent Obsessions University Press of Mississippi, 2019 Online ISBN: 9781496822406 Print ISBN:  9781496817983 HB: $99 Pb: $30 320pp (Review copy supplied by University Press of Mississippi) Douglas Sirk is a filmmaker who is widely acknowledged and celebrated for his influential 1950s melodramas All that Heaven Allows (1955), Magnificent Obsession (1954), …