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Recent articles from Film Criticism

Gun Crazy: cinematic amour fou.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... "The world moves on a woman's hips."--"The Great Curve," The Talking Heads Muero porque no muero. (I die because I do not die.) --St. Teresa of Avila Overture A boy appears onscreen; he moves forward--straight towards us, as it were--and as he does the camera pulls back only...

Gender hierarchy and environmental crisis in Tsai Ming-liang's The Hole.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... Known as Taiwan's Fassbinder, Tsai Ming-liang inherits the spirit of European New Wave Cinema and adopts modernist/ postmodernist aesthetics, minimalist style, and diasporic sentiment to explore various facets of contemporary Taiwanese society. (1) His films often portray outsiders unwanted...

Tarzan vs. IBM: humans and computers in Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville.(Critical essay)
September 22, 2008... In contrast with the utopian perspectives on science and technology that pervaded much of the discourse concerning computers in the 1960s, Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville [Alphaville, une etrange aventure de Lemmy Caution] (1965) explores an alternative, humanist critique of technology--albeit...

Cannes 2008: the well-made film.(Festivals)
September 22, 2008... The film that won at Cannes this year, Laurent Cantet's Entre les tours, offered a flesh semi-documentary look at French adolescents in a classroom. The director had created a real class of teenagers in the 20th arrondissement of Paris and filmed them for a year. The script, loosely based on...

The Virtual Life of Film.(Book review)
September 22, 2008... The Virtual Life of Film. By D. N. Rodowick Harvard University Press, 2007. xiv + 193 pp. $24.95 paper, $55 cloth. Like the self-contained narratives of the classic Hollywood structure, the ontology of film would be neither terribly interesting nor engaging were it not in a...