Senses of Cinema
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Established in Melbourne (Australia) in 1999, Senses of Cinema is one of the first online film journals of its kind and has set the standard for professional, high quality film-related content on the Internet. The online journal is devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema.
Senses of Cinema
1w ago
Winner of Best Film and Best Director at the 37th Hong Kong Film Awards, Ming yue ji shi you (Our Time Will Come, 2017) is the 29th film directed by Ann Hui, a leading figure in the Hong Kong New Wave cinema of the 1980s. Set during the Japanese occupation, its release coincided with the ..read more
Senses of Cinema
1w ago
Following the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, many people endeavoured to escape the country, with the main method available being by boat. It is estimated that on top of the 800,000 people that safely arrived in another country, a large number of refugees, almost as many as those who survived, did not. Admittedly ..read more
Senses of Cinema
1w ago
It’s strange to witness a film so visually bewitching and yet so narratively disorganised. Fūng gip (The Secret, Ann Hui, 1979) is such a film: completely beautiful, dark, and unsettling, yet at times incoherent. The Secret is loosely based on a grisly real-life murder, the ‘Double Corpse Murder Case’ which took place in 1970 at ..read more
Senses of Cinema
3w ago
Shot in late 1972 and released at the Melbourne Filmmakers Co-op in mid-September 1974,1 Dave Jones’ Yackety Yack is one of the key films made in that transitional period between the relative “void” of homegrown Australian feature-film production in the 1950s and 1960s and the “renaissance” that gathered steam in the mid-1970s. It opened to ..read more
Senses of Cinema
3w ago
It is July and Richmond are teetering on a spot in the top eight in the Australian Football League (AFL), a sport that is akin to a religion in Melbourne. It’s an average high of 13 degrees and the chilly southerly wind whips my face every time I venture outdoors. In a city like Melbourne ..read more
Senses of Cinema
1M ago
Crossfire (Edward Dmytryk, 1947), often classified as a film noir, and one of the first Hollywood films dealing with antisemitism, didn’t start out with that theme in mind. Instead, the film was based on Richard Brooks’ 1945 novel The Brick Foxhole and Brooks, then serving in the Marine Corps, made anti-gay prejudice – and the ..read more
Senses of Cinema
1M ago
Hollywood never knew what to do with Gloria Grahame. When Grahame’s movie career stalled in the early 1960s, she had only been in the business for fifteen years. In that short time, she had appeared in a string of box office hits, including The Greatest Show on Earth (Cecil B DeMille, 1952), The Bad and ..read more
Senses of Cinema
1M ago
When Gloria Grahame won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her sub-ten-minute performance in Vincente Minnelli’s The Bad and the Beautiful (1952), presenter Edmund Gwenn made a playful quip about the melodrama’s F. Scott Fitzgerald–inspired title: “I’m the bad; here comes the beautiful!”1 In fact, this choice of title had been rather contentious ..read more
Senses of Cinema
2M ago
Kaos unites the Taviani brothers with Nobel Prize-winning author Luigi Pirandello for an explosion of onscreen Siciliana. As they had done for Sardinia in Padre Padrone (1977) and Tuscany in La Notte di San Lorenzo (The Night of the Shooting Stars, 1982), the directing team of Paolo and Vittorio Taviani in 1984 attempted to bring ..read more
Senses of Cinema
2M ago
“His life was gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, “This was a man.”” – Anthony, in William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar.1 For Vittorio and Paolo Taviani, film is the transmitter of truth from art. Born in Tuscany to an anti-fascist lawyer father ..read more