Cinema and city placement of Porto: from Manoel de Oliveira to Gabe Klinger by Xosé Somoza Medina

“…The study contrasts the way in which local director Manoel de Oliveira projected the city of Porto in his works, with the objective and qualitative analysis of Gabe Klinger’s film. …”
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Invisibilidade social a partir do filme “O som ao redor”: uma análise honnethiana das patologias sociais no Brasil by Thiago Aguiar Simim

“…It then analyzes how Honneth draws on works of art to identify social pathologies and subsequently applies this method of analysis to the Brazilian film “Neighboring sounds”, of director Kleber Mendonça Filho. …”
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Deux visions du noir : le roman Jack’s Return Home de Ted Lewis et le film Get Carter de Mike Hodges by Christophe BROCHIER

“…This article analyses Ted Lewis's novel Jack's Return Home (1970) and its film adaptation, Get Carter (1971) by director and screenwriter Mike Hodges. …”
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De Falkenau aux ruines de Verboten! (1959), les dialectiques formelles de Samuel Fuller by Vincent Souladié

“…Before becoming a famous Hollywood director, Samuel Fuller honed his visual sensibility as a soldier whose superior officers had entrusted with the task of filming the liberation of Europe by US troops in 1945. …”
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De la paix à la guerre, de la fiction au documentaire. Alexandre Dovjenko et Youlia Solntseva by Vanessa Voisin

“…For private as well as public reasons, the by then famous Soviet director refused the mission ascribed to feature film directors -- that is contributing to general mobilisation of the country from the rear areas, in the evacuated studios. …”
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Riding High in the Saddle: African American Subversion in the 1930s Western by Susan Savage Lee

“…The advent of sound in film provided a unique opportunity for minority filmmakers to contribute to the early cinema. …”
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Histoire d’un film en train de se faire – les relents de la dictature argentine dans l’expérience cinématographique de Marco Bechis (1976-1999) by Marion Cairault

“…We attempt to understand how the film creation transforms the relationship between the surviving filmmaker and his traumatic past.…”
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Rolprent, Televisie en die Omgewing by Pieter Jacobus Fourie

“… Against the background of the realist and expressionist film theories it is argued in this article that directors of films/videos on the environment should work in a more realistic style. …”
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Marketing auteurism: the vanishing industry model behind Pedro Almodóvar’s success in the US by Jennifer Green

“…Limitations: It is beyond the scope of this study to fully address the impact of the rise of streaming services on the cinema box office or the market for non-English-language films in the US. The planned world premiere of the director’s first English-language feature film in the fall of 2024 also represents a new direction for the filmmaker worthy of its own future study. …”
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Existential and Phenomenological Horror in Les Diaboliques by Daniel Tilsley

“…The article will link this portrayal of horror to Les Diaboliques’ well-established influence on the development of the dominant 1960s and 1970s paranoid-psychological horror film and key figures like Alfred Hitchcock and William Castle, suggesting the ontological source of horror in these films as existential phenomenological in nature as opposed to exclusively being the result of psychosexual and familial repression, as is commonly posited by critics.…”
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Cinematic Mythmaking in Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Return and The Banishment by Louis Samuel Mealing

“…Since his debut feature The Return (2003), Andrey Zvyagintsev's films have drawn focus from film critics and theorists seeking to investigate a contextual analysis or the director's religious allusions. …”
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Interwencja bogini/Szatana? "Wenus w futrze" (2013) – lektura palimpsestowa filmu Romana Polańskiego by Iwona Kolasińska-Pasterczyk

“…The text concerns Roman Polanski’s film Venus in Fur (2013), a multi-layer psychodrama written for two characters, taking place on several levels of human relations: actress vs. director, literary character vs. performing artist, man vs. woman. …”
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Powidoki twórczości Federica Felliniego w "Mieście Snu" Krystiana Lupy by Katarzyna Gołos-Dąbrowska

“…One of the themes of the play is the process of making a fictional documentary film by the Italian director. Lupa refers to Fellini’s work by stylizing some scenes from his films. …”
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Gone With the Wind, 80 ans d’images. Entretien avec Pierre Berthomieu by Pierre Berthomieu, Emmeline Gros, Marie-Pierre Burquier

“…In an interview with Gaumont’s artistic director Denis Peyrat, a journalist came to the conclusion that “film posters do not obey any miracle recipe.” …”
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Alessandro Mendini et Casabella (1970-1976) : écrire et représenter la crise de l’architecture by Léa Battais

“…The editorials of Alessandro Mendini, architect and director of Casabella from 1970 to 1976, are the support and the manifestation of an intellectual and social crisis affecting architecture in the years of the Italian radical avant-garde. …”
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Миф Левиафанa в творчестве Андрея Звягинцева (на материале фильмa „Левиафан”) by Beata Waligórska-Olejniczak

“…The background is then expanded further in the interpretation of selected shots from the film, which show that the artistic text of the Russian director can be perceived as a universal parable of human life.…”
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La Patinoire de Jean-Philippe Toussaint au miroir de La ricotta de Pier Paolo Pasolini : convergences divergentes dans une chambre d’échos by Margareth Amatulli

“…Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s La Patinoire is inspired by Pasolini’s La ricotta, according to the words of the Belgian writer-director. A catoptric anamorphosis connects the two cinematic works, and the contrasting dialectic that drives the Pasolinian short film allows for a deeper reading of Toussaint’s film. …”
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From Chicago to Hollywood: the Metamorphosis of V.I. Warshawski by Nicole Décuré

“…The passage from novel to film is often a difficult one. When it comes to feminist fiction, the problem becomes acute because the ideology of Hollywood combined with that of a male director find it hard to accommodate such a vision. …”
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Myra Breckinridge et le passager clandestin. Kitsch, camp et inconscient hollywoodien by Grégoire Halbout

“…However, other than status acknowledgement, the extreme hybridisation and the lack of logic of Myra Breckinridge make for an unexpected statement. Born from the director’s imagination and that of the overall production process, the film stands as a metaphor of a dreamlike and phantasmatic intention that Gore Vidal’s novel had only just suggested.…”
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Looking for “I”: Casting the Unnamed Heroine in Alfred Hitchcock and David O. Selznick’s Adaptation of Rebecca by Milan Hain

“…Selznick who was renowned for his film versions of literary classics. Drawing on archival documents from the Selznick Collection at the Harry Ransom Center in Austin, Texas, and on the surviving screen tests of several candidates for the main role, the author compares Fontaine’s screen tests with those of her most immediate “rivals” – Vivien Leigh, Anne Baxter, Margaret Sullavan and Loretta Young – and relates them to the vibrant exchange of opinions between Selznick and director Alfred Hitchcock for whom the film marked his Hollywood debut. …”
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