From the editor and writers of Bright Lights Film Journal
Action! Interviews with Directors from Classical Hollywood to Contemporary Iran
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
(Anthem Art and Culture), by Gary Morris (Editor), Bert Cardullo (Introduction), Jonathan Rosenbaum (Foreword). London and New York: Anthem Press, 2009.
"I dare anyone to squeeze between
two covers a more varied, useful and
flat out entertaining sampling of
the personalities that make the
seventh art the liveliest."
— David Hudson, IFC.com
— David Hudson, IFC.com
Ian Johnston
Taipei, Taiwan
Ian Johnston is a New Zealander living in Taipei, Taiwan. His work has appeared in The Film Journal.
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by Emilie Bickerton
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February 2009)
"Through cinema the past is regained."
» Ghosts of the Present: On Aditya Assarat's Wonderful Town (BLFJ 61
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August 2008)
"The film is both a bittersweet love story and a memorial to the tsunami victims."
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November 2007)
"Present-day society doesn't suit us because we're too nostalgic."
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August 2007)
"The grafting on of the film's film noir plot has a reductionist minimalism to it, as if Kaurismaki were sketching an archetype . . ."
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» Lost World: Michael Haneke's Time of the Wolf Reconsidered (BLFJ 56
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May 2007)
"What we're given is a sense that the structures of our civilisation have broken down ..."
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May 2007)
"It's a critique that is one step away from excusing Theo (the 'woman was asking for it' defence) ..."
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"Now it is a world of studio sets and the precise control of the effects of light and shadow."
» "We're
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August 2006)
Antonioni's early masterpiece looks better than ever
» School Daze: The Curious Young
Girls of Lucile Hadzihalilovic's Innocence (BLFJ 53
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August 2006)
"Don't resist, my dear."
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February 2006)
The bad news is . . . there's not much good news
» We're Just Taller Children: On the Dardennes' L'Enfant (BLFJ 51
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February 2006)
The Belgian humanists' most Bressonian film to date
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Tsai pushes the art/porn envelope — or does he?
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Hou honors the master while remaining true to his own vision
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May 2005)
Bring some dramamine to Fruit Chan's best film to date
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February 2005)
"Why can't it be like before?"
» Plumbing the Depths: Renoir and
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February 2005)
Criterion's double-feature DVD features two minor works by two major auteurs
» Martha, Interrupted: Fassbinder's 1974 Masterpiece on DVD (BLFJ 46
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November 2004)
"You're always wanting to touch me!"
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