2000
Code Unknown (France/Germany/Romania: Michael Haneke, 2000: 118 mins)
Brunette, Peter. Michael Haneke. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 2010.
---. "On the Films of Michael Haneke." The Marketplace of Ideas (April 15, 2010)
"Code Unknown: An Auto Dialogue." Girish [This is a blog-a-thon--links at the bottom will direct you to more essays on the film] (February 13, 2006)
Cozzalio, Dennis. "Code Unknown and Crash: Collisions, Connections and Catharsis." Sergio Leone and the Infield Fly (February 13, 2006)
Falcon, Richard. Code Unknown Sight and Sound (May 2001)
Grundman, Roy. A Companion to Michael Haneke. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2010.
"Michael Haneke Studies: Videos, Podcasts and Article Links." Film Studies for Free (June 26, 2010)
Price, Brian and John David Rhodes, ed. On Michael Haneke. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University, 2010.
Sorfa, David. "Uneasy domesticity in the films of
Michael Haneke." Studies in European Cinema 3.2 (2006)
Wheatley, Catherine. Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image. NY: Bergahn Books, 2009. [BCTC Library PN 1998.3 H36 W44 2009]
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Taiwan/Hong Kong/USA/China: Ang Lee, 2000: 120 mins)
Atchley, J. Heath. "When The Master Is Not Master: The Critique of Enlightenment in Ang Lee's 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.'" Journal of Religion and Film 7.2 (October 2003)
Baker, Geoff. "Portraying the Quest for Buddhist Wisdom?: A Comparative Study of The Matrix and Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon." Journal of Religion and Film 10.1 (April 2006)
Dancer in the Dark (Denmark: Lars Von Trier, 2000: 140 mins)
"May TOERIFIC: Dancer in the Dark Doodad Kind of Town (May 18, 2009)
The Day I Became a Woman (Iran: Marzieh Makhmalbaf, 2000: 78 mins)
Ortiz, Gaye. "Women as Spectacle: Theological Perspectives on Women and Film." Theology and Film: Challenging the Sacred/Secular Divide. ed. Christopher Deacy and Gaye Williams Ortiz. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008: 85-113.
Stone, Judy. "Iranian Cinema Now." International Film Guide: 2004 Los Angeles: Silman-James Press, 2004: 40-54.
Divided We Fall (Czech Republic: Jan Hrebek, 2000: 117 mins)
Cockrell, Eddie. "Directors of the Year: Jan Hrebek." International Film Guide: 2004. Los Angeles: Silman James Press, 2004: 19-24.
The Gleaners & I (France: Agnes Varda, 2000: 82 mins)
Darke, Chris. "The Directors of the Year: Agnes Varda." International Film Guide. London: Wallflower Press, 2009: 38-45. [Available in BCTC Library PN1993.3 I544 2009]
In the Mood for Love (Hong Kong/France: Wong Kar-Wai, 2000: 98 mins)
Elley, Derek. "Great Directors: Wong Kar-Wai." International Film Guide 2002. Los Angeles: Silman James Press, 2002: 42-48. [Available in BCTC Library PN 1993.3 1544 2002]
Merrick, Amy. "Living In: In the Mood for Love." Design Sponge (March 2010)
Memento (USA: Christopher Nolan, 2000: 113 mins)
Cassey, Joe. "Mental Illness." Understanding Representation. ed. Wendy Helsby. London: BFI, 2005: 99-114. [Available in BCTC Library PN 1995 U4977 2005]
Dawson, Mike. "Memento in Relation to Reception Theory." Left Field Cinema (March 3, 2009)
Eig, Jonathan. "A beautiful mind(fuck): Hollywood structures of identity." Jump Cut #46 (2003)
Kemp, Philip. "Directors of the Year: Christopher Nolan." International Film Guide: 2004 Los Angeles: Silman-James Press, 2004: 35-39.
Requeim for a Dream (USA: Darren Aronofsky, 2000: 102 mins)
Cassey, Joe. "Mental Illness." Understanding Representation. ed. Wendy Helsby. London: BFI, 2005: 99-114. [Available in BCTC Library PN 1995 U4977 2005]
Grant, Catherine. "Establishing Split." Audiovisualcy (November 2010)
Snatch (UK/USA: Guy Ritchie, 2000: 102 mins)
Helsby, Wendy. "Roughs and Respectables: Representing the 'Other.'" Understanding Representation. ed. Wendy Helsby. London: BFI, 2005: 143-164. [Available in BCTC Library PN 1995 U4977 2005]
Suzhou River
(Germany/China: Ye Lou, 2000: 83 mins)
Feng, Yunda Eddie. "Revitalizing the Thriller Genre: Lou Ye's Suzhou River and Purple Butterfly." Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009: 187-202. [BCTC Library: PN1995 P89 2009]
Together (Sweden/Denmark/Italy: Lukas Moodysson, 2000: 106 mins)
Forslund, Bengt. "Directors of the Year: Lukas Moodysson." International Film Guide: 2004. Los Angeles: Silman James Press, 2004: 30-34.
Unbreakable (USA: M. Night Shyamalan, 2000: 106 mins)
Totaro, Donato. "Visual Style in M. Night Shyamalan’s “Fantastic” Trilogy, Part 1: The Long Take." Offscreen (November 30, 2003)
---. "Visual Style in M. Night Shyamalan’s “Fantastic” Trilogy, Part 2: Mise en Scène." Offscreen (November 30, 2003)
Werckmeister Harmonies (Hungary/Italy/Germany/France: Bela Tarr, 2000: 145 mins
Flanagan, Matthew. "Towards an Aesthetic of Slow in Contemporary Cinema." 16:9 (November 2008)
North, Dan. "“All a Man Can Do is Look Upon it”: What’s With the Werckmeister Whale?" Spectacular Attractions (December 3, 2009)
Romney, Jonathan. "Bela Tarr." Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood ed. Michael Atkinson. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2008: 73-78. [Professor has copy]
2001
Amelie (France/Germany: Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2001: 121 mins)
Gaggi, Silvio. "Navigating Chaos." New Punk Cinema. Edinburgh University Press, 2006: 113-125.
Ortiz, Gaye. "Women as Spectacle: Theological Perspectives on Women and Film." Theology and Film: Challenging the Sacred/Secular Divide. ed. Christopher Deacy and Gaye Williams Ortiz. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008: 85-113.
Baran (Iran: Majid Majidi, 2001: 94 mins)
Stone, Judy. "Iranian Cinema Now." International Film Guide: 2004 Los Angeles: Silman-James Press, 2004: 40-54.
Wilson, Brian. "Woman as the Object of Desire: Notes Toward a Reading of Baran." The Film Journal (January 2006)
A Beautiful Mind (USA: Ron Howard, 2000: 135 mins)
Cassey, Joe. "Mental Illness." Understanding Representation. ed. Wendy Helsby. London: BFI, 2005: 99-114. [Available in BCTC Library PN 1995 U4977 2005]
Hansen, Per Krogh. " Unreliable Narration in Cinema: Facing the Cognitive Challenge Arising from Literary Studies." Amsterdam International Electronic Journal of Narratology #5 (Autumn 2009)
The Devil's Backbone (Spain/Mexico: Guillermo del Toro, 2001: 106 mins)
Lázaro-Reboll, Antonio. "The Transnational Reception of The Devil's Backbone (Guillermo del Toro 2001)." Hispanic Research Journal 8.1 (February 2007): 39–51
Donnie Darko (USA: Richard Kelly, 2001: 113/133 mins)
Eig, Jonathan. "A beautiful mind(fuck): Hollywood structures of identity." Jump Cut #46 (2003)
Tobias, Scott. "The New Cult Canon: Donnie Darko The A.V. Club (February 21, 2008)
Gosford Park (UK/USA/Italy: Robert Altman, 2001: 132 min)
Helsby, Wendy. "Beyond Britishness: Identity and Difference." Understanding Representation. ed. Wendy Helsby. London: BFI, 2005: 189-204. [Available in BCTC Library PN 1995 U4977 2005]
Hedwig and the Angry Inch (USA: John Cameron Mitchell, 2001: 95 mins)
Mitchell, John Cameron. "Interview: Filmmaker, Actor and Writer." Big Think (June 2, 2010)
Mulholland Dr. (France/USA: David Lynch, 2001: 147 mins)
"Film Studies: Dreams, Memories, Chaos." Dialogic (December 2, 2009)
Eig, Jonathan. "A Beautiful Mind(fuck) -- Hollywood Structures of Identity." Jump Cut #46 (2003)
Elsaesser, Thomas. "The Mind-Game Films." Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema ed. Warren Buckland. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2009: 13-41.
Toles, George. "Auditioning Betty in Mulholland Dr.." Film Quarterly (Fall 2004): Reprinted in Annual Editions: Film 07/08 191-198 [Available in BCTC Library PN1993 A6285]
Wyman, Bill, et al. "Everything You Were Afraid to Ask About Mulholland Dr.. Salon (October 23, 2010)
The Piano Player (Austria/France/Germany: Michael Haneke, 2001: 131 mins)
Brunette, Peter. Michael Haneke. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 2010.
Grundman, Roy. A Companion to Michael Haneke. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2010.
"Michael Haneke Studies: Videos, Podcasts and Article Links." Film Studies for Free (June 26, 2010)
Price, Brian and John David Rhodes, ed. On Michael Haneke. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University, 2010.
Sorfa, David. "Uneasy domesticity in the films of
Michael Haneke." Studies in European Cinema 3.2 (2006)
Wheatley, Catherine. Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image. NY: Bergahn Books, 2009. [BCTC Library PN 1998.3 H36 W44 2009]
Read My Lips (France: Jacques Audiard, 2001: 115 mins)
Caplan, Nina. "Directors of the Year: Jacques Audiard." International Film Guide 2010. ed. Ian Hadyn Smith. London: Wallflower P, 2010: 11-16.
The Royal Tenenbaums (USA: Wes Anderson, 2001: 110 mins)
MacDowell, James. "The 'Quirky' New Wave." Alternate Takes (July 21, 2005)
Piechota, Carole Lyn. "Give Me a Second Grace: Music as Absolution in The Royal Tenenbaums." Senses of Cinema (2005)
Seitz, Matt Zoller. "The Substance of Style, Pts. 1 - 5." Moving Image Source (March 30 - April 13, 2009)
Spirited Away (Japan: Hayao Miyazaki, 2001: 125 mins)
"Imaginary and Fantastic: Hayao Miyazaki Studies." Film Studies for Free (November 25, 2009)
Boyd, James W. and Tetsuya Nishimura. "Shinto Perspectives in Miyazaki's Anime Film 'Spirited Away.'" Journal of Religion and Film 8.2 (October 2004)
Odell, Colin and Michelle Le Blanc. "Directors of the Year: Miyazaki Hayao." International Film Guide: 2009. ed. Ian Hadyn Smith. London: Wallflower Press, 2009: 16-22. [Available in BCTC Library: PN1993.3 I544 2009]
Suzuki, Ayumi. "A nightmare of capitalist Japan: Spirited Away." Jump Cut #51 (Spring 2009)
The Swamp (Argentina/France/Spain: Lucrecia Martel, 2001: 93 mins)
Russell, Dominique. "Lucrecia Martel — 'a decidedly polyphonic cinema.'” Jump Cut #50 (2008)
Trouble Every Day (France/Germany/Japan: Claire Denis, 2001: 101 mins)
Chapman, Mark. "Reconceptualizing the Uncanny Vampire: Claire Denis' Trouble Every Day Bright Lights Film Journal #68 (May 2010)
Heath, Roderick. "Trouble Every Day (2001)." Ferdy on Films (October 25, 2010)
Y tu mamá también (Mexico: Alfonso Cuarón, 2001: 105 mins)
Benson-Allott, Caetin. "Sex versus the small screen: home video censorship and Alfonso Cuarón’s Y tu mamá también." Jump Cut #51 (Spring 2009)
"Major censorship: MPAA and the demotion of foreign films in the home video era." Jump Cut #51 (Spring 2009)
2002
11 09 01--September 11 (UK/France/Egypt/Japan/Mexico/USA/Iran: Various Directors, 2002: 134 mins)
Pramaggiore, Maria. "The global repositioning of the city symphony: sound, space, and trauma in 11’09”01—September 11 Jump Cut #52 (Summer 2010)
28 Days Later (UK: Danny Boyle, 2002: 113 mins)
Bloom, Michael. "Reanimating the Living Dead: Uncovering the Zombie Archetype in the Works of George A. Romero." Offscreen (April 30, 2009)
Froula, Anna. "Prolepsis and the 'War on Terror': Zombie Pathology and the Culture of Fear in 28 Days Later...." Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the "War on Terror." ed. Jeff Birkenstein, et al. NY: Continuum, 2010: 195-2008. [Your professor has a copy]
Read, Jason. "Zombie as Critic." Unemployed Negativity (June 11, 2007)
"Understanding the Zombie Mentality, Pt. 3." Dialogic (July 29, 2005)
Adaptation (USA: Spike Jonze, 2002: 114 mins)
Dzialo, Chris. "'Frustrated Time' Narration: The Screenplays of Charlie Kaufman." Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009: 107-128. [BCTC Library: PN1995 P89 2009]
Shaw, Daniel. Film and Philosophy: Taking Films Seriously." London: Wallflower Press, 2008.
Bloody Sunday (UK/Ireland: Paul Greengrass, 2002: 107 mins)
Penney, Renée. "Bloody Sunday: Classically Unified Trauma?." Cinephile #1 (2005)
City of God (Brazil/France: Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund, 2002: 130 mins)
Carlsten, Jennie. "Violence in the City of God: The Fantasy of the Omniscient Spectator." Cinephile #1 (2005)
The Cuckoo (Russia: Alexsandr Rogozhkin, 2002: 99 minutes)
Wild, Daniel H. Review of The Cuckoo." KinoKultura (2004)
Dark Water (Japan: Hideo Nakata, 2002: 101 mins)
Kermode, Mark. "Spirit Levels." Sight and Sound (August 2005): Reprinted in Annual Editions: Film 07/08 89-91 [Available in BCTC Library PN1993 A6285]
Nelson, Lindsay. "Ghosts of the Past, Ghosts of the Future: Monsters, Children, and Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema." Cinemascope #13 (July-December 2009)
Dirty Pretty Things (UK: Stephen Frears, 2002: 97 mins)
Kemp, Stephen. "Directors of the Year: Stephen Frears." International Film Guide 2002. Los Angeles: Silman James Press, 2002: 13-20. [Available in BCTC Library PN 1993.3 1544 2002]
Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary (Canada: Guy Maddin, 2002: 73 mins)
Fitch, Alex. "Vampire Ballet - Dracula: Pages From a Virgin's Diary Electric Sheep Magazine (February 1, 2010)
Gangs of New York (USA/Italy: Martin Scorsese, 2002: 167 mins)
Burgoyne, Robert. "Homeland or Promised Land?: The Ethnic Construction of Nation in Gangs of New York." Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History Revised Edition. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010: 143-163. [BCTC Library: PN1995.9 H5 B87 2010]
"A Life in Pictures: Martin Scorsese." BAFTA (April 6, 2011)
Hero (Hong Kong/China: Zhang Yimou, 2002: 99 mins)
Lu, Sheldon. "Dialect and modernity in 21st century Sinophone cinema." Jump Cut #49 (Spring 2007)
Lau, Jenny Kwok Wah. "Hero: China’s response to Hollywood globalization." Jump Cut #49 (Spring 2007)
Irreversible (France: Gaspar Noé, 2002: 97 mins)
Britt, Thomas R. "Lower Depths and Higher Aims: Death, Excess and Discontinuity in Irreversible and Visitor Q." Cinephile 5.1 (2009)
Krautheim, Graeme. "Aspiring to the Void: The Collapse of Genre and Erasure of Body in Gaspar Noé’s Irreversible." Cinephile #4 (Summer 2008)
Wood, Robin. "Against and For Irreversible." Film International (April 5, 2011)
Lilya 4-Ever (Sweden/Denmark: Lukas Moodysson, 2002: 1-4 mins)
Forslund, Bengt. "Directors of the Year: Lukas Moodysson." International Film Guide: 2004. Los Angeles: Silman James Press, 2004: 30-34.
The Man Without a Past (Finland: Aki Kaurismäki, 2002: 97 mins)
Wilson, Lana. "Great Directors: Aki Kaurismäki." Senses of Cinema
Rabbit-Proof Fence (Australia: Phillip Noyce, 2002: 94 mins)
Martin, Adrian. "Bouquet of Barbed Wire." Sight and Sound (November 2002)
The Ring (USA/Japan: Gore Verbinski, 2002: 115 mins) [Remake of Ringu (Japan: Hideo Nakata, 1998: 96 mins)]
Jarvis, Brian. "Anamorphic allegory in The Ring, or, seven ways of looking at a horror video." Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies #3 (November 2007)
Ozawa, Eimi. "Remaking Corporeality and Spatiality: U.S. Adaptations of Japanese Horror Films." 49th Parallel (Autumn 2006)
Xu, Gang Gary. "Remaking East Asia, Outsourcing Hollywood." Senses of Cinema (November 2004)
Twilight Samurai (Japan: Yôji Yamada, 2002: 129 mins)
Silver, Alain. The Samurai Film. Expand and Revised Edition. Woodstock, NY: The Overlook Press, 2004.
2003
The Corporation (Canada: Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott, 2003: 145 mins) To watch the film online; BCTC Library also has a copy.
McChesney, Robert and John Bellamy Foster. "Capitalism, the Absurd System: A View from the United States." Monthly Review 62.2 (June 2010)
The Dreamers (France/UK/Italy: Bernardo Bertolucci, 2003: 115 mins)
Buchanan, Ian. "Bernardo Bertolucci's The Dreamers; Kristin Ross' May 68 & Its Afterlives; Deleuze & Guattari's Anti-Oedipus." excerpt from Deleuze and Guattari's Anti-Oedipus. NY: Continuum, 2008: 13-19.
Fletcher, Stephen Q. "The Dreamers: Revolution as a Gala Dinner and a Game." Metaphilm (May 4, 2008)
Goodbye, Dragon Inn (Taiwan: Tsai Ming-liang, 2003: 82 mins)
Villiers, Nicholas de. "Leaving the Cinema: Metacinematic Cruising in Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye, Dragon Inn." Jump Cut #50 (Spring 2008)
Memories of Murder (South Korea: Bong Joon-Ho, 2003: 132 mins)
Park, Ed. "The Bong Show: Bong Joon-Ho." Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood ed. Michael Atkinson. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2008: 49-54. [Professor has copy]
Sungchan, Byun. "Save the Green Planet!, Memories of Murder, and the 80s in Cinema." Mediascape (Spring 2005)
Oldboy (South Korea: Chan-Wook Park, 2003: 120 mins
Benton, Michael. "ENG 282: Chan-Wook Park's Revenge Trilogy." Bluegrass Film Society (October 8, 2008)
---. "Violence and Film; Audience-Experience as a Factor in Our Reception of a Film." Dialogic (January 7, 2007)
Eig, Jonathan. "A Beautiful Mind(fuck) -- Hollywood Structures of Identity." Jump Cut #46 (2003)
Elsaesser, Thomas. "The Mind-Game Films." Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema ed. Warren Buckland. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2009: 13-41.
Kaklamanidou, Betty. "Genre: Oldboy and the Suspense Thriller." Offscreen (July 31, 2007)
Lee, Hwanhee. "What is Morality? On Oldboy." Offscreen (July 31, 2008)
Thanouli, Eleftheria. "Looking for Access in Narrative Complexity: The New and the Old in Oldboy." Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema. ed. Warren Buckland. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009: 217-232. [BCTC Library: PN1995 P89 2009]
Save the Green Planet (South Korea: Joon-Hwan Jang, 2003: 118 mins)
Sungchan, Byun. "Save the Green Planet!, Memories of Murder, and the 80s in Cinema." Mediascape (Spring 2005)
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (South Korea: Kim Ki-Duk, 2003: 103 mins)
Conroy, Melissa. "Seeing with Buddha's Eyes: Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter...and Spring." Journal of Religion and Film 11.2 (October 2007)
Gombeaud, Adrien. "Directors of the Year: Kim Ki-Duk." International Film Guide: 2005. ed. Daniel Rosenthal. Los Angeles: Silman James Press, 2005: 11-16.
The Story of Marie and Julien (France/Italy: Jacques Rivette, 2003: 150 mins)
Anderson, Michael J. "Histoire de Marie et Julien: Jacques Rivette’s Material Ghost Story." Senses of Cinema #32 (2004)
Austin, Gary. "'In Fear and Pain': Stardom and the Body in Two French Ghost Films." Scope #7 (February 2007)
Time of the Wolf (France/Austria/Germany: Michael Haneke, 2003: 113 mins)
Bingham, Adam. "Long Night's Journey Into Day." Kinoeye 4.1 (March 2004)
Brunette, Peter. Michael Haneke. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 2010.
Grundman, Roy. A Companion to Michael Haneke. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2010.
"Michael Haneke Studies: Videos, Podcasts and Article Links." Film Studies for Free (June 26, 2010)
Price, Brian and John David Rhodes, ed. On Michael Haneke. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University, 2010.
Sorfa, David. "Uneasy domesticity in the films of
Michael Haneke." Studies in European Cinema 3.2 (2006)
Wheatley, Catherine. Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image. NY: Bergahn Books, 2009. [BCTC Library PN 1998.3 H36 W44 2009]
Travellers and Magicians (Bhutan/Australia: Khyentse Norbu, 2003: 108 mins)
Bloom, Alexis and Tsewang Dandup. "Bhutan: The Last Place." Frontline (PBS: May 2002) [Tsewang Dandup plays the protagonist in Travellers and Magicians]
Sasaki, David. "Bhutan, TV, and the Internet." El Oso (August 8. 2010)
2004
3-Iron (South Korea/Japan: Kim Ki-Duk, 2004: 88 mins)
Gombeaud, Adrien. "Directors of the Year: Kim Ki-Duk." International Film Guide: 2005. ed. Daniel Rosenthal. Los Angeles: Silman James Press, 2005: 11-16.
Control Room (USA: Jehane Noujaim, 2004: 84 mins)
Noujaim, Jehane. "Wishes for a Global Film Day." TED (July 2006)
Downfall (Germany: Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2004: 156 mins)
Hantke, Steffen. "Hitler as Actor, Actors as Hitler: High Concept, Casting, and Star Performance in Der Untergang and Mein Führer." Cinephile 5.1 (2010)
Hoffgen, Maggie. "Representing a Dictator: Der Untergang (Downfall, 2004)." Studying German Cinema. London: Auteur, 2009: 175-188. [Book available in BCTC library]
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (USA: Michel Gondry, 2004: 108 mins)
Dzialo, Chris. "'Frustrated Time' Narration: The Screenplays of Charlie Kaufman." Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009: 107-128. [BCTC Library: PN1995 P89 2009]
Shaw, Daniel. Film and Philosophy: Taking Movies Seriously. NY: Wallflower, 2008.
Seitz, Matt Zoller. "REWATCH: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind." Film in Focus (May 2007)
Zacharek, Stephanie. "Brilliant Mistake." Salon (March 19, 2004)
Fahrenheit 9/11 (USA: Michael Moore, 2004: 122 mins)
"Michael Moore on His Life, His Films and His Activism." Democracy Now (July 5, 2010)
Head-On (Germany/Turkey: Fatih Akin, 2004: 121 mins)
Hoffgen, Maggie. "Crossing Boundaries: Gegen Die Wand (Head-On, 2004). Studying German Cinema. London: Auteur, 2009: 201-213.
Tobias, Scott. The New Cult Canon: Head-On." The A.V. Club (October 1, 2009)
The Holy Girl (Argentina/Italy/Netherlands/Spain: Lucrecia Martel, 2004: 106 mins)
Russell, Dominique. "Lucrecia Martel — 'a decidedly polyphonic cinema.'” Jump Cut #50 (2008)
I Heart Huckabees (USA/Germany: David O' Russell, 2004: 107 minutes)
Kirby, Matt. "I Heart Huckabees: Premodern Help for Postmodern Times." Metaphilm (November 12, 2004)
MacDowell, James. "The 'Quirky' New Wave." Alternate Takes (July 21, 2005)
Ng, Edwin. "The (Zen) Buddhist Heart of I ♥ Huckabees." Journal of Religion & Film 14.1 (April 2010)
Shaw, Daniel. Film and Philosophy: Taking Movies Seriously. NY: Wallflower, 2008.
Tait, R. Colin. "'Jesus is never mad at us if we live with him in our hearts': The Dialectical View of America in David O' Russell's I Heart Huckabees." Cinephile (March 2006)
Kinsey (USA/Germany: Bill Condon, 2004: 118 mins)
Porton, Richard. "Kinsey." Cinema Scope #21 (2004)
Kung Fu Hustle (China/Hong Kong: Stephen Chow, 2004: 95 mins)
Szeto, Kin-Yan. "The Politics of Historiography in Stephen Chow’s Kung Fu Hustle Jump Cut #52 (Summer 2010)
Moolaadé (Senegal: Ousmane Sembene, 2004: 124 mins)
Bartlet, Olivier. "Adventures and Misadventures of African Cinema." Cinemas of the South (2006)
Bug Girl. Is My Vuvulzela Too Big?" Skepchick (June 20, 2010)
Coventry, Martha. "Making the Cut: It's a Girl! ... Or is it? When in doubt, why are surgeons calling the shots?" Ms. (Oct/Nov 2000)
Diop, Baba. "Ousmane Sembene: The Elder of Elders." Cinemas of the South (February 15, 2009)
Finney, Nikki. "The Greatest Show On Earth." (Read the poem/read an analysis of the poem/and listen to Nikki read it)
Halpern, Sue. "Breaking a Conspiracy of Silence." The New York Times Book Review 56.18 (November 19, 2009)
Marzana, Nicola. "The Art of Hunger: Re-Defining Third Cinema." 16:9 (November 2009)
Pride, Ray. "Woman is the Future of Man: Ousmane Sembene on Moolaade." Cinema Scope #21 (2004)
The Passion of the Christ (USA: Mel Gibson, 2004: 127 mins)
Deacy, Chris. "A Time to Kill?: Theological Perspectives on Violence and Film." Theology and Film: Challenging the Sacred/Secular Divide. ed. Christopher Deacy & Gaye Williams Oritz. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008: 123-142. [Professor has copy]
Hauka, David. "'Christ That Hurts': Rewriting the Jesus Narrative -- Violence and the Language of Action Cinema in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ Cinephile #2 (March 2006)
Walsh, David. "Why has The Passion of the Christ evoked such a popular response in America?" World Socialist Web Site (March 5, 2004)
The Syrian Bride (Israel/France/Germany: Eran Riklis, 2004: 97 mins)
Fainaru, Dan. "A Changing Landscape." International Film Guide: 2009. London: Wallflower Press, 2009: 53-63. [Available in BCTC Library PN1993.3 I544 2009]
Tropical Malady (Thailand/France/Germany/Italy: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004: 118 mins)
"Tropical Malady: The Transformation of Memory." Filmsick (October 5, 2010)
Vera Drake (UK/France: Mike Leigh, 2004: 125 mins)
Kemp, Philip. "Directors of the Year: Mike Leigh." International Film Guide: 2005. ed. Daniel Rosenthal. Los Angeles: Silman James Press, 2005: 17-23.
Yes (UK: Sally Potter, 2004: 100 mins)
"Angelism and Rage: Sally Potter Links." Film Studies for Free (September 21, 2009)
Mayer, Sophie. "The Films of Sally Potter." Electric Sheep Magazine (October 1, 2009)
Oppenheimer, Jean. "Production Slate: Yes - A Cross Cultural Romance." American Cinematographer (July 2005)
"Please go in two by two! Sally Potter's Fabulous Ark." Film Studies for Free (November 4, 2008)
2005
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (France: Jacques Audiard, 2005: 108 mins)
Caplan, Nina. "Directors of the Year: Jacques Audiard." International Film Guide 2010. ed. Ian Hadyn Smith. London: Wallflower P, 2010: 11-16.
Border Cafe (Iran/France: Kambuzia Partovi, 2005: 105 mins)
Mahani, Najmeh Khalili. "Food for Thought: Sensorium of the Iranian Cinema." Offscreen (January 31, 2009)
Brokeback Mountain (Canada/USA: Ang Lee, 2005)
Benshoff, Harry M. "Brokering Brokeback Mountain — a local reception study." Jump Cut (2008)
Garrett, Daniel. "You Don't Know What Love Is." Film International #21 (2006)
Koziak, Barbara. "Shepherding Romance: Reviving the Politics of Romantic Love in Brokeback Mountain." Genders #50 (2009)
"Queer Cowboys: Alternative Space in "Brokeback Mountain." Film International (2006)
Schneider, Richard, Jr., et al. "Not Quitting Brokeback/Lost in Adaptation/The Hate Crime/Beyond the Mountain." Gay & Lesbian Review (May/June 2006): Reprinted in Annual Editions: Film 07/08 170-174 [Available in BCTC Library PN1993 A6285]
Sharrett, Christopher. "Death of the Strong, Silent Type: The Achievement of Brokeback Mountain." Film International 7.1 (February 2009)
Stamatopoulos, Irini. "Ang Lee's Cowboys: Fallen from Brokeback’s Paradise Lost." Offscreen (February 28, 2007)
Vicari, Justin. "Discovering America: Reflections on Brokeback Mountain." Jump Cut #49 (Spring 2007)
Caché (France/Austria/Germany/Italy/USA: Michael Haneke, 2005: 117 mins)
Arthur, Paul. "Endgame." Film Comment (November/December 2005)
Brunette, Peter. Michael Haneke. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 2010.
---. "On the Films of Michael Haneke." The Marketplace of Ideas (April 15, 2010)
Ebert, Roger. "Cache." Chicago Sun-Times (January 13, 2010)
Grundman, Roy. A Companion to Michael Haneke. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2010.
Grundman, Roy, Edward Nersessian, Brigitte Peucker, Brian Price, and Garrett Stewart. "Caché - Videoed roundtable discussion of Michael Haneke's film." Philoctetes Center (2008)
Jeong, Seung-hoon. "Gaze, Suture, Interface: The Suicide Scene in Michael Haneke’s Caché." Cinephile 5.1 (2009)
"Michael Haneke: A Ribbon of Links." Film Studies for Free (October 6, 2009)
"Michael Haneke Studies: Videos, Podcasts and Articles." Film Studies for Free (June 26, 2010)
Ogrodnik, Benjamin. "Deep Cuts." Film International 7.1 (February 2009)
Price, Brian and John David Rhodes, ed. On Michael Haneke. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University, 2010.
Sammond, Nicholas. "'Hidden,' or Fear of a Black Planet." Jump Cut #52 (Summer 2010)
Sorfa, David. "Uneasy domesticity in the films of
Michael Haneke." Studies in European Cinema 3.2 (2006)
Sternagel, Joerg. "From Inside Us: Experiencing the Film Actor in Michael Haneke's "Caché." Film International #39 (2009)
Tobias, Scott. "Gateway to Geekery: Michael Haneke." The A.V. Club (June 3, 2010)
Wheatley, Catherine. Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image. NY: Bergahn Books, 2009. [BCTC Library PN 1998.3 H36 W44 2009]
The Constant Gardener (UK/Germany: Fernando Meirelles, 2005: 129 mins)
"The Temporality of the Real: The Path to Politics in The Constant Gardener." Film-Philosophy 11.3 (October 2007)
The Death of Mr Lazarescu (Romania: Cristi Puiu, 2005: 150 mins)
Roddick, Nick. "Eastern Promise." Sight and Sound (October 2007)
Election (Hong Kong: Johnnie To, 2005: 101 mins)
Heath, Roderick. "Election. Ferdy on Film (July 13, 2010)
Grizzly Man (USA: Werner Herzog, 2005: 103 mins)
Geller, Conrad. "Grizzly Man." Cineaste (Winter 2005): Reprinted in Annual Editions: Film 07/08 158-159 [Available in BCTC Library PN1993 A6285]
Noys, Benjamin. "Antiphusis: Werner Herzog’s Grizzly Man." Film-Philosophy 11.3 (November 2007)
Odorico, Stefano. Werner Herzog Between Documentary and Fiction Offscreen (March 31, 2010)
"Werner Herzog Links inc Youtube Fest." Film Studies for Free (April 20, 2009)
Hostel (USA: Eli Roth, 2005: 94 mins)
Burris, Gregory A. "Shocked and Awed?: Hostel and the Spectacle of Self-Mutilation." Cine-Action #80 (2010) [Available from your teacher]
Cromb, Brenda. "Gorno: Violence, Shock and Comedy." Cinephile #4 (Summer 2008)
Fletcher, Phoebe. “Fucking Americans”: Postmodern Nationalisms in the Contemporary Splatter Film #18 (December 2009)
Hilden, Julie. "Free Speech and the Concept of "Torture Porn": Why are Critics So Hostile to Hostel II?" Find Law (July 16, 2007)
Kleinhans, Chuck. "Imagining Torture." Jump Cut #51 (Spring 2009)
Kleinhans, Chuck, John Hess and Julia Lesage. "The Last Word: Torture and the National Imagination." #50 (Summer 2008)
Lesage, Julie. "Torture Documentaries." Jump Cut #51 (Spring 2009)
Murray, Gabrielle. "Images of Torture, Images of Terror: Post 9/11 and the Escalation of Screen Violence." Monash University Film and TV Studies (Podcast of a Lecture: March 20, 2008)
Rosler, Martha. "A Simple Case for Torture." Jump Cut #51 (Spring 2009)
Torture (Archive on Dialogic: The culture and politics of "torture.")
The House of Sand (Brazil: Andrucha Waddington, 2005: 115 mins)
Khoo, Guan-Soon. The House of Sand: Western Brazilian Style." Offscreen (April 30, 2008)
Lady Vengeance (South Korea: Chan-Wook Park, 2005: 112 mins)
Benton, Michael. "ENG 282: Chan-Wook Park's Revenge Trilogy." Bluegrass Film Society (October 8, 2008)
Erickson, Steve. "Lady Vengeance and Its Critics." Undercurrent #2 (2006)
Kehr, Dave. "De-finger the Piano Player." The New York Times (October 30, 2005)
Land of the Dead (Canada/France/USA: George Romero, 2005: 93 mins)
Bloom, Michael. "Reanimating the Living Dead: Uncovering the Zombie Archetype in the Works of George A. Romero." Offscreen (April 30, 2009)
McSweeney, Terence. "The Land of the Dead and the Home of the Brave: Romero's Vision of a Post-9/11 America." Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the "War on Terror." ed. Jeff Birkenstein, et al. NY: Continuum, 2010: 107-116. [Professor has a copy]
Read, Jason. "Zombie as Critic." Unemployed Negativity (June 11, 2007)
"Understanding the Zombie Mentality, Pt. 3." Dialogic (July 29, 2005)
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind (Japan: Hayao Miyazaki, 1984/2005: 116 min)
Monroe, William. "The Tao of Nausicaa." Foundation #103 (Summer 2008): 38-52.
Odell, Colin and Michelle Le Blanc. "Directors of the Year: Miyazaki Hayao." International Film Guide: 2009. ed. Ian Hadyn Smith. London: Wallflower Press, 2009: 16-22. [Available in BCTC Library: PN1993.3 I544 2009]
The New World (USA/UK: Terrence Malick, 2005: 150 mins)
Bellamy, Jason and Ed Howard. "Conversations: Terrence Malick, Part One. The House Next Door (May 28, 2011)
Burgoyne, Robert. "The Columbian Exchange: Pocahontas and The New World." Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010: 120-142. [BCTC Library: PN1995.9 H5 B87 2010]
"Some Illusions in The New World autochthonous88 (September 28, 2008)
Vicari, Justin. "Colonial fictions: Le Petit Soldat and its revisionist sequel, Beau Travail." Jump Cut #50 (2008)
Paradise Now (Occupied Palestinian Territory/France/Germany/Netherlands/Israel: Hany Abu-Assad, 2005: 90 mins)
Bronstein, Phoebe. "Man-Made Martyrs in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: Disturbing Manufactured Martyrdom in Paradise Now Jump Cut #52 (Summer 2010)
Jafaar, Ali. Paradise Now Sight and Sound (May 2006)
Ortiz, Gaye. "Dark Beauty: Theological Perspectives on War as Cinematic Mythology." Theology and Film: Challenging the Sacred/Secular Divide. ed. Christopher Deacy and Gaye Williams Ortiz. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008: 160-177.
Rich, B. Ruby. "Bomb Culture." Sight and Sound (April 2006)
The Proposition (Australia: John Hillcoat, 2005: 104 mins)
Collins, Felicity. "HISTORY, MYTH AND ALLEGORY IN AUSTRALIAN CINEMA." Trames (2008)
Hillcoat, John, et al. "Ballad of the Wild Boys." Sight and Sound (March 2006)
Rose, James. "The Good Son: John Hillcoat's The Proposition." Offscreen (April 30, 2008)
Stein, Erica. "“A Hell of a Place”: The Everyday as Revisionist Content in Contemporary Westerns." Mediascape (Fall 2009)
Water (Canada/India: Deepa Mehta, 2005: 117 mins)
Mayer, Andre. "Digging Deepa: Canadian Filmmaker Shines with Water." CBC (November 2005): Reprinted in Annual Editions: Film 2007/2008: 183-184 [Available in BCTC Library: PN 1993 A6285]
Why We Fight (USA/France/UK/Canada/Denmark: Eugene Jarecki, 2005: 98 mins)
Ortiz, Gaye. "Dark Beauty: Theological Perspectives on War as Cinematic Mythology." Theology and Film: Challenging the Sacred/Secular Divide. ed. Christopher Deacy and Gaye Williams Ortiz. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2008: 160-177.
2006
After the Wedding (Denmark/Sweden: Susanne Biers, 2006: 120 mins)
Dawson, Mike. "Top Ten Films of 2007." Left Field Cinema (2007)
Army of Shadows (France/Italy: Jean-Pierre Melville, 1969/2006: 140 mins)
Taubin, Amy. "Army of Shadows: Out of the Shadows." Criterion (May 14, 2007)
Black Book (Netherlands/Germany/Belgium: Paul Verhoeven, 2006: 145 mins)
Howard, Ed. "TOERIFIC: Black Book." Only the Cinema (July 20, 2009)
Brand Upon the Brain (Canada: Guy Maddin, 2006: 95 mins)
Baker, Nicholson, et al. "Autobiography/Biography: Narrating the Self." Philoctetes (December 13, 2008)
Children of Men (Japan/UK/USA: Alfonso Cuarón, 2006: 109 mins)
Byle, Kirk. "Children of Men and I Am Legend: the disaster-capitalism complex hits Hollywood." Jump Cut #51 (Spring 2009)
"Children of Men: The Repetition of the Ringing." Film International (2007)
Gessen, Keith. "Dystopia." Bookforum (June - August, 2010)
Nixon, Bryan. "The Long Take: Finding Hope Amongst the Chaos." Film International (2007)
Price, David H. "Governing Fear in the Iron Cage of Rationalism: Terry Gilliam's Brazil Through the 9/11 Looking Glass." Reframing 9/11: Film, Popular Culture and the "War on Terror." ed. Jeff Birkenstein, et al. NY: Continuum, 2010: 167-182.
Schwartzman, Sarah. "Children of Men and a Plural Messianism." Journal of Religion & Film 13.1 (April 2009)
The Departed (USA: Martin Scorsese, 2006: 151 mins)
"A Life in Pictures: Martin Scorsese." BAFTA (April 6, 2011)
The Fall (USA/India: Tarsem Singh, 2006: 117 mins)
Garrett, Daniel. "Liberations of Mind, Spirit, and Vision: The Fall ~ Intimacy is possible within grandeur." Offscreen (September 30, 2008)
Fast Food Nation (UK/USA: Richard Linklater, 2006: 116 mins)
Koresky, Michael. "Raw Meat: Fast Food Nation Reverse Shot #26 (2010)
Stephens, Gregory. "Corn-Fed Culture: Living Large and "Eating Shit" in King Corn and Fast Food Nation." Bright Lights Film Journal #6(May 2010)
Flags of Our Fathers (USA: Clint Eastwood, 2006: 132 mins)
Burgoyne, Robert. "Hauntings in the War Film: Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima." Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010: 164-189. [BCTC Library: PN1995.9 H5 B87 2010]
Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams (Bosnia and Herzegovina/Austria/Germany/Croatia: Jasmila Zbanic, 2006: 107 mins)
Koebel, Caroline. "Torture, maternity, and truth in Jasmila Zbanic’s Grbavica: Land of My Dreams." Jump Cut #51 (Spring 2009)
The Host (South Korea: Bong Joon-Ho, 2006: 119 mins)
Hsu, Hsuan L. "The dangers of biosecurity: The Host and the geopolitics of outbreak." Jump Cut #51 (Spring 2009)
An Inconvenient Truth (USA: Davis Guggenheim, 2006: 100 mins)
Mieszkowski, Katharine. "Did Al Get the Science Right." Salon (June 10, 2006): Reprinted in Annual Editions: Film 07/08 89-91 [Available in BCTC Library PN1993 A6285]
Letters from Iwo Jima (USA: Clint Eastwood, 2006: 141 mins)
Burgoyne, Robert. "Hauntings in the War Film: Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima." Film Nation: Hollywood Looks at U.S. History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010: 164-189. [BCTC Library: PN1995.9 H5 B87 2010]
Hariman, Robert and John Louis Lucaites. "Performing Civic Identity: Flag Raisings at Iwo Jima and Ground Zero." No Caption Needed: Iconic Photographs, Public Culture, and Liberal Democracy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007: 93-136.
The Lives of Others (Germany: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, 2006: 137 mins)
Dawson, Mike. "Top Ten Films of 2007." Left Field Cinema (2007)
Hansen, Per Krogh. " Unreliable Narration in Cinema: Facing the Cognitive Challenge Arising from Literary Studies." Amsterdam International Electronic Journal of Narratology #5 (Autumn 2009)
Hoffgen, Maggie. "The Other Germany: Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others, 2006). Studying German Cinema. London: Auteur, 2009: 201-213. [Available in BCTC library]
Offside (Iran: Jafar Panahi, 2006: 93 mins)
Ferdinand, Marilyn. Offside Ferdy on Films (May 23, 2010)
Hudson, David. "Jafar Panahi Sentenced to 6 Years in Jail, 20 Years of Silence." MUBI (December 20, 2010)
"Studies of Censorship and Cinema: In Solidarity with Jafar Panahi." Film Studies for Free (April 6, 2010)
Old Joy (USA: Kelly Reichardt, 2006: 76 mins)
Nayman, Adam. "Beyond Words: Old Joy and My Dinner With Andre." Reverse Shot #29 (2011)
Pan's Labyrinth (Spain/Mexico: Guillermo Del Toro, 2006: 119 mins)
Balthaser, Benjamin. "Fantasies of Empire." DarkMatters (September 11, 2008)
Calhoun, John. "Fear and Fantasy." American Cinematographer (January 2007)
Cattaneo, Ann, et al. "Transformations: How Fairy Tales Cast Their Spell." Philoctetes (November 30, 2007)
Tanvir, Kuhu. "Pan's Labyrinth of History." Edit Room (February 26, 2008)
The Science of Sleep (France/UK/Italy: Michel Gondry, 2006: 105 mins)
Gondry, Michel and Robert Stickgold. "Dreams, Filmmaking, and the Scientific Method." Seed Salon (2007)
"La Science de Michel Gondry: online scholarship on his films & videos." Film Studies for Free (April 13, 2010)
Shaw, Daniel. Film and Philosophy: Taking Films Seriously." London: Wallflower Press, 2008.
Shortbus (USA: John Cameron Mitchell, 2006: 101 mins)
Browning, Barbara, et al. "The Lure and the Blur of the Real." Philoctetes (March 13, 2010)
Jhally, Sut. "Codes of Gender: Identity and Performance in Popular Culture." (Media Education Foundation, 2009) [documentary--available online]
Lewis, Jon. "Real sex: aesthetics and economics of art-house porn." Jump Cut #51 (Spring 2009)
Macio. "Redefining Our Relationships: An Interview with Wendy-O Matik." Revolution By the Book (February 19, 2010)
Shaw, Richard. "Are the U.S.A.'s Independent Films a Distinct National Cinema?" The Film Journal (2002)
Wypijewski, JoAnn. "Sexual Healing: Carnal Knowledge." The Nation (September 9, 2009)
Southland Tales (Germany/USA/France: Richard Kelly, 2006: 145 mins)
Smith, Damon. "America is Watching: Southland Tales and The Parallax View." Reverse Shot #29 (2011)
This Film Is Not Yet Rated (UK/USA: Kirby Dick, 2006: 97 mins)
Roth, Chris. "Three Decades of Film Censorship ... Right Before Your Eyes." The Humanist (January/February 2000): Reprinted in Annual Editions: Film 07/08 89-91 [Available in BCTC Library PN1993 A6285]
This Is England (UK: Shane Meadows, 2006: 101 mins)
Dawson, Mike. "Top Ten Films of 2007." Left Field Cinema (2007)
Volver (Spain: Pedro Almodóvar, 2006: 121 mins)
Sullivan, Moira. "Women in the Films of Pedro Almodóvar." Film International (2009)
2007
4 Months, 3 Weeks, and 2 Days (Romania: Cristian Mungiu, 2007: 113 mins)
Mungiu, Cristian. "Oppression and Abortion in Mungiu's '4 Months'." Fresh Air (February 7, 2008)
Parvulescu, Consantin. "The cold world behind the window: 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days and Romanian cinema’s return to real-existing communism." Jump Cut #51 (Spring 2009)
Ratner, Megan. "Stunted Lives: Unsettling and Unmissable. Bright Lights Film Journal #59 (February 2008)
Roddick, Nick. "Eastern Promise." Sight and Sound (October 2007)
Roman, Denise. "Film Notes: Three Romanian Movies (On Belonging and Corporeality in the New Wave of Romanian Cinema)." UC Los Angeles: UCLA Center for the Study of Women. (April 1, 2008)
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (USA/Canada: Andrew Dominick, 2007: 160 mins)
Totaro, Donato. "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: A Study in Melancholia." Offscreen (April 30, 2008)
Atonement (UK/France: Joe Wright, 2007: 123 mins)
Dawson, Mike. "Top Ten Films of 2007." Left Field Cinema (2007)
The Band's Visit (Israel/France/USA: Eran Kolirin, 2007: 87 mins)
Fainaru, Dan. "A Changing Landscape." International Film Guide: 2009. London: Wallflower Press, 2009: 53-63. [Available in BCTC Library PN1993.3 I544 2009]
Beaufort (Israel: Joseph Cedar, 2007: 131 mins)
Fainaru, Dan. "A Changing Landscape." International Film Guide: 2009. London: Wallflower Press, 2009: 53-63. [Available in BCTC Library PN1993.3 I544 2009]
Blade Runner (USA/Hong Kong: Ridley Scott, 1982/1991/2007: 117 mins)
Clute, Shannon and John Edwards. Blade Runner." Out of the Past (September 1, 2005)
Shaw, Daniel. Film and Philosophy: Taking Films Seriously. London: Wallflower Press, 2008.
Sims, Christopher A. "The Dangers of Individualism and the Human Relationship to Technology in Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" Science Fiction Studies 36.1 (March 2009)
Control (UK/USA/Australia/Japan: Anton Corbin, 2007: 122 mins)
Dawson, Mike. "Top Ten Films of 2007." Left Field Cinema (2007)
Eastern Promises (UK/Canada/USA: David Cronenberg, 2007: 100 mins)
Hughes, Jessica. "In the Bathhouse: Collective Violence and Eastern Promises." Cinephile 5.2 (Fall 2009)
The Edge of Heaven (Germany/Turkey/Italy: Fatih Akin, 2007: 116 mins)
Elsaesser, Thomas. "Ethical Calculus: The cross-cultural dilemmas and moral burdens of Fatih Akin’s The Edge of Heaven." Film Comment (May/June 2008)
Redmon, Allen H. "Locating Heaven: Fatih Akin’s Meditation on the Outcome of Tolerance and Hospitality." Journal of Religion and Film #14 (April 2010)
Funny Games (USA/France/UK/Austria/Germany/Italy: Michael Haneke, 2007: 111 mins) [Remake of Funny Games (Austria: Michael Haneke, 1997: 108 mins)]
Brunette, Peter. Michael Haneke. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 2010.
Grundman, Roy. A Companion to Michael Haneke. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2010.
Hui, Daniel. "Fun and Games: On Michael Haneke's 2007 Remake of His 1997 Funny Games." Bright Lights Film Journal #61 (August 2008)
"Michael Haneke Studies: Videos, Podcasts and Article Links." Film Studies for Free (June 26, 2010)
North, Dan. "Funny Games Funny Games." Spectacular Attractions (October 15, 2009)
Price, Brian and John David Rhodes, ed. On Michael Haneke. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University, 2010.
Sorfa, David. "Uneasy domesticity in the films of
Michael Haneke." Studies in European Cinema 3.2 (2006)
Wheatley, Catherine. Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image. NY: Bergahn Books, 2009. [BCTC Library PN 1998.3 H36 W44 2009]
The Grocer's Son (France: Eric Guirado, 2007: 96 mins)
Garrett, Daniel. "On Character, Family, Nature and Love: The Grocer’s Son ~ Families Are Like Civilizations." Offscreen (July 31, 2008)
Hot Fuzz (UK/France: Edgar Wright, 2007: 121 mins)
Helsby, Wendy. "Constables, Coppers, Rozzers, the Old Bill--The Police." Understanding Representation. ed. Wendy Helsby. London: BFI, 2005: 75-92. [Available in BCTC Library PN 1995 U4977 2005]
My Winnipeg (Canada: Guy Maddin, 2007: 80 mins)
Baker, Nicholson, et al. "Autobiography/Biography: Narrating the Self." Philoctetes (December 13, 2008)
Fitch, Alex. "Guy Maddin and the Mythologising of Winnipeg." Electric Sheep Magazine (July 1, 2011)
Persepolis (France/USA: Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi, 2007: 96 mins.
Toit, Andries Du. "The Heart in Exile: Persepolis. A Subtle Knife (July 9, 2009)
Sicko (USA: Michael Moore, 2007: 123 mins)
"Michael Moore on His Life, His Films and His Activism." Democracy Now (July 5, 2010)
Sunshine (UK/USA: Danny Boyle, 2007: 107 mins)
Dawson, Mike. "Top Ten Films of 2007." Left Field Cinema (2007)
Taxi to the Dark Side (USA: Alex Gibney, 2007: 106 mins)
Aradillas, Aaron and Matt Zoller Seitz. "5 on 24: A Five Part Video Essay on the Real Time Action Series. Moving Image Source (May 18, 2010)
Burris, Gregory A. "Shocked and Awed?: Hostel and the Spectacle of Self-Mutilation." Cine-Action #80 (2010)
Dunn, Timothy. "Torture, Terrorism, and 24: What Would Jack Bauer Do?." Homer Simpson Goes to Washington: American Politics Through Popular Culture." ed. Joseph Foy. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, 2008: 171-184. [Available in BCTC Library JK 31 H85 2008]
Fletcher, Phoebe. “Fucking Americans”: Postmodern Nationalisms in the Contemporary Splatter Film #18 (December 2009)
Gosztola, Kevin. "Obama Employs Bush Administration Tactic, Blocks Photos." Open Salon (May 14, 2009)
Hilden, Julie. "Free Speech and the Concept of "Torture Porn": Why are Critics So Hostile to Hostel II?" Find Law (July 16, 2007)
Kleinhans, Chuck. "Imagining Torture." Jump Cut #51 (Spring 2009)
Kleinhans, Chuck, John Hess and Julia Lesage. "The Last Word: Torture and the National Imagination." #50 (Summer 2008)
Lesage, Julie. "Torture Documentaries." Jump Cut #51 (Spring 2009)
Murray, Gabrielle. "Images of Torture, Images of Terror: Post 9/11 and the Escalation of Screen Violence." Monash University Film and TV Studies (Podcast of a Lecture: March 20, 2008)
Rosler, Martha. "A Simple Case for Torture." Jump Cut #51 (Spring 2009)
Torture (Archive on Dialogic: The culture and politics of "torture.")
XXY (Argentina: Lucía Puenzo, 2007: 86 mins)
"Discussion Questions: XXY." Film Movement (2009)
"Press Kit: XXY. Film Movement (2008)
Zodiac (USA: David Fincher, 2007: 157 mins)
Aaron Aradillas and Matt Zoller Seitz. "Grand Openings, Pt 4: Analyzing David Fincher's credit sequences -- Zodiac." Moving Image Source (October 15, 2010)
2008
The Baader-Meinhoff Complex (Germany: Uli Edel, 2008: 150 mins)
Hope-Jones, Mark. "Anarchy in the BRD." American Cinematographer (September 2009)
Katsiaficas, George. "Sources of Autonomous Politics in Germany"/"European Autonomous Movements in Europe" (Ch. 3/4) The Subversion of Politics: European Autonomous Movements and the Decolonization of Everyday Life. AK Press, 2009.
Bab'Aziz: The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul (Tunisia: Nacer Khemir, 2008: 98 mins)
Brussat, Frederick and Mary Ann Brussat. "Bab'Aziz - The Prince Who Contemplated His Soul." Spirituality & Practice (2009)
Che: Part One and/or Che: Part Two (France/Spain/USA: Steven Soderbergh, 2008: 134/135 mins)
Clover, Joshua. "CINEMA FOR A NEW GRAND GAME." Film Quarterly 62.4 (Summer 2009)
Heath, Roderick. "Che: Part One/Part Two." Ferdy on Film (May 25, 2010)
McDougall, Dave. History Lessons (Pt. 1): Notes on Steven Soderbergh's "Che" MUBI (November 24, 2010)
Taubin, Amy. "GUERRILLA FILMMAKING ON A EPIC SCALE: Che comandante Steven Soderbergh talks strategy and tactics." Film Comment (September/October 2008)
Wallis, Victor. "Interpreting revolution -- Che: Part I and Part II." Jump Cut #51 (Spring 2009)
The Class (France: Laurent Cantent, 2008: 128 mins)
Ashbury, Roy. "Schools and Teachers." Understanding Representation. ed. Wendy Helsby. London: BFI, 2005: 51-74. [Available in BCTC library PN1995 U4977 2005]
Chen, Lu. "I Hate Mathematics and Racists." The Brooklyn Rail (March 2009)
The Drummer (Hong Kong/Taiwan/Germany: Kenneth Bi, 2008: 115 mins)
"Discussion Questions: The Drummer Film Movement (2008)
Gomorrah (Italy: Matteo Garrone, 2008: 137 mins)
Covino, Michael. "LA MALAVITA: GOMORRAH AND NAPLES." Film Quarterly 62.4 (Summer 2009)
Curti, Roberto. "File Under Fire: A brief history of Italian crime films." Offscreen (November 30, 2007)
Garrone, Matteo and Maurizio Brauccio. "Gomorrah Q & A." Creative Screenwriting Magazine (March 6, 2009)
Gilman, Nils. "The Global Illicit Economy." (Google Video: 2009)
Ming, Wu. "The New Italian Epic." Opening talk @ the conference "The Italian Perspective on Metahistorical Fiction: The New Italian Epic." Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, University of London, UK. (October 2, 2008)
Radovic, Radjo. "McMafia Rising." Film International 7.1 (Feb 2009)
Stephens, Chuck. "Gomorrah: Terminal Beach." Criterion (November 23, 2009)
Hunger (UK/Ireland: Steve McQueen, 2008: 96 mins)
Hoberman, J. "The Excruciating Details of Death-by-Starvation in Hunger." The Village Voice (March 18, 2009)
The Hurt Locker (USA: Kathryn Bigelow, 2008: 131 mins)
Kemp, Philip. "Directors of the Year: Kathryn Bigelow." International Film Guide:2010 ed. Ian Hadyn Smith. NY: Wallflower Press, 2010: 17-24. [Professor has copy]
Il Divo (Italy/France: Paolo Sorrentino, 2008: 110 mins)
Codelli, Lorenzo. "Directors of the Year: Paolo Sorrentino." International Film Guide: 2009. London: Wallflower Press, 2009. [Available in BCTC Library: PN1993.3 I544 2009]
Let the Right One In (Sweden: Tomas Alfredson, 2008: 115 mins)
Benton, Michael Dean. "Be Me for Awhile": Ideological Becoming and Future Objectivity in Let the Right One. Dialogic (August 1, 2009)
Låt den rätte komma in (Let The Right One In, Sweden 2008) The Case for Global Film (April 30, 2009)
Rapold, Nicholas and Matt Zoller Seitz. "A History of Creepy Kids on Film." The L Magazine (August 3, 2009)
Wright, Rochelle. "Vampire in the Stockholm suburbs: Let the Right One In and genre hybridity." Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 1.1 (2010)
Martyrs (France/Canada: Pascal Lougier, 2008: 99 mins)
Totaro, Donato. "Martyrs: Evoking France’s Cinematic and Historical Past." Offscreen (May 31, 2009)
Ponyo (Japan: Hayao Miyazaki, 2008: 101 mins)
Odell, Colin and Michelle Le Blanc. "Directors of the Year: Miyazaki Hayao." International Film Guide: 2009. ed. Ian Hadyn Smith. London: Wallflower Press, 2009: 16-22. [Available in BCTC Library: PN1993.3 I544 2009]
Revanche (Austria: Götz Spielmann, 2008: 121 mins)
Ashbury, Roy. "Prostitution." Understanding Representation. ed. Wendy Helsby. London: BFI, 2005: 115-142. [Available in BCTC Library PN 1995 U4977 2005]
Spielman, Götz. "DVD OF THE WEEK & PODCAST: Revanche (Gotz Spielmann)." Green Cine Daily (February 18, 2009)
Totaro, Donato. "Revanche (2008, Götz Spielman)-- A Matter of Stillness." Offscreen (February 28, 2010)
White, Armond. "Revanche:
Revival of the Fittest." The Criterion Collection (February 11, 2010)
Sleep Dealer (USA/Mexico: Alex Rivera, 2008: 90 mins)
Engler, Mark. "Science Fiction From Below." Z-Net (May 16, 2009)
Slumdog Millionaire (UK: Danny Boyle, 2008: 120 mins)
Anselmi, William and Sheena Wilson. "Slumdogging It: Rebranding the American Dream, New World Orders, and Neo-Colonialism." Film International (2008)
Banaji, Shakuntala. "Seduced ‘Outsiders’ versus Sceptical ‘Insiders’?: Slumdog Millionaire through its Re/Viewers." Participations 7.1 (May 2010)
"In Bombay [Mumbai] with Slumdog Millionaire." The Business (November 17, 2008)
Khair, Tabish. "The Ironies of Bollywood." 16:9 (April 2009)
Llosa, Alvaro Vargas. "A Bollywood Ending: What the overly PC critics of 'Slumdog Millionare' still don't understand." The New Republic (March 3, 2009)
Narain, Atticus. "Rethinking post-colonial representation after Slumdog Millionaire." Dark Matter (March 9, 2009)
Oh Danny Boyle Film Studies for Free (March 2, 2009)
Standard Operating Procedure (USA: Errol Morris, 2008: 116 mins)
Andrews, David. "Reframing Standard Operating Procedure: Errol Morris and the creative treatment of Abu Ghraib." Jump Cut #52 (Summer 2010)
Aradillas, Aaron and Matt Zoller Seitz. "5 on 24: A Five Part Video Essay on the Real Time Action Series. Moving Image Source (May 18, 2010)
Burris, Gregory A. "Shocked and Awed?: Hostel and the Spectacle of Self-Mutilation." Cine-Action #80 (2010)
Butler, Judith. "Torture and the Ethics of Photography." Environment and Planning D: Society and Space #25 (2007): 951 - 966.
Cockrell, Eddie. "Directors of the Year: Errol Morris." International Film Guide: 2005. ed. Daniel Rosenthal. Los Angeles: Silman James Press, 2005: 24-31.
Dunn, Timothy. "Torture, Terrorism, and 24: What Would Jack Bauer Do?." Homer Simpson Goes to Washington: American Politics Through Popular Culture." ed. Joseph Foy. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky, 2008: 171-184. [Available in BCTC Library JK 31 H85 2008]
Fletcher, Phoebe. “Fucking Americans”: Postmodern Nationalisms in the Contemporary Splatter Film #18 (December 2009)
Hilden, Julie. "Free Speech and the Concept of "Torture Porn": Why are Critics So Hostile to Hostel II?" Find Law (July 16, 2007)
Kleinhans, Chuck. "Imagining Torture." Jump Cut #51 (Spring 2009)
Kleinhans, Chuck, John Hess and Julia Lesage. "The Last Word: Torture and the National Imagination." #50 (Summer 2008)
Lesage, Julie. "Torture Documentaries." Jump Cut #51 (Spring 2009)
Murray, Gabrielle. "Images of Torture, Images of Terror: Post 9/11 and the Escalation of Screen Violence." Monash University Film and TV Studies (Podcast of a Lecture: March 20, 2008)
Nichols, Bill. "Feelings of revulsion and the limits of academic discourse." Jump Cut #52 (Summer 2010)
Rosler, Martha. "A Simple Case for Torture." Jump Cut #51 (Spring 2009)
Torture (Archive on Dialogic: The culture and politics of "torture.")
Williams, Linda. "“Cluster Fuck”: The Forcible Frame in Errol Morris’s Standard Operating Procedure." Jump Cut #52 (Summer 2010)
Summer Hours (France: Olivier Assayas, 2008: 103 mins)
Jones, Kent. "Summer Hours: A Time to Live and a Time to Die. Criterion (2010)
Troubled Water (Norway: Erik Poppe, 2008: 120 mins)
"Troubled Water: Discussion Guide." Film Movement (2009)
Waltz With Bashir (Israel/France/Germany/USA/Finland/Switzerland/Belgium/Australia: Ari Folman, 2008: 90 Mins)
Baker, Nicholson, et al. "Autobiography/Biography: Narrating the Self." Philoctetes (December 13, 2008)
Fainaru, Dan. "A Changing Landscape." International Film Guide: 2009. London: Wallflower Press, 2009: 53-63. [Available in BCTC Library PN1993.3 I544 2009]
Folman, Ari. "Waltz with Bashir." Worldview (January 23, 2009)
Hallinan, Chris. "The Lebanon Border: "Uniquely" Dangerous." Foreign Policy in Focus (September 1, 2010)
Kamiya, Gary. "What Waltz With Bashir can teach us about Gaza: The stunning new Israeli film reveals painful parallels between one of Israel's darkest moments and the current conflict." Salon (January 13, 2009)
Polonsky, David, et al. Waltz with Bashir: The Art Director’s Cut at War. Open Source (April 17, 2009)
Rozenkrantz, Jonathan. "Colourful Claims: towards a theory of animated documentary." Film International (May 6, 2011)
2009
Antichrist (Denmark/Germany/France/Sweden/Italy/Poland: Lars von Triers, 2009: 108 mins)
Geller, Dorothy. "•Lars Von Trier's Antichrist: Executioner at the Alter of the Other, Part 1."/"•Lars Von Trier's Antichrist: Executioner at the Alter of the Other, Part 2." Offscreen 14.11 (November 2010)
Bright Star (UK/Australia/France: Jane Campion, 2009: 119 mins)
Campion, Jane interviewed by Nick James. "Romantic Setting." Sight and Sound (December 2009)
Capitalism: A Love Story (USA: Michael Moore, 2009: 127 mins)
McChesney, Robert and John Bellamy Foster. "Capitalism, the Absurd System: A View from the United States." Monthly Review 62.2 (June 2010)
"Michael Moore on His Life, His Films and His Activism." Democracy Now (July 5, 2010)
Coraline (USA: Henry Selick, 2009: 100 mins)
Bordwell, David. "Coraline, Considered." Observations on Film Art (February 23, 2009)
Kozachik, Pete. "Pete Kozachik, ASC details his approach to the 3-D digital stop-motion feature Coraline, whose heroine discovers a sinister world behind the walls of her new home." American Cinematographer (February 2009)
District 9 (USA/New Zealand: Neill Blomkamp, 2009: 112 mins)
Blomkamp, Neil, Sharlto Copley and Peter Jackson. "District 9 -- Comic Com Q & A Creative Screenwriting Magazine (August 21, 2009)
Gunkel, Henriette and Christiane König. "‘You are not welcome here’: post-apartheid negrophobia and real aliens in Blomkamp’s District 9." Dark Matters (February 7, 2010)
McEnteer, James. "Living in District 9 Truth-Out (June 12, 2010)
Toit, Andries Du. "Becoming the Alien: Apartheid, Racism and District 9." A Subtle Knife (September 4, 2009)
---. "The Alienation Effect: Further Thoughts on D9." A Subtle Knife (September 12, 2009)
Zborowski, James. "District 9 and Its World." Jump Cut #52 (Summer 2010)
Dogtooth (Greece: Giorgos Lanthimos, 2009: 94 mins)
Booth, Steven. "Essential Filmmaking: The Perverse Cuts of Dogtooth." Fandor (May 20, 2011)
Murphy, Bernice M. Dogtooth Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies (June 2010)
Williamson, Ben. "On Parenting, Media, Education and Phobias." DML Central (February 14, 2011)
Fantastic Mr. Fox (USA/UK: Wes Anderson, 2009: 87 mins)
Sabo, Lee Weston. "Inimitable Charm: Wes Anderson's Fantastic Mr. Fox Bright Lights Film Journal #67 (February 2010)
Sicinski, Michael. "25 Songs of Innocence & Experience: Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson and the Post-Boomer." Cinema Scope #41 (2009)
Fish Tank (UK/Netherlands: Andrea Arnold, 2009: 123 mins)
Emerson, Jim. "The otherworldly terrain of Fish Tank." Scanners (February 2, 2011)
Gamer (USA: Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor, 2009: 95 mins)
Shaviro, Steven. "Gamer. Pinocchio Theory (December 15, 2009)
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Sweden/Denmark/Germany/Norway: Niels Arden Oplev, 2009: 152 mins)/The Girl Who Played with Fire (Sweden/Denmark/Germany: Daniel Alfredson, 2009: 129 mins)/The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (Sweden/Denmark/Germany: Daniel Alfredson, 2009: 147 mins)
"Girls, Violence and Dragon Tattoos." Skepchick (January 14, 2011)
Inglourious Basterds (USA/Germany: Quentin Tarantino, 2009: 153 mins)
Benton, Michael Dean. "Quentin Tarantino, King of the Mooks - One Basterd’s Inglourious Response." North of Center 1.8 (2009)
In the Loop (United Kingdom: Armando Iannucci, 2009: 106 mins)
"“In the Loop”: Oscar-Nominated Comedy Satirizes Lead-Up to US-UK Invasion of Iraq." Democracy Now (February 17, 2010)
The Limits of Control (USA/Japan: Jim Jarmusch, 2009: 116 mins)
Overstreet, Jeffrey. "Jarmusch 101." and "Jarmusch 102: The Limits of Control." Image (April 19-20, 2010)
Shaw, Daniel. Film and Philosophy: Taking Films Seriously. London: Wallflower Press, 2008.
Moon (UK: Duncan Jones, 2009: 97 mins)
Jones, Duncan. "Moon." Film School (June 9, 2009)
Shaw, Daniel. Film and Philosophy: Taking Films Seriously. London: Wallflower Press, 2008.
A Prophet (France/Italy: Jacques Audiard, 2009: 150 mins)
Caplan, Nina. "Directors of the Year: Jacques Audiard." International Film Guide 2010. ed. Ian Hadyn Smith. London: Wallflower P, 2010: 11-16.
The Secret In Their Eyes (Argentina/Spain: Juan José Campanella, 2009: 127 mins)
Carnevale, Alex. "The Dirty War." In This Recording (July 9, 2010)
Samson and Delilah (Australia: Warwick Thornton, 2009: 101 mins)
Mayer, Sophie. "Not in Kansas anymore: Warwick Thornton on Samson and Delilah Sight and Sound (April 2010)
Storm (Germany: Hans-Christian Schmid, 2009: 103 mins)
"Storm: Discussion Guide." Film Movement (2010)
The Time That Remains (Palestine/UK/Italy/Belgium/France: Elia Suleiman, 2009: 109 mins)
Jafaar, Ali. "Elia Suleiman: the strong silent type." Sight and Sound (June 2010)
Where the Wild Things Are (USA/Germany: Spike Jonze, 2009: 101 mins)
Accord, Lance. "In Conversation with Rodney Taylor about Where the Wild Things Are." Converations on Cinematography (February 2, 2010)
Shaw, Daniel. Film and Philosophy: Taking Films Seriously. London: Wallflower Press, 2008.
Sicinski, Michael. "25 Songs of Innocence & Experience: Spike Jonze, Wes Anderson and the Post-Boomer." Cinema Scope #41 (2009)
White Material (France/Cameroon: Claire Denis, 2009: 106 mins)
Dinning, Samantha. "Great Directors: Claire Denis." Senses of Cinema (2009)
The White Ribbon (Austria/Germany/France/Italy: Michael Haneke, 2009: 144 mins)
Brunette, Peter. Michael Haneke. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois, 2010.
Grant, Catherine. "Michael Haneke: A Ribbon of Links." Film Studies for Free (October 6, 2009)
Grundman, Roy. A Companion to Michael Haneke. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2010.
Horner, Kierran. The White Ribbon Film International (May 10, 2011)
Horwath, Alexander. "Michael Haneke Uncut: Talking shop, theory, and practice with the director of The White Ribbon." Film Comment (November/December 2009)
"Michael Haneke Studies: Videos, Podcasts and Article Links." Film Studies for Free (June 26, 2010)
Ogrodnik, Benjamin. "Deep Cuts." Film International 7.1 (Feb 2009)
Price, Brian and John David Rhodes, ed. On Michael Haneke. Detroit, MI: Wayne State University, 2010.
Wheatley, Catherine. Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethic of the Image. NY: Bergahn Books, 2009. [BCTC Library PN 1998.3 H36 W44 2009]
Wild Grass (France/Italy: Alain Resnais, 2009: 104 minutes)
Atkinson, Michael. "Storytelling: Why Alain Resnais's Wild Grass is the secret key to his sensibility." Moving Image Source (July 2010)
Martin, Adrian. "Where the wild things grow: Alain Resnais’ Wild Grass." Sight and Sound (June 2010)
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