idFilm: Features

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2013

MAY
• Alexey Balabanov, 1959-2013 (May 20)
Some thoughts on the director following his death
• Festival Index: IndieLisboa'13 (May 12)
Links to reports and reviews
• Não then, não then (for Jigsaw Lounge, May 11)
4/4 IndieLisboa'13 dispatch
• Paradises lost, found, postponed (for Jigsaw Lounge, May 3)
3/4 IndieLisboa'13 dispatch
• April 2013 viewing tally (May 1)
115 films, 111 for the first time, 51 at the cinema...

APRIL
• Animals, absentees, actors and anecdotes (for Jigsaw Lounge, Apr 27)
2/4 IndieLisboa'13 dispatch
• Wanderers, workers, models and monologues (for Jigsaw Lounge, Apr 25)
1/4 IndieLisboa'13 dispatch
• Festival Report: Bradford International Film Festival 2013 (Apr 15)
Round-up and index of links
• idFilm turns three (Apr 12)
Yearly Top Tens 1983-2013...
• Four Frames: Literal and symbolic barriers in 'Proof of Life' (for The Big Picture, Apr 10)
Analysis of four frames in the underrated 2000 film
• Scoped: BIFF 2 (Apr 10)
Capsules on La Playa D.C., Babylon, Faith, Love and Whiskey, Resolution, The Rambler, Under the Weight of Clouds and Out of Frame
• Scoped: BIFF 1 (Apr 8)
Capsules on I Have Always Been a Dreamer, Tokyo Waka, The Love Songs of Tiedan, Tower and East Hastings Pharmacy
• Days of beckoning: 20 must-sees at Bradford International Film Festival 2013 (Apr 3)
A day-by-day recommendations list
• Bradford International Film Festival 2013 Preview (for Front Row Reviews, Apr 2)
A guide to the this year's dizzyingly varied programme
• March 2013 viewing tally (Apr 1)
88 films, 86 for the first time, 22 at the cinema...

MARCH
• In dreams and imagination: Lynch and Surrealism (in Senses of Cinema, Mar 27)
Peer-reviewed article on the Surrealist values of Mulholland Dr. (2001) and Inland Empire (2006)
• Scoped (Mar 24)
Capsules on Diego Star, Karaoke Girl, 36, Everybody in Our Family and Kapitalism: Our Improved Formula
• Long live the new text: eight responses to as many Nicolas Provost shorts (Mar 15)
Prosaic, scholarly, imagistic, intertextual and sexual responses to a screening of Provost's shorts
• Screengem: The red rubber ball in The Prestige (for The Big Picture, Mar 8)
Article on the significance of a recurrent item in Christopher Nolan's film
• February 2013 viewing tally (Mar 1)
63 films, 62 for the first time, 13 at the cinema...

FEBRUARY
• Face-off: Andy Warhol's Screen Tests at Newcastle's Star and Shadow Cinema (Feb 16)
Report on a unique exhibition of 16mm celebrity portraits, exhibited with live music
• January 2013 viewing tally (Feb 2)
49 films, 48 for the first time, 7 at the cinema...
• Crimes and punishments: Sundance 2013, part one (Feb 1)
Second of two Sundance round-ups

JANUARY
• Money worries: Sundance 2013, part one (Jan 31)
One of two Sundance round-ups
• Studying The Bourne Ultimatum (Jan 22)
Book review of Auteur Publishing's latest study guide

2012

DECEMBER
• 2012: Viewings and Ratings (Dec 31)
The year in review: releases/premieres, performances of note, and a full viewing tally
• "Gunfighting and tea-drinking": an interview with Tom Benn (Dec 19)
Interview with Tom Benn ahead of his second novel, Chamber Music

NOVEMBER
• London Film Festival 2012 (Nov 1)
Collection of links to all LFF reviews

AUGUST
• 'The Greatest Films of All Time': branding change (Aug 9)
Article on the cultural implications of Sight & Sound's renowned poll

• 'Frenzy' at 40 (for New Empress, Aug 6)

Article on Hitchcock's penultimate, London-set film, 40 years on

• Spatial clarity and thematic currents in three William Friedkin chase sequences (Aug 2)

Short essay on The French Connection, To Live and Die in L.A. and Jade

MAY

• "Extraneous knicknacks": Patrick Keiller at Tate Britain (May 29)

Review of 'The Robinson Institute' exhibition

APRIL

• "Que-se jai?" (Apr 23)

Introduction to a side film project / website
• Bradford International Film Festival's hidden gems (for National Media Museum blog, Apr 22)
Short previews of a selection of films at BIFF 2012

• AV Festival: some more coverage (for Front Row Reviews, Apr 7)

Second of two round-ups from the AV Festival, including links to reviews and features

MARCH

• Time for space (Mar 31)

Short essay on spatial and temporal frameworks in The Turin Horse (Béla Tarr) and Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan)

• Bradford International Film Festival preview (for HowDo, Mar 27)
Preview of We Are Poets for BIFF; click on the page to view large - I'm in the right column

• AV Festival: some coverage (for Front Row Reviews, Mar 20)

First of two round-ups of AV Festival, including links to reviews.

• March attacks! (Mar 2)

Short, follow-up preview of AV Festival's film programme

JAN

• idFi...ction? (Jan 26)

Review of Tom Benn's crime novel, The Doll Princess

• More flicks of Anamorphic flicks (Jan 23)

Follow-up link to a video demonstrating more instances of Anamorphic lenses

• AV Festival 2012: a preview (Jan 18)

Brief preview of AV Festival

• Visual pleasure and the male... glare (Jan 2)

Short collection of Die Hard stills demonstrating the use of Anamorphic lenses

2011

• #FF @winter_reading (Dec 2)

Film blog recommendations

• "Communism is dead"; long live communism! (Nov 11)

Essay on academic viewpoints on marxism

• Some ruminations on things, related or not (Nov 9)

Film exhibition / academia / Haneke

• Two more "Treasures from the Archives" at this year's London Film Festival (Oct 29)

Reviews of America America (Elia Kazan) and Bye Bye Birdie (George Sidney)

• Two "Treasures from the Archives" at this year's London Film Festival (Oct 25)

Reviews of The Caine Mutiny (Edward Dmytrk) and Cry Danger (Robert Parrish)

• Catering for all tastes... at the expense of the film (Oct 15)

Short piece on behavioural habits in the cinema

• "See the movie before everyone else has seen the trailer"... or not, as the case will be (Oct 2)

Article on festival sponsorship, profitability and marketing contradictions

• Ken Loach, Kes and brief questions of independence (Sep 6)

Follow-up piece on Kes (Ken Loach)
• Ken Loach at the BFI: 'Kes' restored (for Front Row Reviews, Apr 6)
Article on re-release of Ken Loach's debut

• Some observations on a Top 100 Films list (Sep 3)

My Top 100 favourite films

• id, I'd, I.D., I do (Aug 25)

Explanatory notes on the origins of the site's title

• When all before you is barren... (Aug 5)

Article on why we might like to return to the films we love

• Top 100s and why we make them (Jul 19)

Musings on why and how we find the time to make a Top 100
• A timely new print of 'Apocalypse Now' (for Front Row Reviews, Jun 7)
• Rooting for the undersold, or championing the cinematographer (for Front Row Reviews, Apr 19)
Article on cinematography, discussing films by Woody Allen and Kelly Reichardt

• A brief, further example of the director fetish (Apr 17)

More specific follow-up on director-heavy criticism

• Towards less fetishisation of the director (Apr 13)

Article on director-heavy film criticism
• Where are all the Werewolves? (for Front Row Reviews, Apr 11)
Article on cinema's lack of traditional, medieval werewolves
• 'Taxi Driver' at 35 (for Front Row Reviews, Apr 5)
Article on Blu-ray release of Martin Scorsese's 1976 film

• The film(s) I always return to (Apr 3)

Article on the possibly conservative element of returning to old favourites

• Some Iranian films I've watched recently (Feb 25)

Contribution to blogathon on Iranian cinema

• Memories and desire: how time and narrative affect our understanding of film noir (Feb 19)

Essay on film noir's cyclical temporalies

• On remakes, and five suggestions... (Feb 13)

Article on remake trends

• Another class? (Feb 10)

Article on depictions of class society in British cinema

• Q&A: Five questions for Patrick Keiller (Jan 12)

The 'Robinson' trilogy director discusses materialism, transformative imagery and the problem of England