Senses of Cinema is a quarterly online film

Film criticism

Film criticism is the analysis and evaluation of films, individually and collectively. In general, this can be divided into journalistic criticism that appears regularly in newspapers, and other popular, mass-media outlets and academic criticism by film scholars that is informed by film theory and...

 magazine

Magazine

Magazines, periodicals, glossies or serials are publications, generally published on a regular schedule, containing a variety of articles. They are generally financed by advertising, by a purchase price, by pre-paid magazine subscriptions, or all three...

 founded in 1999 by filmmaker Bill Mousoulis

Bill Mousoulis

Bill Mousoulis is an award-winning Greek-Australian film director, with approximately 100 films to his name...

. Based in Melbourne, Australia

Melbourne

Melbourne is the capital and most populous city in the state of Victoria, and the second most populous city in Australia. The Melbourne City Centre is the hub of the greater metropolitan area and the Census statistical division—of which "Melbourne" is the common name. As of June 2009, the greater...

, Senses of Cinema publishes work by film critics from all over the world, including critical essays, career overviews of the works of key directors, and coverage of many international festivals.

Its contributors have included Barbara Creed

Barbara Creed

Barbara Creed is a Professor of Cinema Studies in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne known for her cultural criticism....

, Wheeler Winston Dixon

Wheeler Winston Dixon

Wheeler Winston Dixon is best known as a writer of film history, theory and criticism. He is the author of numerous books on film, as well as a professor who has taught at Rutgers University, New Brunswick; The New School in New York; and the University of Amsterdam, Holland. He received his Ph.D....

, David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein

David Ehrenstein is an American critic who focuses primarily on issues of homosexuality in cinema.-Life and career:Ehrenstein was born in New York City. His father was a secular Jew with Polish ancestors, and his mother was of African American and Irish descent. His mother raised him in her...

, Thomas Elsaesser

Thomas Elsaesser

Thomas Elsaesser is an international film historian and professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam.-Biography:Thomas Elsaesser was born in 1943 in Berlin...

, Valie Export

Valie Export

Valie Export is an Austrian artist...

, Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster

Gwendolyn Audrey Foster is a professor in the Department of English, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, specializing in film studies, cultural studies, and Postfeminist Critical Theory...

, Dušan Makavejev

Dušan Makavejev

Dušan Makavejev is a Serbian film director and screenwriter, famous for his groundbreaking films of Yugoslav cinema in the late 1960s and early 1970s...

, Edgar Morin

Edgar Morin

Edgar Morin is a French philosopher and sociologist born Edgar Nahoum in Paris on July 8, 1921. He is of Judeo-Spanish origin. He is known for the transdisciplinarity of his works.- Biography :...

, Murray Pomerance, Berenice Reynaud, Jonathan Rosenbaum

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Jonathan Rosenbaum is an American film critic. Rosenbaum was the head film critic for the Chicago Reader from 1987 until 2008, when he retired at the age of 65...

, David Sanjek, David Sterritt

David Sterritt

David Sterritt is a film critic, author and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor, where, from 1968 until his retirement in 2005, he championed avant garde cinema, theater and music...

, Robert von Dassanowsky

Robert von Dassanowsky

Robert von Dassanowsky FRHistS, FRSA is an Austrian-American academic, writer, film and cultural historian, and producer...

,and many others.

The editors are Rolando Caputo, Michelle Carey, Adrian Danks and Fincina Hopgood.

Format

Every issue of Senses of Cinema follows roughly the same format: about a dozen "featured articles," often related to a unifying theme, a special dossier often devoted to some aspect of Australian cinema, reports from various major international, regional and underground film festivals, book reviews, and articles devoted to recent screenings and retrospectives at the Melbourne Cinematheque

Melbourne Cinematheque

The Melbourne Cinémathèque is a non-profit film society screening programmes year-round, dedicated to presenting the history of world cinema on the big screen in carefully curated retrospectives. It started out as Melbourne University Film Society in 1948 and changed its name to Cinémathèque in 1984...

.

Senses of Cinema regularly publishes interviews in its featured articles section.

Great Directors

Senses of Cinema also maintains a database of career overview essays on "great directors." The essays range in scope and length, but they all maintain an auteurist

Auteur theory

In film criticism, auteur theory holds that a director's film reflects the director's personal creative vision, as if they were the primary "auteur"...

perspective on the filmmakers' work.