Bert Cardullo

Bert Cardullo
Robert J. Cardullo is Professor of Media and Communication in Izmir University of Economics, where he teaches courses in film history, theory and criticism. His essays and reviews have appeared in such journals as the Yale Review, Cambridge Quarterly, Film Quarterly, Cinema Journal, and the Quarterly Review of Film and Video. He is the author, editor or translator of a number of books, among them André Bazin and Italian Neorealism, Soundings on Cinema: Speaking to Film and Film Artists, In Search of Cinema: Writings on International Film Art and Twenty-One Landmark European Films 1939-1999.

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Bert Cardullo
  • ‘Girls Are the New Men’: An Interview with Pawel Pawlikowski

    ‘Girls Are the New Men’: An Interview with Pawel Pawlikowski

    Bert Cardullo
    Bert Cardullo

    INTERVIEW. After cutting his teeth as a filmmaker with a series of acclaimed documentaries for the BBC during the 1990s, Pawel Pawlikowski (born 1957) was named Most Promising Newcomer by BAFTA for his feature début Last Resort (2000); the follow-up, My Summer of Love (2004), won the BAFTA award for Best British Film of the Year. But neither picture felt obviously British, since each reflected a border-zone existence (literal or figurative) in a sometimes beautiful, sometimes horrific country.

  • Modish Artifice versus Modern Art

    Modish Artifice versus Modern Art

    Bert Cardullo
    Bert Cardullo

    FEATURE. Bert Cardullo makes a comparative re-viewing of two milestone movies directed by Alain Resnais: Last Year at Marienbad (1961) and Hiroshima, mon amour (1959). He discusses whether the modernist structure that characterizes both films (in different ways) is actually wedded to substantial meaning.

  • Deconstructing Expressionism: Antonioni’s Film of L’avventura

    Deconstructing Expressionism: Antonioni’s Film of L’avventura

    Bert Cardullo
    Bert Cardullo

    FEATURE. Bert Cardullo views L’avventura as a prime instance of Michelangelo Antonioni’s unique cinematic style – a hybrid style with origins in Italian neo-realism but with a generally overlooked connection to German Expressionism. Cardullo terms Antonioni’s mode of expression as ”introspective realism”.

  • Given Circumstances: The East Asian Cinema of Akira Kurosawa, Part 2

    Given Circumstances: The East Asian Cinema of Akira Kurosawa, Part 2

    Bert Cardullo
    Bert Cardullo

    FEATURE. In issue no. 22 Bert Cardullo discussed the career and working methods of Akira Kurosawa and rebutted claims about Kurosawa being a particularly ”Western” director. In the present article Cardullo develops his argument in a closer analysis of The Seven Sumarai.

  • Given Circumstances: The East Asian Cinema of Akira Kurosawa, Part 1

    Given Circumstances: The East Asian Cinema of Akira Kurosawa, Part 1

    Bert Cardullo
    Bert Cardullo

    FEATURE. Bert Cardullo has collected a number of interviews with Akira Kurosawa that are to be published by University Press of Mississippi in 2008. To mark that occassion, and as a supplement to the book, Cardullo will be discussing the cinema of Kurosawa in two essays of which this is the first.