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Film and the Literary
Volume 29/Issue 12, Volume 30/Issue 1 / December–January 2026
In this final issue of 2025 and first of 2026 Offscreen places a focus on films adapted from and influenced by a varierty of literary sources.
In this issue
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Yannick, Image-Politics, and the Culture of Boredom
Quentin Dupieux’s movie as an exercise in spect-actorship
Anton M. Kolev
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Screenwriters in French Cinema
Elaine Lennon
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Cinematic Perversity and The Literature of Henry Miller
Joseph Dimacchia
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A Distraught Pole: Andrzej Żuławski and Romantyzm
Henri de Corinth
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Black Jacobins of Quiemada: The Writings of C.L.R. James in Gillo Pontecorvo’s Burn!
Daniel Abelow
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The Sweet Hereafter: Atom Egoyan Adapts Russell Banks
David George Menard
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The Dreamers (2003, Bernardo Bertolucci)
Screenplay by Scottish Novelist-Poet-Film Critic-Journalist Gilbert Adair
Donato Totaro
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Loud Deaths and Secretive Lives: A TIFF 50 Retrospective
Jordan Z. Adler
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Three Canadian Films from Toronto International Film Festival 2025
Joshua Polanski
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Considering the Alternatives: The 50th Toronto International Film Festival
Michael Sooriyakumaran
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Film Criticism and Diversity
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Offscreen Notes
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The 2nd Semaine de la critique de montreal
January 14th
Second day of this special film festival organized by online film magazine Panorama-cinéma. The event runs until Sunday the 18th. Today I enjoyed the unique double-bill of Revelations of Divine Love (Caroline Golum, 2025) and Oublie pas le gruau (by Hors… Read more →
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Bela Tarr (1955-Jan 6, 2026)
January 6th
I am so sad to hear about the passing of the great Hungarian director Bela Tarr at the age of 70. Tarr was the greatest Hungarian director since Miklós Jancsó who died in 2014 at the far riper age of 92.… Read more →
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Brigitte Bardot (1934- Dec. 28, 2025)
December 29th
Brigitte Bardot had a fascinating career which ended as an actress in her prime in 1973 yet she lived on in the memory of cinema as one of its greatest movie stars. One of cinema's defining 'sex symbols' for whom… Read more →
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