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Adrian Martin (born 1959) is an Australian film and arts critic. He now lives in Vilassar de Mar in Spain. He is Adjunct Associate Professor in Film Culture and Theory at Monash University. His work has appeared in many magazines, journals and newspapers around the world, and has been translated into over twenty languages and has regular columns in the Dutch De Filmkrant and in Caiman: Cuadernos de cine.

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Early life and education

Born in Melbourne, Martin was educated at St Joseph's College, Melbourne and Melbourne State College, where he studied film and media studies in the late 1970s. He later completed a PhD in Film Style at Monash University in 2006. His thesis, titled Toward a Synthetic Analysis of Film Style, won the Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal for Best PhD Thesis in the Faculty of Arts and Design.

Career

Martin began teaching in 1979, and has lectured in film studies at Melbourne State College, Swinburne University of Technology, Rusden College and RMIT University. After completing his PhD, Martin was a Senior Research Fellow in Film and Television Studies at Monash University from 2006 to 2009, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2010.

Martin was one of The Age newspaper's film reviewers for 11 years until early 2006 and has worked as a film reviewer for ABC TV and Radio National. He was co-editor of the online film journal Rouge between 2003 and 2009. As of 2011 he is the co-editor, with Girish Shambu, of the online film journal Lola, and also serves as one of the editorial team of Screening The Past.

From 2013 to 2015, Martin was Distinguished Visiting Professor at Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany.

In July 2017 he launched his official website Adrian Martin: Film Critic.

Audio commentaries

From 2006 to 2011, Martin contributed feature-length audio commentaries to the 'Directors Suite' DVD series produced by Madman Entertainment in Australia. Madman discontinued producing these special bonus features in 2011. In 2015, Martin returned to audio commentary work, commissioned by the British Film Institute and Masters of Cinema labels. Martin's commentary appears on the following films (release dates follow each title):

  • Vivre sa vie (Godard, July '06; commentary re-used by Criterion USA, 2010)
  • The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel, September '06)
  • Masculin Féminin (Godard, December '06)
  • Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Godard, December '06; commentary re-used by Criterion USA, 2009)
  • The Promise (Dardennes, March '07)
  • Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (Lang, July '07)
  • The Blue Angel (Sternberg, August '07)
  • Alice in the Cities (in box set of Wenders' Road Movies, October '07)
  • Journey in Italy (Rossellini, November '07)
  • Gertrud (Dreyer, February '08)
  • The Tarnished Angels (Sirk, May '08)
  • Martha (in Fassbinder box set on Melodrama, December '08)
  • There's Always Tomorrow (Sirk, co-commentary with John Flaus, Feb '09)
  • Beware of a Holy Whore (Fassbinder, Feb '09)
  • Les Cousins (Chabrol, Feb '09)
  • Ministry of Fear (Lang, March '09)
  • Fallen Angel (Preminger, April '09) Re-released BFI, 2015
  • Whirlpool (Preminger, April '09) Re-released BFI, 2015
  • F for Fake (Welles, June '09)
  • Le Plaisir (Ophüls, '09)
  • Madame de... (Ophüls, '09)
  • Good Morning (Ozu, co-commentary with John Flaus, '09)
  • A Married Woman (Godard, '09)
  • Le gai savoir (Godard, '09)
  • La Luna (Bertolucci, 09)
  • Le Corbeau (Clouzot, '10)
  • Touchez pas au grisbi (Becker, '10)
  • Elena and Her Men (Renoir, '10)
  • The Loyal 47 Ronin (Mizoguchi, '10)
  • The Immortal Story (Welles, '10)
  • Diary of a Chambermaid (Buñuel, '10)
  • Lola Montès (Ophüls, '10)
  • Histoire(s) du cinéma (Godard, scholarly edition overseen by Martin, 2011)
  • Seconds (Frankenheimer - Masters of Cinema, 2015)
  • Night and the City (Dassin - BFI, 2015)
  • Where the Sidewalk Ends (Preminger - BFI, 2015)
  • Fixed Bayonets! (Fuller - Masters of Cinema, 2016)
  • Bande à part (Godard - BFI, 2016)
  • Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov - Masters of Cinema, 2016)
  • Cry of the City (Siodmak - BFI, 2016)
  • Paths of Glory (Kubrick - Masters of Cinema, 2016)
  • Paris Blues (Ritt - BFI, 2016)
  • Carmen Jones (Preminger - BFI, September 2016)
  • The Man from Laramie (Mann - Masters of Cinema, December 2016)
  • Awards

  • 1993: Byron Kennedy Award, Australian Film Institute Awards
  • 1997: Pascall Prize for Australian Critic of the Year
  • 2006: Mollie Holman Doctoral Medal, Monash University
  • Filmography

  • Love and Other Catastrophes (1996), as himself
  • References

    Adrian Martin Wikipedia