an online journal devoted to the serious and eclectic discussion of cinema

Editors
Rolando Caputo
Scott Murray

Festival Reports Editor
Michelle Carey

Book Reviews Editor
Fincina Hopgood

Cteq Annotations Editor
Adrian Danks

Web Designers
Cerise Howard &
Matthew Stephenson

General Manager
Peter Beilby


Senses of Cinema
acknowledges the financial assistance of Screen Australia

Screen Australia

 

SUPPORTED BY
Film Victoria

Victoria Online

 

The University of Melbourne

© Senses of Cinema
1999–2008


Encyclopædia Britannica









Issue 47, 2008
Contents
Sweet Movie The Ann Todd Trilogy James Bond Mahamet-Saleh Haroun Peter Jackson

Dossier on Australian Exploitation

Melbourne International Film Festival

To celebrate the “Focus on Ozploitation” program screening of several important Australian exploitation films from the 1970s and ’80s at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), Senses of Cinema has delved back into the archives to find articles written at the time of each film’s production or release. These have been chosen to present a historical point of view in contrast with (but also to complement) the views expressed about these same films in Mark Hartley’s documentary, Not Quite Hollywood, which is having its world première at MIFF. “Focus on Ozploitation” is co-presented by MIFF and Australian Centre For the Moving Image (ACMI) and curated by Mark Hartley and ACMI.

Richard Franklin: Director/Producer by Scott Murray and Tom Ryan

An extensive interview originally published in 1980 with the director of the classic road-movie thriller Roadgames. Written by Everett de Roche and starring Stacy Keach and Jamie Lee Curtis.

Russell Mulcahy by Jim Schembri

A 1984 interview with the director of the Aussie outback baroque thriller Razorback.

Long Weekend by Scott Murray

Review of the Everett de Roche-scripted ecological thriller directed by Colin Eggleston.

Everett de Roche by Paul Davies

Extract from a 1980 interview with the screenwriter of Long Weekend.

Turkey Shoot by Geoff Mayer

Review of the now infamous 1982 violent hunter-versus-hunted film directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith and produced by Antony I. Ginnane.

Dead-End Drive-In by Philippa Hawker

Review of Brian Trenchard-Smith’s 1986 apocalyptic thriller. One of Quentin Tarantino’s favourite Aussie movies.

The Two Bazzas by Keith Connolly

Combined review of Bruce Beresford’s two early seminal comedies of the grotesque, The Adventures of Barry McKenzie and Barry McKenzie Holds His Own.

to top of page

Feature Articles

Sweet Movie: The Gentle Side of ‘Destructive Art’ by Dušan Makavejev

The esteemed director of this landmark movie looks back at his most controversial film.

The World Tasted: Dušan Makavejev’s Sweet Movie by Lorraine Mortimer

The author of the forthcoming first English-language book devoted to the director, Terror and Joy: The Films of Dušan Makavejev, dissects this most sensuously complex film.

Slovak Cinema of the 1970s Revisited by Peter Hourigan

For the West, the “Czech New Wave” label unintentionally elided what was in fact a productive mix of Czech and Slovak filmmakers. Recent DVD releases from the Slovak Film Institute help reclaim their cultural identity.

Forgotten Lean: The Ann Todd Trilogy by John Orr

Though other titles loom larger in perceptions of David Lean’s career, John Orr makes a case for the significance of Lean’s collaboration with Ann Todd in The Passionate Friends, Madeleine and The Sound Barrier.

Seven Thieves: Making the World Gasp by Pedro Blas Gonzalez

What seems at first little more than a run-of-the-mill Hollywood heist movie of the 1960s is for Gonzalez a film that “allows us to re-discover, or re-event, the order of what Edmund Husserl has referred to as the lived-world of experience”.

“When men, even unknowingly, ...”: Quién sabe?, Love is Colder than Death, Le Cercle rouge: The Buddy Movie Becomes Romance by Jason Mark Scott

A Spaghetti Western, a Brechtian gangster film and a stylised French crime film by, respectively, Damiani, Fassbinder and Melville are brought together in this perceptive look at the underlying dynamics of the male friendship movie.

You Know My Name: On Beginnings and Replications in the New Bond by Jeffrey Bunzendahl and Robert von Dassanowsky

The success of Casino Royale has radically re-energised and redefined perceptions of the long-standing 007 franchise. The authors offer some unexpected insights about the ever-developing James Bond stories.

What I Owe to Hammer Horror by John Potts

Autobiography and critical analysis blend together as the author looks back to his days as a boy in the flatlands of regional Australia and the Hammer films that shaped his imagination.

On the Terminal in Cinema by Andrew C. Schenker

Taking up literary critic A. Alvarez’s notion of a “terminal æsthetic” (as first applied to Samuel Beckett’s work), Schenker discusses its relevance to a range of contemporary films.

Ennui, Fatelessness, Misdirection: Juno and the Cast-Iron Chrysalis of American Banality by Matthew Boyd

A highly praised Indie success, but what is it actually saying about contemporary American culture?

A Film is Trying to Build a Sort of Eternity: An Interview with Mahamet-Saleh Haroun by Angela Dalle Vacche

The Chad-born director of Bye Bye Africa, Abouna and Darratt discusses the significance of his films, and the broader context of African Cinema today.

to top of page

Great Directors

Peter Jackson by Matthew Stephenson

to top of page

Cinémathèque Annotations on Film

Carlton + Godard = Cinema by Bruce Hodsdon

Boxing on with Mao and Mundine: Come Out Fighting by Dylan Rainforth

Mambo Girl by Kevin Lee

The Palm Beach Story by Brian Wilson

Carl Dreyer

Day of Wrath by Martyn Bamber

Dreaming in Words: Gertrud by Trevor Mowchun

Ordet by Darragh O’Donoghue

La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc * by Michael Koller

Præsidenten (The President) by Miguel Marías

Vampyr by Catherine S. Cox

François Truffaut

Day for Night by Brian Hoyle

Duet for Three: Les Deux Anglaises et le Continent by David Melville

Mississippi Mermaid by Jonathan Dawson

Andrzej Wajda

Ashes and Diamonds by Rahul Hamid

A Generation and Kanal * by Boris Trbic

Polish Reveries & Reflections: Andrzej Wajda’s Man of Marble by Adam Bingham

* denotes a republished annotation

to top of page

contents     great directors     cteq annotations     top tens     about us     links     archive     search