Turnstyled, Junkpiled: On High or Dry Bill Craske February 2007 Independent Australian Cinema Bill Craske looks at one of the best low-budget feature documentaries about the vicissitudes of the drug life.
Double Exposure: Films by Bill Mousoulis and Mark La Rosa Bill Craske July 2004 Feature Articles Australian experimental narrative lives, in these shorts and features from a couple of true independents.
Pursued Bill Craske October 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film Pursued (1947 USA 101 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Warner Brothers Prod: Milton Sperling Dir: Raoul Walsh Scr: Niven Busch Phot: James Wong Howe Ed: Christian Nyby Art Dir: Ted Smith Mus: Max Steiner ...
The Indian Runner Bill Craske June 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Indian Runner (1991 USA 126min) 35mm Prod Co: Mount Prod: Don Phillips Dir,Scr: Sean Penn Phot: Anthony B. Richmond Ed: Jay Cassidy Art Dir: Michael Haller Mus: Jack Nitzsche Cast: David Morse, V...
Toeing The Line: Risk Bill Craske June 2001 Essays/on/Films One of the many disappointing aspects of Alan White's Risk (2001) involves the internecine combination of actor and image. White's previous feature film Erskineville Kings (1999) was far from an empty movie...
Mementos from Blank Point: Steven Soderbergh’s The Limey Bill Craske June 2001 Essays/on/Films Steven Soderbergh's The Limey (1999) is a brash economical movie full of self-reflexive '60s interruptions and clenched teeth violence. From the impressionistic opening visuals introducing Wilson (Terence S...
Live and Lethargic: The Original Kings of Comedy Bill Craske April 2001 Current Releases (Spike Lee, 2000) Spike Lee has never been a lyrical filmmaker. His best work (Jungle Fever , Do the Right Thing ) contains the vibrant rough-hewn energy of an angry young artist working close to familia...
