Editorial

Features

Dziga Vertov: The Idiot by Carloss James Chamberlin

The Austrian Film Museum’s excellent DVD of Vertov’s Entuziazm affords the occasion for an insightful essay on the work of this legendary Soviet filmmaker.

Mapping Catalonia in 1967: The Barcelona School in Global Context by Rosalind Galt

A comprehensive overview of the regional and global imperatives that shaped the historically fascinating 1960s avant-garde movement known as the Barcelona School.

Letters to the World: Erice-Kiarostami: Correspondences Curated by Alain Bergala and Jordi Balló by Linda C. Ehrlich

Review of the recent exhibition inspired by the correspondences between these two great filmmakers that featured in Barcelona, subsequently in Madrid and destined for Paris in 2007.

Clearly, Clearly, Dark-Eyed Donna: Time and A Scanner Darkly by Nathan Kosub

A discussion of Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel in relation to the broader context of the filmmaker’s œuvre and his obsession with time.

Perfect Storm, Imperfect Death by Tim Cawkwell

“Nothing tests the resources of cinema like a storm at sea.” So argues Tim Cawkwell who discusses a number of films, including an in-depth analysis of the mastery of director John Ford’s and cinematographer Greg Toland’s burial-at-sea episode in The Long Voyage Home.

Hitchcock’s Aventure Malgache (or the True Story of DZ 91) by Alain Kerzoncuf

The fate of Alfred Hitchcock’s little-seen film about the French Resistance reads like one of his own espionage thrillers. Hitchcock scholar Alain Kerzoncuf tracks through the archives in search of evidence.

Working Together: Two Cultures, One Film, Many Canoes by Therese Davis

An examination of director Rolf de Heer’s unique collaboration with the Yolngu people of Ramingining of Northern Australia on Ten Canoes and the behind-the-scenes documentary Balanda and the Bark Canoes.

The Films of Bill Morrison

Trajectories of Decay: An Interview with Bill Morrison by Maximilian Le Cain and Barry Ronan

Bill Morrison is one of the most distinctive voices in the independent film scene. On the occasion of a retrospective of his films at the Cork Film Festival in Ireland, he speaks about the practice of his found-footage æsthetic.

Memories are Made of This: Bill Morrison’s The Film of Her by Ursula Böser

An essay on one of Morrison’s classic found-footage documentaries. A story of ‘forgotten films’ and ‘forgotten careers’, and the dynamics of remembering.

Film & History Conference Papers

Telling Stories: Cinema, History and Experience

Editors: Adrian Danks, Constantine Verevis, Deb Verhoeven, Deane Williams

Editorial Board: Ina Bertrand, Russell Campbell, Ross Gibson, Ben Goldsmith, Tim Groves, David Hanan, Jeanette Hoorn, Michelle Langford, Pat Laughren, Gabrielle Murray, Belinda Smaill, Mike Walsh, Audrey Yue

The following nine articles make up a sample of papers that will be presented at The XIIIth Biennial Conference of the Film & History Association of Australia and New Zealand (FHAANZ) in Melbourne, November 16-19, 2006. The Film and History Conference – jointly presented this year by the Department of Visual Culture, Monash University and The School of Applied Communication, RMIT University – is held every two years and is an opportunity for international film scholars, archivists, and filmmakers to present their thoughts on recent debates and events in the fields of: film history, national and trans-national cinemas, film theory, film practice and the importance of cinema to specific communities. More specifically, the papers published here address the four main themes of the 2006 conference: Historical Film Theory and Criticism; Film, Memory and Allusion; The Social Experience of Cinema-going; and The Junction of Television and Film.

Eisenstein and his Method: Recent Publications in Russia by Julia Vassilieva

From Colonial Film Commissioner to Political Pariah: Joris Ivens and the Making of Indonesia Calling by Drew Cottle and Angela Keys

Rethinking Transnational Cinema: The Case of Tamil Cinema by Vijay Devadas

“Caught Between Poetry and Censorship”: The Influence of State Regulation and Sufi Poeticism on Contemporary Iranian Cinema by Rosa Holman

Quasi-Documentary, Cellflix and Web Spoofs: Chinese Movies’ Other Visual Pleasures by Paola Voci

Re-designing the Past Imperfect: The Making of Hunt Angels by Alec Morgan

Modernity and the Film Exhibition Industry in Gippsland: The Glover Family Business 1926-1973 by Anne Helen Wilson

“The Illusion of Magnitude”: Adapting the Epic from Film to Television by Djoymi Baker

Pretending to be Himself: Graham Kennedy, Television, Film and Authenticity by Susan Bye

DVD Reviews

Toni (Masters of Cinema) review by Michael Campi

The Films of Su Friedrich (Outcast Films) review by William C. Wees

Mt. Head: Koji Yamamura Animation Works (Geneon Entertainment) review by Paul Jackson

Festival Reports

Womanising: The 20^th Cinema Ritrovato by Virginia Wright Wexman

Desire, Passion and Power: Women in the Festival of German Films by Leonie Naughton

A View from the 41^st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2006 by Renata Murawska

A Taxidermia Indeed: Stuffed to the Gills at MIFF although Still a Little Miffed at Some Stuff: The 55^th Melbourne International Film Festival by Cerise Howard

On the Occasion of Remembering the Golden Gate: The 49^th San Francisco International Film Festival by Jay Kuehner

Relative, But Also Absolute: The 53^rd Sydney Film Festival by Bill Mousoulis

“Dhow Aesthetics”: Negotiating the Global and the Local: The 9^th Zanzibar International Film Festival by Sharae Deckard

A Report on Cinema at the Periphery: An International Film Studies Conference by Jenny Chamarette

Book Reviews

Sheep and the Australian Cinema by Deb Verhoeven review by Ross Gibson

Film Remakes by Constantine Verevis review by Brian McFarlane

Icons of Grief: Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures by Alexander Nemerov review by Saige Walton

Jean Vigo by Michael Temple review by Patrick Ellis

Theorising National Cinema edited by Valentina Vitali and Paul Willemen review by Elizabeth Avram

Ghouls, Gimmicks and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953-1968 by Kevin Heffernan review by Louise Sheedy

Also new this issue

5 profiles have been added to the Great Directors critical database:
Mauro Bolognini • Leos Carax • John Frankenheimer • Werner Herzog • Joseph H. Lewis

14 new and 2 republished annotations have been added to the Cinémathèque Annotations on Film section:
L’Atalante • A Canterbury Tale* • Effi Briest (2 articles) • La Glace à trois faces • Running out of Time • The Silent Village • Went the Day Well?
Bette Davis: Jezebel • Now, Voyager • Of Human Bondage • The Old Maid • What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Werner Herzog: Grizzly Man • My Best Fiend* • La Soufrière
* denotes a republished annotation

11 new lists and 5 revised lists have been added to the Top Tens section.