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2006
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
Heavenly Creatures The Third Man Tropical Malady Chimes at Midnight The Magnificent Ambersons

The following are annotations for films screening at the Melbourne Cinémathèque,
October–December 2006.

* denotes a republished annotation

L’Atalante by Wendy Haslem

A Canterbury Tale* by Tamara Tracz

Effi Briest: Beyond Adultery by Christa Fuller

Some Thoughts on Effi Briest by Ulli Lommel

La Glace à trois faces by Brad Weismann

Running out of Time by Dave Sanjek

The Silent Village by Adrian Danks

Went the Day Well? by Jonathan Dawson

Bette Davis

The Lady in Red: Jezebel by Peter H. Kemp

Now, Voyager by Dana Polan

Of Human Bondage by Darragh O’Donoghue

Auntie Dearest: Mothers, Daughters and The Old Maid by David Melville

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? by Tony Williams

Werner Herzog

Grizzly Man by Chris Justice

My Best Fiend* by Antonia Shanahan

Images from the End of the World: Notes on Werner Herzog’s La Soufrière by Adam Bingham


The following are annotations for films screening at the Melbourne Cinémathèque,
July–September 2006.

He Who gets Slapped by David Cairns

Marco Bellocchio

Buongiorno, Notte by Pasquale Iannone

Fists in the Pocket by Karl Schoonover

My Mother’s Smile by Paolo Bertolin

David Lynch

Eraserhead by Catherine S. Cox

The Grandmother by Tim Maloney

Painting Film with Velvet Sounds: David Lynch’s Lost Highway by Felicity Colman

A Slow Ride down Mulholland Dr. by Christopher J. Jarmick

The Straight Story by Carla Marcantonio

Maurice Pialat

La Gueule ouverte by Miguel Marías

Police by Robert Keser

Van Gogh by Darragh O’Donoghue


The following are annotations for films screening at the Melbourne Cinémathèque,
April–June 2006.

* denotes a republished annotation

Apart From You by Michael Kerpan

Letter to Jane* by Jonathan Dawson

Realised Mysticism: La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc by Thomas Beltzer

Red Beard by Dan Harper

The Tall T by Rick Thompson

Le Trou by Darragh O’Donoghue

The Wild Bunch by Tony Williams

Open to the Elements: Surveying the Terrain of Victor Sjöström’s The Wind by Adrian Danks

Jean-Pierre Melville

L'Armeé des Ombres* by Adrian Danks

Bob le flambeur* by Brian L. Frye

Le Cercle rouge by Michael Healey

Into the Realms of Light and Darkness: Les Enfants terribles by Neel Chaudhuri

Cinematic Cool: Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Samouraï by Temenuga Trifonova

Max Ophuls

The Exile by Robert Keser

Letter from an Unknown Woman by Carla Marcantonio

Liebelei by Jesús Cortés

Lola Montès by Rodney Hill

“… Only Superficially Superficial”: The Tragedy of Sophistication in Madame de…* by Adrian Danks


The following are annotations for films screening at the Melbourne Cinémathèque,
January–March 2006.

36 Fillette by Lee Hill

The Big Heat by Dan Shaw

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Transnational Poet of the New Thai Cinema: Blissfully Yours/Sud Sanaeha by Brett Farmer

Edvard Munch by Robert Keser

Dangerous Dreamers: Fantasy, Passion and Psychosis in Heavenly Creatures by David Melville

Johnny Staccato: “Swinging Long Hair” by Noah Tsika

Les Mistons by Wheeler Winston Dixon

El sur by Miguel Marías

The Third Man by Chris Justice

The Time to Live and the Time to Die by Kevin B. Lee

Tropical Malady by Holger Römers

Bend, Don’t Break: André Téchiné’s Wild Reeds by Katharine Thornton

Orson Welles

Chimes at Midnight by Darragh O’Donoghue

The Hearts of Age by Brian L. Frye

The Immortal Story: Like the Sound of the Sea Deep Within a Shell by Adrian Danks

Macbeth by Tony Williams

The Magnificent Ambersons by Tamara Tracz

Mr. Arkadin/Confidential Report by Nelson Kim

The Trial by Temenuga Trifonova


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