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2007
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film
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The following are annotations for films screening at the Melbourne Cinémathèque,
October–December 2007.

* denotes a republished annotation

Bitter Springs by Deb Verhoeven

The Bridge by Catherine S. Cox

Dead Heart by Chris Justice

Violence and Liberation in The Hour of the Furnaces by Paul A. Schroeder

Der Verlorene by Robert Keser

Lee Marvin

Some Notes on The Big Red One to Honour the 10th Anniversary of Sam Fuller’s Death by Christa Lang Fuller

The Big Red One by Rick Thompson

The Emperor of the North Pole by Alain Silver

Emperor of the North: The Last Hurrah of Lee Marvin by Tony Williams

A Legend that Dare Not Imprint its Name: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance by Peter H. Kemp

John Ford’s Funeral Oration: The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance by Temenuga Trifonova

A Man Out of Time: John Boorman and Lee Marvin’s Point Blank by Adrian Danks

The Professionals by David Sanjek

The Wild One by Darragh O’Donoghue


The following are annotations for films screening at the Melbourne Cinémathèque,
July–September 2007.

* denotes a republished annotation

Cat People by Brad Weismann

Don’t Look Back: Come and See * by Adrian Danks

I Walked With a Zombie by Martha P. Nochimson

Muriel ou Le temps d’un retour by David Ehrenstein

Erich von Stroheim’s Damned Queen: Queen Kelly by Michael Koller

Marriage as Cinematic Movement, or Loving the Face in Close-Up: Scenes From a Marriage by Kristi McKim

Spione by Darragh O’Donoghue

“Air… You can’t see it, so why talk about it?” Conversing with Raoul Walsh’s The Strawberry Blonde by Adrian Danks

I Vitelloni by Jonathan Dawson

What Price Glory? by Robert Keser

Czech Cinema

The Cremator by Brian Hoyle

This Film’s Going Bad: Collaborative Cutting in Daisies by Dylan Rainforth

Long Night’s Journey into Day: Listening with Prejudice in The Ear by Adam Bingham

The Eccentric Carnival: Valerie and Her Week of Wonders by David Melville


The following are annotations for films screening at the Melbourne Cinémathèque,
April–June 2007.

The Bellboy by James L. Neibaur

Exiled/Fongchuk by David Sanjek

Time and Tide (and Torrents of Discourse): The Ister by Peter Kemp

Naked Youth/Cruel Story of Youth by Robert Keser

All the World’s a Stage: John Cassavetes’ Opening Night by Matthew Clayfield

Michael Mann

Heat by Christopher Sharrett

Manhunter by Tony Williams

Thief by Lee Hill

Jacques Rivette

La belle noiseuse by Darragh O’Donoghue

Céline et Julie vont en bateau by Alison Smith

Duelle by David Ehrenstein

Paris nous appartient/Paris Belongs to Us by Hamish Ford

Russian Fantastik Cinema

Cosmic Voyage by Barbara Wurm

The Heavens Call by Matthias Schwartz

Ruslan and Ludmila/Ruslan i Lyudmila by Greg Dolgopolov


The following are annotations for films screening at the Melbourne Cinémathèque,
January–March 2007.

Au hasard Balthazar by Dana Polan

Beau travail by Tamara Tracz

Bitter Victory by David Sanjek

Jacques Rivette - Le veilleur by Paul Grant

The Naked Kiss by Adrian Reeves

“Blood and Ink”: Fuller and the Fourth Estate in Park Row by Rose Capp

Rebel Without a Cause by J. David Slocum

Il Vangelo secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to Matthew) by Pasquale Iannone

Les Yeux sans visage by Catherine Wheatley

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Blind Chance (Przypadek) by Darragh O’Donoghue

Camera Buff by Rahul Hamid

Three Colours: Blue by Lee Hill

Three Colours: Red by Jonathan Dawson


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