Welcome to Issue 19 of our journal! the editors March 2002 Editorial During a recent film radio show, a well-known local film commentator threw to his listeners an intriguing, provocative question: how on earth did David Lynch convince a bunch of hard-nosed business folk ...
Playing Both Ways: Contra Sauvage Innocence Quintín March 2002 Feature Articles In provocative, eloquent style, Quintín questions Garrel's latest film and its real worth.
Chuck Jones Tribute Rick Thompson March 2002 Feature Articles From Pepe Le Pew to the Road Runner to Marvin the Martian, Chuck Jones entertained, thrilled and intrigued many generations down the years; Thompson pays tribute to this exceptional animator.
‘The Absolute Truth of the Happiness Acid’ Arthur Cantrill March 2002 Feature Articles Recalling a lively lecture-screening by Lye in 1968, Cantrill traces Lye's career, his film work, techniques, and thematic preoccupations.
Through a Glass Darkly – Interview with the Quay Brothers André Habib March 2002 Feature Articles In this thorough, extensive interview, the Quays discuss their work, influences, intentions, aesthetic strategies and much more.
Jean Rouch: Cinéma-vérité, Chronicle of a Summer and The Human Pyramid Barbara Bruni March 2002 Feature Articles Bruni explores the unique method of Rouch's early '60s documentary films and their fascinating results as they intermingle the camera-eye and human-eye for a new reality.
Josef von Sternberg Tag Gallagher March 2002 Feature Articles A broad account of Sternberg's career followed by a perceptive and engaging discussion of the key themes and philosophy of his cinema, with focus on his rarely seen, last film, The Saga of Anatahan.
The Birth, Life, and Death of a Nation: A Portrait by Frederick Wiseman Jared Rapfogel March 2002 Feature Articles Domestic Violence is the latest entry in one of cinema's greatest bodies of work: one where the meeting of camera and reality gives birth to a whole range of social, ethical, and aesthetic issues.
Impressionist Extraordinaire: Michael Mann’s Ali Anna Dzenis March 2002 Feature Articles An intriguing analysis and appreciation of Mann's biographical and historical adaptation and his dazzling, impressionist style.
Bruno Dumont’s Bodies Darren Hughes March 2002 Feature Articles The road home: the challenge and jolt Dumont's films present to the contemporary viewer, his philosophy and his films' unique quality, is here eloquently discussed.
Interview with Kim Ki-Duk Volker Hummel March 2002 Feature Articles The director of such stark and horror cult movies as The Isle and the newly released Bad Guy is revealed to be a very sensitive, humanist individual in this insightful interview.
How Anna Karina Changed My Life Mairead Phillips March 2002 Feature Articles Is the precise match between one's experience of a film and one's personal life a mere coincidence? In this gentle piece, Phillips pays tribute to the moment she discovered Anna Karina.
The 21st Sundance Film Festival – A Report Bérénice Reynaud March 2002 Festival Reports In 2002 Sundance returned to form with innovative independent film and documentary.
The 13th Trieste Film Festival: “Alpe Adria Cinema” Andrew James Horton March 2002 Festival Reports Though geographically located in Italy, the Trieste Film Festival showcases many films from the former communist countries.
French Film Festival (March 2002, Australia) – A Report Scott Murray March 2002 Festival Reports From Rivette to Cantet: discussions on five films playing at this year's French Film Festival.
Madly in Love with Marlene: The 52nd Berlin International Film Festival Belinda van de Graaf March 2002 Festival Reports From the retrospective of European films of the '60s to mainstream American cinema to intriguing documentaries, variety was the order of the day at this year's Berlin Festival.
Reading The Funnies: Essays on Comic Strips (Seattle, WA: Fantagraphics Books 2001) by Donald Phelps William D. Routt March 2002 Book Reviews A lively appreciation of Phelps' latest book on early American comic strips and an astute appraisal of his unique and stylised prose.
Bruno Dumont (Dis Voir, 2001) by Philippe Tancelin, Sébastien Ors and Valérie Jouve Maximilian Le Cain March 2002 Book Reviews Though Dumont's current filmography comprises only two films, Max argues a book length study is certainly not premature.
Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age (BFI 2001) by Malcolm Le Grice Brian L. Frye March 2002 Book Reviews Ever since 1891, when Thomas Alva Edison – the quintessential American – became the inventor of the motion picture rather than his brilliant English e...
Kubrick’s Cinema Odyssey by Michael Chion (BFI Publishing: London, 2001) Trans. by Claudia Gorbman Lee Hill March 2002 Book Reviews As a lapsed science fiction fan, I find it frustrating (and not a little depressing) that in spite of the genre's dominance of Hollywood and the incre...
Cultural Interfaces and the Aesthetics of (Dis)continuity – A Review of Lev Manovich’s The Language of New Media Darren Tofts March 2002 Book Reviews (Cambridge, Massachusetts, MIT Press, 2001) Hmm. Another book about “new media”. I'd like to think that one day I'll be remembered as the scrooge w...
Belle de Jour (BFI Film Classics, London, 2001), by Michael Wood Jonathan Dawson March 2002 Book Reviews Luis Buñuel's movies, beginning of course with Un Chien Andalou (1928), that ur-surrealist film for all seasons, defy category, logic, good taste and ...
The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner Michael Koller March 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974 West Germany 45mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod. Co: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion Prod, Dir: Werner He...
My Best Fiend Antonia Shanahan March 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film My Best Fiend (1999 Germany 98mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod. Co: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion Exec Prod: Christine Ruppert, Andre Singer Prod: Lu...
The Hills Have Eyes Steven Jay Schneider March 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Hills Have Eyes (1977 USA 89mins) Source: Film Alliance Prod Co: Blood Relations Co. Prod: Peter Locke Dir, Scr: Wes Craven Phot: Eric Saarinen...
Letter to Jane Jonathan Dawson March 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Letter to Jane (1972 France 51mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Pro, Dir, Scr: Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Gorin Voices: Jane Fonda, Jean-Luc Godard, Jea...
Midnight David Boxwell March 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Midnight (1939 USA 94 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Collections Prod Co: Paramount Prod: Arthur Hornblow, Jr. Dir: Mitchell Leisen Scr: Billy Wilder a...
Roma Adrian Danks March 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Fellini's Roma (1972 Italy 128mins) 35mm Source: Potential Films Prod. Co: Ultra Films, Les Productions Artistes Associés Exec. Prod: Lamberto ...
Shivers Thomas Caldwell March 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Shivers (They Came from Within) (1975 Canada 88mins) 35mm Source: Film Alliance Prod. Co: DAL/ Reitman Exec Prod: Alfred Pariser Prod: Ivan Rei...
Letter from Siberia Adrian Miles March 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Lettre de Sibèrie (1957 France 60mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Argos Films, Procinex Prod: Anatole Dauman Dir, Scr: Chris Marker Phot: Sacha ...
Le Petit Soldat Tim Palmer March 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Le Petit Soldat (The Little Soldier, 1960/1963) Prod Co Société Nouvelle de Cinéma Prod Georges de Beauregard Dir Jean-Luc Godard Scr Godard Ph...
Some Came Running Dana Polan March 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Some Came Running (1958 USA 135mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: MGM Prod: Sol C. Siegel Dir: Vincente Minnelli Scr: John Patrick, Arthur Sheekma...
Titicut Follies Michael Price March 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Titicut Follies (1967 USA 83 min) Source: ACMI/NLA Assoc. Prod: David Eames Prod, Dir: Frederick Wiseman Phot: John Marshall Ed: Alyne Model, Frede...
Ace in the Hole Richard Armstrong March 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Ace in the Hole (1951 USA 111 minutes) Prod Co: Paramount Prod: Billy Wilder Dir: Billy Wilder Scr: Billy Wilder, Lesser Samuels, Walter Newman...
Aguirre, Wrath of God Ingo Petzke March 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Aguirre, Wrath of God (1972 West Germany 95mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod. Co: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion Prod, Dir, Scr: Werner Herzog Phot: Th...
À Bout de souffle (Breathless) Jonathan Dawson March 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film À Bout de souffle (1960 France 90mins) 35mm Source: NewVision Prod Co: Georges de Beauregard, Société Nouvelle de Cinéma Prod: Georges de Beaur...
The Canterbury Tales Gino Moliterno March 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Canterbury Tales (I Racconti di Canterbury, 1971 Italy 109mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod. Co: PEA Prod: Alberto Grimaldi Dir, Scr: Pier Paolo ...
Détective Anna Dzenis March 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Détective (1985 France 95mins) 35mm Source: Filmstock Research Prod Co: Sara Films, JLG Films Prod: Christine Gozlan, Alain Sarde Dir: Jean-Luc...
Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges Allan James Thomas March 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Bilder der Welt und Inschrift des Krieges (Images of the World and the Inscription of War, 1988 W. Germany 75mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod, Dir, Scr:...
Miller’s Crossing, The Glass Key and Dashiell Hammett Paul Coughlin March 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Miller's Crossing (1990 USA 115 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod. Co: Circle/Pedas/Barenhotz-Durkin Exec. Prod: Ben Barenholtz Prod: Ethan Coen Dir: Eth...
Long Road Home: Phillip Noyce’s Rabbit-Proof Fence Fiona Villella March 2002 Australian Cinema and Culture After 10 years in Hollywood, Noyce returns home to tell a uniquely Australian story.
Bordering Fiction and Documentary: Ghosts…of the Civil Dead Ina Bertrand March 2002 Australian Cinema and Culture Bertrand revisits one of Australia's most harrowing yet revealing and thought-provoking films about prison systems in particular and society at large.
“This Land is Mine/This Land is Me”: Reconciling Harmonies in One Night the Moon Fiona Probyn March 2002 Australian Cinema and Culture Traversing old territory: an examination into how the recent Australian period film One Night the Moon rewrites prevailing myths about identity and land by incorporating an indigenous perspective.
David Lynch Jared Rapfogel March 2002 David Lynch and Mulholland Drive An appraisal of Lynch's career to date and its various modes, where the difference between weird and strange is all-important.
Amnesia, Obsession, Cinematic U-Turns: On Mulholland Drive Kirsten Ostherr and Arash Abizadeh March 2002 David Lynch and Mulholland Drive When the pull of the femme fatale is total, emotional torment, psychological fragmentation and narrative incoherence must follow.
In Dreams: A Review of Mulholland Drive Maximilian Le Cain March 2002 David Lynch and Mulholland Drive Making sense of its narrative shards, Max offers an insightful and poignant reading of Mulholland Drive, Lynch's latest cinematic rendering of troubled identity and subjectivity.
Classicism and Chaos: The Son’s Room Lee Hill March 2002 Essays/on/Films In his latest film, Moretti turns from movie reflexivity and political commentary to dramatising with complete understatement one of life's inescapable truths.
The Naked Truth: Demystifying the Void of Intimacy Acquarello March 2002 Essays/on/Films Does Intimacy make the pantheon of films which explore interrelations of sex, the self, and the other?
To Live or Clarify the Moment: Rick Linklater’s Waking Life Kent Jones March 2002 Essays/on/Films In his latest film, Linklater's inquiries into reality and perception continue a tradition of American philosophizing that makes him, in Jones' view, America's Tarkovsky.
Telling Tales …or Heads and Tails: Lies Geoff Gardner March 2002 Essays/on/Films Another contemporary instalment to the genre of life as a series of sex acts.
