Welcome to Issue 20 of our journal! the editors May 2002 Editorial Parts of this article are now hosted on the PANDORA archive of the National Library of Australia and Partners. Several key threads make their way through this issue: the theme of nation and identity; of ...
The Materialist Ethic of Mikio Naruse Freda Freiberg May 2002 Feature Articles Freda unravels the neglect of this important Japanese filmmaker and his materialist aesthetic.
Dreams, Disco and Politics: An Interview with Babak Shokrian Michelle Langford May 2002 Feature Articles Iranian-American director Shokrian mixes popular culture and politics in America So Beautiful to explore the experiences of immigrant Iranians in LA, circa 1979.
The Edges of Film Anna Zagala May 2002 Feature Articles Film titles and credit sequences is a neglected though rich area of study, according to Zagala.
Interview with Laleen Jayamanne Therese Davis May 2002 Feature Articles Theorist Laleen Jayamanne talks about her latest book, contemporary film criticism and more.
Leighton Pierce: Master Miniaturist Jon Jost May 2002 Feature Articles With keen perception, Jost explores Pierce's cinema and places it high as the work of a great artist.
Billy Wilder: The Chiaroscuro Artist Anna Dzenis May 2002 Feature Articles An apt tribute to a filmmaker whose cinema is marked both by formal rhythm and awesome dialogue.
Carmelo Bene: A Short Obituary Maximilian Le Cain May 2002 Feature Articles Max pays tribute to an eccentric Italian filmmaker and theatre director, actor and writer.
Interview with James Naremore Noel King May 2002 Feature Articles The esteemed, prolific Naremore here talks freely about his background and entry into film criticism.
Beyond Entertainment: An Interview with Film Critic Armond White Jeremiah Kipp May 2002 Feature Articles White is yet another important US critic upholding the tradition of intelligent and independent criticism in the press.
Back Street (John M Stahl, 1932) John Flaus May 2002 Feature Articles, John Flaus Dossier Precise and measured discussion of Stahl's overlooked gem.
Va Savoir! (Who Knows!, 2001, Jacques Rivette) Laleen Jayamanne May 2002 Feature Articles Six characters in search of (variously) a lost play, a stolen ring, has-been and would-be lovers and who knows what, finally converge on a stage s...
Storytime: The Royal Tenenbaums Maximilian Le Cain May 2002 Feature Articles Wes Anderson's stylised soap opera, The Royal Tenenbaums, tells of prodigal patriarch Royal Tenenbaum's (Gene Hackman) attempts to reconcile himse...
The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky: The Culmination of a Career Philip Tyndall May 2002 Feature Articles The Diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky (2002) is the film that Paul Cox has always wanted to make. Now more than 30 years after he first had the idea for ...
Prologue – Movie Mutations, Spanish, 2002 Jonathan Rosenbaum May 2002 Feature Articles An introduction to the Spanish publication of the Movie Mutations letters 1997-2002.
Through Clouds: A Discussion of Kandahar and Beneath Clouds Christos Tsiolkas May 2002 Feature Articles A revealing, perceptive contrast of two recent 'road movies' from different sides of the globe.
Spotlights in the Dark – Argentine Films at the Buenos Aires IV International Festival of Independent Cinema Hit by the Crisis Daniela Espejo May 2002 Festival Reports A discussion on select Argentine films playing at Buenos Aires.
Negotiating Truth in the REAL Documentary Film (or is that Video?) – A Report on the 4th REAL: LIFE ON FILM International Documentary Festival Julian Savage May 2002 Festival Reports Considering films recently screened at this national documentary festival, Julian digs deeper into questions of truth, reality and ethics in documentary and fiction filmmaking.
Between Seeing and Reading – A Report on the Reading Godard Conference Glen W. Norton May 2002 Festival Reports Reading Godard: Intertextuality And The Film And Video Work Of Jean-Luc Godard April 5 - April 7, 2002, University of Iowa Before arriving in ...
The 26th Hong Kong International Film Festival – A Report Lisa Roosen-Runge May 2002 Festival Reports Hong Kong Kong International Film Festival, March 27 – April 4, 2002 Websites: www.hkiff.org.hk, www.aoihk.org, www.filmarchive.gov.hk Film...
The 4th Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema – An Affair to Remember Fiona Villella May 2002 Festival Reports An overview on this unique festival that defied all the odds to continue its strong reputation.
Bridging Cultures at the 11th Arizona International Film Festival C.J. Shane May 2002 Festival Reports Festival website: www.azfilmfest.com The theme of the 11th annual Arizona International Film Festival (AIFF), held April 11-21 in Tucson, was “...
Aldrich, Robert Alain Silver May 2002 Great Directors b. August 9, 1918, Cranston, Rhode Island d. December 5, 1983, Los Angeles, California filmography bibliography articles in Senses web reso...
Antonioni, Michelangelo James Brown May 2002 Great Directors b. September 29, 1912, Ferrara, Italy d. July 30, 2007, Rome, Italy filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources The films ...
Chambers, Jack Brett Kashmere May 2002 Great Directors John Chambers b. March 25, 1931, London, Canada. d. April 13, 1978, London, Canada. This essay includes excerpts from "Making the Anonymous F...
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner Joe Ruffell May 2002 Great Directors b. May 31, 1945 Bad Wörishofen, Germany. d. June 10, 1982 Munich, Germany. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Rai...
Hawks, Howard David Boxwell May 2002 Great Directors Howard Winchester Hawks b. May 30 1896, Goshen, Indiana. d. December 26 1977, Palm Springs, California. filmography bibliography articles...
Kiarostami, Abbas Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa May 2002 Great Directors, The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered b. June 22, 1940, Tehran, Iran. d. July 14 2016, Paris, France filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Abbas Kiarostami ...
Kubrick, Stanley Keith Uhlich May 2002 Great Directors b. July 26, 1928, Manhattan, New York, USA. d. March 7, 1999, Harpenden, Hertfordshire, England, UK. filmography bibliography articles in Se...
Lynch, David Thomas Caldwell May 2002 Great Directors b. January 20, 1946, Missoula, Montana, USA. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources The Evil That Men Do In 1988 Da...
Powell, Michael & Pressburger, Emeric Adrian Danks May 2002 Great Directors Michael Powell b. September 30, 1905, Bekesbourne (Kent), England. d. February 19, 1990, Avening (Gloucestershire), England. Emeric Pressburg...
Preminger, Otto Chris Fujiwara May 2002 Great Directors b. December 5, 1905, Vienna, Austria. d. April 23, 1986, New York, USA. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Otto P...
Ray, Satyajit Helen Goritsas May 2002 Great Directors b. May 2, 1921, Calcutta, India. d. April 23, 1992, Calcutta, India. filmography bibliography web resources Satyajit Ray was born in Calc...
Roeg, Nicolas Lee Hill May 2002 Great Directors Nicolas Jack Roeg b. August 15, 1928, London, England. d. November 23, 2018, London, England. filmography bibliography articles in Senses ...
Scorsese, Martin Marc Raymond May 2002 Great Directors b. November 17, 1942, Flushing, New York. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Martin Scorsese has been acknowledged...
Tarkovsky, Andrei Maximilian Le Cain May 2002 Great Directors Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky, sometimes Andrey Tarkovski, Tarkowski, Tarkovskij b. April 4, 1932. Zavrazhe, Ivanono, Russia (now Belorus). d. ...
Tati, Jacques Jaime N. Christley May 2002 Great Directors b. Jacques Tatischeff b. October 9, 1907, (1) Le Pecq, Seine-et-Oise, Île-de-France, France. d. November 5, 1982, Paris, France. filmograph...
Wilder, Billy Richard Armstrong May 2002 Great Directors b. Samuel 'Billie' Wilder b. June 22, 1906, Sucha, Poland. d. March 27, 2002, Los Angeles, USA. filmography bibliography articles in Senses...
Wong Kar-wai Elizabeth Wright May 2002 Great Directors (Wang Jiawei) b. 1958, Shanghai, China. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Wong Kar-wai is undeniably an auteur o...
Zhang Yimou Mary Farquhar May 2002 Great Directors b. November 14, 1951, Xi’an, The People’s Republic of China. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Zhang Yimou is an ...
Peckinpah, Sam Gabrielle Murray May 2002 Great Directors b. David Samuel Peckinpah b. February 21, 1925, Fresno, California. d. December 28, 1984, Los Angeles. filmography bibliography articles ...
Atom Egoyan by Carole Desbarats, Jacinto Lageira, Danièle Rivière, Paul Virilio Maria San Filippo May 2002 Book Reviews It seems nothing short of extraordinary that no book-length study of Atom Egoyan by English-language scholars has been published to date. Exhibit A: F...
A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to Videos and DVDs by Donald Richie Darrell William Davis May 2002 Book Reviews Donald Richie's long-awaited new book, A Hundred Years of Japanese Film: A Concise History, with a Selective Guide to Videos and DVDs (Tokyo: Kodansha...
Far from Woomera: Reading Sylvia Lawson in Australia: A Response to How Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia – Stories and Essays by Sylvia Lawson Jake Wilson May 2002 Book Reviews A revealing, sensitive response to Lawson's latest work of stories and essays.
“Crossing cultures, cinematic and other”: A Review of Laleen Jayamanne’s Toward Cinema and Its Double: Cross-Cultural Mimesis Therese Davis May 2002 Book Reviews Davis praises this recent book, and its rethinking of the relation between film and film criticism.
Tsai Ming-Liang by Jean-Pierre Rehm, Olivier Joyard, and Danièle Rivière Tara Forrest May 2002 Book Reviews In the opening article of the first book to date dedicated to the work of Taiwan-based filmmaker Tsai Ming-Liang, Jean-Pierre Rehm claims that the tit...
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Adrian Danks May 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932 USA 97 mins) Source: Chapel Prod Co: Paramount Prod, Dir: Rouben Mamoulian Scr: Samuel Hoffenstein and Percy Heat...
King Hu’s The Fate of Lee Khan and The Valiant Ones Stephen Teo May 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Fate of Lee Khan (1973 Hong Kong 105 mins) Source: Prod Co: Gam Chuen Prod, Dir, Ed: King Hu Scr: King Hu, Wong Chung Phot: Chun Tsing-Chan...
The Phantom of Liberty Marco Lanzagorta May 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Phantom of Liberty (1974 France 104 mins) Prod: Serge Silberman Dir: Luis Buñuel Scr: Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière Phot: Edmond Ric...
Nicholas Ray, a Sentimental Bloke: They Live by Night Rose Capp May 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film They Live by Night (1949 USA 95 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Prod: John Houseman Dir: Nicholas Ray Scr: Charles Schnee Phot: George E. Diska...
Thunder Road Simon McLean May 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Thunder Road (1958 USA 92 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: DRM/United Artists Prod: Robert Mitchum Dir: Arthur Ripley Scr: Robert Mitchum, James...
The Long Riders and Wild Bill Michael Koller May 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Long Riders (1980 USA 100 minutes) 35mm Source: Chapel Prod Co: Huka Films for United Artists Prod: James Keach, Stacy Keach Dir: Walter Hi...
Chasing Rabbits out of the Hat and into the SHEDding of Childhood: Alice Dirk de Bruyn May 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film This is an abridged version of a longer article. Alice (1987 Switzerland/Czechoslovakia 86 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Condor Features/F...
Don’t Look Back: Come and See Adrian Danks May 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Come and See (1985 Soviet Union 142 mins) Source: AFTRS Prod, Dir: Elem Klimov Scr: Klimov and Ales Adamovich Phot: Alexei Rodionov Mus: O. Yan...
A Girl in Every Port David Boxwell May 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film A Girl in Every Port (1928 USA 64 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Fox Prod: William Fox Dir: Howard Hawks Scr: Seton I. Miller, James K. McGuin...
Kiarostami, Abbas Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa May 2002 Great Directors, The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered b. June 22, 1940, Tehran, Iran. d. July 14 2016, Paris, France filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Abbas Kiarostami ...
Back Street (John M Stahl, 1932) John Flaus May 2002 Feature Articles, John Flaus Dossier Precise and measured discussion of Stahl's overlooked gem.
Robin Anderson – A Tribute Robin Hughes May 2002 Documentary - Australia and beyond A moving, personal tribute to the working style, talent and humanity of Australian documentary filmmaker Robin Anderson.
On India, Undies and NRIs: An Interview with My Mother India‘s Safina Uberoi Catherine Simpson May 2002 Documentary - Australia and beyond From Australia to India, and back again, My Mother India explores the process of migration and the fluidity of cultural borders.
Documentaries: Bombay Eunuch and Trembling Before G-d Bree McKilligan May 2002 Documentary - Australia and beyond Two standout documentaries that recently screened at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival.
Durgnatian Doublethink Tony McKibbin May 2002 A Festschrift for Raymond Durgnat I must confess I've learned more about films from intensely spiritual writers – Bazin, Agel and Paul Schrader – than from Marxist writing (…) Is it ...
Extract from A Long Hard Look at Psycho Raymond Durgnat May 2002 A Festschrift for Raymond Durgnat THE CREDIT SEQUENCE The Paramount logo fades to a black screen, which turns light grey as music starts: chunky staccato chords under keening violins....
Tsai Ming-Liang: Cinematic Painter Jared Rapfogel May 2002 Tsai Ming-Liang A film artist with a difference: Rapfogel explores how.
Confined Space – Interview with Tsai Ming-Liang Nanouk Leopold May 2002 Tsai Ming-Liang Peppered with illuminating comments about his filmmaking approach.
Cutting Edge And Missed Encounters – Digital Short Films By Three Filmmakers Bérénice Reynaud May 2002 Tsai Ming-Liang Perceptive and informed analysis of this program of shorts currently travelling the festival circuit.
