Welcome to Issue 24 of our journal! the editors January 2003 Editorial A significant section of this issue is devoted to the year just passed. It's more then a little difficult, and somewhat misleading, to attempt a summary or generalisation about a year in film especially whe...
Christopher Lee: His Italian Journey into Perversion Patricia MacCormack January 2003 Feature Articles An exploration of Lee's Italian films and their specific presentation of perversion, offering viewers access to unconventional forms of desire and a unique viewing experience.
End Game: Some thoughts provoked by recent exhibitions, and Godard’s Éloge de l’amour Jon Jost January 2003 Feature Articles Considering the work of three artists, Jost reflects thoughtfully and personally on the course of a 'creative' life and the idea of change, growth and vitality for an artist.
Jack Cardiff: Source Of Light Maximilian Le Cain January 2003 Feature Articles Emanating from a personal discussion with Cardiff, Max explores the career, technique and wisdom of a living cinema legend.
Conrad Hall: A Tribute Mike Plante January 2003 Feature Articles The inventive and unconventional Conrad Hall, responsible for the look of such classics as Fat City and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and admired by Cardiff himself, passed away in early January.
Adaptation: How to Stop Worrying and Love to Compromise Jared Rapfogel January 2003 Feature Articles Though Kaufman-Jonze's latest effort may be striking, intelligent and original, it may not be as radical or novel as we're led to believe.
11’09”01- September 11: The Rest is Silence Christos Tsiolkas January 2003 Feature Articles Whilst appraising each episode and pointing to this film's unevenness, Christos argues overall for the importance of aesthetic responses to global political events like September 11.
Burning Down the House: Bowling for Columbine Spiro Economopoulos January 2003 Feature Articles Though his techniques may be dubious, Moore's targets and overall perceptiveness about the ills of the American nation are fully justified.
Preview of the Adelaide International Film Festival 2003 and an Interview with its Director, Katrina Sedgwick James Brown January 2003 Festival Reports Considering the South Australian government's continual recycling of the promotional dictum that we are "the festival state", it is ironic – and y...
Perspectives on the Ethereal: The 46th London Film Festival George Clark January 2003 Festival Reports (6 - 21, November 2002) The London Film Festival has taken place at the National Film Theatre on the South Bank, a hub for current redevelopmen...
An Industry of Philanthropy – Balkan film at the 43rd International Thessaloniki Film Festival Andrew James Horton January 2003 Festival Reports 8-17 November 2002 Festival website: www.filmfestival.gr “I have always thought that European cinema should protect themselves…” said Nae Car...
Anger, Kenneth Maximilian Le Cain January 2003 Great Directors Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer b. February 3, 1927, Santa Monica, California filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Offerin...
Edwards, Blake June Werrett January 2003 Great Directors William Blake McEdwards b. July 26, 1922, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA d. December 15, 2010, Santa Monica, California, USA filmography bibliography ...
Gorin, Jean-Pierre Erik Ulman January 2003 Great Directors b. April 17, 1943, Paris, France filmography bibliography articles in Senses Jean-Pierre Gorin first achieved international attention thro...
Mann, Anthony David Boxwell January 2003 Great Directors Emil Anton Bundmann b. June 30, 1906, San Diego, California, USA d. April 29, 1967, Berlin, Germany filmography bibliography articles in Se...
Rivette, Jacques Saul Austerlitz January 2003 Great Directors Jacques Pierre Louis Rivette b. March 1, 1928, Rouen, France d. January 29, 2016, France filmography bibliography articles in Senses web r...
Rohmer, Eric Tamara Tracz January 2003 Great Directors Jean-Marie Maurice Scherer b. April 4, 1920, Nancy, France d. January 11, 2010, Paris, France filmography bibliography articles in Senses ...
Schroeter, Werner Michelle Langford January 2003 Great Directors b. April 7, 1945, Georgenthal, Thuringia, Germany d. April 12, 2010, Hesse, Germany filmography bibliography web resources Thomas Elsaess...
Ulmer, Edgar G. Erik Ulman January 2003 Great Directors b. September 17, 1904, Olmütz, Austria-Hungary d. September 30, 1972, Woodland Hills, California, USA filmography bibliography articles in S...
Verhoeven, Paul Dan Shaw January 2003 Great Directors b. July 18, 1938, Amsterdam, Netherlands filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Dutch director Paul Verhoeven is seen ...
Welles, Orson Jaime N. Christley January 2003 Great Directors George Orson Welles b. May 6, 1915, Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA d. October 10, 1985, Hollywood, California, USA filmography bibliography articl...
Lars von Trier by Jack Stevenson Mette Hjort January 2003 Book Reviews (London: BFI Publications, 2002) Highly visible on the international scene during the silent film era, Danish cinema is once again generating inter...
The Felliniesque Besieged: Fellini Lexicon by Sam Rohdie Benjamin Halligan January 2003 Book Reviews (London: BFI Publications, 2002) “I first met your name in the Pasquino cinema in Rome. In Trastevere. They show films in English there. You had writ...
Hitchcock’s Films Revisited by Robin Wood, Revised Edition, Joe McElhaney January 2003 Book Reviews McElhaney considers this revised edition of Wood's earlier 1965 classic, and the continuities and changes it brings in regards to Wood's body of work on Hitch.
A Long Hard Look at ‘Psycho’ by Raymond Durgnat Ken Mogg January 2003 Book Reviews A comprehensive, substantial appraisal of Durgnat's posthumously published Psycho.
A Long Hard Look at ‘Psycho’ by Raymond Durgnat Charles Barr January 2003 Book Reviews Whilst Barr praises Durgnat's pluralist approach and astute feeling for cinematic texture, he laments the number of errors throughout the book.
English Hitchcock by Charles Barr Tony Williams January 2003 Book Reviews Barr's book does a fine job at exploring a traditionally neglected area: Hitchcock's English films and their indebtedness to English national culture.
Trafic Issue No. 41: Hitchcock/Lang (Printemps 2002) David Ehrenstein January 2003 Book Reviews Ehrenstein reviews this special double issue of French film magazine Trafic, published in 2002.
A Certain Familiar Woundedness – A Review of Third Take: Australian Filmmakers Talk edited by Raffaele Caputo and Geoff Burton Jake Wilson January 2003 Book Reviews Wilson unearths the undercurrents and biases of this recent Australian book.
Favourite Film Things 2002 – Part 3 Various January 2003 Favourite Film Things 2002 compiled by Fiona A. Villella The Entries Mark Peranson Alberto Pezzotta Jit Phokaew Mike Plante Jared Rapfogel Girish Shambu...
Favourite Film Things 2002 – Part 2 Various January 2003 Favourite Film Things 2002 compiled by Fiona A. Villella The Entries James Hewison Lee Hill Bruce Hodsdon Alexander Horwath Peter Hourigan Christoph Hub...
Favourite Film Things 2002 – Part 1 Various January 2003 Favourite Film Things 2002 Compiled by Fiona A. Villella The Entries Acquarello Diego Batlle Fabien Boully Michael Campi Rose Capp Anthony Carew Jaim...
Interview with Alex Cox and Tod Davies Maximilian Le Cain January 2003 Alex Cox In this freewheeling interview, Cox and Davies discuss Revengers Tragedy, politics and society, Buñuel as a major influence, Cox's acting experience, Highway Patrolman, the Moviedrome series, and their next project.
Fear And Loathing In Beverly Hills: Alex Cox On Filmmaking, Film Criticism And The Hollywood Machine Xavier Mendik January 2003 Alex Cox Cox talks at length about the punk movement, his cinema influences, the Internet, and Hollywood.
Revengers Tragedy Maximilian Le Cain January 2003 Alex Cox Max explores Cox's latest effort, a futuristic adaptation of Jacobean drama and disguised social commentary.
Walker: American Neo-Imperialism and the Will to Self-Destruction Chris Neill January 2003 Alex Cox The film that ostracised him from Hollywood, Cox's surreal, political and overlooked Walker is here paid tribute.
Oedipus at Los Angeles: Hitch and the Tragic Muse David Kelly January 2003 Alfred Hitchcock An exploration of the 'tragic' in modern art by way of Hitchcock's evocation of Sophocles' Oedipus Rex in Rope.
Hitchcock, Machines, and Us Tag Gallagher January 2003 Alfred Hitchcock A probing examination into Hitchcock's cinema and its pull between the expressionist and the formalist/conceptual.
Curious about Crap: Fruit Chan’s Public Toilet (2002) Christoph Huber January 2003 Fruit Chan Chan's latest film may be puzzling, yet it certainly continues his commitment to an innovative, subtly politicised cinema aesthetic.
Mass-Produced Alienation: Disposable Lives in Made in Hong Kong Acquarello January 2003 Fruit Chan Using non-professional actors, real locations and a low-budget, Chan's Made in Hong Kong explores aimlessness and disconnection in contemporary, urban Hong Kong.
Looking Both Ways: The Tracker Jake Wilson January 2003 Australian Cinema An analysis of this 2002 Australian release, in particular its cinematic exploration of race relations.
The Quiet American Rose Capp January 2003 Australian Cinema Noyce's latest film fails to deliver bold aesthetic and political convictions.
Forest of Bliss Brian L. Frye January 2003 DVD Reviews Brian celebrates the DVD release of what he regards as one of the finest documentaries ever made.
