Welcome to Issue 25 of our journal! the editors March 2003 Editorial But first of all he looked for the woman's face, at the end of the jetty. He ran toward her. And when he recognized the man who had trailed him since the underground camp, he understood there was no way to es...
Letter from London Chris Darke March 2003 Feature Articles Part of a series of Letters commissioned by Trafic about national cinemas around the world, Chris Darke's contribution considers the UK's culture of surveillance.
Caroline Leaf – An Interview Nag Vladermersky March 2003 Feature Articles Making films since the '70s, animator extraordinaire, Caroline Leaf, here discusses her films, techniques and more in this interview with fan and friend, Nag Vladermersky.
Cinema and Embodied Affect Anne Rutherford March 2003 Feature Articles Rutherford's essay explores the implications of an aesthetics of embodiment for film theory.
Cinema/Affect/Writing Tim Groves March 2003 Feature Articles Drawing on Barthes, Derrida and others, Groves explores the question of how to write about specific, personal affective experiences in the cinema.
Sounding the Depths: Jean Painlevé’s Sunken Cinema Jim Knox March 2003 Feature Articles A lively overview of the films of Jean Painlevé and his unique contribution to cinema and its possibilities.
About Schmidt: Is That All There Is? Girish Shambu March 2003 Feature Articles Effectively entwining humour and pathos, About Schmidt is an accomplishment for director Alexander Payne.
Maurice Pialat (1925 – 2003) – A Tribute Various March 2003 Feature Articles Pialat's cinema is the prototype for a specific brand of realism, which includes such descendents as Cassavetes, and which deserves greater recognition and celebration. His recent passing is here marked by way of four heartfelt contributions.
Sundance Film Festival 2003 – The Independent Body Bérénice Reynaud March 2003 Festival Reports Sundance is festive, vulgar, commercial, unexpected, challenging. It is indeed popular and successful, but is it true, as some people keep complai...
How We Talk about Things: Report on the 32nd International Film Festival Rotterdam Genevieve Yue March 2003 Festival Reports 22 January - 2 February 2003 In his introduction to the program guide, Simon Field sets out an ambitious agenda for the Rotterdam Film Festival...
Making a Song and Dance of It – 34th Hungarian Film Week Andrew James Horton March 2003 Festival Reports 28 January – 4 February When cinema first appeared at the end of the 19th century, there was a huge debate as to whether it could be considered...
A Report of Dreams of a Nation – A Palestinian Film Festival Jared Rapfogel March 2003 Festival Reports January 24-27, 2003, NYC http://www.dreamsofanation.org In New York City, a town largely defined by the presence of so many ethnic and nationa...
2003 Berlin Film Festival – A Report Peter Brunette March 2003 Festival Reports The Berlin Film Festival has always struggled with an inferiority complex in regard to its better-known rival, Cannes, which for starters takes pl...
Too Beautiful To Live; Too Young To Die: A Report on the 6th Bangkok International Film Festival Brandon Wee March 2003 Festival Reports (1) Bangkok International Film Festival 2003 10-21 January 2003 It would have been the event's sixth incarnation, but the blizzard of publ...
Almereyda, Michael Jeremiah Kipp March 2003 Great Directors b. 1960, Overland Park, Kansas, USA filmography bibliography web resources What a piece of work is a man. How noble in reason, how infinite ...
Berlanga, Luis García Steven Marsh March 2003 Great Directors b. June 12, 1921, Valencia, Spain d. November 13, 2010, Madrid, Spain filmography bibliography web resources Luis García Berlanga spearhe...
Borzage, Frank Joe McElhaney March 2003 Great Directors b. April 23, 1894, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA d. June 19, 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA filmography bibliography articles in Senses web...
Burton, Tim Ben Andac March 2003 Great Directors Timothy William Burton b. August 25, 1958, Burbank, USA filmography bibliography web resources A lot of things you see as a child rem...
Carpenter, John Marco Lanzagorta March 2003 Great Directors b. January 15, 1948, Carthage, New York, USA. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources John Carpenter is sometimes refer...
Erice, Victor Adrian Danks March 2003 Great Directors b. June 30, 1940, Carranza, Spain filmography bibliography web resources Come Towards the Light: The Films of Victor Erice Everyone has the...
Jia Zhangke Kevin Lee March 2003 Great Directors b. 1970, Fenyang, China filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Jia Zhangke is a leading figure of what is known as the...
Losey, Joseph Dan Callahan March 2003 Great Directors Joseph Walton Losey III b. January 14, 1909, La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA d. June 22, 1984, London, England filmography bibliography articles ...
Lowenstein, Richard Vanessa Long March 2003 Great Directors b. March 1, 1959, Melbourne, Australia filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Over the past 25 years Australian cult d...
Reed, Carol Deirdre Feehan March 2003 Great Directors Sir Carol Reed b. December 30, 1906, Putney, London, England d. April 25, 1976, London, England filmography bibliography web resources B...
Sautet, Claude Janice Tong March 2003 Great Directors b. February 23, 1924, Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France d. July 22, 2000, Paris, France filmography bibliography articles in ...
Van Peebles, Melvin Garrett Chaffin-Quiray March 2003 Great Directors Melvin Peebles b. August 21, 1932 Chicago, Illinois, USA filmography bibliography web resources Identity Crisis and Sweetback's Bellyful of...
Vertov, Dziga Jonathan Dawson March 2003 Great Directors Denis Arkadievitch Kaufman b. January 2, 1896, Bialystok, Poland d. February 12, 1954, Moscow, Russia filmography bibliography web resource...
Renoir, Jean James Leahy March 2003 Great Directors b. September 15, 1894, Montmartre, Paris, France d. February 12, 1979, Beverly Hills California, U.S.A. filmography bibliography articles in...
New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction by Geoff King Michael Cohen March 2003 Book Reviews (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002) Geoff King's new book, New Hollywood Cinema: An Introduction, sets his project out in plain English and...
Positif Fifty Years: Selections From The French Film Journal edited by Lawrence Kardish and Michel Ciment Steve Erickson March 2003 Book Reviews (Museum Of Modern Art: New York, 2002) While four anthologies of writing from Cahiers du Cinéma have been published in English, it's taken 50 years...
The Young Desire It: A Review of The Devil’s Playground by Christos Tsiolkas Jake Wilson March 2003 Book Reviews The first in the Australian Screen Classics series by Melbourne novelist, playwright, commentator and filmmaker, Christos Tsiolkas, is here reviewed.
The Devil Rides Out Andrew Leavold March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Devil Rides Out/The Devil's Bride (1968 UK) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Hammer Prod: Anthony Nelson-Keys Dir: Terence Fisher Scr: Richard Mat...
Cries and Whispers Marco Lanzagorta March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film Cries and Whispers (1972, Sweden, 91mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Svensk Filmindustri Prod: Lars-Owe Carlberg Dir, Scr: Ingmar Bergman Phot: ...
Bob le flambeur Brian L. Frye March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film Bob le flambeur (1955 France 100mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: O.G.C., Studios Jenner, Play Art, La Cyme Prod, Dir: Jean-Pierre Melville Scr: ...
Mario Bava’s Black Sunday aka The Mask of Satan Christopher J. Jarmick March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film Black Sunday/The Mask of Satan (1960 Italy/USA 83mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod: Massimo De Rita (Italy), Samual Z Arkoff & Lou Rusoff (USA) D...
First is First and Second is Nobody: Hoodlums and Heroines in Joseph H. Lewis’ The Big Combo Rose Capp March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Big Combo (1955 USA 88mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Allied Artists, Security Pictures, Theodora Productions Prod: Sidney Harmon Dir: Jose...
Basic Training Martyn Bamber March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film Basic Training (1971 USA 89mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Zipporah Films Dir, Prod, Ed: Frederick Wiseman Phot: William Brayne Assoc Ed: Pat T...
Banquo’s Chair (episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents) Ken Mogg March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film Banquo's Chair (episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents) (1959 USA 25mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Shamley Productions Filmed at: Revue Studios ...
Creative Visions: (De)Constructing “The Beautiful” in Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence Karli Lukas March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Age of Innocence (1993 USA 139 mins) Source: Columbia/Tristar Prod Co: Columbia Prod: Barbara De Fina, Bruce S. Pustin, Joseph P. Reidy Dir...
An Actor’s Revenge Acquarello March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film An Actor's Revenge (Yukinojo henge) (1963 Japan 113mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Daiei Prod: Masaichi Nagata Dir: Kon Ichikawa Scr: Natto Wad...
Utamaro and his Five Women Freda Freiberg March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film Utamaro and his Five Women/Utamaro o Meguro Gonin no Onna (1947 Japan 90mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Shochiku (Kyoto studio) Dir: Kenji Mizo...
Touchez pas au Grisbi David Boxwell March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film Touchez pas au Grisbi (1953 France 94mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Antara Produzione Cinematografia, Del Duca Films Prod: Robert Dorfmann Dir...
Thomas Graal’s Best Film Alexander Jacoby March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film Thomas Graal's Best Film (1917, Sweden, 48mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Svenska Biografteatern Dir: Mauritz Stiller Scr: Gustaf Molander (as ...
Summer with Monika Hamish Ford March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film Summer with Monika (1952 Sweden 96 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Svensk Filmindustri Prod: Allan Ekelund Dir: Ingmar Bergman Scr: Ingmar Berg...
So This is Paris Michael Koller March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film So This is Paris (1926 USA 66mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Warner Bros. Prod, Dir: Ernst Lubitsch Scen: Hans Kraly, based on the play Reveill...
Pixote Marc Lauria March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film Pixote (1981 Brazil 123mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Embrafilme Prod: Paulo Francini Dir: Hector Babenco Scr: Hector Babenco, Jorge Duran, fr...
“… Only Superficially Superficial”: The Tragedy of Sophistication in Madame de. Adrian Danks March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film Ophuls was less interested in real things than in their reflections; he liked to film life indirectly, by 'ricochet.' For example the first treatmen...
Los Olvidados Saul Austerlitz March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film Los Olvidados/The Forgotten Ones (1950 Mexico 88mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Ultramar Films Prod: Oscar Dancigers, Sergio Kogan, Jaime A. Me...
The Lady Eve Peter Tonguette March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Lady Eve (1941 USA 90mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Paramount Prod: Paul Jones Dir, Scr: Preson Sturges Phot: Victor Milner Ed: Stuart Gilmore...
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid Garrett Chaffin-Quiray March 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973, USA, 106 mins/1986, 122 mins) Source: BFI Prod Co: MGM Prod: Gordon Carroll Dir: Sam Peckinpah Scr: Rudy...
Breaking the Waves: Flawed Fatherhood and Fraternal Rivalries in Russell Mulcahy’s Swimming Upstream Rose Capp March 2003 Contemporary Australia Australian cinema's recent instalment into the study of domestic ties, fraught masculinity, and coming-of-age.
The Rules of Being Australian Anna Daly March 2003 Contemporary Australia This discussion of the recent film Australian Rules explores the complexities of 'representation' in both art and politics.
The 2003 Australian International Documentary Conference – A Report Philippa Campey March 2003 Contemporary Australia Aspiring documentary maker 1, Philippa took away inspiration and enlightenment from this conference - a forum for issues concerning the art and business of documentary filmmaking.
The 2003 Australian International Documentary Conference – A Report Kerry Sunderland March 2003 Contemporary Australia Aspiring documentary maker 2, Kerry also regarded the conference as a success for its unifying and strengthening of the documentary community and its support of emerging filmmakers.
The Remaining Second World: Sokurov and Russian Ark Benjamin Halligan March 2003 Film in the Eye of History Halligan's rich discussion of Sokurov's Russian Ark weaves together analyses of history, politics and art.
Orphans of the Storm: Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York Maximilian Le Cain March 2003 Film in the Eye of History Max celebrates Scorsese's latest offering, an event in contemporary cinema, in particular its electrifying, visceral re-telling of history.
The Last Place in the World… A review of Far from Heaven Gabrielle Murray March 2003 Film in the Eye of History Though Haynes' re-make of '50s Sirkian melodrama is authentic, Gabrielle suggests the block on individual characters' desires and passions is at odds with the original.
Portrait of an Artist as an Old man Peter von Bagh March 2003 Limelight & Charlie Chaplin Peter von Bagh's essay is the introduction to Limelight, the first in a series of monographs on Chaplin's films published by Cineteca di Bologna.
Calvero’s Death Edgardo Cozarinsky March 2003 Limelight & Charlie Chaplin An informed, nuanced appreciation of Chaplin's last American film.
André de Toth (1913-2002) – An Interview Alain Silver March 2003 André de Toth (1913 - 2002) - A Tribute In this chatty, lengthy interview, de Toth discusses his films, issues of casting, working with actors and producers and his career in America.
André de Toth, Luke Short, Ramrod: style, source, genre Rick Thompson March 2003 André de Toth (1913 - 2002) - A Tribute A rich, multi-layered study of de Toth's landmark Western, Ramrod, considering it to be a turning point in film noir.
Driftin’: In Tribute to André de Toth Adrian Danks March 2003 André de Toth (1913 - 2002) - A Tribute In this overview of de Toth's cinema, Danks details its uniqueness and complexity.
