Welcome to Issue 31 of our journal! the editors April 2004 Editorial For this issue, we considered launching a wide-ranging investigation into the current state of Australian film culture. Then we realised this would bore everyone to tears. The decline of public broadcasting, th...
Ford Till ’47 Tag Gallagher April 2004 Feature Articles “The essential Ford composition is a person acting freely within a geometric space,” writes Gallagher in this close look at the first half of a great and complex career.
Engaging Medusa: Competing Myths and Fairytales in In the Cut Sue Gillett April 2004 Feature Articles In this imaginative analysis of Jane Campion's latest film, the desires and trajectories of contemporary characters are revealed to be not all that far removed from those of ancient mythology.
Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: Three Films from New Zealand’s Digital Video “Revolution” Philip Matthews April 2004 Feature Articles Escaped convicts, bickering family members and fairy-tale grotesques – the darker side of contemporary New Zealand in three recent features.
Between Breakup and Tradition: Recent Argentinean Cinema David Oubiña April 2004 Feature Articles Like X-ray images of society, films by younger Argentinean directors evolve new forms from their country's political paralysis.
Annotations from the Edge of an Abyss: Rogério Sganzerla’s Anthropophagic Film Collages Jorge Didaco April 2004 Feature Articles A tribute to Rogério Sganzerla, Brazilian filmmaker extraordinaire, who whilst working in an era of military dictatorship made culturally and aesthetically radical, subversive films which reinvented ideas of performance, gender politics and the role of women.
“One More Effort, Americans…”: A Report on “Beyond Film Criticism: A Symposium in Homage to Serge Daney” Paul Grant April 2004 Feature Articles Despite the rising profile of Daney's criticism in the English-speaking world, this recent conference suggested that some problems of translation persist.
Multichannel Memory: Notes on a Conversation with Duncan Roy Cara O'Connor April 2004 Feature Articles Using “multichannel” techniques, Duncan Roy's AKA tells the autobiographical story of a runaway teenager – and reveals the inseparability of memory, narrative and "self".
Precarious Boundaries: Affect, Mise en scène and the Senses in Angelopoulos’ Balkans Epic Anne Rutherford April 2004 Feature Articles A theoretical analysis of the affective force of mise en scène in Ulysses' Gaze – a “porous interface” between nations, between elements, between screen and viewer.
Neon Gothic: Lost in Translation Wendy Haslem April 2004 Feature Articles Recalling the work of Antonioni and evoking the Gothic in its emphasis on alienation and disjunction, Lost in Translation, together with other recent romantic comedies, represents a significant shift in the romance genre.
In the Garden of Earthly Delights: Irreversible Yaniv Eyny and A. Zubatov April 2004 Feature Articles Tracking back, or forward, through the stages of Gaspar Noé's gruelling revenge-rape saga, the authors uncover the deep reactionary logic of its chronologically-reversed narrative.
Sous la páve, le pláge!: Lesbian Vampires Vs the Situationist International Simon Strong April 2004 Feature Articles Were the history-making events of May '68 secretly inspired by an obscure B-grade horror movie? Now it can be told…
Been Underground So Long, It Looks Like Up to Me: New York Underground Film Festival 2004 Ioannis Mookas April 2004 Festival Reports Over seven changeling days in March, during which the bombings of four commuter trains in Madrid left hundreds dead or wounded and sealed the elec...
The Movies that Make Up our Minds: Ken Jacobs and the Avant-Garde at the Rotterdam Film Festival 2004 Genevieve Yue April 2004 Festival Reports Ken Jacobs was feeling uneasy. In the sleek Pathé theatre he stood a few feet from the microphone and looked up at the full audience before him, h...
This Little Piggy Went to Market: Slamdance X Film Festival Carloss James Chamberlin April 2004 Festival Reports PARK CITY – An overwarmed room somewhere in the Sodom of the Wasatch. People are looking at me with dog-eyes. They flit them down to my press-pass...
Dancing about Architecture: Sundance Film Festival 2004 Bérénice Reynaud April 2004 Festival Reports There is a seductive cliche that runs through “cultural circles”: writing about dance makes about as much sense as dancing about architecture. Wha...
Letter From Krungthep: Bangkok International Film Festival 2004 Brandon Wee April 2004 Festival Reports I'm thinking of quitting doing film festival reports because I remain sceptical that this format can produce anything novel. I get bored with, tir...
A Cinematic Campus: Berlinale 2004 Kevin Lee April 2004 Festival Reports Festival reports typically give the impression that their writers surveyed the proceedings from a high chair – no matter how intelligent the obser...
Ichikawa, Kon Alexander Jacoby April 2004 Great Directors b. November 20, 1915, Mie, Japan d. February 13, 2008, Tokyo, Japan filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Of the few...
Minnelli, Vincente Joe McElhaney April 2004 Great Directors b. Lester Anthony Minnelli b. February 28, 1903, Chicago, Illinois, USA d. July 25, 1986, Beverly Hills, California, USA filmography bibliog...
Oshima, Nagisa Nelson Kim April 2004 Great Directors b. March 31, 1932, Kyoto, Japan d. January 15, 2013, Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources I...
Ozon, François Thibaut Schilt April 2004 Great Directors b. November 15, 1967, Paris, France filmography bibliography web resources Occasionally referred to as the enfant terrible of French cinema, F...
Sayles, John Richard Armstrong April 2004 Great Directors b. September 28, 1950, Schenectady, NY, USA filmography bibliography web resources It might not be New York City, but we do all right. You c...
Zinnemann, Fred Robert Keser April 2004 Great Directors b. April 29, 1907, Vienna, Austria d. March 14, 1997, London, England filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources The fact t...
Bava, Mario Sam Ishii-Gonzales April 2004 Great Directors b. July 31, 1914, San Remo, Italy d. April 25, 1980, Rome, Italy filmography articles in Senses web resources Mario Bava directed (or co-...
Fulci, Lucio Patricia MacCormack April 2004 Great Directors b. June 17, 1927, Rome, Italy d. March 13, 1996, Rome, Italy filmography references bibliography web resources “And you will face the sea ...
Film Theory in Translation: Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New Takes edited by Chris Berry Linda Rui Feng April 2004 Book Reviews The compiler of any volume of critical essays on Chinese films will inevitably encounter a number of challenges. For one thing, there is the question ...
Chaos and Control: The Cinema of Emir Kusturica: Notes from the Underground by Goran Gocic Tony McKibbin April 2004 Book Reviews Some filmmakers' work possess such vitality the films have the effect of energising or frazzling the viewer. This is often because the world created h...
From London to Xanadu: Dickens and the Dream of Cinema by Grahame Smith Ken Mogg April 2004 Book Reviews When young Pip, the would-be hero of Charles Dickens's Great Expectations (1862), first arrives in London, he seeks out the address of Jaggers the law...
An Endless Number of Great Deeds: Film Front Weimar: Representations of the First World War in German Films of the Weimar Period (1919-1933) by Bernadette Kester Jay Weissberg April 2004 Book Reviews As a concept, this war will surely only ever be portrayed in the arts as a time-dictated, great and insanely bloody event… (1) – Gerrit Engelke As t...
Energy Unleashed: Leos Carax by Fergus Daly and Garin Dowd Tony McKibbin April 2004 Book Reviews Fergus Daly and Garin Dowd's book is on the one hand a study of Leos Carax's work; on the other an attempt, if you like, to make British criticism mor...
A Science of Pleasure: Screen Couple Chemistry: The Power of 2 by Martha P. Nochimson Lesley Chow April 2004 Book Reviews The unique excitement of this book is in the way it dares to apply science and truth to the watching of films. Film studies has never had much use for...
The Mirror of Memory: African Film and the Question of Criticism Niels Buch-Jepsen April 2004 Book Reviews Internationally, African film has long been considered an “exotic dish that can only be ordered as a side order and not the main course” (Haile Gerima...
Accattone Gino Moliterno April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Accattone (1961 Italy 120 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod Co: Arco Film/Cino del Duca Prod: Alfredo Bini Dir, Scr: Pier Paolo Pasolini...
Arsenal Miguel Marías April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Arsenal (1929 USSR 93 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: VUFKU Prod, Dir, Scr, Ed: Alexander Dovzhenko Phot: Daniil Demutsky Art Dir: Vadim Myulle...
The Atomic Cafe Oloruntoba John Olubunmi April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Atomic Cafe (1982 USA 92 mins) Source: Sharmill Films Prod Co: The Archives Project Prod, Dir: Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty, Pierce Raffert...
Back for Christmas (episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents) Ken Mogg April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Back for Christmas (episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents) (1956 USA 25 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Shamley Productions Filmed at: Revue Stu...
Baisers volés/ Stolen Kisses Mike Robins April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Baisers volés/Stolen Kisses (1968 France 91 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Les Films du Carrosse/Artistes Associes Prod: Marcel Berbert Dir: F...
The Battle of Midway Martyn Bamber April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Battle of Midway (1942 USA 18 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: U.S. Navy, War Activities Committee/20th Century Fox Prod, Dir: John Ford Nar...
Breakaway Bob Davis April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Breakaway (1966 USA 5 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Filmmaker: Bruce Conner Mus: “Breakaway” by Ed Cobb Cast: Antonia Christina Basilotta (Toni Bas...
Charulata: The Intimacies of a Broken Nest Neel Chaudhuri April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Charulata/The Lonely Wife (1964 India 124 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: R. D. Banshal & Co. Dir, Mus: Satyajit Ray Scr: Satyajit Ray, b...
Crime and Punishment: A Neglected Classic Thomas Beltzer April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Crime and Punishment (1935 USA 88 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Columbia Prod: B. P. Schulberg Dir: Josef von Sternberg Scr: Joseph Anthony, ...
American Squalor: Crumb Marc Lauria April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Crumb (1994 USA 119 mins) Source: Sharmill Films Prod Co: Crumb Partners I/Superior Pictures Prod: Lynn O'Donnell, Terry Zwigoff Dir: Terry Zwi...
The Dark Mirror Darragh O’Donoghue April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Dark Mirror (1946 USA 85 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Universal/International Pictures Prod: Nunnally Johnson Dir: Robert Siodmak Scr: N...
Days of Hope Tony Williams April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Days of Hope (1975 UK 411 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: BBC Prod: Tony Garnett Dir: Ken Loach Scr: Jim Allen Cast: Pamela Brighton, Paul C...
The Decay of Fiction Dirk de Bruyn April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Decay of Fiction (2002 USA 73 mins) Source: Pat O'Neill Prod Co: Lookout Mountain Films Prod: Rebecca Hartzell, Pat O'Neill Dir, Scr, Ed: P...
Donzoko (The Lower Depths) Freda Freiberg April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Donzoko/The Lower Depths (1957 Japan 125 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Toho Prod, Dir, Ed: Akira Kurosawa Scr: Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni, f...
Poetry in Motion: Alexander Dovzhenko’s Earth Adam Bingham April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Earth/Zemlya (1930 USSR 83 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Wufku Dir, Scr, Ed: Alexander Dovzhenko Phot: Daniil Demutsky Art Dir: Visili Kriche...
A Face in the Crowd Thomas Beltzer April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film A Face in the Crowd (1957 USA 125 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod Co: Newtown Productions/Warner Bros. Prod, Dir: Elia Kazan Scr: Bud...
Flashing Spikes Quentin Turnour April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Alcoa Premiere Theatre: Flashing Spikes (1962 USA 53 mins) Source: PC Prod Co: Avista Productions/Revue Dir: John Ford Scr: Jameson Brewer, fro...
Four Sons David Boxwell April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Four Sons (1928 USA 100 mins) Source: Library of Congress Prod Co: Fox Dir: John Ford Scr: Philip Klein, from the I. A. R. Wylie's novel Grandm...
Ambiance for the Ambient: The Grateful Dead Ashley Allinson April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Grateful Dead (1967 USA 8 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Filmmaker: Robert Nelson Mus: The Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead has played more than ...
Il Bell’Antonio Oloruntoba John Olubunmi April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Il Bell'Antonio (1960 Italy 104 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod Co: Arco/Cino del Duca/Societé Cinématographique Lyre Prod: Alfredo Bi...
Jacquot de Nantes Peter H. Kemp April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Jacquot de Nantes (1991 France 118 mins) Source: CNC Prod Co: Centre National de la Cinématographie/Ciné Tamaris/La Sept Cinéma/Le Studio Canal...
John Ford: Other Directions Quentin Turnour April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The curatorial mission of the season, John Ford: Other Directions is, probably, one of old-fashioned Andrew Sarris-ite auteurism. Amongst Sarris' ...
Johnny Staccato: “The Shop of the Four Winds” Charles Leary April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Johnny Staccato: “The Shop of the Four Winds” (1959 USA 26 mins) Prod Co: Revue Studios Prod: Everett Chambers Dir: Boris Segal Scr: Sidney Mic...
L’Avventura Gregory Solman April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film L'Avventura (1960 Italy 145 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod Co: Cino del Duca/PCE/Lyre Prod: Amato Pennasilico Dir: Michelangelo Anton...
Alluring Absence: La Captive Bérénice Reynaud April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film La Captive (2000 France 112 mins) Source: Gemini Films Prod: Paulo Branco Dir: Chantal Akerman Scr: Chantal Akerman, Eric de Kuyper, inspired b...
La Peau douce Dan Harper April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film La Peau douce (1964 France 113 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Les Films du Carrosse/SEDIF/SIMAR Dir: François Truffaut Scr: François Truffaut,...
Lady Windermere’s Fan Darragh O’Donoghue April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Lady Windermere's Fan (1925 USA 83 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Warner Bros. Dir: Ernst Lubitsch Scr: Julien Josephson, based on the play by...
Drought de Seigneur: Le Bonheur Carloss James Chamberlin April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Le Bonheur/Happiness (1965 France 79 mins) Source: CNC Prod Co: Parc Film Prod: Mag Bodard Dir, Scr: Agnès Varda Phot: Claude Beausoleil, Jean ...
Les Amants Patrick Garson April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Les Amants (1958 France 90 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Nouvelles Éditions de Films Prod: Irénée Leriche Dir: Louis Malle Scr: Louis Malle,...
Looking for Mushrooms Brian L. Frye April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Looking for Mushrooms (1959-67 USA 3 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Filmmaker: Bruce Conner Mus: “Tomorrow Never Knows” by The Beatles Bruce Conner ...
Dead Man Walking in Frank Borzage’s Moonrise Rose Capp April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Moonrise (1948 USA 85 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Republic Prod: Charles Haas Dir: Frank Borzage Scr: Charles Haas, based on the novel by T...
On Hell’s Hero Coming to Breakfast: Clint Eastwood and The Outlaw Josey Wales Karli Lukas April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976 USA 135 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod: Robert Daley Dir: Clint Eastwood Scr: Phil Kaufman, Sonia Chernu...
Loose Change(s): Pocket Money and the “Post-Western” Adam Bingham April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Pocket Money (1972 USA 102 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod Co: National General Pictures Prod: John Foreman Dir: Stuart Rosenberg Scr:...
Woman in the Moon Michael Price April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Woman in the Moon/Girl in the Moon/By Rocket to the Moon (1929 Germany 108 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Ufa Prod, Dir: Fritz Lang Scr: Fritz...
Witchfinder General Quentin Turnour April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Witchfinder General/The Conqueror Worm (1968 Britain 88 mins) Source: Sharmill Films Prod Co: Tigon Prod: Arnold L. Miller, Louis Heyward Dir: ...
Travellin’ Light: Vendredi soir Adrian Danks April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Vendredi soir (2002 France 90 mins) Source: CNC Prod Co: Arena Films/France 2 Cinéma Prod: Bruno Pesery Dir: Claire Denis Scr: Emmanuèle Bernhe...
Vagabond Holly Willis April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Vagabond (1985 France 104 mins) Source: CNC Prod Co: Ciné Tamaris/Films A2/Ministère de la Culture de la Republique Française/Channel Four Film...
The Rink Megan Carrigy April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Rink (1916 USA 21 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Mutual Film Corporation Prod, Dir, Scr: Charles Chaplin Phot: Roland Totheroh Cast: Ch...
The Getaway Rick Thompson April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Getaway (1972 USA 122 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia/Village Roadshow Prod Co: First Artists Prod: David Foster, Mitchell Brower Dir: ...
The Circus Martyn Bamber April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Circus (1928 USA 71 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Charles Chaplin Productions, United Artists Prod, Dir, Scr, Ed: Charles Chaplin Asst Di...
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse Michael Koller April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1932 Germany 122 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Nero-Film Prod: Seymour Nebenzal Dir: Fritz Lang Scr: Thea von Ha...
Ladislaw Starewicz and The Mascot Adrian Danks April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Mascot/Puppet Love (1933 France 20 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Gelma-Films Filmmaker: Ladislaw Starewicz Ladislaw Starewicz (Starewi...
Sergeant Rutledge Andrew Tracy April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Sergeant Rutledge (1960 USA 111 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod Co: Ford Productions/Warner Bros. Prod: Patrick Ford, Willis Goldbeck ...
Ride with the Devil Noel King April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Ride with the Devil (1999 USA 138 mins) Prod Co: Universal Pictures Prod: Robert F. Colesberry, Ted Hope, James Schamus Dir: Ang Lee Scr: James...
The Eye Boundary: Repulsion Didier Truffot April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Translated by Angélique Tavormina Repulsion (1965 UK 105 mins) Source: Sharmill Films Prod Co: Compton Films Prod: Gene Gutowski Dir: Roman ...
Making History: Errol Morris, Robert McNamara and The Fog of War Tom Ryan April 2004 Politics and the Documentary Matters of truth and perception, style and representation, ethics and political responsibility, history and human error all come to the fore in Morris' latest documentary, and are discussed here.
“You’ve Got to Have a Good Haircut”: Live Forever and an End of Spin Tara Brabazon April 2004 Politics and the Documentary Like other recent British TV programs and films, Live Forever performs an ironic semiotic critique of popular culture, in particular revealing, in nostalgic fashion, a moment in contemporary British cultural history when local music and politics stood for something.
Conversations with Emile de Antonio Bruce Jackson April 2004 Politics and the Documentary An exemplary, early prototype of political documentary filmmaking, de Antonio's body of work is as vital today as it was in the past. Here, we are given insight into his views on filmmaking; the manner in which de Antonio funded his politically sensitive films; opponents and facilitators; and much, much more.
Bad Australian Cinema, or How Watching One Perfect Day Made Me Want to Make a Bomb Christos Tsiolkas April 2004 Australian Cinema Just what do recent Australian feature films amount to? According to Tsiolkas, bar an exception or two, not very much at all, leaving him with only a call to action.
Hearing the Story: Sound Design in the Films of Rolf de Heer Cat Hope April 2004 Australian Cinema Specific sonic challenges are built into each of de Heer's films from the script stage onward.
