Welcome to Issue 32 of our journal! the editors July 2004 Editorial Marvelling at a scene in The Dreamers in which an auditorium of students sit bug-eyed at a screening of Shock Corridor, Maximilian Le Cain writes in this issue “...Bertolucci emphasises the energy with which th...
Letters Various July 2004 Feature Articles from Robert Daudelin, Bernard Eisenschitz, Paul Byrnes, Samuel Macgeorge, and James Leahy Responses to articles, and comments on any aspect of Sens...
Making Reality Tag Gallagher July 2004 Feature Articles The “amazing grace” of Rossellini's historical TV films.
Beyond the Clouds: An Interview with Nuri Bilge Ceylan Geoff Andrew July 2004 Feature Articles Equally masterful at depicting small, awkward dilemmas as he is the human condition, the director of Uzak proves to be just as honest and compassionate in conversation.
Brother’s Intimacy: Patrice Chéreau’s Son frère Violeta Kovacsics July 2004 Feature Articles Through the depiction of the body in pain and the shame of shamelessness, Chéreau locates a balance between intimacy, dignity and crudity.
You Say You Want a Revolution: How Yoko Ono’s Rape Could Have Changed the World Mark Richardson July 2004 Feature Articles Despite its provocative title, Ono's film has lost its power due to the “enigma of postmodernism”. Using the theory of Alain Badiou, Richardson argues there are still ways to overcome the “consensus” politics inherent in this “enigma”.
Double Exposure: Films by Bill Mousoulis and Mark La Rosa Bill Craske July 2004 Feature Articles Australian experimental narrative lives, in these shorts and features from a couple of true independents.
An Interview with Jia Zhangke Valerie Jaffee July 2004 Feature Articles In the context of Jaffee's piece on the cinema of the Chinese underground, Jia is here interviewed on the set of his new film, The World.
Hiroshi Shimizu: A Hero of His Time Alexander Jacoby July 2004 Feature Articles More than a director of children, Shimizu advanced a strong critique of the political and social situation of Japan in the 1930s in much of his work.
Too Cool for School: Social Problems in Elephant Tony McKibbin July 2004 Feature Articles Not just another teen movie: beyond the Columbine massacre, Van Sant's latest work explores the philosophical problem of identity.
Bringing the World to the Nation: Jia Zhangke and the Legitimation of Chinese Underground Film Valerie Jaffee July 2004 Feature Articles In response to the announcement that Jia is now officially allowed to make films in his own country, Jaffee follows the trail of the “underground” filmmaking of the “sixth generation” and wonders “where to from here?”
Before the Revolution: Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers Maximilian Le Cain July 2004 Feature Articles This misunderstood film is not a nostalgic reconstruction of May '68 but a maturing cinephile's reverie on Utopian Possibility.
“The Company of Magicians”: Orson Welles, Abb Dickson, Scarlet Plush, and Purple Hokum Peter Tonguette July 2004 Feature Articles Welles' fascination with magic fuelled one of his most intriguing late projects. His collaborator recalls its making.
Daily Reports from the 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival Various July 2004 Festival Reports • Festival Wrap-Up • Friday 6 August • Thursday 5 August • Wednesday 4 August • Monday 2 August • Sunday 1 August • Thursday 29 July • ...
Riders on the Storm: The 15th Human Rights Watch International Film Festival Ioannis Mookas July 2004 Festival Reports Uppermost on everyone's agenda right now, in New York as in the rest of the U.S., is purging our government of the malignancy that has subsumed it...
Taking Off: The 47th San Francisco International Film Festival Brian Darr July 2004 Festival Reports An international film festival can be likened to an airplane trip around the world, only instead of stopping to get out of the cabin and sightsee,...
Social Engagement: The 21st St Kilda Film Festival Kyle Weise July 2004 Festival Reports Most immediately apparent in the selection of short films that I attended at this year's St Kilda Film Festival was the sombre, and even tragic, t...
A Certain Kind of Semiological Infinity and Excess: The 51st Sydney Film Festival Saul Symonds July 2004 Festival Reports Film has always involved a certain materiality and a certain immateriality, a certain technology and a certain semiology. And a film festival refl...
Dying at a Film Festival: The 6th Udine Far East Film Festival Brandon Wee July 2004 Festival Reports Every year since 1999, a festival in a northern Italian town has played host to a week's worth of the most popular films from East Asia. Although ...
Readjusting Perspective: The 57th Cannes Film Festival Christoph Huber July 2004 Festival Reports There is general consensus that the 2004 Cannes Film Festival represented a return to form after last year's rather miserable outing (although it ...
For the Love of Cinema: The 28th Hong Kong International Film Festival Janice Tong July 2004 Festival Reports It is recorded in an article titled “La vie utile des vues cinématographiques” in La Nature in 1897 that the effective life-span of a frame of fil...
Lipsett, Arthur Brett Kashmere July 2004 Great Directors b. Arthur Harold Lipsett b. Montreal, Canada, May 13, 1936 d. Montreal, Canada, May 1, 1986 Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in ...
Margheriti, Antonio Patricia MacCormack July 2004 Great Directors b. September 19, 1930, Rome, Italy d. November 4, 2002, Viterbo, Italy Filmography Select Bibliography Works Also Cited Web Resources Anto...
Méliès, Georges Darragh O’Donoghue July 2004 Great Directors b. Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès b. December 8, 1861, Paris, France d. January 21, 1938, Paris, France Filmography Select Bibliography Web Re...
Ouedraogo, Idrissa Martin Stollery July 2004 Great Directors b. January 21, 1954, Banfora, Burkina Faso Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources While constantly seeking to e...
Siegel, Don Deborah Allison July 2004 Great Directors b. Donald Siegel b. October 26, 1912, Chicago, Illinois, USA d. April 20, 1991, Nipoma, California, USA Filmography Select Bibliography A...
Sturges, Preston Jonas Varsted Kirkegaard July 2004 Great Directors b. Edmund Preston Biden b. August 29, 1898, Chicago, Illinois, USA d. August 6,1959, New York, New York, USA Filmography Select Bibliograp...
Bogdanovich, Peter Peter Tonguette July 2004 Great Directors b. July 30, 1939, Kingston, New York, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources Let Us Sing of the Days That Are...
Oshii, Mamoru Richard Suchenski July 2004 Great Directors b. August 8, 1951, Tokyo, Japan Filmography Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources In recent years, Japanese anime and manga have ...
The Outsider Auteur? Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris by Ginette Vincendeau Adrian Danks July 2004 Book Reviews In the opening pages of the aptly titled Jean-Pierre Melville: An American in Paris, Ginette Vincendeau discusses the photograph of Melville that grac...
Looking for a Common Ground: Cinema of the Other Europe: The Industry and Artistry of East Central European Film by Dina Iordanova Ewa Mazierska July 2004 Book Reviews The last decade saw an increasing number of publications devoted to the cinemas of the ex-Soviet Bloc. However, most of these concentrated either on a...
Skimming the Surface: Walkabout by Louis Nowra Dan Edwards July 2004 Book Reviews The Australian Screen Classics series provides an invaluable space for the examination, celebration and critique of our national film heritage. Like t...
Can Theory See the City? Screening the City edited by Tony Fitzmaurice and Mark Shiel Bill Stamets July 2004 Book Reviews Theorising the city and cinema is an irresistible project for academics in many disciplines. In the 1997 collection of essays The Cinematic City, edit...
A City Under the Influence: The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption by Mark Jancovich and Lucy Faire with Sarah Stubbings Maria Walsh July 2004 Book Reviews The notion of “place” in The Place of the Audience: Cultural Geographies of Film Consumption revolves around two sites, the architectural site of film...
From Leotards to Lyotard: Pandora’s Box: Essays in Film Theory by Barbara Creed Tara Brabazon July 2004 Book Reviews Most of the time, I am extremely glad to have completed postgraduate degrees in the 1990s. It was certainly a strange time. Jane Fonda's leotards were...
For Criticism (Again): Movie Love in the Fifties by James Harvey William D. Routt July 2004 Book Reviews See the bottom of the page for a list of all films mentioned in this review. This is a terrific book. No, it is more than that. It is one of the be...
Against Cinephiliphobia: Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia edited by Jonathan Rosenbaum and Adrian Martin Benjamin Halligan July 2004 Book Reviews The disappointment of Peter Cowie's recent Revolution! The Explosion of World Cinema in the '60s (1) is in the failure of the book to capture the evol...
To Each Their Own: Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia edited by Jenny Kwok Wah Lau Brian Hu July 2004 Book Reviews The blanket terms “Asian cinema” and “East Asian cinema” tend to elide the distinctive ways individual nations, regions, and cities have represented t...
The Only Son (Hitori Musuko) James Leahy July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Only Son (Hitori Musuko) (1936 Japan 87 mins) Source, Prod Co: Shockiku Films Prod: Den Takayama Dir: Yasujiro Ozu Scr: Tadao Ikeda, Masao ...
Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family Adam Bingham July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Brothers and Sisters of the Toda Family (Toda-ke no Kyoodai) (Japan 1941 105 mins) Source, Prod Co: Shochiku Films Dir: Yasujiro Ozu Scr: Tadao...
Time and Tide: Yasujiro Ozu’s Late Autumn Adrian Danks July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Late Autumn/Akibiyori (1960 Japan 125 mins) Source, Prod Co: Shochiku Films Dir: Yasujiro Ozu Scr: Kogo Noda, Yasujiro Ozu, from the novel by T...
Passing Fancy (Dekigokoro) Michael Kerpan July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Passing Fancy (Dekigokoro) (1933 Japan 101 mins) Source, Prod Co: Shochiku Films Dir: Yasujiro Ozu Scr: Tadao Ikeda, based on an idea by Ozu (u...
Record of a Tenement Gentleman Michael Price July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Record of a Tenement Gentleman/Nagaya Shinshiroku (1947 Japan 72 mins) Source, Prod Co: Shochiku Films Dir: Yasujiro Ozu Scr: Yasujiro Ozu, Tad...
Dragnet Girl (Hijosen no onna) Freda Freiberg July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Dragnet Girl/Hijosen no onna (1933 Japan 100 mins) Source, Prod Co: Shockiku Films Dir: Yasujiro Ozu Scr: Tadao Ikeda, based on a story by “Jam...
The Moral Tendency: Kameradschaft Andrew Tracy July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Kameradschaft (1931 Germany 93 mins) Source: BFI Prod Co: Nero-Film/Gaumont-Franco-Aubert Prod: Seymour Nebenzahl Dir: G.W. Pabst Scr: Peter Ma...
Pandora’s Box (G.W. Pabst, 1929) Dan Harper July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Lulu's story is as near as you'll get to mine. – Louise Brooks There is no Garbo! There is no Dietrich! There is only Louise Brooks! – Henri Lang...
The Joyless Street Michael Koller July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Joyless Street/Die Freudlose Gasse (1925 Germany 145 mins) Source: Munich Film Archive Prod Co: Sofar-Film Dir: G.W. Pabst Scr: Willy Haas,...
Preface to G.W. Pabst: The Threepenny Opera Bruce Williams July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Threepenny Opera (1931, Germany, 111 mins) Source: Filmstock Research Prod. Co: Warner Bros. Pictures, Société des Films Sonores Tobis Prod...
Westfront 1918 Robert Keser July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Westfront 1918/Comrades of 1918 (1930 Germany 96 mins) Source: BFI Prod Co: Nero-Film Prod: Seymour Nebenzahl Dir: G.W. Pabst Scr: Ladislaus Va...
Diary of a Lost Girl (G.W. Pabst, 1929) Martyn Bamber July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film If there ever was a face that you could say – without hesitation – the camera loved, it is the divine face of Louise Brooks. After leaving H...
Across the Universe: Stan Brakhage’s The Dante Quartet Adrian Danks July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Dante Quartet (1987 USA 7 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Filmmaker: Stan Brakhage One of dozens of hand-painted films that Brakhage completed in...
Tracing an Original and the Law of Diminishing Returns: Brakhage Dirk de Bruyn July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Brakhage (1998 USA 75 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Sphinx Productions Prod: Alexa Frances-Shaw Dir, Scr: Jim Shedden Phot: Gerald Packer, Al...
Daybreak and Whiteye Martin Rumsby July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Daybreak and Whiteye (1957 USA 8 mins) Filmmaker: Stan Brakhage As an amateur enthusiast working out of the Auckland Filmmakers' Cooperative...
Desistfilm Darragh O’Donoghue July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Desistfilm (1954 USA 7 mins) Filmmaker: Stan Brakhage A buzz over the handmade titles disintegrates into a screech of feedback and a piano t...
Putting the Garden Into the Machine: On Brakhage’s The Garden of Earthly Delights Karli Lukas July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Garden of Earthly Delights (1981 USA 2 mins) Filmmaker: Stan Brakhage Interviewed in 1996, Stan Brakhage felt uneasy about becoming a my...
I… Dreaming Malcolm Cook July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film I… Dreaming (1988 USA 7 mins) Filmmaker: Stan Brakhage Mus: Joel Haertling, Stephen Foster I… Dreaming occupies an atypical position within ...
Mothlight Darragh O’Donoghue July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Mothlight (1963 USA 3 mins) Filmmaker: Stan Brakhage Animation has managed to anthropomorphise a wide variety of creatures, from coyotes to ...
The Wold Shadow Martin Rumsby July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Wold Shadow (1972 USA 3 mins) Filmmaker: Stan Brakhage One day, while walking in the woods, Stan Brakhage had a vision of an unaccountab...
Der Letzte Mann (The Last Laugh) Rahul Hamid July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Der Letzte Mann/The Last Laugh (1924 Germany 74 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod Co: UFA Prod: Erich Pommer Dir: F.W. Murnau Scr: Carl ...
Love Me Tonight Peter H. Kemp July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Love Me Tonight (1932 USA 96 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Paramount Prod, Dir: Rouben Mamoulian Scr: Samuel Hoffenstein, Waldemar Young, Geo...
Summer Holiday Oloruntoba John Olubunmi July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Summer Holiday (USA 1948 92 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: MGM Prod: Arthur Freed Dir: Rouben Mamoulian Scr: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett,...
Sürü James Leahy July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Sürü/The Herd (1978 Turkey 118 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Güney Film Dir: Zeki Ökten Scr: Yilmaz Güney Phot: Izzet Akay Ed: Özdemi...
Alone: Life Wastes Andy Hardy Michael Zryd July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film See the tail of this article for a brief biography and filmography of Martin Arnold and distribution details for his films. Alone: Life Wastes ...
Hold Me While I’m Naked: Notes on a Camp Classic Deborah Allison July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Hold Me While I'm Naked (1966 USA 15 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Kuchar Film Presentation Filmmaker: George Kuchar Cast: Donna Kerness, ...
Homicide: “Flashpoint” (episode 56) Don Storey July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Homicide ep. 56: “Flashpoint” (1965 Australia 48 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia, courtesy Crawfords Australia Prod Co: Crawford Production...
Spinning Straw into Gold: Four Works by Jürgen Reble in the New Medium of Film Steven Ball July 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Rumpelstilzchen (1989 Germany 15 mins) Source: Light Cone Filmmaker: Jürgen Reble Zillertal (1991 Germany 11 mins) Source: Light Cone Filmmak...
“Do I Exist?”: The Unbearable Blankness of Being in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Bright Future Jared Rapfogel July 2004 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival More comprehensible than the prolific Kurosawa's previous efforts, this story of an unlikely friendship between a hopeless youth, an older man and a jellyfish is still unconventional and moving.
The New American Old West: Bruno Dumont’s Twentynine Palms Darren Hughes July 2004 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival A newly-available sports utility vehicle, a new socio-political context and a new set of cinematic references inform Dumont's examination of masculine authority, human miscommunication and the Californian desert.
The Missing: An Interview with Lee Kang-sheng Volker Hummel July 2004 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival Muse and principal actor in the cinema of Tsai Ming-liang, Lee discusses his experience behind the camera and the theme of loss which permeates his directorial debut.
Histoire de Marie et Julien: Jacques Rivette’s Material Ghost Story Michael J. Anderson July 2004 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival Part erotic ghost story, part reflexive commentary on filmic form and narrative, Rivette's latest opus may be his most personal yet.
The Road Well Travelled: Coffee and Cigarettes Michael Joshua Rowin July 2004 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival Hipster posturing yields diminishing returns in this disappointing anthology from Jim Jarmusch.
A Divine Tragedy: Kim Ki-duk Searches for Redemption in The Samaritan Girl Acquarello July 2004 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival Acquarello probes the link between transactions, transformative encounters and transcendence in Kim's tenth film.
Border Zones: The Films of Ulrich Seidl Mattias Frey July 2004 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival Tracing the many subjects and styles of the “staged reality” of Austrian filmmaker Ulrich Seidl, Frey concludes with a look at his latest film, Jesus, You Know.
What is the Matrix? Cinema, Totality, and Topophilia Charles Leary July 2004 Beyond the Grave of Genre Leary maps the vertiginous images of “totality” presented in The Matrix and its sequels.
The Light and the Darkness: Myth in the Films of Richard Stanley James Rose July 2004 Beyond the Grave of Genre From Voudou to the spaghetti Western: the mythic underpinnings of Stanley's Gnostic horror films.
Isolation and Subjugation: The Telephone in the Slasher Film Charles Spiteri July 2004 Beyond the Grave of Genre 20 years of menacing phone calls show the changing role of the world's most omnipresent communication technology.
Looking Away to See: Frazer Lee’s Duty of Care Films Patricia MacCormack July 2004 Beyond the Grave of Genre Revealing the danger of passively trusting in those signifying authorised power, these two short horror films emphasise the agency of the viewer in producing meaning and affect.
To Live and Die in L.A.: Ritual in the Films of Willem Dafoe Edith Hallberg July 2004 Beyond the Grave of Genre A martyr to the cinema: Hallberg traces the meta-narrative of death and transcendence guiding Dafoe's film performances.
Tarantino and the Vengeful Ghosts of Cinema Maximilian Le Cain July 2004 Beyond the Grave of Genre Kill Bill's battle-of-the-exploitation-genres both fascinates and disappoints.
The Private Guy Maddin Adam Hart July 2004 Guy Maddin Maddin's films both invite and resist “personal” interpretations. Hart wonders what the filmmaker really wants to say.
Particles of Illusion: Guy Maddin and His Precursors Darragh O’Donoghue July 2004 Guy Maddin Symbolism, fragmentation and the two “births” of cinema: a close look at the origins of Maddin's unique style.
