Welcome to Issue 34 of our journal! the editors February 2005 Editorial Now we are five! Into the second half of the first decade of the twenty-first century and changes are afoot for this periodical. In December 1999, the first issue of Senses of Cinema appeared online and her...
Formula 17: Testing a Formula for Mainstream Cinema in Taiwan Brian Hu February 2005 Feature Articles After 20 years of producing cinema at each extreme lowbrow mainstream fodder and a formal, serious and politically engaged cinema Taiwan has turned out its first cross-over hit in the form of a youthful tale of gay utopia!
Magick in Theory and Practice: Ritual Use of Colour in Kenneth Anger’s Invocation of My Demon Brother Deborah Allison February 2005 Feature Articles A thorough analysis of this critically neglected film, highlighting its complex pattern of symbolism.
My Own Private New Queer Cinema Mark Adnum February 2005 Feature Articles Re-visiting acclaimed New Queer cinema of the early '90s reveals an irreverence and energy at odds with the gay experience of the AIDS Crisis of that time.
Cinema of Damnation: Negative Capabilities in Contemporary Central and Eastern European Film Tony McKibbin February 2005 Feature Articles The possibility of spiritual or epiphanic release often found in Tarkovskyís oeuvre is absent from the contemporary generation of Eastern European films.
Remaking East Asia, Outsourcing Hollywood Gang Gary Xu February 2005 Feature Articles Why are remakes of East Asian films in Hollywood so popular right now? Xu puts forward some compelling reasons.
Keith Gordon on Keith Gordon, Part Two: Less Afraid of Happy Endings Peter Tonguette February 2005 Feature Articles The second half of an in-depth interview, covering Gordon's recent films, therein revealing an evolution of his thematic and stylistic concerns.
“Colorado Death Trip”: The Surrealist Recontextualisation of Farm Security Administration Photos in Dogville Holger Römers February 2005 Feature Articles A historical context for Dogville’s famous end credit sequence is here provided, interrogating von Trier’s use of photos taken from a US federally funded project to document victims of the Great Depression.
Renoir and the Scandal of “First Love” or The Perils of Catherine Tag Gallagher February 2005 Feature Articles For Renoir, “first love” is an attitude toward life, in all its beauty and complexity.
What is to be Done: The 5th Calgary International Film Festival Lee Hill February 2005 Festival Reports September 24–October 3, 2004 Calgary is easily Canada's most contrarian city. It is the fastest growing city in Canada and goes to almost absur...
Free, Radical: The 49th Cork Film Festival Maximilian Le Cain February 2005 Festival Reports October 10–17, 2004 Like any substantial film festival, the Cork program presents an imposingly dense block of cinema out of which each viewer...
Hell, Purgatory and Heaven: Surviving the 48th London Film Festival George Clark February 2005 Festival Reports October 20–November 4, 2004 Subtitles allow viewers to believe that they are in some way in their own country. But for this film it's annoying b...
Minimalism and Maximalism: The 42nd New York Film Festival Jared Rapfogel February 2005 Festival Reports October 1–17, 2004 The venerable, 42 year-old New York Film Festival is no longer the only game in town, with the Tribeca Film Festival stealin...
New Polish Cinema: The 29th Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia Renata Murawska February 2005 Festival Reports September 13–18, 2004 Define Polish films? Angst-ridden pictures of a dark world in which any colour other than grey is out of place. Judging...
An Anthropological Perspective: The 29th Toronto International Film Festival Brandon Wee February 2005 Festival Reports September 9–18, 2004 In the title of Jia Zhangke's latest film, The World (2004), the noun refers figuratively in one instance to its setting ...
Cinema For/Against the Lure of Images: The 23rd Vancouver International Film Festival Bérénice Reynaud February 2005 Festival Reports September 23–October 8, 2004 A few years ago, one of my then-colleagues at Cahiers du cinéma, Marc Chevry, launched a stimulating series of a...
Lido Days (and Livid Nights): The 60th Venice Film Festival Jay Weissberg February 2005 Festival Reports September 1–11, 2004 Despite fears that Marco Müller's overt wooing of Hollywood glamour would undercut the artistic mission of the 2004 Venic...
Images from Afar: AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival Bérénice Reynaud February 2005 Festival Reports November 4–14, 2004 In spite of making “an effort” in the direction of world cinema, the American Film Institute (AFI) Festival still remains a...
Screening History: 12th Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand Fincina Hopgood February 2005 Festival Reports Canberra, Australia, December 2–5, 2004 2004 has been a turbulent year in the 20-year history of ScreenSound Australia, the National Screen and...
“Rouch Isn’t Here, He Has Left”: A Report on Building Bridges: The Cinema of Jean Rouch Ian Mundell February 2005 Festival Reports Conference report French Institute, London, October 5–14, 2004 When Jean Rouch died in February 2004, at the age of 86, he had completed arou...
Returning to Cinematic Roots: The 7th queerDOC Festival Fiona White February 2005 Festival Reports September 9–12, 2004 Valhalla Cinema, Sydney The change of venue for this year's queerDOC festival, the international documentary film festi...
Agit Pop: The 52nd San Sebastián International Film Festival Violeta Kovacsics February 2005 Festival Reports September 17–25, 2004 As the largest film festival in Spain, the San Sebastián International Film Festival is well-placed to represent Spanish ...
Bleak Optimism: Balkan film at the 45th Thessaloniki International Film Festival Andrew James Horton February 2005 Festival Reports November 19–28, 2004 Even before the 1990s, the Balkans was infamous for inter-ethnic tensions, and the word Balkanisation was a derogatory t...
“A Work of Art is a Promise of Hope”: A Report on the 42nd Viennale Pepita Hesselberth February 2005 Festival Reports October 15–27, 2004 Film festivals (…) work on more than one level: we are given – and not just through the documentaries – insights into other ...
The 23rd Pordenone Silent Film Festival: A Consideration Jay Weissberg February 2005 Festival Reports October 9–16, 2004 If festival director David Robinson's annual opening night greeting “Welcome home!” seems a bit corny to non-participants, i...
Clampett, Bob Adrian Danks February 2005 Great Directors b. May 8, 1913, San Diego, California, USA d. May 4, 1984, Detroit, Michigan, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources It Can Happ...
Mekas, Jonas Genevieve Yue February 2005 Great Directors b. December 24, 1922, Semeniskiai, Lithuania d. January 23, 2019, New York City, United States Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in S...
Rocha, Glauber Gabe Klinger February 2005 Great Directors b. Glauber de Andrade Rocha b. March 14, 1939, Vitória da Conquista, Bahia, Brazil d. August 22, 1981, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil by Gabe Klinger...
Weir, Peter Romy Sutherland February 2005 Great Directors b. August 21, 1944, Sydney, Australia Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources Commanding Waves: The Films of Peter Weir Peter Weir he...
Altman, Robert Robert Self February 2005 Great Directors b. Robert Bernard Altman b. 20 February 1925, Kansas City, Missouri, USA d. 20 November 2006, Los Angeles, California, USA Filmography Sel...
Support Your Local Filmmaker: Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision by Brad Stevens Maximilian Le Cain February 2005 Book Reviews The '90s was an extraordinary decade for the cinema. As the elephantine decadence of the mainstream increased in grossness, a dizzying constellation o...
Cinema and Culture Theory: Film Theory: Critical Concepts in Media and Cultural Studies edited by Philip Simpson, Andrew Utterson and K.J. Shepherdson Ove Christensen February 2005 Book Reviews Before cinema studies was established as an academic enterprise there existed already a fair pile of theoretical writing on cinema. Hugo Münsterberg, ...
The Age of Enlightenment: Anxiety? Revolution! The Explosion of World Cinema in the Sixties by Peter Cowie Saul Symonds February 2005 Book Reviews If the word “revolution” in Peter Cowie's title functions to hint at the complete artistic and expressive renewal that filmmaking began to undergo dur...
Russian Soul, Eurotrance: Instant Light: Tarkovsky Polaroids edited by Giovanni Chiaramonte and Andrei A. Tarkovsky Benjamin Halligan February 2005 Book Reviews If only because of the softness of the image, and that unavoidably yellowy-brown colour palette characteristic of Polaroid snaps, these photographs co...
Twist and Shout: 100 Modern Soundtracks by Philip Brophy Kevin John Bozelka February 2005 Book Reviews Philip Brophy has programmed his terrific yet frequently overstuffed new book, 100 Modern Soundtracks, like a CD. 100 two or three-page entries on fil...
Funny Games Chris Justice February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Funny Games (1997 Austria 103 mins) Source: Bavarian Films Prod Co: Wega Film Prod: Vit Heiduschka Dir, Scr: Michael Haneke Phot: Jürgen Jürges...
The Seventh Continent Christopher Sharrett February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Seventh Continent/Der Siebente Kontinent (1989 Austria 104 mins) Source: Bavaria Films Prod Co: Wega Film Prod: Veit Heiduschka Dir, Scr: M...
The Time of the Wolf William “Bill” Blick February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Time of the Wolf/Le Temps du loup (2003 France/Austria/Germany 110 mins) Source: Bavaria Films Prod Co: ARTE/Bavaria Films/CNC/Eurimages/Fr...
Modern Times: Notes Toward a Reading of Michael Haneke’s 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance Adam Bingham February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994 Austria 96 mins) Source: Bavaria Films Prod Co: Wega Film Prod: Vit Heiduschka Dir, Scr: Michael H...
Code inconnu: Récit incomplete de divers voyages Darragh O’Donoghue February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Code inconnu: Récit incomplete de divers voyages (2000 France 118 mins) Source: CNC Prod Co: ARTE France Cinéma/Bavaria Films/Filmex/Les Films ...
Cul-de-Sac Christopher Weedman February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Cul-de-Sac (1966 Britain 107 mins) Source: Sharmill Films Prod Co: Compton Films/Tekli Film Productions Prod: Gene Gutowski Dir: Roman Polanski...
Blowup Jonathan Dawson February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Blowup (1966 UK 111 mins) Source: Chapel Films Prod Co: Bridge Films/MGM Prod: Carlo Ponti Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni Scr: Michelangelo Antoni...
Winter Light Dan Harper February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Winter Light/Nattvardsgasterna (1963 Sweden 81 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Svensk Filmindustri Prod: Allan Ekelund Dir, Scr: Ingmar...
Fahrenheit 451 Laura Carroll February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Fahrenheit 451 (1966 Britain 111 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Anglo Enterprises/Vineyard Prod: Lewis M. Allen Dir: François Truffaut Scr: Franç...
The Parson’s Widow Miguel Marías February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Parson's Widow/Prästänkan (1920 Sweden 70 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Svensk Filmindustri Dir: Carl Dreyer Scr: Carl Dreyer, based on the ...
High and Low Patrick Garson February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film High and Low/Tengoku to jigoku (1963 Japan 143 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Toho Prod: Ryozu Kikushima, Tomayuki Tanaka Dir: Akira K...
Horror of Dracula Tony Williams February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Horror of Dracula/Dracula (1958 UK 81 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Hammer Film Productions Prod: Anthony Hinds Dir: Terence Fisher Scr: Jimmy S...
Dental as Anything: Tell Me if it Hurts Peter H. Kemp February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Tell Me if it Hurts (1934 Britain 20 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod, Dir, Scr: Richard Massingham Phot: Karl Urbahn Mus: Harry Platt Cast: Russell...
Greendale Kevin Canfield February 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Greendale (2003 USA 87 mins) Source: NFSA Prod Co: Shakey Pictures Prod: L.A. Johnson, Neil Young Dir: Bernard Shakey (Neil Young) Scr: Neil Yo...
Triple Agent: Portrait of the Unknowable Other, Reflection of the Unknowable Self Tamara Tracz February 2005 On Recent Films Not just a spy movie, Rohmer's film is a stylish summation of his 50-year career and, more than tackling his lifelong occupation with verbal interaction and demystification of the other, perhaps ultimately posits a stark verdict about the self.
Storytelling with Rhythm and Feeling: An Interview with Brad McGann Violeta Kovacsics February 2005 On Recent Films New Zealand filmmaker Brad McGann describes the process of making his debut In My Father's Den, the film's themes and ideas, its feel for rhythm and emotion, and his own cinematic influences.
Hell’s Angels: An Interview with Catherine Breillat on Anatomy of Hell Kevin Murphy February 2005 On Recent Films A film that has been widely condemned but seldom discussed, Anatomy of Hell is here elucidated matter-of-factly by its author.
American Squander: Sideways and the Extravagance of Self-Pity Natalie Reitano February 2005 On Recent Films Better to compromise and be satisfied than idealistic and disappointed, posits the recent, acclaimed Sideways.
Nothing Behind the Screen: Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow Dana Polan February 2005 On Recent Films Boasting a big cast and a 100% simulated setting, Sky Captain sadly amounts to nothing more than a simulacra of cinema and points to worrying tendencies in Hollywood.
Patricio Guzmán’s Salvador Allende: The Personal Painting of a Universal Myth Pamela Biénzobas February 2005 On Recent Films Acclaimed filmmaker Patricio Guzmán's latest work for the first time tackles the greatness and the legacy of Salvador Allende.
The Decade of Living Dangerously: A Chronicle from Lav Diaz Brandon Wee February 2005 Filipino Cinema Ten years in the making, Lav Diaz's epic ten-hour Evolution of a Filipino Family has finally left the editing room and is more than worth the wait. In this interview, he discusses the immense undertaking of making the film, as well as Filipino society and cinema past and present.
Family Meals, Family Values, and Philippine Cinema: An Interview with Independent Filmmaker Khavn De la Cruz Alexis Tioseco February 2005 Filipino Cinema Interview with the prolific, DV-loving independent filmmaker Khavn whose latest film The Family That Eats Soil recently premiered at Rotterdam.
Manila at the Edge of Realism Noel Vera February 2005 Filipino Cinema Mario O'Hara is one of the great contemporary Filipino directors and his 25th feature film Woman of the Breakwater examines contemporary Manila through a community of homeless romantics living alongside Manila Bay.
Rocks in his Eyes: An Interview with Edward Luyken Dirk de Bruyn February 2005 Dutch Experimental Film Luyken's films, an ever-growing body of work that premieres regularly at Rotterdam and were part of D-Light, are characterised by a concern with the metamorphosis of form and movement.
D-Light + MM2 = Dutch Experimental Film Dirk de Bruyn February 2005 Dutch Experimental Film Rotterdam 2004 saw the celebration of Dutch Experimental Cinema with the launch of a book and retrospective program devoted to this area.
Putting the Cards Back on the Table: An Interview with Anna Abrahams and Erwin van’t Hart Dirk de Bruyn February 2005 Dutch Experimental Film These two curators outline the background for the genesis of MM2 and D-Light.
Putting out of Place in its Place: An Interview with Jan Willem van Dam Dirk de Bruyn February 2005 Dutch Experimental Film Also included in D-Light, van Dam discusses at length his remarkable films as well as his strategies and filmmaking practice.
Sailing to Atlantean: Bob Quinn and National Myth Darragh O’Donoghue February 2005 Brief Encounters A three-part Irish film made in the early '80s that explores hidden traces connecting the cultures of Ireland, Britain, France, Spain and North Africa.
Drawn and Quartered: Wendy Toye’s In the Picture Jorge Didaco February 2005 Brief Encounters Belonging to the anthology Three Cases of Murder from 1955, Wendy Toye's contribution is British horror cinema at its most perverse and striking.
The Heart is Deceitful: The Film is Not Nina Menkes February 2005 Brief Encounters Asia Argento's latest film is raw, confrontational and true to itself.
Progressive Hollywood? So Young So Bad Tony Williams February 2005 Brief Encounters Made at a troubled time and with a subtext of dissention and social maladjustment, So Young So Bad is a film at odds with itself.
Looking Back at Looking Back: A Review of History of Australian Cinema Ina Bertrand February 2005 Australian Cinema Three films documenting early Australian cinema are released for the first time on DVD and are reviewed and re-considered in a twenty-first century context here.
Interrogating Identity: Tom White Ben Goldsmith February 2005 Australian Cinema This recent Australian film rigorously examines masculine identity in crisis within the broader and neglected topic of homelessness.
2004 World Poll – Part 3 Various February 2005 2004 World Poll The Entries George Papadopoulos Alan Pavelin Mark Peranson Jit Phokaew Mike Plante Jared Rapfogel Andy Rector Bérénice Rey...
2004 World Poll – Part 2 Various February 2005 2004 World Poll The Entries Ed Halter Shigehiko Hasumi Bruce Hodsdon Alexander Horwath Brian Hu Christoph Huber Anton Ivin Elric Kane R...
2004 World Poll – Part 1 Various February 2005 2004 World Poll The Entries Acquarello Mubarak Ali Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Saul Austerlitz Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett Steve Bene...