Welcome to Issue 37 of our journal! the editors October 2005 Editorial Cameron Crowe: The lore is that Lubitsch died in the arms of a prostitute, is that true? Billy Wilder: No. Not in the arms. After they were through. He had finished with the lady, and he had gone into the ba...
The Incompossible Language of Natural Aristocracy: Deleuze’s Misreading of Visconti’s The Leopard Lucio Angelo Privitello October 2005 Feature Articles A theoretical counter-argument to Delueze's idea of the 'time-image' as addressed to this seminal film on Italian history.
Surrealist Documentary: Reviewing the Real Bruce Hodsdon October 2005 Feature Articles Famously, L'Âge d'or opens with a documentary on scorpions. The film was first screened publicly in Paris in November 1930. In honour of its 75th anniversary year, this article provides a critical overview of Surrealist uses and abuses of the documentary form.
Mike Leigh, Topsy-Turvy and the Excavation of Memory Wheeler Winston Dixon October 2005 Feature Articles At first glance Topsy-Turvy may seem an atypical Leigh film, but Dixon argues that it is “a radical work masquerading as a conventional biopic.”
Blaine Allan Interviewed Noel King October 2005 Feature Articles This acclaimed critic and writer discusses a range of issues related to Canadian film culture and its regional cinemas.
John Ford’s The Horse Soldiers James Hawco October 2005 Feature Articles Notations on Ford's view of Civil War divisions in one of his late cavalry westerns.
Look Both Ways: Interview with Sarah Watt and Andrew S. Gilbert Jonathan Dawson October 2005 Feature Articles After the dire predictions of a crisis in the Australian cinema, a flurry of recent releases has raised the profile of local films, not least of which being Watt's début feature.
Thinking of Cluny Brown Ray Davis October 2005 Feature Articles “Squirrels to the nuts”. This great 1946 Ernst Lubitsch classic is elegantly pondered on.
Lacrimae Rerum Materialized Tag Gallagher October 2005 Feature Articles An exploration of the Straubs' majestic œuvre, countering much of the received dogma that has surrounded perception of their work.
Looking Both Ways: The 54th Melbourne International Film Festival Bill Mousoulis October 2005 Festival Reports July 20–August 7, 2005 Question: Why did the film festival cross the road? Answer: Because it didn't know how to go either left or right. In he...
Reduced Quantity, Increased Quality, New Opportunities: The 22nd St Kilda Film Festival Boris Trbic October 2005 Festival Reports May 24-29, 2005 Australian Shorts This year's St Kilda Film Festival (SKFF), held in Melbourne's famous beachside suburb, introduced some change...
Some Gems in a Modest Program: The 52nd Sydney Film Festival Hamish Ford October 2005 Festival Reports June 10–25, 2005 Despite procuring State Government funding, the 52nd Sydney Film Festival featured a reduced number of films (170) compared ...
The Bleeding Eyes of a Festival Regular: The 14th Brisbane International Film Festival Matthew Clayfield October 2005 Festival Reports July 27–August 8, 2005 An Introductory Note on Methodology “I'm going to see so much that my eyes are going to bleed!” I told my friend Mark e...
Singing with a Purpose: Wartime Propaganda and Other Themes: The 19th Cinema Ritrovato Jay Weissberg October 2005 Festival Reports July 2–9, 2005 Few, if any, film festivals can match the extraordinary range of material on offer at Bologna's Cinema Ritrovato, now in its 1...
Revealing Revelation: The Fiction, the Facts & the Subversion: Revelation 8: Perth International Film Festival Tanya Vision October 2005 Festival Reports June 30–July 10, 2005 “Exhibition in Crisis: Who's Stolen the Crown Jewels”, was one of the conference sessions at the Revelation Screen Fest...
A Latin American Gaze: Mar del Plata International Film Festival Fernando Madedo October 2005 Festival Reports March 10-20, 2005 Translated by Carlos Morreo Cinema and Politics: A Brief Historical Recount of the Festival During the opening night of t...
Clarke, Alan Nicolas Rapold October 2005 Great Directors b. October 28, 1935, Birkenhead, Cheshire, England d. July 24, 1990, London, England Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources ...
Güney, Yílmaz Bilge Ebiri October 2005 Great Directors b. Yílmaz Pütün b. April 1, 1937, Adana, Turkey d. September 9, 1984, Paris, France Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses W...
Ivens, Joris Ian Mundell October 2005 Great Directors b. George Henri Anton Ivens b. November 18, 1898, Nijmegen, The Netherlands d. June 28, 1989, Paris, France Filmography Select Bibliograph...
Leisen, Mitchell David Melville October 2005 Great Directors b. October 6, 1898, Menominee, Michigan, USA d. October 28, 1972, Los Angeles, California, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in S...
Whale, James David Lugowski October 2005 Great Directors b. July 22, 1889, Dudley, Worcestershire, England, UK d. May 29, 1957, Hollywood, California, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resour...
Brain Sculpting and Cinema: Blow-Up: Photography, Cinema and the Brain by Warren Neidich Ove Christensen October 2005 Book Reviews We all take in the world through our bodily perceptions and the inferences these perceptions give rise to. The shape and colour of a tree are understo...
Claire Denis by Martine Beugnet John Orr October 2005 Book Reviews Martine Beugnet's study of Claire Denis is a highlight of the lively Manchester series on French film directors, and well worth an uninterrupted read ...
The Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to “Reality” TV and Beyond edited by Geoff King Christian McCrea October 2005 Book Reviews I first opened the pages of The Spectacle of the Real: From Hollywood to “Reality TV” and Beyond, edited by Brunel University's Geoff King, dreading a...
This Wounded Cinema, This Wounded Life: Violence and Utopia in the Films of Sam Peckinpah by Gabrielle Murray Claire Perkins October 2005 Book Reviews The utopian impulse at work in Gabrielle Murray's contemporary account of Sam Peckinpah's films is given away by her book's striking title. Our curren...
Lethal Weapons, Die Hards and Terminators: Exploring Action-Adventure Cinema in Action Speaks Louder: Violence, Spectacle, and the American Action Movie by Eric Lichtenfeld and Action and Adventure Cinema edited by Yvonne Tasker Donna Peberdy October 2005 Book Reviews Lorna Cole : What happened last night? Martin Riggs : Oh, gunfight, explosions, sharks, you know, the usual. – Lethal Weapon 4 (Richard Donner, 1998...
Sorry, Wrong Number Wendy Haslem October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Sorry, Wrong Number (1948 USA 89 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Hal Wallis Productions/Paramount Prod: Hal Wallis, Anatole Litvak Dir: Anatole Li...
Summer Storm David Sanjek October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Summer Storm (1944 USA 105 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: United Artists/Angelus Prod: Seymour Nebenzal Dir: Douglas Sirk Scr: Douglas Sirk, Row...
“The Far Side of Paradise”: Douglas Sirk’s There’s Always Tomorrow Adrian Danks October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film There's Always Tomorrow (1956 USA 84 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Universal International Prod: Ross Hunter Dir: Douglas Sirk Scr: Bernard C. S...
Voyage to the Beginning of the World Wheeler Winston Dixon October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Viagem ao Princípio do Mundo/Voyage to the Beginning of the World (1997 Portugal/France 95 mins) Source: Gemini Films Prod Co: Gemini Films/IPA...
Wackiki Wabbit Brad Weismann October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Wackiki Wabbit (1943 USA 7 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Warner Bros. Prod: Leon Schlesinger Dir: Charles M. Jones Scr: Tedd Pierce (uncredited)...
Baby Face Kendahl Cruver October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Baby Face (1933 USA 77 mins) Source: Library of Congress Prod Co: Warner Bros. Prod: William LeBaron, Raymond Griffith Dir: Alfred E. Green Scr...
The Bitter Tea of General Yen Kevin Lee October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932 USA 89 mins) Source: Library of Congress Prod Co: Columbia Pictures Prod: Walter Wanger Dir: Frank Capra Sc...
British Sounds Jonathan Dawson October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film British Sounds (1969 UK/France 54 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Kestrel Productions for LWT Prod: Irving Teitelbaum Dir, Scr: Jean-Luc Godard, J...
La Chinoise, ou plutôt à la chinoise: un film en train de se faire Darragh O’Donoghue October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film La Chinoise, ou plutôt à la chinoise (1967 France 90 mins) Source: ACMI Collections/FE Prod Co: Productions de la Guéville/Parc Films/Athos-Fil...
Les Cousins John Conomos October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Les Cousins/The Cousins (1959 France 105 mins) Source: NFSA Prod Co: Ajym Films Prod, Dir: Claude Chabrol Scr: Paul Gégauff, from a story by Ch...
Refining the “Long-eared Galoot”: Chuck Jones’ Rabbit Punch and Rabbit Hood Adrian Danks October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Rabbit Punch (1948 USA 7 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Warner Bros. Prod: Eddie Selzer Dir: Charles M. Jones Story: Tedd Pierce, Michael Maltese...
Porky’s Duck Hunt Brad Weismann October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Porky's Duck Hunt (1937 USA 7 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Warner Bros. Prod: Leon Schlesinger Dir: Fred (Tex) Avery Anim: Virgil Ross, Robert ...
Porky Pig’s Feat Colin Browne October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Porky Pig's Feat (1943 USA 7 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Warner Bros. Prod: Leon Schlesinger Dir: Frank Tashlin Story: Melvin Millar Anim: Phi...
Parsifal William “Bill” Blick October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Parsifal (1982 West Germany/France 255 mins) Source: Film Alliance Prod Co: Gaumont/TMS Film GmbH Prod: Annie Nap-Oleon Dir: Hans-Jürgen Syberb...
No Man of Her Own Geoff Mayer October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film No Man of Her Own (1950 USA 98 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Paramount Pictures Prod: Richard Maibaum Dir: Mitchell Leisen Scr: Sally Benson, Ca...
The Letter: Eurovision and the Aesthetic of Silence David Melville October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Letter/A Carta/La Lettre/La Carta (1999 Portugal/France/Spain 107 mins) Source: Gemini Films Prod Co: Madragoa Filmes (Portugal)/Gemini Fil...
Felicitous Rooms: Fritz Lang’s House by the River David Cairns October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film House by the River (1950 USA 88 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Fidelity Pictures Corporation/Republic Prod: Howard Welsch Dir: Fritz Lang Scr: Me...
Forty Guns Tony Williams October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Forty Guns (1957 USA 80 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Twentieth Century-Fox/Globe Enterprises Prod, Dir, Scr: Samuel Fuller Phot: Joseph Biroc E...
Forbidden Robert Keser October 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Forbidden (1932 US 83 mins) Source: Library of Congress Prod Co: Columbia Pictures Dir: Frank Capra Scr: Jo Swerling Phot: Joseph Walker Ed: Ma...
On the Decline of the New Hollywood and the Prescience of Network Greg Ng October 2005 American Cinema: The 1970s Paddy Chayefsky's screenplay for Sidney Lumet's 1976 film foresaw much of what the current tele-visual cultural landscape would look like decades before it arrived at our doorstep.
Out of the Blue: Re-evaluating Electra-Glide in Blue William “Bill” Blick October 2005 American Cinema: The 1970s One of the more forgotten movies of the 70s receives due appreciation.
Citizen Bickle, or the Allusive Taxi Driver: Uses of Intertextuality John Thurman October 2005 American Cinema: The 1970s This seminal film of the 1970s is explored as a force-field of references to film style, from Bresson to Godard, Rosi, Hitchcock, Ford, et al.
The Edge of Melancholy: Shampoo Elaine Lennon October 2005 Spotlight on Screenwriter Robert Towne I. Roots A number of factors, and people, contributed to the writing of Shampoo: in the late 1960s, I found myself in London. It was as far back ...
A Question of Authorship: The Yakuza Elaine Lennon October 2005 Spotlight on Screenwriter Robert Towne Schrader vs Schrader Martin Scorsese read “The Yakuza”, a speculative script sold in a spectacular bidding war in Hollywood in 1974. He wasn't the ...
Muriel: The Time of Return Crissa-Jean Chappell October 2005 European Cinema Revisited The themes of time and memory haunt Alain Resnais' cinema, no less so than in this gem of early-60s modernist narrative.
Jacques Tati: Last Bastion of Innocence Pedro Blas Gonzalez October 2005 European Cinema Revisited An astute philosophical reflection on Tati's sublime films.
Speaking For Others: Manifest and Latent Content in In a Year with Thirteen Moons Justin Vicari October 2005 European Cinema Revisited An insightful analysis of the complex interweaving of the personal and the political in one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's most emotionally torturous of films.
