Welcome to Issue 41 of our journal! the editors November 2006 Editorial “Put an amen to it. There’s no more time for praying.” That is a line of dialogue from the famous burial scene in John Ford’s The Searchers (1956), quoted by Tim Cawkwell in his article, “Perfect Storm, Imp...
Letters to the World: Erice-Kiarostami: Correspondences Curated by Alain Bergala and Jordi Balló Linda C. Ehrlich November 2006 Feature Articles Review of the recent exhibition inspired by the correspondences between these two great filmmakers that featured in Barcelona, subsequently in Madrid and destined for Paris in 2007.
Hitchcock’s Aventure Malgache (or the True Story of DZ 91) Alain Kerzoncuf November 2006 Feature Articles The fate of Alfred Hitchcock’s little-seen film about the French Resistance reads like one of his own espionage thrillers. Hitchcock scholar Alain Kerzoncuf tracks through the archives in search of evidence.
Dziga Vertov: The Idiot Carloss James Chamberlin November 2006 Feature Articles The Austrian Film Museum’s excellent DVD of Vertov’s Entuziazm affords the occasion for an insightful essay on the work of this legendary Soviet filmmaker.
Mapping Catalonia in 1967: The Barcelona School in Global Context Rosalind Galt November 2006 Feature Articles A comprehensive overview of the regional and global imperatives that shaped the historically fascinating 1960s avant-garde movement known as the Barcelona School.
Working Together: Two Cultures, One Film, Many Canoes Therese Davis November 2006 Feature Articles An examination of director Rolf de Heer’s unique collaboration with the Yolngu people of Ramingining of Northern Australia on Ten Canoes and the behind-the-scenes documentary Balanda and the Bark Canoes.
Clearly, Clearly, Dark-Eyed Donna: Time and A Scanner Darkly Nathan Kosub November 2006 Feature Articles A discussion of Richard Linklater’s adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s novel in relation to the broader context of the filmmaker’s œuvre and his obsession with time.
Perfect Storm, Imperfect Death Tim Cawkwell November 2006 Feature Articles “Nothing tests the resources of cinema like a storm at sea.” So argues Tim Cawkwell who discusses a number of films, including an in-depth analysis of the mastery of director John Ford’s and cinematographer Greg Toland’s burial-at-sea episode in The Long Voyage Home.
Desire, Passion and Power: Women in the Festival of German Films Leonie Naughton November 2006 Festival Reports Goethe Institut Festival of German Films Australia April, 2006 Women were more powerfully represented in front of the camera than behind it at...
On the Occasion of Remembering the Golden Gate: The 49th San Francisco International Film Festival Jay Kuehner November 2006 Festival Reports 20 April – 4 May 2006 “San Francisco’s in a tough position” tells me the editor of a major American film magazine, at a festival reception in h...
A Taxidermia Indeed: Stuffed to the Gills at MIFF Although Still a Little Miffed at Some Stuff: The 55th Melbourne International Film Festival Cerise Howard November 2006 Festival Reports 26 July – 13 August, 2006 Excepting an Opening Night publicity coup, of which, more below, the Melbourne International Film Festival’s last yea...
Womanising: The 20th Cinema Ritrovato Virginia Wright Wexman November 2006 Festival Reports 1-9 July, 2006 Bologna’s Cinema Ritrovato stands alone among the world’s film festivals for the quality and breadth of classic and little-known...
Relative, But Also Absolute: The 53rd Sydney Film Festival Bill Mousoulis November 2006 Festival Reports 9–25 June, 2006 Whether the glass is half-empty or half-full, let us be thankful that we can still drink. But let us also prod the barkeep to s...
A Report on Cinema at the Periphery: An International Film Studies Conference, Centre for Film Studies, University of St Andrews Jenny Chamarette November 2006 Festival Reports 15–17 June, 2006 Inaugurating the first year’s work of the new Centre for Film Studies at the University of St Andrews, the prestige of this co...
“Dhow Aesthetics”: Negotiating the Global and the Local: The 9th Zanzibar International Film Festival Sharae Deckard November 2006 Festival Reports 14–25 July, 2006 At the first roundtable of the 9th Zanzibar International Film Festival (ZIFF) of the Dhow Countries, held from the 4th to the...
A View from the 41st Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Renata Murawska November 2006 Festival Reports 30 June – 8 July, 2006 Karlovy Vary consists of three worlds that coexist hand in hand, blissfully unaware of one another. One is that of luxur...
Lewis, Joseph H. Robert Keser November 2006 Great Directors b. April 6, 1907, New York City, USA d. August 30, 2000, Santa Monica, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources...
Bolognini, Mauro David Melville November 2006 Great Directors b. 28 June, 1922, Pistoia, Italy d. 14 May, 2001, Rome, Italy Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources The Melan...
Herzog, Werner David Church November 2006 Great Directors b. Werner Herzog b. 5 September, 1942, Munich, Germany Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources With a singular ...
Carax, Leos Christian Checa Bañuz November 2006 Great Directors b. Alexandre Oscar Dupont b. 22 November, 1960, Suresnes, France Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources This a...
Frankenheimer, John Stephen Bowie November 2006 Great Directors b. 19 February 1930, New York, USA d. 6 July 2002, Los Angeles, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources Alo...
Film Remakes by Constantine Verevis Brian McFarlane November 2006 Book Reviews “Not a patch on the old film” is likely to be the common response to most remakes, perhaps without too much thought going into the opinion. Or into wh...
Theorising National Cinema edited by Valentina Vitali and Paul Willemen Elizabeth Avram November 2006 Book Reviews National cinema theorists in the 1960s and ’70s narrowly defined national cinemas within prescriptive text-based criteria. However, since the onset of...
Sheep and the Australian Cinema by Deb Verhoeven Ross Gibson November 2006 Book Reviews Some readers will have encountered portions of Deb Verhoeven’s book scattered through time and across the publishing landscape, in the form of several...
Jean Vigo by Michael Temple Patrick Ellis November 2006 Book Reviews Accompanying the Jean-Luc Godard show at the Centre Georges Pompidou – detailed last issue by Alex Munt – is an exhibition catalogue co-edited by Mich...
Icons of Grief: Val Lewton’s Home Front Pictures by Alexander Nemerov Saige Walton November 2006 Book Reviews In Bedlam (Mark Robson, 1946), Val Lewton’s last production for RKO-Radio Pictures, there is a justly famous sequence in which a young boy – his body ...
Ghouls, Gimmicks and Gold: Horror Films and the American Movie Business, 1953-1968 by Kevin Heffernan Louise Sheedy November 2006 Book Reviews If one of the benchmarks for the success of a historical analysis is its conceptual transferability onto contemporary situations, then Kevin Heffernan...
Grizzly Man Chris Justice November 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film Grizzly Man (2005 USA 104 mins) Prod Co: Discovery Docs Prod: Erik Nelson Dir, Scr: Werner Herzog Phot: Peter Zeitlinger Ed: Joe Bini Mus: Rich...
The Lady in Red: Jezebel Peter H. Kemp November 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film Jezebel (1938 USA 103 mins) Prod Co: Warner Bros. Dir, Prod: William Wyler Scr: Robert Buckner, Abem Finkel, John Huston, Clements Ripley, adap...
Now, Voyager Dana Polan November 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film Now, Voyager (1942 USA 117 mins) Prod Co: Warner Bros. Prod: Hal B. Wallis Dir: Irving Rapper Scr: Casey Robinson, based on the novel by Olive ...
Of Human Bondage Darragh O’Donoghue November 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film Of Human Bondage (1934 USA 88 mins) Prod Co: RKO Prod: Pandro S. Berman Dir: John Cromwell Scr: Lester Cohen from the novel by W. Somerset Maug...
Auntie Dearest: Mothers, Daughters and The Old Maid David Melville November 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Old Maid (1939 USA 95 mins) Prod Co: Warner Bros. Dir: Edmund Goulding Scr: Casey Robinson, based on the play by Zoe Akins and the novella ...
Running out of Time David Sanjek November 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film Running out of Time (1999 Hong Kong 93 mins) Prod Co: Milky Way Image Dir: Johnnie To Scr: Julien Carbon, Laurent Courtiaud, Nai-Hoi Yau Phot: ...
The Silent Village Adrian Danks November 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Silent Village (1943 Britain 36 mins) Prod Co: Crown Film Unit Prod, Dir, Scr: Humphrey Jennings Phot: Chick Fowle Ed: Stuart McAllister So...
Images from the End of the World: Notes on Werner Herzog’s La Soufrière Adam Bingham November 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film La Soufrière (1976 West Germany 33 mins) Prod Co: Werner Herzog Filmproduktion Prod, Dir: Werner Herzog Phot: Ed Lachman, Jörg Schmidt-Reitwein...
Went the Day Well? Jonathan Dawson November 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film Went the Day Well? (1943 UK 92 mins) Prod Co: Ealing Studios Prod: Michael Balcon Dir: Alberto Cavalcanti Scr: John Dighton, Diana Morgan, Angu...
L’Atalante Wendy Haslem November 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film L’Atalante (1934 France 89 mins) Prod Co: Gaumont-Franco-Film-Aubert Prod: Jacques-Louis Nounez Dir: Jean Vigo Scr: Jean Vigo, Albert Rièra, fr...
Effi Briest: Beyond Adultery Christa Lang Fuller November 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film Effi Briest (1974 West Germany 140 mins) Prod Co: Tango Film Prod, Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Scr: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, from the novel ...
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? Tony Williams November 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962 USA 132 mins) Prod Co: Associates and Aldrich/Seven Arts/Warner Bros. Prod, Dir: Robert Aldrich Scr: Luk...
Some Thoughts on Effi Briest Ulli Lommel November 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film Effi Briest (1974 West Germany 140 mins) Prod Co: Tango Film Prod, Dir: Rainer Werner Fassbinder Scr: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, from the novel ...
A Canterbury Tale Tamara Tracz November 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film This annotation previously appeared in Senses of Cinema, no. 36, Jul–Sept 2005. A Canterbury Tale (1944 UK 124 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: ...
My Best Fiend Antonia Shanahan November 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film This annotation previously appeared in Senses of Cinema, no. 19, 2002, and Issue 41, 2006. My Best Fiend (1999 Germany 98 mins) Source: ACMI/NL...
La Glace à trois faces Brad Weismann November 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film La Glace à trois faces (1927 France 31 mins) Prod Co: Les Films Jean Epstein Dir: Jean Epstein Scr: Jean Epstein, adapted from the novel by Pau...
Adieu, Eric Rohmer Rolando Caputo and Michelle Carey April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Co-editors’ introduction to this commemorative issue on Eric Rohmer.
When Rohmer Was Making ‘Silent Films’ Jackie Raynal with Berenice Reynaud April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Like many of his collaborators, filmmaker Jackie Raynal was present at the Cinémathèque Française’s memorial homage to Rohmer earlier this year. Sparked by the occasion, she looks back at her time with Rohmer in this heartfelt reminiscence.
New Interview with Eric Rohmer Pascal Bonitzer, Jean-Louis Comolli, Serge Daney and Jean Narboni April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers A landmark interview originally published in Cahiers du cinéma in 1970. The journal was in the midst of its Marxist/Leninist era, while Rohmer's Bazinian idealism was vindicated by the success of My Night at Maud’s. A fascinating joust between two entirely opposed views of the cinema
Eric Rohmer’s Place de l’Étoile Luc Moullet April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Fellow critic and filmmaker Luc Moullet gives due consideration to Rohmer’s sketch in Paris vu par… highlighting its fidelity to location.
Secrets and Lies: Three Documentaries About Eric Rohmer Bruce Perkins April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Rohmer was himself a private and reserved individual who, more often that not, shunned the spotlight. Bruce Perkins examines three documentaries on the filmmaker, and concludes that together they offer as vivid and multi-dimensional a portrait of Rohmer as we can wish for.
Eric Rohmer, Educator Alain Hertay April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Former pupil and author of a study on Rohmer, Alain Hertay, offers a reflection on the short films Rohmer made for educational television.
Cinema and the Classroom: Education in the Work of Eric Rohmer Darragh O’Donoghue April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers In both content and form, a strong pedagogical endeavour has informed the work of Rohmer throughout his career. Darragh O’Donoghue discusses this inclination, focusing on some of the earlier shorts and made-for-television documentaries.
The Sign of the Map: Cartographic Reading and Le signe du lion Roland-François Lack April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers The topographical tracings of Rohmer’s feature debut reveal a dual motif: the cartographic and the photographic. Roland-François Lack’s insightful essay meticulously traces the unfolding of this dual motif.
La collectionneuse: Dandies on the Côte d’Azur Jacob Leigh April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Jacob Leigh looks into both the production history and the general cultural influences that inform Rohmer’s first-produced but fourth listed of the feature length ‘Moral Tales’.
Night Moves Around Maud Bruce Jackson April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Arthur Penn’s 1975 detective thriller contains one of the most noted of references to My Night a Maud’s, but as Bruce Jackson argues, it is more than just a token nod.
Choice and Chance: A Dialectic of Morality and Romance in Eric Rohmer’s My Night at Maud’s Constantine Santas April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Love, morality, fidelity and chance crystallised around Pascal’s ‘wager’. Taken by many to be the key film of the ‘Six Moral Tales’ series, the fascination of this film has not receded with time. Constantine Santas unravels the film’s thematics.
The Roving ‘I’: Ambiguous Subjectivity in Eric Rohmer’s ‘Six Moral Tales’ Karen Goodman April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Karen Goodman examines the nature of desire and subjectivity, both male and female, in Rohmer’s first great series of films.
The Tale of Perceval le Gallois and the Young Althusserians Daniel Fairfax April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Infused with artifice, Rohmer’s remarkable adaptation of Chrétien de Troyes’ 12th-century verse poem marked a temporary radical shift in style for the filmmaker. But why? Daniel Fairfax looks for answers in the light of post-68 French film theory.
Love and Desire in Eric Rohmer’s ‘Comedies and Proverbs’ and ‘Tales of the Four Seasons’ Fiona Handyside April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Much of Rohmer’s ‘80s and ‘90s work concerns the myriad of amorous choices his modern heroines face. Moreover, Fiona Handyside argues, they form a meta-text on the representation of love through the ages.
Following The Law of One’s Own Being: The Crying Woman in The Green Ray Tony McKibbin April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers A discursive exploration on the philosophic significance of the figure of ‘the crying woman’ in this most radiant of films.
Short Take Tributes on Rohmer Various. April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers A selection of individual tributes and short essays by Terry Ballard, Adam Bingham, Conall Cash, John Conomos, David F. Coursen, Adrian Danks, Linda Ehrlich, and Wheeler Winston Dixon.
Reworking Romanticism: Paul Cox’s Man of Flowers Victoria Duckett December 2009 Paul Cox Dossier, Special Dossiers Let us not say, “If only the texts were richer, the witnesses more loquacious, the confessions more detailed!” Don’t we seem today to have everything ...
Paul Cox: An Appreciation Roger Ebert December 2009 Paul Cox Dossier, Special Dossiers I believe the first film by Paul Cox I saw was Man of Flowers (1983), at the 1984 Chicago Film Festival. The next year, My First Wife (1984). I heard ...
Ardea Paul Carter December 2009 Paul Cox Dossier, Special Dossiers Ardea cinerea is the scientific name of the Grey Heron found in Europe. In Human Touch (2004) a heron alights for a moment on a stone basin in the gar...
The Persistent Maverick Maria Stratford December 2009 Paul Cox Dossier, Special Dossiers “I find living itself quite difficult so you may as well make it more difficult by doing something crazy.” - Paul Cox (1) Paul Cox has been making...
A Collaboration Between Two Artists Asher Bilu December 2009 Paul Cox Dossier, Special Dossiers My work with Paul Cox as Production Designer has been successful, I believe, because we have much in common. On the surface, our backgrounds are simil...
Idiosyncrasy and Film Alexander Garcia Duttmann December 2009 Paul Cox Dossier, Special Dossiers 1. If I had to choose a motto for Paul Cox’s films, no motto would seem more appropriate to me than the phrase: “For people who like that sort of thin...
To the point on point Chris Haywood December 2009 Paul Cox Dossier, Special Dossiers “Paulus Henrikus Benidictus Cox”: the name triggers images of a character from some historical tale by Umberto Eco. From my experiences of collaborati...
On The Beach (Stanley Kramer, 1959, USA) Deane Williams September 2009 Key Moments in Australian Cinema, Special Dossiers
Strike Me Lucky (Ken G. Hall, 1934) Lesley Speed September 2009 Key Moments in Australian Cinema, Special Dossiers
Wolf Creek (Greg Mclean, 2005) William “Bill” Blick September 2009 Key Moments in Australian Cinema, Special Dossiers
On the Home Front: Newsfront (Phillip Noyce, 1978) Adrian Danks September 2009 Key Moments in Australian Cinema, Special Dossiers
Intervention: Katherine, NT (Julie Nimmo, 2008) Dugald Williamson September 2009 Key Moments in Australian Cinema, Special Dossiers
Romper Stomper (Geoffrey Wright, 1992) Lucille Paterson September 2009 Key Moments in Australian Cinema, Special Dossiers
“Take it all off baby, take it all off” – The Australian Kamasutra: Love Serenade (Shirley Barrett, 1996) Catherine Simpson August 2009 Key Moments in Australian Cinema, Special Dossiers
Moving through the Absence: Viviane Vagh’s Ground Zero NY, 2005 Diana Gonzalez July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh From there, faced with these large frescoes, the feeling of the past being wiped away, of its disappearing and the impression of ruins: of traces of...
Notes on Free Women/Femmes libres Grant Wiedenfeld July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh In a field dominated by intellectual showmanship and hermetic eccentricity, Viviane Vagh’s filmmaking speaks with a voice as familiar as it is poe...
Magical Transformations: A Conversation with Viviane Vagh Justine Gaunt July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh “There are lots of different identities in my genes”, says Viviane Vagh. We speak on the ’phone, she in Paris, me in Yorkshire, but either of us c...
Viviane Vagh and the Poetics of Disappearance, Or: A Portrait of Cinema as a Young Girl Gabriela Trujillo July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh A young girl on a sunny day. Gracefully, she comes and goes. Does she know she’s being filmed? Does she know that, as her image multiplies on the ...
Experimental Fusions: Viviane Vagh’s Beachcombers Installations Romy Sutherland July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh Viviane Vagh’s absorbing installation series, “Beachcombers”, is a celebration of fusion. Vagh explores the meeting points of natural elements, su...
Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Australia John Hughes July 2009 MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers The new feature documentary scheduled for release at the Melbourne International Film Festival this year, Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Austra...
Memories are Made of This: Bill Morrison’s The Film of Her Ursula Böser November 2006 Special Dossiers, The Films of Bill Morrison An essay on one of Morrison’s classic found-footage documentaries. A story of ‘forgotten films’ and ‘forgotten careers’, and the dynamics of remembering.
Trajectories of Decay: An Interview with Bill Morrison Maximilian Le Cain and Barry Ronan November 2006 Special Dossiers, The Films of Bill Morrison Bill Morrison is one of the most distinctive voices in the independent film scene. On the occasion of a retrospective of his films at the Cork Film Festival in Ireland, he speaks about the practice of his found-footage æsthetic.
Modernity and the Film Exhibition Industry in Gippsland: The Glover Family Business 1926-1973 Anne Helen Wilson November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers Marshall Berman claims that modernity “pours us all into a maelstrom of perpetual disintegration and renewal” (1). This article contends that succ...
From Colonial Film Commissioner to Political Pariah: Joris Ivens and the Making of Indonesia Calling Drew Cottle and Angela Keys November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers Appointed Film Commissioner of The Netherlands East Indies on 28 September 1944, in September and October of the following year Joris Ivens direct...
“The Illusion of Magnitude”: Adapting the Epic from Film to Television Djoymi Baker November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers When Giuseppe de Liguoro’s Homer’s Odyssey (1910) was released in the U.S. in 1912, a review in The Moving Picture World praised it for beginning ...
Rethinking Transnational Cinema: The Case of Tamil Cinema Vijay Devadas November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers In a special issue of the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies, Steven Vertovec suggests that, while there have been a variety of uptakes on transnat...
“Caught Between Poetry and Censorship”: The Influence of State Regulation and Sufi Poeticism on Contemporary Iranian Cinema Rosa Holman November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers Since the early 1990s, contemporary Iranian cinema, with its culture of auteurism and poetic consciousness, has continued to inspire lively critic...
Quasi-Documentary, Cellflix and Web Spoofs: Chinese Movies’ Other Visual Pleasures Paola Voci November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers In China, as elsewhere, new locations and new media have redefined the experience of watching a moving image, beyond the cinematic experience. (1)...
Re-designing the Past Imperfect: The Making of Hunt Angels Alec Morgan November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers Our visions of history are drawn from diverse sources: not just from the narratives of history books but also from photographs and historical novels...
Pretending to be Himself: Graham Kennedy, Television, Film and Authenticity Susan Bye November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers It could be argued that Graham Kennedy was the star that Australian television just had to have. The mythology built up around him has required, a...
Eisenstein and his Method: Recent Publications in Russia Julia Vassilieva November 2006 Film & History Conference Papers A self diminished to its part becomes a monster. - Marina Tsvetaeva, 1932 In 1998, the world celebrated the centenary of Sergei M. Eisenstein, fam...
Mt. Head: Koji Yamamura Animation Works (Geneon Entertainment) Paul Jackson November 2006 DVD Reviews DVD: Geneon Entertainment (Japan). Language: Japanese with English Subtitles. Ratio: 4:1. Length: 79.00. Region: 2. * * * When discussed in the ...
Toni (Masters of Cinema) Michael Campi November 2006 DVD Reviews The striking series of DVD releases from Masters of Cinema celebrates an eclectic mix of directors and genres. Cinéphiles should rejoice that there ar...
The Films of Su Friedrich (Outcast Films) William C. Wees November 2006 DVD Reviews Five disc DVD: Volume I: The Ties That Bind (1984, 55 mins, black and white, 16mm, sound), The Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire, Too (1993, 55 mins, colo...
