Welcome to Issue 56 of our journal the editors October 2010 Editorial In dreams I walk with you In dreams I talk to you In dreams you're mine all of the time We're together in dreams, in dream –Roy Orbison, “In Dreams” Were dreams the “virtual worlds” of a previous era? Or a...
“Films are vulgar. And this vulgarity, I love it”: An Interview with Arnaud Desplechin Marko Bauer October 2010 Feature Articles In this free-form interview the director of A Christmas Tale, King and Queens, amongst others, discusses everything from Truffaut and Godard, Stanley Cavell and disaster movies, Nietzsche and Italo Calvino, Jean Gabin and hip-hop, and more.
Questerbert on Moullet: An Interview with Marie-Christine Questerbert Sally Shafto October 2010 Feature Articles Student of philosophy, traveller, actress maudit and filmmaker, Marie-Christine Questerbert, who appeared in Moullet’s Une Aventure de Billy le Kid (1971) and Anatomy of a Relationship (1975), discusses her life and career, and the travails of working with one of France’s more eccentric directors.
Feed Me Grapes Murray Pomerance October 2010 Feature Articles In the light of Alain Della Negra and Kaori Kinoshita’s documentary, The Cat, The Reverend and the Slave, Murray Pomerance takes pause to reflect on the subject of that documentary, the “virtual world” found in the game called Second Life.
Desiring-Machines in American Cinema: What Inception tells us about our experience of reality and film Ian Alan Paul October 2010 Feature Articles “The release of Inception marks another entry into the plethora of films of the last decade revolving around themes of simulation and meta-reality.” Ian Alan Paul looks at what is distinctive in Christopher Nolan’s take on the reality/illusion paradigm.
World on a Wire: Reality is Colder than Fiction Celluloid Liberation Front October 2010 Feature Articles Often overlooked in R.W. Fassbinder’s filmography, his 1973 made for television adaptation of Daniel F. Galouye’s science fiction novel, The Counterfeit World, where “projections resemble reality”, looks more prescient than ever.
The Illusionist David Bellos October 2010 Feature Articles The Illusionist is an animated feature based on a Jacques Tati script that dates back to the late fifties. Tati biographer David Bellos examines the incompatibility of Tati ‘s world put to animated use.
The Skladanowsky Brothers: The Devil Knows Stephen Barber October 2010 Feature Articles Like Thomas Edison, the Lumiere Brothers, and many others, Berlin based pioneers the Skladanowsky Brothers stake a claim in the amorphous origins of the cinema. Stephen Barber chronicles the vicissitudes of a fascinating career.
Iván Zulueta’s Cinephilia of Ecstasy and Experiment Matt Losada October 2010 Feature Articles Little known outside his homeland, Spanish filmmaker and visual artist Iván Zulueta’s career spanned the Franco and post-Franco era. In that time he made a range of experimental, underground films. Matthew Losada brings to light the artist’s life and work.
Z man, or: how do you solve a problem like Rico Ilarde – (A horror filmmaker? An indie artist? Pinoy? Pinoy?)? Noel Vera October 2010 Feature Articles Where does Rico Ilarde sit in the Filipino film scene? And, how does one account for the myriad of influences (cinematic and cultural) that course through his films? Noel Vera provides an indepth auteurist study.
Rules of the Game: Watching the World Cup Final in a Tehran Cinema Ehsan Khoshbakht October 2010 Feature Articles Spain v. Holland projected on to a movie screen reveals the “audience’s bare face” in a way that is lost to spectators at a movie.
Cocksucker Blues: The Rolling Stones and Some Notes on Robert Frank Stephen Gaunson October 2010 Feature Articles The recent release of the Stones remastered early seventies album, Exile on Main Street, has occasioned the resurfacing of all manner of detritus from the era. Stephen Gaunson sifts through the intersecting careers of the band and fabled photographer/filmmaker Robert Frank.
How to Change the World: An Interview with Leo Berkeley Jake Wilson October 2010 Feature Articles Once, and appropriately, Melbourne based filmmaker Leo Berkeley went under the moniker of “last of the independents”. Having shaped a decades-long body of work on the fringes of the industry, he talks at length about the filmmaking principles that inform his work.
“A Gentle Voice in a Noisy Room”: An Interview with New Zealand Filmmaker Gaylene Preston Mary M. Wiles October 2010 Feature Articles Attentive to oral histories, Gaylene Preston has fashioned a distinctive body of work over the course of decades, inclusive of her most recent film Home by Christmas, a companion piece to her 1995 documentary War Stories Our Mothers Never Told Us.
The 16th Media City: International Festival of Film and Video Paul Breschuk October 2010 Festival Reports A big festival in a small town, Media City 2010 stretched across four nights with works from 17 different countries. And, as in recent years, the Wind...
Tweets in the Dark: The 13th Revelation Perth International Film Festival Damien Spiccia October 2010 Festival Reports During his opening night address that officially set this year’s Revelation in motion, festival chairman Richard Sowada informed the packed auditorium...
Ambling Along The Long Horizon of History: The 24th Il Cinema Ritrovato David Sanjek October 2010 Festival Reports The Cineteca del Comune di Bologna is located in a residential portion of the city, down a side street and then within a lovely, small piazza. The fac...
Branding Representations: What Dokufest Has To Say About Reinventing Tradition: The 9th International Documentary and Short Film Festival (Dokufest) Ivana Novak October 2010 Festival Reports The audience – predominantly local youth from 20 to 30 years of age, with some international guests amongst them – sits in front of the outdoor screen...
The Black Hole in the Summer Carnival: The 45th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival Bill Mousoulis October 2010 Festival Reports My first visit to this festival, I found the spa town setting most uninspiring: it was like a summer carnival – a river, food stalls, a rock stage, a ...
The Little Tramp in the Big House: The 2010 Killruddery Film Festival Darragh O’Donoghue October 2010 Festival Reports In the silent era, the movies became such a popular phenomenon that special halls were built to house them, nicknamed “picture palaces”. So it is not ...
The Moment of Mythodrama: the 64th Edinburgh International Film Festival John Orr October 2010 Festival Reports This year’s Edinburgh International Film Festival had its best opening night in years. Not in a regular cinema but in the city’s historic Festival The...
In The Submarine: The 2010 Melbourne International Film Festival Jake Wilson October 2010 Festival Reports Another Opening, Another Show In Joe Dante’s satirical Small Soldiers (1998), a range of high-tech action figures is marketed under the slogan “Eve...
Bergman, Skolimowski and European Modernism: Ingmar Bergman’s The Silence: Pictures in the Typewriter, Writers on the Screen by Maaret Koskinen Jerzy Skolimowski: The Cinema of a Nonconformist by Ewa Mazierska John Orr October 2010 Book Reviews The cinematic legacy of European modernism is both fascinating and elusive. Not least because the term modernism itself means so many things to so man...
Almodrama and the Aesthetics of Excess: Latin American Melodrama: Passion, Pathos and Entertainment edited by Darlene J. Sadlier All About Almodóvar: A Passion for Cinema edited by Brad Epps and Despina Kakoudaki David Melville October 2010 Book Reviews Pick up the two books and hold one in each hand. Just looking, you can learn a lot. Latin American Melodrama is a slender, grey volume, barely thicker...
Richard Lester by Neil Sinyard David Sanjek October 2010 Book Reviews How do you solve a problem like Richard Lester? Typically, analysts have taken one or another extreme position: either to extol the American-born, lon...
The British “B’’ Film by Stephen Chibnall and Brian McFarlane Geoff Mayer October 2010 Book Reviews This valuable resource book begins in London, in late September 1960, where two films were shooting at Pinewood Studios. One was the notorious 20th Ce...
Conversations with Directors: An Anthology of Interviews from Literature/Film Quarterly edited by Elsie M. Walker and David T. Johnson Gozde Kilic October 2010 Book Reviews In Conversations with Directors, Elsie Walker and David Johnson bring together a collection of 26 interviews with a wide range of directors from vario...
Centre Stage Tony Williams October 2010 CTEQ Annotations on Film Winner of many awards at national and international film festivals and the subject of several articles and one monograph – by Mette Hjort – in Hong Ko...
Irma Vep John Fidler October 2010 CTEQ Annotations on Film With its rapid cuts, roaming camera, passel of characters (some of them so pitiful they seem always in need of a hug or maybe a swat on the behind), s...
In the Mood for Love Carla Marcantonio October 2010 CTEQ Annotations on Film I would like to start at the end: Fa yeung nin wa’s (In the Mood for Love) male lead, Chow Mo-wan (Tony Leung Chiu Wai), whispers a secret into a hole...
Song of the Exile Audrey Yue October 2010 CTEQ Annotations on Film Ke tu qiu hen (Song of the Exile), based on director Ann Hui’s semi-autobiographical story, traces the post-World War II life of a Japanese woman marr...
The 10th District Court: Moments of Trials Michael Da Silva October 2010 CTEQ Annotations on Film The 10th District Court fascinates less as a legal experience (although I’d love to watch this movie through a lawyer’s eyes) and more as an ethnograp...
The End of Innocence: Ernst Lubitsch’s The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg Adrian Danks October 2010 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg is one of Lubitsch’s most surprising, nostalgic and emotionally engaging films. It represents a “return to German...
One Hour With You Wheeler Winston Dixon October 2010 CTEQ Annotations on Film One Hour With You is one of Ernst Lubitsch’s most effervescent and sophisticated comedies, and easily ranks up there with the director’s best works, i...
Madame Dubarry Shari Kizirian October 2010 CTEQ Annotations on Film History weighs heavy around the pretty neck of Madame Dubarry. The story of a young grisette in a Paris hat shop who coquettes her way to the top, it ...
Kohlhiesels Töchter and Schuhpalast Pinkus Michael Koller October 2010 CTEQ Annotations on Film Ernst Lubitsch’s meteoric German career spanned ten years, with him acting in about a dozen films before directing several dozen shorts and twelve fea...
Broken Lullaby Pasquale Iannone October 2010 CTEQ Annotations on Film In his 1993 biography Ernst Lubitsch: Trouble in Paradise, Scott Eyman argues that the term “The Lubitsch Touch” is “as insultingly superficial a sobr...
Beginnings Louise Sheedy October 2010 CTEQ Annotations on Film Upon its release, Beginnings screened to “full houses over a week at Glenn College Lecture Hall, subsequently the Carlton Theatre and to various trad...
Arts Vietnam: A Protest to Stop the War Louise Sheedy October 2010 CTEQ Annotations on Film The anxious, discordant strings that accompany the blackness that opens Arts Vietnam: A Protest to Stop the War set up an uneasy relationship between ...
The Phantom Carriage Darragh O’Donoghue October 2010 CTEQ Annotations on Film Lawyer: “Those are life’s little difficulties, you see!” - August Strindberg, A Dream Play (1901) When Ingmar Bergman wanted to recreate the late 19...
Introduction Adrian Danks October 2010 Arthur and Corinne Cantrill Dossier Arthur (1938-) and Corinne Cantrill (1928-) started their extraordinary filmmaking careers in 1960, and remain two of the most significant and product...
Voice of the Grain: Films by Arthur and Corinne Cantrill Jake Wilson October 2010 Arthur and Corinne Cantrill Dossier This essay originally appeared on the website of the Australian Centre for the Moving Image, and was written to accompany the retrospective “Grain Of ...
Kine-Calligraphy For A New Era: Cantrills Expanded Cinema 1971/2006/2009 Otherfilm October 2010 Arthur and Corinne Cantrill Dossier Artists, experimental filmmakers, poets and their associates have a covert history of exploration beyond the standard arrangement of audience, beam an...
Waterfall Michael Koller October 2010 Arthur and Corinne Cantrill Dossier This article was first published in Cinema Papers no. 102, December 1994, pp. 10-11. It is reproduced here with the kind permission of the author. ...
Time’s Relentless Melt: Corinne Cantrill’s In This Life’s Body Freda Freiberg October 2010 Arthur and Corinne Cantrill Dossier This article was first published in the groundbreaking Don’t Shoot Darling! Women’s Independent Filmmaking in Australia (Greenhouse Publications, Rich...
Turning and Unfolding: Personal Reflections on Cantrills Filmnotes Steven Ball October 2010 Arthur and Corinne Cantrill Dossier The trouble with archives is their lack of completeness. The mal d’archive, the archive fever that troubled Freud as explicated by Derrida (1), is in ...
