Welcome to Issue 68 of our journal the editors September 2013 Editorial When writing on the modern figure of the flâneur, Charles Baudelaire’s description sometimes gives this figure of the city-stroller making his way down the boulevards of 19th Century Paris the attributes of a c...
Abel Ferrara: Filming (on) the Wild Side (of New York) Philippe Met September 2013 Feature Articles “ New York City is the place where they said Hey babe, take a walk on the wild side ” –Lou Reed, Walk on the Wild Side, 1972 Irrespective of his st...
Nick’s Movies Blaine Allan September 2013 Feature Articles Jonathan Rosenbaum recently offered some useful, brief observations on two versions of Nicholas Ray’s last film, a collaboration with Wim Wenders. (1)...
Gazes of Evasion: Simon Curtis’ My Week with Marilyn Sarah Pines September 2013 Feature Articles Is there really nothing in Simon Curtis’ film My Week with Marilyn (2011) that we did not know already about Marilyn Monroe? Apart from Michelle Willi...
The Ethics of the ‘Listening Eye’: Exploring the Critical Excesses of Iranian ‘Social Films’ Keyvan Manafi September 2013 Feature Articles ‘Social films’ (Film-e ejtema'i), understood in Iranian film reviews and journalistic discourse as socio-politically committed films characterized by ...
Urban Modernity and Fluctuating Time: “Catching the Tempo” of the 1920s City Symphony Films Sarah Jilani September 2013 Feature Articles Writing in 1926, Virginia Woolf expressed a certain suspicion that, if anywhere, "the past could be unrolled, distances annihilated in the chaos of t...
The Ideal Candidate: Solaris as Philosophical Riddle Box Derek Dubois September 2013 Feature Articles Well-reviewed in its time, Steven Soderbergh’s 2002 film Solaris placed a paltry 124th on the US box office for the year and its total gross amounted ...
24 Tweets Per Second: A Dialogue on Jorge Lorenzo’s On the Road by Jack Kerouac Dirk de Bruyn and Steven McIntyre September 2013 Feature Articles Jorge Lorenzo Flores Garza’s On the Road by Jack Kerouac had its Australian premiere in July this year at the Walker Street Gallery in Melbourne. It s...
Crime Scenes in Suburbia Jason Coyle September 2013 Feature Articles In The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard describes enclosed light viewed from a distance as an image of refuge for those who have been travelling. Th...
Jewish Streetscapes: Ken Jacobs in Lower Manhattan Federico Windhausen September 2013 Feature Articles Tightly knit and momentarily coherent within its own perimeter, the Lower East Side nevertheless represented an experiment in collective rootlessness,...
A Tribute to Jonathan (Jono) Dawson Adrian Danks September 2013 Feature Articles At the end of Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil (1958), Marlene Dietrich’s Tana wearily intones an epitaph for Orson Welles’ Hank Quinlan, a bloated, corrup...
Now We are 60: Where are We? The 60th Sydney Film Festival Dee Jefferson September 2013 Festival Reports Unless you’ve worked inside the machine, it’s impossible to be aware of, let alone understand, the politics of the modern film festival. But it’s impo...
Post-Soviet Bloc Partying West of the East and East of the West, Into and Out of the Past: The 48th Karlovy Vary and the 4th Odessa International Film Festival Cerise Howard September 2013 Festival Reports Mine was at least a twofold purpose for flying half way around the world to the far west late this June just passed. Long had I wanted to make my way ...
The Body in and of History: The 66th Locarno Film Festival Jaimey Fisher September 2013 Festival Reports Midway through the 2013 Locarno Festival, celebrated Georgian director Otar Iosseliani made headlines by exposing a normally veiled aspect of the fest...
How Does it Survive?: The 10th Beijing Independent Film Festival Lydia Wu September 2013 Festival Reports In late 2011, when I was about to start my PhD research on Chinese independent film festivals, I paid my first visit to the Li Xianting Film Fund loca...
“Modern Love”: The 63rd Melbourne International Film Festival Eloise Ross September 2013 Festival Reports After the opening night choice of Los amantes pasajeros (I’m so Excited!), which enthusiastically promised the complexities of a Pedro Almodóvar scrip...
A Model Shop for Retrieved Cinema: The 27th Cinema Ritrovato Peter Hourigan September 2013 Festival Reports Anouk Aimée, as Lola in Jacques Demy’s Model Shop (1969), sunglasses against the strong Los Angeles light, was the signature image of this year’s Il C...
Bouzid, Nouri Martin Stollery September 2013 Great Directors b. 1945, Sfax, Tunisia Nouri Bouzid is Tunisia’s most prominent and prolific filmmaker. In a small nation, with limited production opportunities, Bou...
The Adventure of the Real: Jean Rouch and the Craft of Ethnographic Cinema by Paul Henley Rina Sherman September 2013 Book Reviews “I was trained by people who were important researchers and who were at the same time great poets.” - Jean Rouch in an interview with Enrico Fulchign...
Fascism in Italian Cinema since 1945: The Politics and Aesthetics of Memory by Giacomo Lichtner Giacomo Boitani September 2013 Book Reviews Postwar neorealism is often and rightfully framed as the cinematic phenomenon that shaped the course of Italian film for the rest of the 20th century;...
T For True Matthew Asprey Gear September 2013 Book Reviews Bewildered by false tales circulating about his life, Orson Welles once came to a general conclusion: "I don't think history can possibly be tru...
First Comes Love, then Comes Marriage… then What?: I Do and I Don’t: a History of Marriage in the Movies by Jeanine Basinger Jude Warne September 2013 Book Reviews “The more I studied it, the more I realized that although marriage was indeed a very difficult topic to locate and identify in movies, its history was...
A School for Everyone. Alain Badiou’s Cinema Daniele Rugo September 2013 Book Reviews In the interview that opens the volume of Alain Badiou’s contributions to the philosophical exploration of cinema, the philosopher says “the cinema ha...
This Was Now: Camera Historica by Antoine de Baecque Tony McKibbin September 2013 Book Reviews When we think of cinema filming history perhaps our default position is to imagine Ben Hur (Wyler, 1959) and Spartacus (Kubrick, 1960) through to Ride...
Postcolonial Cinema Studies, edited by Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller Kate Balsley September 2013 Book Reviews In the introduction to Postcolonial Cinema Studies editors Sandra Ponzanesi and Marguerite Waller acknowledge the fact that postcolonial cinema cannot...
More Rapture! The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies and What They Did To Us by David Thomson Richard Martin September 2013 Book Reviews When I was halfway through reading David Thomson’s new book, I saw Vincente Minnelli’s musical The Band Wagon (1953) in Potsdamer Platz, Berlin. It fe...
Toward an Aesthetic of Displacement in Ana Vaz’s Sacris Pulso Oana Chivoiu September 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film In 2007, when young and talented director Ana Vaz was a student at RMIT University in Melbourne she debuted with the experimental short film Sacris Pu...
Seventy Years Ago… The Return of The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Ian Christie September 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Forty years ago… forty years ago” is the ghostly refrain that accompanies the old Blimp General Wynne-Candy falling into a pool in the Turkish bath o...
The Big Parade Tony Williams September 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Viewing The Big Parade 88 years after its initial release, and 25 years following its inclusion in my upper-level course on the war film, elicited com...
Dekalog, jeden Michael Da Silva September 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film When Roger Ebert taught Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Dekalog (The Decalogue, 1989) at the University of Chicago, he had difficulties pairing the Ten Command...
Dekalog, pięć Michael Da Silva September 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film The lawyer (and future Polish senator) Krzysztof Piesiewicz met the director Krzysztof Kieślowski while the latter was shooting a documentary on the c...
The Host: The Monster Emerging From the han Beata Lukasiak September 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film “We Koreans were born from the womb of han, and brought up in the womb of han.” – Korean poet Ko Eun (1) Han is a distinctly Korean concept that per...
“The temperate zone’: Humphrey Jennings’ Words for Battle Adrian Danks September 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Words for Battle (1941) is the first of Humphrey Jennings’ extraordinary string of wartime documentaries to fully extend the parameters, conventions a...
Free Fall: Lipsett is the Shaman, Film is the Ritual Amelia Does August 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film Arthur Lipsett’s nine-minute experimental film Free Fall (1964) is exemplary of what might be considered both an artistic and a spiritual project. Alt...
The Crowd Bruce Hodsdon August 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Crowd (1928) was both a groundbreaking and courageous film for a major director to initiate at MGM in the pre-Depression era – a big budget produc...
The Decalogue 6 Carlota Larrea August 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film The link between Dekalog, sześć (The Decalogue 6, 1989) and the 6th commandment (“Thou shall not commit adultery”) is tentative, as it is in many of t...
The Mistress and the Actress: Marion Davies in The Patsy Shari Kizirian August 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film A black sheep with blonde hair, Patsy Harrington has a crush. The younger sister of the social-climbing Grace who, abetted by a single-minded mother a...
The Smell of Burning Ants Holly Willis August 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film In 1994, a 22-minute film appeared that at once announced a new, prodigious filmmaking talent and helped bring renewed attention to serious short-form...
Scary Monsters (and Super Tramps) – Beyond the Forest David Melville August 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film The King Vidor/Bette Davis melodrama Beyond the Forest (1949) is mostly remembered today for a single line of dialogue. Davis – miscast as a frustrate...
The Fountainhead Dan Shaw August 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film From Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to Dave, most mainstream Hollywood films that deal with politics have delivered a populist message. Not so with the ...
A Diary for Timothy Darragh O’Donoghue August 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Before the forces which lie dormant in the pale and wistful face of a little child.” (1) A Diary for Timothy (Humphrey Jennings, 1945) is an account...
