Chimes at Midnight Darragh O’Donoghue February 2006 CTEQ Annotations on Film Chimes at Midnight/Campanadas a medianoche/Falstaff (1966 Spain/Switzerland 119 mins) Source: NFSA Prod Co: Alpine Films/Internacional Films Prod: Ángel Escolano, Emiliano Piedra Dir: Orson Welles Scr: O...
Corman, Roger Wheeler Winston Dixon February 2006 Great Directors b. Roger William Corman b. April 5, 1926, Detroit, Michigan, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources Along with John Cassavetes, Roger Corman was one of the first Am...
Shepperton Babylon by Matthew Sweet Daniel Gritten February 2006 Book Reviews The rediscovery of British cinema is underway. The BBC’s recent series The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon was an admirable success. Modules on the native film industry are a staple component of most film stu...
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.
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 her report on the 52nd Melbourne International Film Festival t...
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 19th year as the leading showcase for film restoration. From ...
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 Scr: Edward E. Paramore, Jr., based on the novel by Grace Zari...
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: Mel Dinelli, from the novel by A. P. Herbert Phot: Edward Cron...
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) The action film is probably the genre most associated wit...
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 Web Resources The critic J. Hoberman once described the Tu...
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 as then that I began a first draft of my idea for Shampoo. B...
Easy on the Relish: Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival 2005 Brandon Wee July 2005 Festival Reports April 22–May 1, 2005 The festival’s publicity posters are modest but striking, and volunteer a definition of “documentary”. Like Mark Rothko tableaus, thin blocks of text hang over dominating fields of...
Video as a Subversive Art: The 48th San Francisco International Film Festival Brian Darr July 2005 Festival Reports April 21–May 5, 2005 Film societies must remain at least one step ahead of their audiences and must not permit themselves to be pulled down to the level of the lowest common denominator in the audience, ...
Blinking by the Bosphorus: Discoveries at the 24th International Istanbul Film Festival Bilge Ebiri July 2005 Festival Reports April 2-17, 2005 Attending a film festival in Istanbul is a distracting experience. That’s not to say that the International Istanbul Film Festival, now in its 24th year, is not well-organised – it is,...
The Edge of the World Darragh O’Donoghue July 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Edge of the World (1937 UK 81 mins) Source: BFI Prod Co: Rock Studios Prod: Joe Rock Dir, Scr: Michael Powell Phot: Ernest Palmer, Skeets Kelly, Monty Berman Ed: Derek Twist Mus Dir: Cyril Ray Cas...
Chasing the Runaways: Foreign Film Production and Film Studio Development in Australia 1988-2002 by Nick Herd Ben Goldsmith July 2005 Book Reviews Is domestic production being “swamped” by international production? Where does creative control lie? Which sectors of the industry and the economy more broadly benefit from this production, and which are missin...
Uchida, Tomu Alexander Jacoby July 2005 Great Directors b. April 26, 1898, Okayama, Japan d. August 7, 1970, Japan Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources When Tomu Uchida died of cancer in 1970, Sight and Sound recorded, in one line, the demise o...
Hitchcock, Alfred Ken Mogg July 2005 Great Directors b. August 13, 1899, London, England d. April 29, 1980, Los Angeles, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources Alfred Hitchcock – Master of Paradox Note from the author ...
‘Sex sells’ as a Revolution David Theelen April 2005 Brief Encounters The seminal hardcore cross-over film Deep Throat gets put under the spotlight.
The Magic of Risking Everything For a Dream Nobody Sees: Million Dollar Baby: The Shadow Film Carloss James Chamberlin April 2005 On Recent Films A unique interpretation of Clint Eastwood's much-praised film that counters much of the more straightforward readings of the film as a humanist melodrama.
Some Notes on “Political Cinema” Prompted by Seeing Raoul Peck’s Sometimes in April in Competition at the Berlin Film Festival Jon Jost April 2005 On Recent Films A personal reflection written in the heat of the moment soon after the film's screening at the recent Berlin Film Festival.
To Remember History: Hu Jie Talks about His Documentaries Shen Rui April 2005 Conversations with Filmmakers Chinese art-house features have had much attention of late, unfortunately less so Chinese documentaries. Independent filmmaker Hu Jie discusses his films at length.
La Mano Negra: Julio Cortázar and his Influence on Cinema Thomas Beltzer April 2005 Feature Articles Michelangelo' Antonioni's Blowup is perhaps the best known of the many films inspired or adapted from Cortazar's remarkable body of literature. This article considers the important legacy of the Argentine writer's influence on cinema.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 absurdist lengths to promote its white collar, suburban professio...
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 because the viewer who reads subtitles is not listening to th...
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 articles reflecting on the nature of cinema, titled “Le ciném...
“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 around 120 films, with perhaps 20 more awaiting his attention in...
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 Reynaud Mark Richardson Peter Rist Vadim Rizov James ...
Draggin’ The River: The Ister Carloss James Chamberlin October 2004 Australian Film Culture An essay that travels upriver from a viewing of this unique, probing film to that black sheep of twentieth century German philosophy, Martin Heidegger, and beyond.
Keith Gordon on Keith Gordon, Part One: From Actor to Director Peter Tonguette October 2004 Feature Articles The first half of an in-depth interview, covering Gordon's beginnings as an actor and his first three films as director.
