The Life of the Cinephile Party: The Essential Raymond Durgnat by Henry K. Miller (ed.) Geoff Gardner June 2015 Book Reviews A long, long time ago English film magazines arrived in Melbourne after a journey by boat that often took several months. They could arrive in a rush, several issues at a time. The place where they were sold wa...
The Girlfriends (Peter Elliot, 1967) Geoff Gardner March 2014 Key Moments in Australian Cinema Way back in 2003, Nigel Buesst did a solitary excavation of Melbourne filmmaking during the 1950s and ’60s. Those years were characterised by what seemed like a rather large amount of naively optimistic filmmak...
Solrun Hoaas on DVD Geoff Gardner April 2010 Solrun Hoaas Dossier “Then I weave a square, and little by little the basket rises.” - Solrun Hoaas, There’s Nothing that Doesn’t Take Time (1981) Solrun Hoaas slipped into filmmaking innocuously, initially making films about thi...
Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient Geoff Gardner August 2008 Feature Articles Todd McCarthy’s recent documentary on Rissient chronicles the remarkable life of an individual devoted to cinema. Gardner offers his own thoughts on the man in question.
More Please: Report on the 3rd Biennial Adelaide Film Festival Geoff Gardner May 2007 Festival Reports 22 February – 4 March 2007 Adelaide has a long tradition of putting money into its Arts events. It was the first Australian city to present a major international arts festival whose existence required co...
Why are We in Vancouver? Geoff Gardner February 2007 Festival Reports 28 September–13 October 2006 So the big man in the pink shirt has stubbed out his last cigarette and marched down the aisle of the Pacific Cinémathèque for the last time. He made it his spiritual home, t...
Robert Bresson on DVD Geoff Gardner May 2006 DVD Reviews 1. Breaking the Bresson ice Accent Film Entertainment is the first Australian company to release the works of Robert Bresson on DVD. The three films are Pickpocket (1959), Procès de Jeanne d’Arc (incorrectly...
Buried Treasure: Feuillade and Franju on DVD Geoff Gardner April 2005 DVD Reviews There is much to admire about the silent cinema artistry and poetic beauty of director Louis Feuillade and the man who remade one of his classic films, Georges Franju.
A Film Culture Forum Geoff Gardner, Bruce Hodsdon and Jim Knox July 2002 Feature Articles Reflecting on what film culture means to them, these writers raise important questions and reveal significant gaps in terms of the local film cultural landscape.
Telling Tales …or Heads and Tails: Lies Geoff Gardner March 2002 Essays/on/Films Another contemporary instalment to the genre of life as a series of sex acts.
Unkind Cuts: Joseph Losey’s Eve Geoff Gardner December 2001 Underrated and Overlooked A discussion of the various cuts suffered by Eve and the recent DVD version.
Ceaselessly Working the Extreme: Miike Takashi Geoff Gardner November 2001 Festival Reports Vancouver does well in keeping up with this most prolific and subversive of directors.