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Author Julian Savage

Julian Savage

Julian Savage is a Melbourne based artist, filmmaker and writer.

The Conscious Collusion of the Stare: The Viewer Implicated in Fassbinder’s Fear Eats the Soul

Julian Savage
June 2011
CTEQ Annotations on Film
In a scene from Fassbinder's Fear Eats the Soul, Emmy, an aging, widowed German national, and Ali, a much younger Moroccan immigrant, sit together at an outdoor café. They are encircled by an arrangement of yel...
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The Object(s) of Interpretation: Guillermo Del Toro’s El Espinazo Del Diablo (The Devil’s Backbone)

Julian Savage
July 2002
Feature Articles
Del Toro's Mexican production sees a return to form and a rich allusive play with form and the horror genre.
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Negotiating Truth in the REAL Documentary Film (or is that Video?) – A Report on the 4th REAL: LIFE ON FILM International Documentary Festival

Julian Savage
May 2002
Festival Reports
Considering films recently screened at this national documentary festival, Julian digs deeper into questions of truth, reality and ethics in documentary and fiction filmmaking.
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The Role of the Pirate in Captain Blood – Buccaneering as Transgressive Political Action in the Swashbuckling Film?

Julian Savage
November 2001
CTEQ Annotations on Film
Captain Blood (1935 USA 98mins) Source: NLA/CAC Prod Co: Warner Brothers, Cosmopolitan Dir: Michael Curtiz Scr: Casey Robinson Phot: Hal Mohr Ed: George Amy Art Dir: Anton Grot Mus: Erich Wolfgang Korngo...
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The Conscious Collusion of the Stare: The Viewer Implicated in Fassbinder’s Fear Eats the Soul

Julian Savage
September 2001
CTEQ Annotations on Film
Fear Eats the Soul (1973 West Germany 92mins) 35mm Source: Heritage Prod Co: Tango Prod: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Michael Fengler Dir, Scr, Art Dir: Fassbinder Phot: Jürgen Jürges Ed: Thea Eymesz Ca...
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What’s Behind the Mark? Subterfuge and Deception in The Mark of Zorro

Julian Savage
September 2000
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The Mark of Zorro (1940 USA 93 mins) Source: CAC Prod Co: 20th Century-Fox Prod: Raymond Griffith Dir: Rouben Mamoulian Scr: John Taintor Foote Phot: Arthur Miller Ed: Robert Bischoff Art Dirs: Richard D...

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