California Dreaming: P.T. Anderson’s Take on Pynchon’s Inherent Vice Rolando Caputo March 2015 Feature Articles “We are interested in the plot of a play or film because it stages a problem whose solution we expect: we are expecting the plot to be resolved. So long as it is not (and in principle it is not resolved until t...
Alain Robbe-Grillet and the Nouveau Roman: An Interview Rolando Caputo October 2014 Feature Articles In 1986 Alain Robbe-Grillet, accompanied by his wife Catherine, visited Australia as guest of the cultural institute Alliance Francaise to give a series of lectures and talks in a number of selected cities, mos...
Il sorpasso, or Two for the Road Rolando Caputo July 2014 2014 Melbourne International Film Festival Dossier Mainly, it’s a question of speed. Two characters, one sports car, and as much velocity as you can muster on Italian freeways. Yet, it’s also about the speed of life, of desire, of language and gestures, and lin...
Defeating the Irremediable Solitude of the Guest: An Interview with José Luis Guerin Rolando Caputo April 2011 Feature Articles José Luis Guerin discusses his recent film Guest, based around the year-long itinerary of the director visiting many film festivals and cultures.
Interview with Richard Lowenstein Rolando Caputo and Peter Tapp July 2009 MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers This is an edited version of an interview originally published in Filmviews, No. 131 (Autumn 1987), pp. 2-7. It is reproduced with the kind permission of the authors. (1) Richard Lowenstein graduated fro...
A Report on the 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival Rolando Caputo October 2004 Festival Reports On the opening day of the 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) I find myself watching Abbas Kiarostami's 10 on Ten (2004). While not quite a manifesto, 10 on Ten is a kind of declaration of pri...
Five to Ten: Five Reflections on Abbas Kiarostami’s 10 Rolando Caputo December 2003 The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered Utilising a prism-like structure, Caputo arrives at a range of observations and conclusions about Kiarostami's latest feature, Ten, his cinematic style in general and digital cinema today.
