India: Matri Bhumi Darragh O’Donoghue March 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film In 1980, the iconic actress-turned-politician Nargis stood up in the Indian parliament and denounced the films of Satyajit Ray for exploiting poverty ...
Viva l’Italia! Jeremy Carr March 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film Although it is rarely ranked among the most acclaimed or influential of Roberto Rossellini’s films, Viva l’Italia! (1961) was a particularly important...
Early Rossellini: Un pilota ritorna Joseph Sgammato March 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film Consider the unique case of Roberto Rossellini. Despite his giant reputation as a founder of Italian neorealism, he is still the subject of divided cr...
Overturning the heresy: Joan of Arc at the Stake Grant Bromley March 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film “It’s beautiful to be the daughter of God.” – Joan of Arc, in Joan of Arc at the Stake Picking up where Victor Fleming’s final film, the independent...
Il Generale Della Rovere Jonathan Mackris March 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film It’s worth mentioning, as a place to begin, that Il Generale Della Rovere (Roberto Rossellini, 1959) is based a true story. There was indeed a jailed ...
The Fate of Lee Khan Shea Gallagher February 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film King Hu’s Yingchun ge zhi fengbo (The Fate of Lee Khan, 1973) marks the director’s return to Hong Kong after seven years in Taiwan – a period that yie...
Come Drink with Me Dana Polan February 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film Just about half-way through King Hu’s 1966 Da Zui Xia (Come Drink with Me), the heroine, Golden Swallow (Cheng Pei-Pei) has been wounded by bandits bu...
Raining in the Mountain Darragh O’Donoghue February 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film “There is more to this than meets the eye,” observes police officer Lieutenant Chang Cheng (Chen Hui-Lou), one of the slippery protagonists of Kongsha...
Glimpses of Grace: A Dialogue on King Hu’s Dragon Inn Austin Lancaster & Alex Williams February 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film The following article is structured as a dialogue between its authors. One of the main ways that the two of us engage with film is through conversatio...
A Couch in New York Eloise Ross February 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film A Couch in New York (Chantal Akerman, 1996) is most well-known, it seems, for being not very well received. Upon its release in its titular city, Jane...
Rolling Down That Hill: Robert Bresson’s Four Nights of a Dreamer David Heslin February 2025 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Oh, if only you knew how often I have been in love … with no one, with an ideal, with the one I dream of in my sleep.” – Fyodor Dostoevsky, White Ni...
Brake Fluid Geoff Gardner December 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film When I got to Melbourne University in 1963, Brian Davies had already dropped out and begun what eventually became a stellar career, first in marketing...
Monash ’66 – A Short Annotation on Some of its Making Robin Laurie December 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film I have not seen a print of Monash ’66 for more than 50 years and my memories of the film have a quite a few gaps. Here is what I remember. In 1966 ...
Hey Al Baby Bruce Hodsdon December 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film The below is based on an account of the making of Hey Al Baby by David Minter published in Issue 2 of the Melbourne Film Bulletin, April 1968. In t...
There is Nothing Like Experience Adrian Danks December 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Like many films produced under the auspices of the Melbourne University Film Society (MUFS), Nothing Like Experience (Peter Carmody, 1970) draws heavi...
Molly & Mobarak Tom Zubrycki November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Molly and Mobarak (2003) continues a path I began in the ’90s with Homelands (1993) and Billal (1996) of making observational documentary essays of Au...
Friends & Enemies Tom Zubrycki November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Unlike many films about union history, Friends & Enemies (1987) is not a retrospective account. It was made as a ‘fly on the wall documentary’ – t...
Bran Nue Dae Tom Zubrycki November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film In 1990 I started production in Broome on Lord of the Bush (1990), a documentary about the enigmatic figure Lord Alistair McAlpine, who had big ambiti...
Homelands Tom Zubrycki November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Homelands (1993) was a departure for me not only in terms of style, but also in terms of content. It was 1992, and I felt it was high time to explore ...
Kemira – Diary of a Strike Tom Zubrycki November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Kemira - Diary of a Strike (1984) started spontaneously. 16 miners from a BHP colliery were suddenly presented with retrenchment notices. They barrica...
Kemira – Diary of a Strike Digby Houghton November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Wollongong is not the first city to encircle itself around an industry, and nor is it the last. Corio Bay to Melbourne’s west installed public housing...
Kohlhiesels Töchter Michael Koller November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film This article is a reworking of an earlier article in Issue 56 of Senses of Cinema that discusses both Kohlhiesels Töchter and Schuhpalast Pinkus (1916...
Carmen Faith Everard November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Love is a bohemian child, It has never, never known the law, If you don't love me, I love you; If I love you, watch out! – Translated from Geor...
A Director and Star Reunite for Forbidden Paradise Shari Kizirian November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Forbidden Paradise (1924) reaffirmed the promise of two of Hollywood’s most high-profile imports to date, Ernst Lubitsch and Pola Negri, whose histori...
Blue Benjamin Bannan November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Blue (Derek Jarman, 1993) is the result of a series of improvised experiments, culminating in a film comprised entirely of a single shot of the satura...
Jubilee Darragh O’Donoghue November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film “God save the Queen…” In 1952, Princess Elizabeth became the Queen of Great Britain, Northern Ireland, the Dominions, etc. With the UK suffering from...
Listen to England: Derek Jarman’s The Queen is Dead Adrian Danks November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Derek Jarman was an extraordinarily productive artist. Across his 30-year creative life he worked within a wide range of formats, practices and forms,...
The Garden Brian Hoyle & Jo George November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Derek Jarman had every right to expect that The Garden, his eighth feature film, would be his last. When it was released in 1990 the filmmaker, artist...
In the Shadow of the Sun Luke Aspell November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film In the Shadow of the Sun is the title of two films, substantially identical but materially distinct. The first, a silent Super 8 film made between 197...
Imagining October Luke Aspell November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Imagining October (1984) represents the culmination of two periods of transition in Derek Jarman’s work: his movement towards an explicitly political ...
Derek Jarman’s The Last of England Danica van de Velde November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Painted in 1855, Ford Madox Brown’s artwork The Last of England captures a boat scene that was inspired by the emigration to Australia of sculptor Tho...
Vibrational Assemblages and the Queer Quotidian: Glitterbug Dylan Rowen November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film His obsession with texture, shape and light was why, in his work, each design element, each object, is so charged with significance; and why his inter...
A Failure of Seriousness: Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein Austin Lancaster November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film WITTGENSTEIN I’d quite like to have composed a philosophical work which consisted entirely of jokes. KEYNES Why didn’t you? WITTGENSTEIN ...
Caravaggio Michael Charlesworth November 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film John Berger, the celebrated writer and critic, wrote a personal letter to Derek Jarman after he had watched Caravaggio (1986). "You have made a master...
Island Home Country Sian Mitchell October 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film In revisiting Jeni Thornley’s 2008 documentary essay film, Island Home Country, I am struck by the thematic parallels between her personal journey to ...
Maidens Jeni Thornley October 2024 CTEQ Annotations on Film Maidens is an extraordinary mixture of feminist and cinematic riddles… while it is a very personal odyssey it is also a discourse on independent fem...
