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.
2046: A Matter of Time, A Labour of Love Stephen Teo April 2005 On Recent Films An analysis of the themes of time and memory in Wong Kar-waiís 2046, and how the film forms a trilogy of sorts with In the Mood for Love and Days of Being Wild.
House of Flying Daggers: A Reappraisal Hwanhee Lee April 2005 On Recent Films Unlike Hero – to which it was inevitably compared – Zhang Yimou's follow up film should be considered more as an “intimate drama” about love than as a historical epic or political allegory.
