Welcome to Issue 14 of our journal! the editors June 2001 Editorial "For me, making films and not making films are not two different ways of life. Filming should be a part of living, something normal and natural. Making films hasn't changed my life very much, because I made ...
Demolishing a Wall William D. Routt June 2001 Feature Articles Bringing together various theories, cinemas and TV, Routt reflects on 'place' and 'space'.
Displaced? Shifting Politics of Place and Itinerary in International Cinema Dina Iordanova June 2001 Feature Articles Dina traces a new cinema in which traditional hierarchies of centre and periphery no longer apply.
Eureka Jared Rapfogel June 2001 Feature Articles A genuinely sensitive and insightful critique of this film.
Yi Yi: Both a One and a Two George Wu June 2001 Feature Articles Wu reflects on the magic of this film.
A Corner in Wheat: An Analysis Erik Ulman June 2001 Feature Articles An insightful discussion of Griffith's landmark short film.
The Short Film – A Symposium Various June 2001 Feature Articles Filmmakers and writers reflect on their favourite short films.
In New York – A Report on the New Directors/New Films Festival Marion Lee June 2001 Festival Reports March 23 - April 8 2001 Day One - interior: airport check-in queue It is not that early and Andy and I are not that seedy but we are going to Ne...
The 25th Hong Kong International Film Festival – A Report Lisa Roosen-Runge June 2001 Festival Reports (April 6 to 21 2001) www.hkiff.org.hk Anatomy Class (ZUNG So-yun, 2000) Bird Land (HUANG Min-Chen, 2000) Boli Shaonu/Glass Tears (Carol LA...
A Century of Chinese Cinema: The 25th Hong Kong International Film Festival… and Beyond Frank Bren June 2001 Festival Reports (April 6-21 2001) In 1975, Jacques Tati presented his film Parade (1974) at the London International Film Festival. It was a low budget, video-shot...
The 48th Sydney Film Festival – A Preview Needeya Islam June 2001 Festival Reports (June 8-22, 2001) As the weather finally turns cold after six months of summer, the 48th Sydney Film Festival is poised to begin. This year's p...
The 14th Singapore International Film Festival – A Report Nazir Keshvani June 2001 Festival Reports Apr 11-28 2001 In 1991, when the Singapore International Film Festival (SIFF) introduced the Silver Screen Award for the Best Asian Feature Fi...
Report on the 4th Bermuda International Film Festival David Sterritt June 2001 Festival Reports (April 20-26 2001) www.bermudafilmfest.com Quite apart from the movies it presented, the 4th annual Bermuda International Film Festival had ...
The 43rd San Francisco International Film Festival – A Report Jeff Lambert June 2001 Festival Reports April 19 - May 3 2001 This year the San Francisco International Film Festival said good-bye to its creative director of 19 years, Peter Scarlet...
The 54th Cannes Film Festival Mark Thomas June 2001 Festival Reports 9-20 May 2001 All my adult life, I have adored spending hours quietly in the dark, indulging and enriching my emotions, feeling life expand, no...
A Matter of Mood? A Report on the 9th Greek Film Festival Vicky Tsaconas June 2001 Festival Reports (Melbourne 19 - 29 April 2001) Most of the films I saw at this year's Greek Film Festival were comedies. This does not reflect the range of fil...
A Sample of the 2001 St. Kilda Film Festival Reviewed Fiona Villella June 2001 Festival Reports Introduction This year's St. Kilda Film Festival was another massive event. Whilst the bulk of its program was devoted to Australian short films, t...
Fusion Reviewed Ben Zipper June 2001 Festival Reports Fusion Session 3 Friday 1 June 10.30pm - midnight The St. Kilda Film Festival again provided a window (three sessions wide by 1.5 hours per s...
St. Kilda Tales: Notes on Fifty Films Jake Wilson June 2001 Festival Reports Intro The following are various ideas and impressions from the ten screenings I attended at the 2001 St. Kilda Film Festival. It is, of course, impos...
A Sample of the 2001 St. Kilda Film Festival Reviewed Kieran Galvin June 2001 Festival Reports Overview My first St. Kilda Film Festival was a real eye opener. I saw 89 shorts, 82 of which I review. I was buoyed by the diversity but dismayed ...
“Monologue is my preferred means of discourse.” A Bricolage Interview with Richard Wolstencroft in absentia Cerise Howard June 2001 Festival Reports Richard Wolstencroft is the director of the Melbourne Underground Film Festival, aka MUFF, commencing its second annual season in 2001 from July 5-1...
Personal Memories: A Review of Citizen Sarris Keith Uhlich June 2001 Book Reviews This latest book pays tribute to legendary American critic Andrew Sarris.
The Blue Gardenia Sam Ishii-Gonzales June 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Blue Gardenia (1953 USA 90mins) 35mm Source: ScreenSound Prod Co: Blue Gardenia Productions, Gloria Films Prod: Alex Gottlieb Dir: Fritz La...
The Patriot Michael Koller June 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Patriot (trailer, USA, 1928 5mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia The Patriot was directed by Ernst Lubitsch and was his second last sile...
Destiny Michael Koller June 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film Destiny (1921 Germany 85mins) Source: NLA/CAC Prod Co: Decla-Bioscope Dir: Fritz Lang Scr: Lang, Thea von Harbou Phot: Erich Nietzschmann, Frit...
Blow Job Sam Ishii-Gonzales June 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film Blow Job (1963 USA 30mins) Source: NLA/CAC Prod Co: Factory Films Filmmaker: Andy Warhol "They're experimental films; I call them that because...
Dead Man Gino Moliterno June 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film Dead Man (1996 USA/Germany 120mins) 35mm Prod Co: 12-Gauge Productions, Pandora Film, FFA Berlin Filmboard, Berlin-Brandenburg, Filmstiftung NR...
Re-animating the Lost Objects d’Childhood and the Everyday: Jan Svankmajer Dirk de Bruyn June 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film Paint in the leaves, the wind, insects buzzing in the summer heat, and then wait ... for the bird to sing. - from "How to Make the Likeness of a Bi...
Tombstone for Fireflies Freda Freiberg June 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film Tombstone for Fireflies (1987 Japan 88mins) Source: JIS Prod Co: Studio Ghibli Prod: Toru Hara Dir, Scr: Isao Takahata based on Akiyuki Nosaka'...
“What’s Been Puzzling You is the Nature of My Game”: Performance Adrian Danks June 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film Performance (1970 UK 105mins) Source: NLA/CAC Prod Co: Goodtimes, Warner Brothers Prod: Sandy Lieberson Dir: Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg Scr: ...
The Indian Runner Bill Craske June 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Indian Runner (1991 USA 126min) 35mm Prod Co: Mount Prod: Don Phillips Dir,Scr: Sean Penn Phot: Anthony B. Richmond Ed: Jay Cassidy Art Di...
A Generation and Kanal Boris Trbic June 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film A Generation (1954 Poland 85mins) 35mm Source: Screensound Prod Co: Film Polski Prod: Aleksander Ford Dir: Andrzej Wajda Scr: Bohdan Czeszko Ph...
An Impressionist Work: Mullet John Flaus June 2001 Essays/on/Films, John Flaus Dossier As this is a critique and not a review I won't offer a synopsis, on the assumption that readers have seen the film. Mullet (David Caesar, 2001) is ...
An Interview with Ken Sallows Shan Jayaweera June 2001 Australian Filmmakers One of Australia's pre-eminent editors speaks candidly.
Sensitive New Age Killer: The Heaven and The Hell Mark Savage June 2001 Australian Filmmakers Savage on the traumas of filmmaking.
A Beautiful Exception: Godard’s For Ever Mozart Fergus Daly June 2001 Jean-Luc Godard - Pt 1 An exceptional re-evaluation of this dismissed Godard film.
Thanatos ex Machina: Godard Caresses the Dead David Sterritt June 2001 Jean-Luc Godard - Pt 1 The Godardian entanglement of desire, cars, death and narrative, especially in Contempt.
Only the Cinema John Conomos June 2001 Jean-Luc Godard - Pt 1 Conomos celebrates Godard in relation to his own video work.
Giorgio Mangiamele – Passionate Filmmaker Scott Murray June 2001 Giorgio Mangiamele - A Tribute An obituary for the late Mangiamele.
Giorgio Quentin Turnour June 2001 Giorgio Mangiamele - A Tribute Interview with and analysis of Mangiamele's career.
You’re Not Supposed to Be Full of Yourself: A Conversation with Andrew Sarris Keith Uhlich June 2001 Andrew Sarris That he was born on Halloween is not the only interesting thing we learn in this interview with Sarris.
Third Time’s the Charm: A Memory Essay to Andrew Sarris Keith Uhlich June 2001 Andrew Sarris The process of discovering and appreciating a film critic.
An Impressionist Work: Mullet John Flaus June 2001 Essays/on/Films, John Flaus Dossier As this is a critique and not a review I won't offer a synopsis, on the assumption that readers have seen the film. Mullet (David Caesar, 2001) is ...
The Fourth Wall Returns: Moulin Rouge and the Imminent Death of Cinema Jonathan Dawson June 2001 Essays/on/Films When Baz Luhrmann's latest Red Curtain movie opened the Official Selection at Cannes last month, the critics had already made up their minds. As f...
The Magnificent Anderson: The House of Mirth Kent Jones June 2001 Essays/on/Films It's well-known that Ernst Lubitsch had an autocratic way with actors, modelling gestures for them in order to get the precise timing and physical...
Hollowing Out the Romantic Comedy: Russian Doll Jake Wilson June 2001 Essays/on/Films Now that he's directed two feature films of his own, as well as contributing to the scripts of two directed by Emma-Kate Croghan (1), it should be...
The Empty Façade: The Monkey’s Mask Mark Freeman June 2001 Essays/on/Films Samantha Lang's new film The Monkey's Mask (2001) opens with an extreme close up on the freckled face of investigator Jill Fitzpatrick (Susie Port...
Toeing The Line: Risk Bill Craske June 2001 Essays/on/Films One of the many disappointing aspects of Alan White's Risk (2001) involves the internecine combination of actor and image. White's previous featur...
Crocodile Tears: Sally Potter’s The Man Who Cried Rose Capp June 2001 Essays/on/Films When Sally Potter first appeared on the independent British filmmaking scene in the late 1970s, she attracted considerable critical attention. The...
Beat Me, Shoot Me, SNAK Me: Sensitive New Age Killer Michael Helms June 2001 Essays/on/Films At last, an Australian heroic bloodshed actioner that doesn't skimp on sex, violence and other funny stuff. In fact, sex is the weapon of choice i...
Mementos from Blank Point: Steven Soderbergh’s The Limey Bill Craske June 2001 Essays/on/Films Steven Soderbergh's The Limey (1999) is a brash economical movie full of self-reflexive '60s interruptions and clenched teeth violence. From the i...
Mamet’s Business as Usual: Moviemaking and the “Quest for Purity” in State and Main Boris Trbic June 2001 Essays/on/Films "Life in the movie business is like the, is like the beginning of a new love affair; it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked....
