Welcome to Issue 17 of our journal the editors November 2001 Editorial In this issue, Senses of Cinema reflects on recent events in America and the integral role played by the media in the representation and experience of these events. There's no doubt that any attempt to 'read...
The World of Robert Guédiguian Bill Mousoulis November 2001 Feature Articles An illuminating overview of Guédiguian's last five films followed by an interview.
Poetics and Politics in Garin Nugroho’s A Poet Anne Rutherford November 2001 Feature Articles Examining this intimate portrait of poet Ibrahim Kadir's experiences during the 1965 massacre.
Pauline Kael – A Tribute Julie Rigg November 2001 Feature Articles It's sad that it took Pauline Kael's death to send me back to her early criticism. She had guts and style. She was way ahead of her American conte...
Montreal World Film Festival 2001: Small is Beautiful Girish Shambu November 2001 Festival Reports A festival where modesty is the order of the day but good films are not in short supply.
The 20th Vancouver International Film Festival – A Report Lisa Roosen-Runge November 2001 Festival Reports Asian cinema enthusiast, Lisa provides a thorough overview of new Asian cinema at Vancouver.
Ceaselessly Working the Extreme: Miike Takashi Geoff Gardner November 2001 Festival Reports Vancouver does well in keeping up with this most prolific and subversive of directors.
Toronto 2001: A Film Festival Diary Girish Shambu November 2001 Festival Reports A personal, rewarding overview of the Festival and key films, making you wish you were there.
East Asian Films at the 26th Toronto International Film Festival – A Report Shelly Kraicer November 2001 Festival Reports Asian cinema enthusiast No.2, Shelly looks at East Asian films at Toronto.
The New York Film Festival 2001 – A Report Jared Rapfogel November 2001 Festival Reports Overview of this year's program in addition to some probing comments on the Festival at large.
A Report on the 46th Cork Film Festival Maximilian Le Cain November 2001 Festival Reports Stopping off in Ireland: perceptive comments on films playing at Cork.
A Glance at the 18th Bogota International Film Festival Andrés Bermúdez November 2001 Festival Reports Festivals and films in Latin America.
The 14th Singapore International Film Festival – A Postscript Brandon Wee November 2001 Festival Reports An insightful discussion of the current state of film culture and filmmaking in Singapore.
The 3rd Hong Kong Film Festival (Australia) – A Report Albert Fung November 2001 Festival Reports Australia was recently treated to a crop of contemporary Hong Kong films.
American Films of the 70s: Conflicting Visions (Austin, University of Texas Press, 2000) by Peter Lev Maria San Filippo November 2001 Book Reviews The 1970s have rightly been called the last golden age of American cinema, a reference not only to Hollywood and independent movies of this era but al...
Encore Hollywood – Remaking French Cinema by Lucy Mazdon (London, BFI, 2000) Jonathan Dawson November 2001 Book Reviews The new BFI series has quickly established itself as one of the more sensible ways into Screen Studies after the florid excesses of post-structuralism...
Post-War Cinema and Modernity: A Film Reader (eds.) John Orr and Olga Taxidou (Edinburgh University Press/Unireps, 2000) Richard Armstrong November 2001 Book Reviews Touch of Evil is “about a nice couple from Hollywood movies who stumble into a film by Orson Welles.” (1) Terry Comito's arresting line is a colourful...
Distrusting Desire – A Review of The Money Shot: Sex, Cinema And Censorship by Jane Mills (Annandale: Pluto Press, 2001) Jake Wilson November 2001 Book Reviews A review of the recent book, The Money Shot, and a wider and thought-provoking discussion of art and criticism.
Billy Budd David Boxwell November 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film Billy Budd (1962 USA/UK 123mins) 35mm Source: ScreenSound Prod Co: Allied Artists Prod, Dir: Peter Ustinov Scr: Ustinov, Robert Rossen from the...
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 E...
Chocolat Diana Sandars November 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film Chocolat (1988 France 105mins) Source: NLA/CAC Prod Co: MK2 Diffusion, Cinémanuel, Cerito Films, SEPT, Caroline Productions, TFI Films Prod: Al...
Equinox Flower Michael Koller November 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film Equinox Flower (1958 Japan 118mins) Source: NLA/CAC Prod Co: Shochiku Dir: Yasujiro Ozu Scr: Ozu, Kogo Noda from the novel by Ton Satomi Phot: ...
Hasta la Victoria Siempre Travis Wilkerson November 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film Hasta la Victoria Siempre (1967 Cuba 19mins) Source: NLA/CAC Prod Co: Instituto Cubano del Artes e Industria Cinematogra Dir, Scr: Santiago Alv...
Rose Hobart Brian L. Frye November 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film Rose Hobart (1936 USA 17mins) The first and greatest American Surrealist, Joseph Cornell is best known for his boxes. The best of his mysteriou...
Sound of the Mountain: The Beauty of Pessimism Dag Sødtholt November 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film Sound of the Mountain (1954 Japan 94mins) 35mm Source: Heritage Prod Co: Toho Dir: Mikio Naruse Scr: Yoko Mizuki from the novel by Yasunari Kaw...
Les Anges du péché Erik Ulman November 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film Les Anges du péché (1943 France 89mins) Source: FE/CAC Prod Co: Synops Prod: Roland Tual Dir: Robert Bresson Scr: Bresson, Father Bruckberger D...
Just Women: Marlene Gorris’ Antonia’s Line Sue Gillett November 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film Antonia's Line (1995 Netherlands/Belgium/UK 102mins) Source: NLA/CAC Prod Co: Antonia's Line International, Antonia's Line, A Bergen, Prime Tim...
The Immortal Story: Like the Sound of the Sea Deep Within a Shell Adrian Danks November 2001 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Immortal Story (1968 France/Spain 63mins) Source: ScreenSound Prod Co: ORTF, Albina Films Prod: Micheline Rozan Dir, Scr: Orson Welles from...
A Mirror Facing a Mirror Jared Rapfogel November 2001 The Wind Will Carry Him: Abbas Kiarostami Remembered A thoughtful analysis of contemporary Iranian cinema's unique brand of neo-realism as exemplified in Close-Up.
One Night The Moon: Interview with Rachel Perkins Kathryn Millard November 2001 Australian Cinema, Culture & Criticism Millard recently spoke with the director and co-writer of this new Australian film.
One Night The Moon: Interview with John Romeril Kathryn Millard November 2001 Australian Cinema, Culture & Criticism Writer John Romeril discusses his involvement in this film.
Backroads: From Identity to Interval Stephen Muecke November 2001 Australian Cinema, Culture & Criticism An intriguing analysis of this 1970s Australian gem.
Extract of The Money Shot: Introduction Jane Mills November 2001 Australian Cinema, Culture & Criticism The following extract of Jane Mills' The Money Shot – Cinema, Sin and Censorship (Pluto Press Australia, 2001) is published here with the permissi...
Extract of The Money Shot: Chapter Three: “When You Wish Upon a Star” Jane Mills November 2001 Australian Cinema, Culture & Criticism The following extract of Jane Mills' The Money Shot – Cinema, Sin and Censorship (Pluto Press Australia, 2001) is published here with the permissi...
Extract of The Money Shot: Chapter Eight: “Time Out from the Democratic Process” Jane Mills November 2001 Australian Cinema, Culture & Criticism The following extract of Jane Mills' The Money Shot – Cinema, Sin and Censorship (Pluto Press Australia, 2001) is published here with the permissi...
One Night The Moon: Script Extract Senses of Cinema November 2001 Australian Cinema, Culture & Criticism The following is an extract from the final shooting script of One Night The Moon © 2001 MusicArtsDance films Pty Ltd. The credits for this scene are...
A Reflection Christian Keefe November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium the winds of change begin to move hurts of which, they've come before telling silent sides to mend their ways upset by random effects and sways si...
Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality – A Symposium the editors November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium The relation between cinema and reality changed on September 11. All distinction between screen fantasy and the crises of history seemed to disappear ...
Reality and Illusion Bernard Hemingway November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium In a recent article published in the Melbourne Age's lifestyle supplement, The Good Weekend, Jean-Luc Godard castigated Steven Spielberg, and by exten...
A Reflection Stephen Teo November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium Has the cinema brought about September 11? Did the terrorists learn their tactics from the action blockbusters of Hollywood? Is the cinema culpable? S...
On the Big Set Gabe Klinger November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium Following the advice of a few New York City friends and family, I decided to walk from my 34th Street location and into the core of Lower East Manhatt...
A Reflection David Sterritt and Mikita Brottman November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium One need not be a psychologist or a semiotician to recognize that the destruction of the World Trade Center's arrogant Twin Towers was a symbolic cast...
A Reflection Dimitri Tsahuridis November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium Some 50 days after that tragic day in September, which may come to divide our lives, I feel uncomfortable in speaking openly and honestly about the co...
A Reflection David Walsh November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium Thank you for your invitation to reflect on the September 11 events. Rather than emphasizing – as the American media have done, for example, for th...
Mediation and Affect in New York Jonathan Oake November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek – always quick off the mark – wasted no time whatsoever in providing, via the internet, his scattered reflections o...
Things are Forever Changed: Business as Usual Michael Levine November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium Human beings seem to be put together in such a way that no matter how extensive and ironclad their experience, it is never sufficient to dash their ho...
Cinema as Delphic Oracle Dmetri Kakmi November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium Cinema has been a prophetic medium from its inception. I'm not talking about the drama, musical, comedy, or the Western genres, but horror movies, sci...
Cinema and Reality Thomas Caldwell November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium “We live inside an enormous novel. It is now less and less necessary for the writer to invent the fictional content of his novel. The fiction is alrea...
Watching Horror: A Gendered Look at Terrorism, or, Everything I Need to Know I Learned in Psycho Jane McGonigal November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium "Oh God, I can't watch!" My boyfriend is used to hearing this protest, during Psycho, Halloween, and countless other horror movies we've seen toget...
Reflections on September 11 and its Aftermath Jonathan Rosenbaum November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium Like many other Americans lately, I've been scared – but like only some Americans, I've been scared both of Middle Eastern terrorists and those whom I...
On the Interval between Reality and Unreality Benjamin Halligan November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium As a counterpoint to Slavoj Žižek's interpretation of September 11th – the World Trade Centre Twin Towers as symbols of “virtual capitalism” and “the ...
Just Like a Movie: September 11 and the Terror of Moving Images Bill Schaffer November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium A sulking vagrant arrives in a small American town, equipped with an absurdly large knife and lethal skills gained in the service of the same US milit...
Watching from a Distance: September 11 as Spectacle Jake Wilson November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium I switched on the TV soon after the planes hit, and there were the twin towers smouldering like giant cigarettes. As I watched this 'live' spectacle u...
Email from Australian Documentary Filmmaker Tom Zubrycki to Friends, New York, September 18 2001 Tom Zubrycki November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium Dear Friends, It's hard to describe the last few days except that they've been traumatic and difficult – yet also strangely life-affirming. Last...
A Reflection Mark Angeli November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium In Cinema veritas “It was like a scene out of a movie.” Everybody who saw September's* Grand-Guignol show has voiced or thought some variation of ...
The End of Cinema? Ian Buchanan November 2001 Terror, Disaster, Cinema and Reality - A Symposium PROPOSITION: The wound to New York and the wound to cinema are inextricably linked and it is only when New York figures out what it needs to do to hea...
Abbas Kiarostami: A Dialogue Between the Authors Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa and Jonathan Rosenbaum November 2001 Abbas Kiarostami Saeed-Vafa and Rosenbaum discuss the singularity of Kiarostami and general problems of cross-cultural criticism and interpretation.
Imagining Life: The Ending of Taste of Cherry Michael Price November 2001 Abbas Kiarostami Tracing the lines of possibility raised by this minimalist masterpiece.
The Code of The Mission (Johnnie To, 1999) Stephen Teo November 2001 Hong Kong Teo examines the brotherhood code at play in Johnnie To's riveting film.
Starting Over: Tsui Hark’s Time and Tide (2000) Stephen Teo November 2001 Hong Kong Senses overload: Tsui rivals Luhrmann but not without probing allegory.
Tsui Hark: Filmography Stephen Teo November 2001 Hong Kong Real name: Tsui Man-kwong. Born, 1951 in Vietnam. Moved to Hong Kong in 1966 for secondary school education. In 1969, went to the US to study at S...
Interview with Jonas Mekas Brian L. Frye November 2001 Experimental Cinema Frye speaks with the Godfather of American avant-garde cinema.
He Stands in a Desert Counting The Seconds of His Life Fred Camper November 2001 Experimental Cinema An illuminating discussion of Mekas' style in general and this Mekas film in particular.
Some Notes on This Side of Paradise: Fragments of an Unfinished Biography (1999) Aaron Scott November 2001 Experimental Cinema Exploring themes of intimacy, memory and loss in Mekas's 'home video' of the Kennedys.
Jonas Mekas Film and Videography Senses of Cinema November 2001 Experimental Cinema Compiled by Anthology Film Archives and Pip Chodorov Jonas Mekas: filmmaker, videomaker, film critic, poet, lecturer, curator. Born into a farm...
Light, Movement, Color, Time: Waiting for Jost with Jost Peter Hogue November 2001 Experimental Cinema An overview of Jost's recent work on digital video.
A Permanent Erection for the Eye: Athina Rachel Tsangari’s The Slow Business of Going Domitila Bedel November 2001 Experimental Cinema A personal response to a 'refreshing', truly independent, multi-cultural and multi-media film, followed by an illuminating exchange with the director.
Experiments in Fact and Fiction: The Films of Sharon Lockhart Girish Shambu November 2001 Experimental Cinema A sensitive and perceptive discussion of the work of this American avant-garde filmmaker.
Stalled Auteurism: John Carpenter’s Ghosts of Mars Gabe Klinger November 2001 Essays/on/Films Klinger reflects on Carpenter's outerspace journey.
The Willing Embrace of Destruction: Takeshi Kitano’s Brother Dan Edwards November 2001 Essays/on/Films Weighing up Kitano's latest stab at the gangster genre, this time transposed to L.A.
Shadow Magic – Imperial Peking’s Cinematic Initiation Elizabeth Wright November 2001 Essays/on/Films Wright considers this new Chinese film rich in historical evocation.
