Welcome to Issue 18 of our journal! the editors December 2001 Editorial Well, it's hard to believe yet another year has just passed. Banal observations aside, it seems that the more technologically advanced Western society becomes, the faster the pace of everyday life: greate...
Riding Towards the Future: Wang Xiaoshuai’s Beijing Bicycle Elizabeth Wright December 2001 Feature Articles Wang focuses on the central role of the bicycle in Beijing to explore wider social and historical issues.
More Australian than Aristotelian: The Australian Bushranger Film, 1904-1914 William D. Routt December 2001 Feature Articles An original account of the 'Australian Western' and its significant role in the early days of Australian feature film production.
Interview with J. Hoberman Steve Erickson December 2001 Feature Articles In his 24 years as a film critic for the New York weekly The Village Voice, J. Hoberman has been one of the most consistently adventurous American...
Delhi Deluge of Colour and Movement in Mira Nair’s Monsoon Wedding Rose Capp December 2001 Feature Articles Women are once again the centre in Nair's latest offering, abundant in optimism, colour, and movement.
Interview: Johnnie To and Wai Ka-fai Shelly Kraicer December 2001 Feature Articles Two very smart, very cool figures in Hong Kong freely discuss their films and filmmaking strategy.
Visconti’s Cinema of Twilight Maximilian Le Cain December 2001 Feature Articles A detailed examination of Visconti's later period films, their majestic style and personal resonance.
The Pusan International Film Festival – Mature and Independent Stephen Teo December 2001 Festival Reports A comprehensive discussion of this key Asian film festival.
The Outskirts Becoming the Centre – Balkan Film at the 42nd International Thessaloniki Film Festival Andrew James Horton December 2001 Festival Reports Greek cinema sits alongside its international counterparts in this major East European festival.
Report on the 4th Annual Bangkok Film Festival Maria San Filippo December 2001 Festival Reports An overview of the program at this young Asian film festival.
Cinema-Tourism: The 4th International Bangkok Film Festival Genevieve Yue December 2001 Festival Reports Fighting US imperialism at Bangkok.
John Ford Made Westerns: Filming the Legend in the Sound Era (Indiana University Press, 2001) eds. Gaylyn Studlar and Matthew Bernstein David Boyd December 2001 Book Reviews The title of this volume alludes to what is probably the best-known anecdote of John Ford's career. Rising at a Directors Guild meeting in 1950 to spe...
Favourite Film Things 2001 – Part 1 Various December 2001 Favourite Film Things 2001 Compiled by Fiona A. Villella The Entries Parts of this article are now hosted on the PANDORA archive of the National Library of Australia a...
Favourite Film Things 2001 – Part 2 Various December 2001 Favourite Film Things 2001 Compiled by Fiona A. Villella The Entries Parts of this article are now hosted on the PANDORA archive of the National Library of Australia a...
Favourite Film Things 2001 – Part 3 Various December 2001 Favourite Film Things 2001 Compiled by Fiona A. Villella The Entries Jared Rapfogel Jonathan Rosenbaum Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa Angelo Salamanca Girish Shamb...
Lights! Camera! Paintbrush! Jane Mills December 2001 Film and the Other Arts Highlighting the continuum of cinema and painting.
From Objecthood to Subject Matter: Yvonne Rainer’s Transition from Dance to Film Jonathan Walley December 2001 Film and the Other Arts Exploring the complex web of Rainer's dance and film work.
Mirror, Muse, Medusa: Experiment Perilous Thomas Elsaesser December 2001 Film and the Other Arts An examination into the relations between cinema, painting, the painted portrait, and 'woman'.
Symmetry and Structure in Greenaway’s A Zed and Two Noughts Daniela Espejo December 2001 Film and the Other Arts The role of the other arts and precise plot structures in Greenaway's cinema here discussed.
Concerning Manny Farber: An Interview with Robert Walsh Noel King December 2001 Film and the Other Arts Walsh talks freely about his discovery of the paintings and criticism of Manny Farber.
The Lady in the Frame: Two Portraits by Henry James and Jane Campion David Kelly December 2001 Film and the Other Arts A careful and thought-provoking examination of Campion's adaptation in The Portrait of a Lady.
Eve: Sinfully Underrated Megan Ratner December 2001 Underrated and Overlooked Celebrating Moreau's dynamic and charged performance.
Rich and Strange: An Introduction to the Live Action Features of Walerian Borowczyk Joe Ruffell December 2001 Underrated and Overlooked Ruffell argues for Borowczyk as one of the most important filmmakers of '70s cinema.
A Key Unturned: Seconds Peter Wilshire December 2001 Underrated and Overlooked There's more than John Randolph turning into Rock Hudson in this tale of self-interest and surface-beauty.
A Wanderer’s Notebook: The Art of Mauritz Stiller Alexander Jacoby December 2001 Underrated and Overlooked The clever and cosmopolitan films of silent Swedish filmmaker, Mauritz Stiller, here discussed.
Unkind Cuts: Joseph Losey’s Eve Geoff Gardner December 2001 Underrated and Overlooked A discussion of the various cuts suffered by Eve and the recent DVD version.