Welcome to Issue 21 of our journal! the editors July 2002 Editorial Senses of Cinema is growing and changing. Our philosophy of cinema remains the same: to stay outside the mainstream system of distribution and promotion that rules public film culture, and to champion what ...
A Few Underpinnings of the New Iranian Cinema Jonathan Rosenbaum July 2002 Feature Articles Raising key social observations, Rosenbaum throws a new perspective on this national cinema.
Home is where the Heart is: Rakshan Bani-Etemad’s Under the Skin of the City Tamara Tracz July 2002 Feature Articles If notions of the 'other' have played a role in relations between the West and contemporary Iranian cinema, Tracz discusses how this film works somewhat differently.
BANG BANG – Encounters with Romuald Karmakar and his films Alexander Horwath July 2002 Feature Articles An informed, revealing discussion of contemporary German cinema that highlights the work of Romuald Karmakar as a maverick in the tradition of Cassavetes and Hellman.
BANG BANG – Begegnungen mit Romuald Karmakar und seinen Filmen Alexander Horwath July 2002 Feature Articles (In German.) An informed, revealing discussion of contemporary German cinema that highlights the work of Romuald Karmaker as a maverick in the tradition of Cassavetes and Hellman.
Everybody’s Different: Valeska Grisebach’s Mein Stern Urs Richter July 2002 Feature Articles Keen discussion of Mein Stern, an example of a recent trend of realism in German cinema, followed by an interview with the director.
Film Culture in Paraguay: Interview with Hugo Gamarra Etcheverry Noel King July 2002 Feature Articles Hugo talks about his involvement in developing and sustaining a vital and active film culture in Paraguay.
What Does Cinema Mean for Paraguay? Hugo Gamarra Etcheverry July 2002 Feature Articles Lacking the tradition of a strong national cinema and swamped by mainstream American cinema, Hugo argues that the road before Paraguay is a long one.
The Shadow of Time Passing: Ghost World Maximilian Le Cain July 2002 Feature Articles A genuine and poignant portrait of 'being different', Ghost World comes close to being a masterpiece in the tradition of Ozu.
Teen Schizophrenia: Donnie Darko Jared Rapfogel July 2002 Feature Articles Despite generic constraints and eccentric characters, Donnie Darko keeps things sincere and moving.
Strangers and Faces: Patrick Stettner’s The Business of Strangers Anna Daly July 2002 Feature Articles An intriguing discussion that reflects on notions of 'estrangement' and performance in this film.
“Is That You John Wayne? Is This Me?” – Problems of Identity in Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket Brad Stevens July 2002 Feature Articles In his underrated war film, Kubrick continues to explore ideas of identity, free will and the human-machine relation.
The Object(s) of Interpretation: Guillermo Del Toro’s El Espinazo Del Diablo (The Devil’s Backbone) Julian Savage July 2002 Feature Articles Del Toro's Mexican production sees a return to form and a rich allusive play with form and the horror genre.
An Overview of Shoot Shoot Shoot – The First Decade of the London Film-Makers’ Co-operative and British Avant-Garde Film 1966-1976 George Clark July 2002 Feature Articles This pioneering season is currently touring the world, and is hitting Brisbane, Melbourne and Perth throughout July.
Earthquake William D. Routt July 2002 Feature Articles (1) The works of popular art seem particularly invested with time. Popular works age quickly: their materials, physical or cultural, are so notorio...
A Film Culture Forum Geoff Gardner, Bruce Hodsdon and Jim Knox July 2002 Feature Articles Reflecting on what film culture means to them, these writers raise important questions and reveal significant gaps in terms of the local film cultural landscape.
Unseen Cinema: An Interview with Bruce Posner John Conomos and Bill Mousoulis July 2002 Festival Reports This interview was conducted on June 18, 2002. One of the two outstanding hallmark programs of this year's Sydney Film Festival was, besides th...
Baby Steps: Samples From the 2002 St Kilda Film Festival Jake Wilson July 2002 Festival Reports The most obvious lesson from the 2002 St Kilda Film Festival is that the definition of a film is more elastic than ever. Over half the inclusions ...
49th Sydney Film Festival – A Report Bill Mousoulis July 2002 Festival Reports June 7-21, 2002 For a list of the Festival's award winners, click here. Curiously, the Sydney Film Festival has not spliced the word 'Intern...
Festival De Cannes 2002 – A Report George Papadopoulos July 2002 Festival Reports May 15-26 2002 Having attended the Cannes Film Festival as a film distributor on the lookout for films with the promise of commercial success,...
Spotlight on the 51st Melbourne International Film Festival: Festival Wrap-Up Various July 2002 Festival Reports Back to Daily Updates Posted Wednesday 24 July - Saturday 10 August Posted Monday 12 August (Festival Wrap-Up) * * * by Anthony Carew K...
Daily Reports from the 51st Melbourne International Film Festival Various July 2002 Festival Reports Posted Monday 12 August (Festival Wrap-Up) Posted Saturday 10 August (Roberto Succo) Posted Friday 9 August (The Son) Posted Thursday 8 Augus...
Daily Reports from the 11th Brisbane International Film Festival Various July 2002 Festival Reports Posted Sunday 21 July (The Commune (Paris 1871), The Universal Clock) Posted Friday 19 July (Everyday God Kisses Us on the Mouth) Posted Thursda...
Bresson, Robert Alan Pavelin July 2002 Great Directors b. September 25, 1901, Bromont-Lamothe, France. d. December 18, 1999, Paris, France. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web re...
Dreyer, Carl Theodor Acquarello July 2002 Great Directors b. February 3, 1889, Copenhagen, Denmark. d. March 20, 1968, Copenhagen, Denmark. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources...
Fellini, Federico Antonia Shanahan July 2002 Great Directors b. January 20, 1920, Rimini, Emiglia-Romagna, Italy. d. October 31, 1993, Rome, Italy. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web reso...
Ford, John Richard Franklin July 2002 Great Directors b. Sean Aloysius O'Fearna (1) b. Feb 1, 1895, Maine, USA. d. August 31, 1973, Palm Desert, California, USA. filmography bibliography articl...
Haynes, Todd Keith Uhlich July 2002 Great Directors b. January 2, 1961, Los Angeles, California, USA. filmography bibliography web resources Threes are key to understanding Todd Haynes’ cine...
Hu, King Stephen Teo July 2002 Great Directors b. April 29, 1932, Beijing, China. d. January 14, 1997, Taipei, Taiwan. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources In his...
Jones, Chuck Bill Schaffer July 2002 Great Directors (Charles Martin Jones) b. September 21, 1912, Spokane, Washington, USA. d. February 22, 2002, Corona Del Mar, California, USA. filmography b...
Kurosawa, Akira Dan Harper July 2002 Great Directors b. March 23, 1910, Omori, Tokyo, Japan. d. September 6, 1998, Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resou...
Mann, Michael Anna Dzenis July 2002 Great Directors b. February 5, 1943, Chicago, Illinois, USA. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources "..love is a state common to both au...
Marker, Chris Jaime N. Christley July 2002 Great Directors b. Christian François Bouche-Villeneuve (1) b. July 29, 1921, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France d. July 29, 2012, Paris, ...
Ray, Nicholas Jonathan Rosenbaum July 2002 Great Directors b. Raymond Nicholas Kienzle b. August 7, 1911, Galesville, Wisconsin, USA. d. June 16, 1979, New York City, USA. filmography bibliography ...
Rossellini, Roberto Hugo Salas July 2002 Great Directors b. May 8, 1906, Rome, Italy. d. June 3, 1977, Rome, Italy. filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources We all, film critic...
Vigo, Jean Maximilian Le Cain July 2002 Great Directors b. April 26, 1905, Paris, France. d. October 5, 1934, Paris, France. filmography bibliography web resources Of all cinema's illustrious m...
Yang, Edward Saul Austerlitz July 2002 Great Directors b. November 6, 1947, Shanghai, China d. June 29, 2007, Beverley Hills, USA filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Edw...
Walsh, Raoul Tag Gallagher July 2002 Great Directors b. March 11, 1887, New York, New York, USA. d. December 31, 1980, Simi Valley, California, USA. filmography bibliography articles in Senses ...
Ivan the Terrible by Yuri Tsivian (BFI Classics, 2002); October by Richard Taylor (BFI Classics, 2002) Helen Grace July 2002 Book Reviews In the concluding paragraph of Citizen Kane (BFI Classics, 1992), Laura Mulvey argues that this film has, built into its structure, the need to think ...
Unpacking Clothes: A Review of Costume and Cinema: Dress Codes in Popular Film by Sarah Street Tamar Jeffers July 2002 Book Reviews It is only shallow people who fail to judge by appearances. - Oscar Wilde Wilde's epigram is apt when considering Sarah Street's Costume and cinema ...
Moved By Animation – Animation: Genre and Authorship by Paul Wells Bill Schaffer July 2002 Book Reviews (London: Wallflower, 2002) As Chuck Jones reminds us on the back cover of Norman Klein's Seven Minutes (for my money, still the best book on the ar...
Left in the Dark: Film Reviews and Essays, 1988-2001 by Stuart Klawans Julien Lapointe July 2002 Book Reviews (Nation Books/Thunder's Mouth Press, 2002) Tension marks the allure of superior criticism – ideally, there should be a conflict between text and su...
The Film Minister – Goebbels and the Cinema in the ‘Third Reich’ by Felix Moeller Jonathan Dawson July 2002 Book Reviews (Stuttgart/London: Edition Axel Menges, 2000) “It is my ultimate goal to establish the German film as the dominant cultural world power.” - Joseph G...
For the Sake of Argument: Responding to Jake Wilson Sylvia Lawson July 2002 Book Reviews I write to thank Senses of Cinema and Jake Wilson for giving my current book, How Simone de Beauvoir Died in Australia, the kind of serious and ex...
La Baie des Anges Lindsay Henderson July 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film La Baie des Anges (1963 France 85 minutes) Source: CAC/NLA Prod Co: Sud-Pacifique Films Prod: Paul-Edmond Decharme Dir, Scr: Jacques Demy Ph: J...
The White Balloon Michael Price July 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film The White Balloon (1995 Iran 84 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Ferdos Prod: Kurosh Mazkouri Dir, Ed, Art Dir: Jafar Panahi Scr: Abbas Kiarosta...
Applause Alexander Jacoby July 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Applause (1929 USA 78 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Paramount Prod: Monta Bell, Jesse Lasky and Walter Wanger Dir: Rouben Mamoulian Scr: Garrett ...
The Woman in the Window Girish Shambu July 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Woman in the Window (1944 USA 90 mins) 35mm Source: MGM/Hollywood Classics Prod Co: RKO/International Pictures Prod: Nunnally Johnson Scr: ...
Kitsch, Sensation – Kultur und Film: Die Spinnen Michael Koller July 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film (1) Die Spinnen (The Spiders) Part One. Der Goldene See (The Golden Lake 1919 Germany 112 mins) Source: Deutsches Institue für Filmkunde ...
Phantom Lady Joe McElhaney July 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Readers please note: the first paragraph of this annotation gives away the film's story. Phantom Lady (1944 USA 87 mins) 35mm Source: BFI/UI...
The Tailor, the Filmmaker and the Cop: A Moment of Innocence Adrian Danks July 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film A Moment of Innocence (1996 Iran 78 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: MK2/Pakhshiran Prod: Abolfazi Alagheband Dir, Scr, Ed: Mohsen Makhmalbaf Ph...
Goodbye, Mr. Germ Bill Krohn July 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Goodbye, Mr. Germ (1940 USA 15 mins) Source: ACMI Prod Co: American Tuberculosis Association Dir: Edgar Ulmer The short film Goodbye, Mr. Germ,...
Flaming Creatures Constantine Verevis July 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Flaming Creatures (1963 USA 43 mins) Source: CAC/NLA Dir, Phot: Jack Smith Ass Dir: Marc Schleifer Recording: Tony Conrad Special Assistant: Di...
Detour Dana Polan July 2002 CTEQ Annotations on Film Detour (1945 USA 69 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: PRC Prod: Leon Fromkess Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer Scr: Martin G. Goldsmith Phot: Benjamin H. Klin...
Introduction: Harun Farocki Thomas Elsaesser July 2002 Harun Farocki Overview and discussion of long-time German-based filmmaker and artist, Farocki, who has emerged to occupy a unique place in film history.
Painting Pavements Volker Siebel July 2002 Harun Farocki From his work in the fiction mode to documentary to installion, Farocki has consistenly explored ideas of language, ideology, perception, and contemporary audio-visual culture.
Passage along the Shadow-Line: Farocki and Others – Approaching a Certain Filmkritik-style Olaf Möller July 2002 Harun Farocki Möller affectionately discusses the films, writing and philosophy of the cineastes who wrote for German film magazine, Filmkritik, a culture or 'movement' strong enough to rival Cahiers.
The Green of the Grass: Harun Farocki in Filmkritik Rainer Knepperges July 2002 Harun Farocki A montage of pithy and revealing quotes from Farocki's writings in Filmkritik.
Image(circum)volution: On the Installation Schnittstelle (Interface) Christa Blümlinger July 2002 Harun Farocki In his installation work, provocatively discussed here, Farocki continues his investigation into questions of the image, montage, and ways of seeing.
Nine Minutes in the Yard: A Conversation with Harun Farocki Rembert Hüser July 2002 Harun Farocki Farocki discusses a range of topics in this lengthy interview from Hollywood remakes to his filmmaking, with particular emphasis on his installation work I Thought I Was Seeing Convicts.
Workers Leaving the Factory Harun Farocki July 2002 Harun Farocki Here Farocki discusses his film Workers Leaving the Factory, which brings together wide-ranging archival footage, and raises important issues on the cinema, the workplace and politics.
Harun Farocki – Biography, Filmography, Exhibitions and Retrospectives Farocki-Filmproduktion July 2002 Harun Farocki Biography 1944 Born in Neutitschein, in what was then part of the German-annexed Czechoslovakia 1966-68 Studied at the Deutsche Film and Fernseh...
Some Significant Women in Australian Film – A Celebration and a Cautionary Tale Jan Chapman October 2002 Australian Women From Lottie Lyell to Jane Campion, Australia's pre-eminent producer Jan Chapman surveys the contribution of women to the history of Australian cinema.
Celebrating Kate Howarde Ina Bertrand October 2002 Australian Women Ina Bertrand profiles an important cinematic pioneer, the first woman to write, produce and co-direct an Australian feature film.
Interview with Leah Purcell Rose Capp and Fiona Villella October 2002 Australian Women Writer, actor, and now director Leah Purcell talks to the co-editors about life, politics, talking tough to Phil Noyce and her documentary Black Chicks Talking.
Cold, Cold Heart: Joseph Losey’s The Damned and the Compensations of Genre David Sanjek July 2002 Director: Joseph Losey In favour of Losey's genre work, Sanjek puts forward The Damned as a crazed, rich highlight.
Losey Revisited James Leahy July 2002 Director: Joseph Losey Leahy introduces his 1967 piece on Blind Date, a film rich in allusion about the commodification of human relationships.
