Welcome to Issue 27 of our journal! the editors July 2003 Editorial Recent months have been marked by two well-publicised controversies around the issue of freedom of speech in Australia. Firstly, there was the appalling decision by the Board of Review and the Office of Fil...
The Frontiers of Genre and Trance: Five Films by Jess Franco Maximilian Le Cain July 2003 Feature Articles Despite having seen only a portion of Franco's incredibly vast oeuvre, Max's discussion is nevertheless insightful, uncovering the workings of what he refers to as "a paroxysmal non-narrative cinema based on the director's sensations".
Phantasmatic Fissures: Spider Patricia MacCormack July 2003 Feature Articles As a film which dramatises a state of 'schizophrenia', MacCormack argues, by going beyond psychoanalysis, that Spider and indeed Cronenberg's films generally offer creative possibilities for thinking new realities and states.
Absolute Definition: Katharine Hepburn Lesley Chow July 2003 Feature Articles Katherine Hepburn died last month aged 96. This tribute takes a close look at what made her performances unique.
Central Asian Films Jared Rapfogel July 2003 Feature Articles Jared delights in films from this region of the world, in particular, their humility, insight and complexity in grasping a reality much harsher then that of the contemporary West.
The European Undead: Tsai Ming-liang’s Temporal Dysphoria Fran Martin July 2003 Feature Articles Martin examines the complex, layered workings of cinematic and cultural referencing in this film and its overall sensibility of temporal disjuncture.
Community, Loss, and Regeneration: An Interview with Wheeler Winston Dixon Gwendolyn Audrey Foster July 2003 Feature Articles In this career-spanning interview, the filmmaker and prolific author discusses his participation in the '60s counterculture and avant-garde film scene.
One League of Social Consciousness: Dharmasena Pathiraja Speaks Brandon Wee July 2003 Feature Articles Sri Lankan filmmaker, Dharmasena Pathiraja, whose works are humanist social commentaries, enjoyed a retrospective at this year's Singapore International Film Festival.
“There Is No Sixth Generation!” Director Li Yang on Blind Shaft and His Place in Chinese Cinema Stephen Teo July 2003 Feature Articles Li Yang discusses his impressive first feature, a drama set in China's mining industry, starring professional and non-professionals, exploring socio-historical, ethical, and existential themes.
Performing the Documentary, or Making It To the Other Bank Charles Leary July 2003 Feature Articles A recent, unconventional Chinese documentary blurs the lines between cinema, theatre and ‘reality.’
Don’t Fence Me In: Reading Beyond Genre Robert Briggs July 2003 Feature Articles Unforgiven as a fantasy film? Star Trek as a Western? How do we go about classifying films by genre – and what are the risks of doing so?
Material Film Hugo Salas July 2003 Feature Articles Could Adorno have been right in his belief that cinema was not an art? In this provocative essay, Salas argues for a re-assessment of the concept of the ‘culture industry.’
MIAF at the Crossroads: A Report on the 2003 Melbourne International Animation Festival Daniel Yencken July 2003 Festival Reports As the 2003 Melbourne International Animation Festival (MIAF)'s trailer started rolling on opening night, I experienced a wave of nostalgia for th...
You’re Smiling! You’re Winning! Have You Considered CineVegas? Rhiannon Aarons July 2003 Festival Reports http://www.cinevegas.com/ June 13-21, 2003 Acting as an extension of Las Vegas itself, the primary goal of the CineVegas Film Festival in the ...
Cannes 2003 Gerald Peary July 2003 Festival Reports This article was originally published in the Boston Phoenix, June 6 2003. Eyes roll back home in Boston when I plead my case: that being a jour...
Chocolate Box to Cracker Bag: The 2003 St Kilda Film Festival Mark Freeman July 2003 Festival Reports It was a neat piece of synchronicity which gave the opening of the annual St Kilda Film Festival added excitement. Programmed as part of the openi...
Sixteen Flashbacks – The 16th Singapore International Film Festival Brandon Wee July 2003 Festival Reports (17 April - 3 May 2003) 16. The Ending Is The Beginning Is The End In Strain Andromeda The (1992), video artist Anne McGuire re-edits Robert Wis...
From St. Kilda to Kings Cross (Almost): Some Observations on the 2003 Sydney Film Festival Adrian Danks July 2003 Festival Reports The outrage over the Australia-wide banning of Larry Clark's Ken Park (2002) forestalled much of the broader media's critical discussion of the 20...
Cynicism Overruled: The 2003 St Kilda Film Festival Anna Daly July 2003 Festival Reports This is the first time I've seen more than a couple of sessions from the annual St. Kilda short film festival. So when I say that I was surprised ...
Spotlight on the 52nd Melbourne International Film Festival: Festival Wrap-Up Various July 2003 Festival Reports Back to Daily Updates Posted Friday 25 July - Thursday 7 August Posted Saturday 16 August (Festival Wrap-Up) by Michelle Carey Ten favour...
Censorship Forum at the Sydney Film Festival Various July 2003 Festival Reports Earlier this year, a local video distributor seeking to release Ken Park (Larry Clark & Ed Lachman, 2002) for sale and hire throughout Austral...
Hidden Face: Asian Cinema and the Sydney Film Festival Pauline Webber July 2003 Festival Reports Despite proclamations to the contrary, the portion of Asian cinema in recent years at the Sydney Film Festival is small. There is instead an overall bias toward films from English-speaking countries.
Daily Reports from the 52nd Melbourne International Film Festival Various July 2003 Festival Reports Posted Saturday 16 August (Festival Wrap-Up) Posted Thursday 7 August (A Cold Summer, Resurrection of the Little Match Girl) Posted Sunday 3...
Angelopoulos, Theodoros Acquarello July 2003 Great Directors b. April 27, 1935, Athens, Greece d. January 24, 2012, Piraeus, Greece filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources In Theo...
De Palma, Brian Keith Uhlich July 2003 Great Directors b. September 11, 1940, Newark, New Jersey, USA filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Is Brian De Palma cursed? From a...
Fincher, David Sean Lindsay July 2003 Great Directors b. 1962, Denver, Colorado, USA filmography bibliography web resources It is an understatement to claim that the films of director David Fi...
Imamura, Shohei Nelson Kim July 2003 Great Directors b. 15 September, 1926, Tokyo, Japan d. 30 May, 2006, Tokyo, Japan filmography bibliography web resources I am interested in the relationshi...
Kieslowski, Krzysztof Doug Cummings July 2003 Great Directors b. June 27, 1941, Warsaw, Poland d. March 13, 1996, Warsaw, Poland filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources A filmmaker...
Kitano, Takeshi Bob Davis July 2003 Great Directors b. January 18, 1947, Tokyo, Japan filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Takeshi Kitano was the youngest of four child...
Kluge, Alexander Michelle Langford July 2003 Great Directors b. February 14, 1932, Halberstadt, Germany filmography bibliography web resources In February 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder wrote a short ...
Linklater, Richard Brian Price July 2003 Great Directors b. July 30, 1960, Houston, Texas filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Richard Linklater emerged at a vital, if dubio...
Maddin, Guy Jason W July 2003 Great Directors b. February 28, 1956, Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources Over the course of a career th...
Nichols, Mike Lee Hill July 2003 Great Directors b. November 6, 1931, Berlin, Germany d. November 19, 2014, New York, New York filmography bibliography web resources Mike Nichols and The B...
Rainer, Yvonne Erin Brannigan July 2003 Great Directors b. 1934, San Francisco, California, USA filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources My films always were meant to confound in...
Schlesinger, John Béatrice Schatzmann-von Aesch July 2003 Great Directors b. John Richard Schlesinger b. February 16, 1926, London, England d. July 25, 2003, Palm Springs, USA filmography bibliography web resource...
Skolimowski, Jerzy Bruce Hodsdon July 2003 Great Directors b. May 5, 1938, Lódz, Poland filmography bibliography web resources Eyes Wide Open Jerzy Skolimowski has said that he makes films to please...
Truffaut, François Juan Carlos González A. July 2003 Great Directors b. February 6, 1932, Paris, France d. October 21, 1984, Neuilly-sur-Seine, France translated by Tristan Vasquez filmography bibliography ...
Tsui Hark Grady Hendrix July 2003 Great Directors b. Tsui Man-kwong b. January 2, 1951, French Cochinchina (Vietnam) filmography bibliography articles in Senses web resources When it rai...
Visconti Revisited Take 2: Luchino Visconti by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Benjamin Halligan July 2003 Book Reviews (Third edition, London: BFI, 2003) The received wisdom on Luchino Visconti involves citing his apparently contradictory nature as the basis for the...
Womenvision: Women and the Moving Image in Australia edited by Lisa French Michelle Langford July 2003 Book Reviews (Melbourne: Damned Publishing, 2003) In her introduction to Womenvision, the editor Lisa French pays homage to an event that took place in Sydney i...
Coming in from the Culled: A Review of A Postmodern Cinema: The Voice of the Other in Canadian Film by Mary Alemany-Galway Dirk de Bruyn July 2003 Book Reviews (Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 2002) I was drawn to this book by the mention of the Other and Canadian film in the one sentence. I had an interest, ha...
Diary of a Country Priest Dan Harper July 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film Diary of a Country Priest/Journal d'un curé de campagne (1950 France 120 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: UGC Prod: Leon Carre, Robert Sussfeld ...
Fireworks Christopher Meir July 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film Fireworks (1947 USA 14 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Filmmaker: Kenneth Anger Completed at the tender age of 17, Fireworks – an audacious pre-Stonewall...
Border Crossings: Placing René Clément’s La Bataille du rail Adrian Danks July 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film La Bataille du Rail (1946 France 85 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: CGCF Prod, Dir: René Clément Scr: René Clément and Colette Audry, b...
Lunch on the Grass Stuart Lord July 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film This article was originally published in CTEQ Annotations on Film, Metro 110 (1997), pp. 79-80. Lunch on the Grass/Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe (195...
The Merchant of Four Seasons Girish Shambu July 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Merchant of Four Seasons (1971 West Germany 89 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Tango Film/Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) Prod: Ingrid Fa...
Un chant d’amour Mark Adnum July 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film Un Chant d'amour/Song of love (1950 France 26 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Filmmaker: Jean Genet Phot: Jacques Natteau Cast: Java, André Reybaz, L...
The Blood of a Poet Julia Levin July 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Blood of a Poet/Le Sang d'un poète (1930 France 50 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Vicomte de Noailles Prod: Vicomte de Noailles (uncredite...
Emigrating to Madness: Despair (Eine Reise ins Licht) Carloss James Chamberlin July 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film Despair/Eine Reise ins Licht (1977 West Germany/France 119 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Bavaria Studios/La Societe Francaise de Production P...
French CanCan Rick Thompson July 2003 CTEQ Annotations on Film French CanCan (1955 France 105 mins) Source: Heritage Films Prod Co: Franco-London Films/Jolly Films Prod: Louis Wipf for Franco London Films D...
Awakening to A.I.‘s Dream Gregory Solman July 2003 Steven Spielberg Spielberg's spiritual quest in A.I. reveals how faith can open moribund myths to glorious cinematic expression.
Minority Report: A Dystopic Vision Lester D. Friedman July 2003 Steven Spielberg Social oppression and philosophical uncertainty define the noir atmosphere of Spielberg’s least overtly religious science-fiction film.
The Question Spielberg: A Symposium Part One: Position Papers Various July 2003 Steven Spielberg The Question Spielberg: A Symposium. Childlike visionary or prince of darkness? Critics from around the world offer a range of views on the world’s most successful filmmaker.
The Question Spielberg: A Symposium Part Two: Films and Moments Various July 2003 Steven Spielberg The Question Spielberg: A Symposium. Childlike visionary or prince of darkness? Critics from around the world offer a range of views on the world’s most successful filmmaker.
Paradise Regained: Queen Kelly and the Lure of the ‘Lost’ Film Darragh O’Donoghue July 2003 Lost Films Why do ‘lost’ or mutilated films hold such fascination? O’Donoghue searches for an answer in the fragmentary legacy of the patron saint of the film maudit, Erich von Stroheim.
From the Beginning: Notes on Orson Welles’ Most Personal Late Film Peter Tonguette July 2003 Lost Films On the trail of the unfinished Isak Dinesen adaptation The Dreamers, Tonguette talks with Welles experts and associates about this crucial late work.
Breathing Together: The Author in Search of Investors James Leahy July 2003 Lost Films In 1969, Hollywood exile Nicholas Ray arrived in Chicago hoping to film a radical ‘documentary.’ His collaborator recalls the era, the project and the man.
Dreaming in Motion: Five Films from Five New Filmmakers Felicity Collins July 2003 Australian Film Culture Following on from Shifting Sands: From Sand to Celluloid is Dreaming in Motion, a new series of indigenous shorts. Collins takes a closer look at their thematic and formal qualities.
The Ubu Moment: An Interview with Albie Thoms Danni Zuvela July 2003 Australian Film Culture Thoms looks back on his achievements as a pioneering experimental ‘filmer’ and advocate of independent cinema.
Carlton + Godard = Cinema: An Interview with Nigel Buesst Jake Wilson July 2003 Australian Film Culture Reflections on Melbourne’s own ‘new wave’ from a participant and observer.
