Welcome to Issue 33 of our journal! the editors October 2004 Editorial Here in Australia, this month has seen Prime Minister John Howard and his conservative government re-elected with an increased majority, despite widely expressed dismay over our involvement with the disaste...
Voyage to the End of the World: Manoel de Oliveira’s A Talking Picture Yaniv Eyny and A. Zubatov October 2004 Feature Articles Ostensibly a film about a boat trip, Oliveira's film questions the legacy of ancient civilisation in western society today.
Finding Freedom the Second Time Around: The Politics of Before Sunset Kevin Lee October 2004 Feature Articles Richard Linklater's latest film has exacted a strong emotional engagement with viewers around the world. Here is one response illustrating what makes this film so special.
Before Sunrise, or Los Angeles Plays Itself In a Lonely Place Michael J. Anderson October 2004 Feature Articles Michael Mann's Collateral is an ode to the cool “steel and glass” splendour of Los Angeles, from sunset to sunrise.
Channelling Democracy: Control Room Bill Stamets October 2004 Feature Articles This documentary on the Middle Eastern TV network Al-Jazeera raises questions about the meaning of journalistic objectivity.
The Thickening Centre: Fahrenheit 9/11 Tony McKibbin October 2004 Feature Articles Agitprop or personal essay? McKibbin argues that Michael Moore's “documentary” suffers from generic ambivalence.
Thoughts on the Number Five: Kiarostami, von Trier, and Slessor Michael Farrell October 2004 Feature Articles A short, lyrical contemplation on the popularity and usage of the number “five” in recent cinema.
Keith Gordon on Keith Gordon, Part One: From Actor to Director Peter Tonguette October 2004 Feature Articles The first half of an in-depth interview, covering Gordon's beginnings as an actor and his first three films as director.
Love in Flight: François Truffaut’s La Peau Douce Maximilian Le Cain October 2004 Feature Articles To mark the 20th anniversary of Truffaut's death, we present this re-appraisal of one of his finest and most underrated films.
The Three Faces of Spidey: Spiderman 2 Violeta Kovacsics October 2004 Feature Articles Even better than the original, this sequel marks the maturity of director Sam Raimi as well as his hero.
Where are the Snows of Yesteryear?: Hong Sang-soo Searches for Lost Time in Woman is the Future of Man Acquarello October 2004 Feature Articles In his fifth feature, Hong sublimates the forms and structures of his previous work in his ever-searching quest for human truth.
From Sea to Sky: An Interview with Zhu Wen Kevin Lee October 2004 Feature Articles The director of South of the Clouds discusses his fresh approach to filmmaking and successfully evades naming a cinematic influence!
Carlo Di Palma: An Appreciation and a Remembrance Peter Tonguette October 2004 Feature Articles This tribute to the distinguished cinematographer (1925–2004) focuses on his 11-film collaboration with Woody Allen.
Parametric Narration and Optical Transition Devices: Hou Hsiao-hsien and Robert Bresson in Comparison Colin Burnett October 2004 Feature Articles A Bordwellian analysis of parametric narration in Pickpocket and Flowers of Shanghai demonstrates how Hou rewrites the “Hollywood rule” of fades.
Aspects of Change: The 58th Edinburgh International Film Festival George Clark October 2004 Festival Reports All film festivals are somewhat outside of culture. They operate to test films on a prospective market, to showcase films from underexposed countr...
A Report on the 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival Rolando Caputo October 2004 Festival Reports On the opening day of the 53rd Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) I find myself watching Abbas Kiarostami's 10 on Ten (2004). While not ...
Inner Turbulence: The 4th New York Korean Film Festival Christopher Bourne October 2004 Festival Reports Film scholar Gilberto Perez, in his brilliant work The Material Ghost: Films and their Medium, expresses as well as anyone I've read the physical ...
Gde Mama? (“Where’s Mother?”): Russian Resurrection Film Festival Helen Grace October 2004 Festival Reports Even though they record moments which may never appear in the film, production stills are strangely powerful instruments, constructing in retrospe...
A Report on the 13th Brisbane International Film Festival Jim Knox October 2004 Festival Reports The cultural horizons are less narrowly diminished than when I covered the first Brisbane International Film Festival (as a then-time local, for F...
Midnight at the Oasis: The 9th Cinematexas International Short Film Festival Ioannis Mookas October 2004 Festival Reports From the wide span of the Congress Avenue bridge in Austin, it was possible to mark the autumn equinox this September by gazing up that long avenu...
Becker, Jacques James Sepsey October 2004 Great Directors b. September 15, 1906, Paris, France d. February 21, 1960, Paris, France Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources What once was great,...
Bertolucci, Bernardo Bilge Ebiri October 2004 Great Directors b. March 16, 1941, Parma, Italy. d. November 26, 2018, Rome, Italy. Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources Exorc...
Cukor, George Dan Callahan October 2004 Great Directors b. July 7, 1899, New York City, USA d. January 23, 1983, Los Angeles, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources ...
Demme, Jonathan Keith Uhlich October 2004 Great Directors b. February 22, 1944, Baldwin, Long Island, New York, USA d. April 26, 2017, Manhattan, New York, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Web Re...
Forsyth, Bill Christopher Meir October 2004 Great Directors b. William David Forsyth b. July 29, 1946, Whiteinch, Glasgow, Scotland by Christopher Meir Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources ...
Kolm-Fleck, Louise Robert von Dassanowsky October 2004 Great Directors b. Louise (aka Luise) Veltée b. August 1, 1873, Vienna, Austria-Hungary d. March 15, 1950, Vienna, Austria Filmography Select Bibliography...
A Fistful of Metaphors: The Dream Life and The Magic Hour by J. Hoberman Robert Keser October 2004 Book Reviews On the dust jacket of The Dream Life, Clint Eastwood squints and squats in his Dirty Harry stance, wielding his Magnum .44 in wide angle, the long met...
Places in the Heart: Where Does It Happen? John Cassavetes and Cinema at the Breaking Point by George Kouvaros Brad Stevens October 2004 Book Reviews At one point in “I'm Almost Not Crazy...” John Cassavetes: The Man and His Work (1984), Michael Ventura's documentary about the making of Love Streams...
This Time It’s Personal: Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media by Laura U. Marks Claire Perkins October 2004 Book Reviews In the opening paragraph of the opening essay of Touch: Sensuous Theory and Multisensory Media Laura Marks describes the experience of watching a marg...
Scorsese’s Alibis? Scorsese’s Men: Melancholia and the Mob by Mark Nicholls Tim Groves October 2004 Book Reviews Male melancholy, according to Adrian Martin, is one of those places where cinema has a rendezvous with its destiny. Perhaps this is why cinephiles oft...
Danish Dogmas: Purity and Provocation: Dogma ’95 edited by Mette Hjort and Scott MacKenzie Ove Christensen October 2004 Book Reviews In 1995 the (in)famous Danish director Lars von Trier and the young director Thomas Vinterberg launched a manifesto for filmmaking known as Dogma '95 ...
Permanent Satisfactions: The Last Great American Picture Show: New Hollywood Cinema in the 1970s edited by Thomas Elsaesser, Alexander Horwath, and Noel King Charles Leary October 2004 Book Reviews I'll tell you one thing. There's nothing like building up an old automobile from scratch and wiping out one of these Detroit machines. That'll give yo...
Mobile States: Lesbian Rule: Cultural Criticism and the Value of Desire by Amy Villarejo Megan Carrigy October 2004 Book Reviews Dear Amy Villarejo, I'm sorry – I can't answer those questions – I'm really too busy to understand why anyone would want them answered – Good Luck –...
Crossing Over, or “It’s a Long Way to Lordsburg”: Comanche Station Adrian Danks October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film, Revisiting Budd Boetticher Comanche Station (1960 USA 73 mins) Source: Sony Picture Classics Prod Co: Ranown Prod, Dir: Budd Boetticher Scr: Burt Kennedy Phot: Charles Lawton...
L’année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) Darragh O’Donoghue October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film L'année dernière à Marienbad (Last Year at Marienbad) (1961 France/Italy 90 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod Co: Terra-Film/Socié...
Street of Shame Dan Harper October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Street of Shame (Japan 1956 85 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Daiei Dir: Kenji Mizoguchi Scr: Masashige Narusawa, based on the novel S...
The Connection William “Bill” Blick October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Connection (1961 USA 110 mins) Prod: Lewis Allen, Shirley Clarke Dir, Ed: Shirley Clarke Scr: Jack Gelber, from his play Phot: Arthur J. Or...
Trans-Europ Express Jonathan Dawson October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Trans-Europ Express (1966 France 105 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Como Film Production Prod: Samy Halfon Dir, Scr: Alain Robbe-Grill...
Twenty-Four Eyes Freda Freiberg October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Twenty-Four Eyes/Nijushi no hitomi (1954 Japan 155 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Shochiku Dir: Keisuke Kinoshita Scr: Keisuke Kinoshita, based o...
The Virgin Spring Martyn Bamber October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Virgin Spring (Jungfrukällan) (1960 Sweden 88 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Svensk Filmindustri Prod: Ingmar Bergman, Allan Ekelu...
Ceddo James Leahy October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Ceddo (1976 Sénégal 117 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Filmi Doomi Reew Prod: Robert Loko Dir, Scr: Sembène Ousmane Phot: Georges Cari...
A Communications Primer and View from the People Wall Anna Daly October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film A Communications Primer (1953 USA 22 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: The Eames Office Filmmakers: Charles and Ray Eames Mus: Elmer Bern...
Dance, Girl, Dance Louise Cole October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Dance, Girl, Dance (1940 USA 89 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: RKO Prod: Eric Pommer, Harry E. Edington Dir: Dorothy Arzner Scr: Tess Slesinger, ...
Dancers of the Sea Holly Willis October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Dancers of the Sea/Les Danseuses de la mer (1956 France 20 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Filmmaker: Jean Painlevé Mus: Pierre Conte “You wi...
Morning of the Earth: A Surf Movie Classic Arthur O'Bryan October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Morning of the Earth (1972 Australia 77 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod: David Elfick Dir, Phot, Ed: Albert Falzon Mus: G. Wayne Thoma...
Puberty Blues Daniel Mudie Cunningham October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Puberty Blues (1981 Australia 83 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia Prod Co: Limelight Productions Prod: Joan Long, Margaret Kelly Dir: Bruce ...
The “Confusion Ethics” of Raise the Red Lantern David Neo October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Raise the Red Lantern/Da Hong Denglong Gao Gao Gua (China 1991 125 mins) Source: Level Four Films Prod Co: Palace/Era/China Film Prod: Chiu Fu-...
The Scarlet Letter Bob Davis October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Scarlet Letter (1926 USA 87 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: MGM Prod, Dir: Victor Seastrom (Sjöström) Scr: Frances Marion, from the novel by N...
The Wild Party Kendahl Cruver October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Wild Party (1929 USA 75 mins) Source: UCLA Prod Co: Paramount/Famous Lasky Players Prod: Jesse L. Lasky, Adolph Zukor Dir: Dorothy Arzner S...
Behind Locked Doors Riccardo De Los Rios October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film, Revisiting Budd Boetticher Behind Locked Doors (1948 USA 62 mins) Source: PC Prod Co: Aro Productions/Eagle-Lion Films Prod: Eugene Ling Dir: Budd Boetticher Scr: Eugene ...
The Bride Wore Red Nicholas Butler October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Bride Wore Red (1937 USA 103 min) Source: Vigo Films Prod Co: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Prod: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Dir: Dorothy Arzner Scr: Bradb...
Crossing Over, or “It’s a Long Way to Lordsburg”: Comanche Station Adrian Danks October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film, Revisiting Budd Boetticher Comanche Station (1960 USA 73 mins) Source: Sony Picture Classics Prod Co: Ranown Prod, Dir: Budd Boetticher Scr: Burt Kennedy Phot: Charles Lawton, Jnr Ed: Edwin Bryant Art Dir: Carl Anderson Mus Dir: Misch...
Behind Locked Doors Riccardo De Los Rios October 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film, Revisiting Budd Boetticher Behind Locked Doors (1948 USA 62 mins) Source: PC Prod Co: Aro Productions/Eagle-Lion Films Prod: Eugene Ling Dir: Budd Boetticher Scr: Eugene Ling, Malvin Wald, from Wald's story Phot: Guy Roe Ed: Norma...
Draggin’ The River: The Ister Carloss James Chamberlin October 2004 Australian Film Culture An essay that travels upriver from a viewing of this unique, probing film to that black sheep of twentieth century German philosophy, Martin Heidegger, and beyond.
Parallel Lives: Britain’s National Film and Television Archive and Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive Under Threat Ray Edmondson October 2004 Australian Film Culture Edmondson compares the plight of two distinguished film archives and ponders how such changes will affect the future of national audiovisual memory.
Killing the Gatekeeper: Autonomy, Globality and Reclaiming Australian Cinema Matthew Clayfield October 2004 Australian Film Culture Recent Australian films still struggle to define a viable “national identity” – but is this even necessary?
Daze of the Rabblement: Early Film Comedy and Some Modernists Darragh O’Donoghue October 2004 Comedy and Perception How the 1920s experiments of René Clair, Eisenstein and others look back to the marvels and gags of early cinema.
The Narrative-Machine: Buster Keaton’s Cinematic Comedy, Deleuze’s Recursion Function and the Operational Aesthetic Lisa Trahair October 2004 Comedy and Perception To incorporate his chain-reaction gags into a longer narrative, Keaton invented a distinctive form of “comic epic”.
Sight Gags and Satire in the Soviet Thaw: Operation Y and Other Shurik’s Adventures Saša Milić October 2004 Comedy and Perception In the hit Soviet comedy of 1965, seemingly innocuous slapstick carries a pointed political subtext.
The Comic Visualised, or Laughing at Shallow Hal Meghan Sutherland October 2004 Comedy and Perception The Farrelly brothers prove that beauty is truly “in the eye of the beholder”.
The Gag Reflex David Cairns October 2004 Comedy and Perception An award-winning comic filmmaker reveals a few tricks of the trade.
Where Can The Others Meet? Gender, Race and Film Comedy Mark Richardson October 2004 Comedy and Perception On zombies, racism, subjectivity, and the insult as an expression of love.
Talking About Seeing: A Conversation with James Benning Danni Zuvela October 2004 The Suspended Narrative The uncategorisable experimental filmmaker was recently in Brisbane to introduce a program of his films.
In and Out of the Blue: Love’s Secret Maria Walsh October 2004 The Suspended Narrative A text written to accompany the 1999 film by Sarah Miles, which uses disjunctive techniques to capture the fantasy and frustration of romantic love.
The Cinema Too Must Be Destroyed: An Interview with Stewart Home Simon Strong October 2004 The Suspended Narrative The prolific British novelist and all-round provocateur discusses his film work.
The Lovers from Copenhagen: A Conversation with Manuel Alberto Claro and Tine Grew Pfeiffer on Reconstruction Lorena Cancela October 2004 The State of Denmark We hear from two members of a collective of young Danish filmmakers, involved in developing a post-classical cinematic grammar.
No Stories to Tell: Danish Cinema Searches for a Subject Jack Stevenson October 2004 The State of Denmark Dramatic situations are in short supply in modern Denmark – or are the filmmakers themselves to blame?
The Prodromic Institution of Spass: The Idiots Gregory Little October 2004 The State of Denmark This analysis of Lars von Trier's original Dogma film considers idiocy as a spreading disease.
