Welcome to Issue 35 of our journal! the editors April 2005 Editorial The title to the opening article in this current issue of the journal, “A Matter of Time, A Labour of Love”, may also well serve to delineate the twin constraints under which this issue was produced. Little...
Maurice Pialat and John Cassavetes Philippe Lubac April 2005 Feature Articles A scholarly – and long overdue – analysis of the affinities and differences between these two filmmakers of immense stature.
Nostalgia for the Present: The Godard Renaissance Continued Glen W. Norton April 2005 Feature Articles Appropriately, Jean-Luc Godard's cinema remains an endless source of fascination for film criticism. Another account of Godard's æsthetics from a passionate admirer.
Digital Histoire(s): The Cyber-cinema of Evan Mather Matthew Clayfield April 2005 Feature Articles An appreciation and analysis of the low/no budget methodology of “cyber-cinema” artist Evan Mather.
La Mano Negra: Julio Cortázar and his Influence on Cinema Thomas Beltzer April 2005 Feature Articles Michelangelo' Antonioni's Blowup is perhaps the best known of the many films inspired or adapted from Cortazar's remarkable body of literature. This article considers the important legacy of the Argentine writer's influence on cinema.
Punch Drunk Love: The Budding of an Auteur Cubie King April 2005 Feature Articles An auteurist study of P. T. Anderson's critically admired, yet perhaps still under-appreciated, film.
Alfred Hitchcock’s Trailers Nándor Bokor and Alain Kerzoncuf April 2005 Feature Articles A unique research piece that documents and transcribes the contents of many, though now, rarely seen trailers to Hitchcock's features. A valuable document for Hitchcock scholars and film historians.
Images for a Post-Wall Reality: New German Films at the 55th Berlin Film Festival Marco Abel April 2005 Festival Reports February 10–20, 2005 One of the remarkable aspects of the state of contemporary film discourse on world cinema is that one of its traditional pilla...
Home Delivery: The 1st Annual Boulder International Film Festival Brad Weismann April 2005 Festival Reports February 17–20, 2005 “My dad's got a projection system!” “My dad's got a couple of comfortable venues!” “My dad's got a Web page!” “Let's p...
Shades of Globalisation: The 24th Sundance Film Festival Bérénice Reynaud April 2005 Festival Reports January 20–30, 2005 It is nobody's secret. Sundance 2005 was an honest year, but not a great one. The most salient feature was the decision to ...
Nationalism for the Main Course: Bangkok International Film Festival Brandon Wee April 2005 Festival Reports January 13–24, 2005 At the time of this writing, two domestic events of historical significance have recently come to pass in Thailand. The lat...
To the Distant Insider: A Local’s Guide to the 2005 Adelaide Film Festival Thomas Redwood April 2005 Festival Reports February 18–March 3, 2005 In the second of his two programmed lectures at the Mercury Cinema, special guest film scholar David Bordwell descri...
The Festival with No Limits: Rotterdam International Film Festival Paolo Bertolin April 2005 Festival Reports January 26–February 6, 2005 Critics, film journalists and cinephiles tend to describe the Rotterdam International Film Festival (IFFR) as a cu...
Buñuel, Luis Dominique Russell April 2005 Great Directors b. February 22, 1900, Calanda, Spain d. July 29, 1983, Mexico City, Mexico Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources...
Wyler, William David Cairns April 2005 Great Directors b. July 1, 1902, Mülhausen, Alsace, Germany d. July 27, 1981, Los Angeles, California, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources ...
Polonsky, Abraham Andrew Marsden April 2005 Great Directors b. Abraham Lincoln Polonsky b. December 5, 1910, New York, New York, USA d. October 26, 1999, Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA F...
Mankiewicz, Joseph L. Brian Dauth April 2005 Great Directors b. February 11, 1909, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, USA d. February 5, 1993, Bedford, New York, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles i...
de Leon, Gerardo Mark Holcomb April 2005 Great Directors b. Gerardo de Leon Ilagan b. September 12, 1913, Bulacan, Philippines d. July 25, 1981, Manila, Philippines Filmography Select Bibliograph...
Views From Beyond the Mirror: The Films of Jane Campion by Sue Gillett Martha P. Nochimson April 2005 Book Reviews Sue Gillett's monograph on Jane Campion's films establishes Campion as a cinematic poet of heterosexuality, “warts and all”. Gillett's intention i...
Paul Wegener: Frühe Moderne im Film by Heide Schönemann Thomas Elsaesser April 2005 Book Reviews This review was originally published in Cinema & Cie, no. 5, Fall 2004, 54–56. It has always been axiomatic – and not only thanks to Lotte Eisn...
Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System by Sharon Waxman Lee Hill April 2005 Book Reviews Like Peter Biskind's Down and Dirty Pictures in 2004, Sharon Waxman's Rebels On The Backlot was launched by its publisher at this year's Sundance Film...
Resonant Textuality: Visualising and Conceptualising the Cinema of Wong Kar-wai: Wong Kar-wai by Stephen Teo Dana Polan April 2005 Book Reviews A while back, Senses of Cinema offered a mini-dossier on Wong Kar-wai's cinema on the occasion of the release of his In the Mood for Love (2000). A nu...
The Cinema Effect by Sean Cubitt Roger Dawkins April 2005 Book Reviews Sean Cubitt's book, The Cinema Effect, is an intricate philosophical analysis of film. Following from studies like Gilles Deleuze's Cinema 1 and Cinem...
Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Essential Critic: Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons by Jonathan Rosenbaum Stephen Teo April 2005 Book Reviews Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University, 2004), takes a canonical view ...
Diary of a Chambermaid Victoria Loy April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Diary of a Chambermaid/Le Journal d'une Femme de Chambre (France 1964 98 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: SPEVA Films/Cine-Alliance/Film...
Dishonored (Josef von Sternberg, 1931) Tamara Tracz April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Dishonored is one of the least discussed of the Sternberg-Dietrich cycle that began with The Blue Angel in 1930 and ended six films and five years lat...
Image-Smithing: Early Abstractions Dirk de Bruyn April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Early Abstractions (1957 USA 23 mins) Source: NFVLS Filmmaker: Harry Smith You shouldn't be looking at this as a continuity. Film frames are h...
The Epic That Never Was Robert Keser April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Epic that Never Was (1965 Britain 74 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: BBC Prod, Dir, Scr: Bill Duncalf Phot: Robert Kauffman Ed: Brian Keene Cast:...
Fantastic Planet Chris Justice April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Fantastic Planet/La Planète sauvage (1973 France 72 mins) Source: NFSA Prod Co: Ceskoslovensky Filmexport/Krátky Film Praha/Les Films Armorial ...
The Flower of My Secret Carla Marcantonio April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Flower of My Secret/La Flor de mi secreto (1995 Spain 103 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: CiBy 2000/El Deseo S.A. Prod: Esther Carc...
The Grace of Suffering: Rohmer’s Full Moon in Paris Alexander C. Ives April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Full Moon in Paris/Les Nuits de la pleine lune (1984 France 102 mins) Source: CNC Prod Co: Les Films du Losange/Les Films Ariane Prod: Margaret...
My Night at Maud’s Rahul Hamid April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film My Night at Maud's/Ma nuit chez Maud (1969 France 110 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Les Films du Losange, et. al. Prod: Pierre Cottre...
Place de l’Etoile Steven Rybin April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Paris vu par…: Place de l'Etoile (1965 France 27 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Les Filmes du Cyprès/Les Films du Losange Prod: Barbet...
A Tale of Springtime Dan Harper April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film A Tale of Springtime/Conte de Printemps (1990 France 107 mins) Source: Level Four Films Prod Co: Les Films du Losange/Roissy Films Prod: Margar...
The 4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle Aaron Goldberg April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film The 4 Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987 France 95 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Les Films du Losange/GER Prod, Dir: Eric Roh...
Claire’s Knee Daniel Hayes April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Claire's Knee/Le Genou de Claire (1970 France 105 mins) Source: CNC Prod Co: Les Films du Losange Prod: Pierre Cottrell Dir, Scr: Eric Rohmer P...
Hands Up! David Sanjek April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Hands Up! (1926 USA 56 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Paramount Prod: B. P. Schulberg Dir: Clarence Badger Scr: Monte Brice, Lloyd Corrigan Phot:...
Hue and Cry Tony Williams April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Hue and Cry (1946 UK 82 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Ealing Prod: Michael Balcon Dir: Charles Crichton Scr: T.E.B. Clarke Phot: Douglas Slocomb...
Notes on Park Chan-wook’s Joint Security Area Christopher Bourne April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film JSA/Joint Security Area (2000 South Korea 107 mins) Source: Madman Entertainment Prod Co: CJ Entertainment/Intz.com/KTB Network/Myung Film Comp...
The Love Parade David Cairns April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Love Parade (1929 USA 110 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Paramount Prod, Dir: Ernst Lubitsch Scr: Guy Bolton, Ernst Vajda, from Jules Chancel...
In the Mirror of Maya Deren Rebecca Bachman April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2002 Germany/Austria/Switzerland 103 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Austrian Film Institute/Dschoint Vent...
The Riddle of the Chicken: The Work of Norman McLaren Bill Schaffer April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film An exemplary modernist, Norman McLaren was at once a practitioner and a theorist of animated art. Indeed, the most frequently cited attempt to def...
People Make Papers Anna Daly April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film People Make Papers (1965 Australia 16 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Cinesound Productions Dir: Fred Schepisi Phot: Peter Purvis Ed: B...
Underworld Vicente Rodriguez-Ortega April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Underworld (1927 USA 81 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Paramount Prod: Hector Turnbull Dir: Josef von Sternberg Scr: Robert N. Lee, from Ben Hech...
Volcano High Andrew Leavold April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Volcano High/Hwasan Go (2002 South Korea 99 mins) Source: Madman Entertainment Prod Co: SBS/Shin Seung-soo Productions/Sidus Pictures/Terasourc...
Whisky Galore! Darragh O’Donoghue April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Whisky Galore! (1949 UK 82 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Ealing Prod: Michael Balcon Dir: Alexander Mackendrick Scr: Compton MacKenzie, Angus Ma...
Begone Dull Care Paul Melançon April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Begone Dull Care (1949 Canada 8 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: NFBC Dir: Evelyn Lambart, Norman McLaren Anim: Norman McLaren Mus: Oscar Peterson ...
A Cry in the Dark: The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and the “New Australian Cinema” Adam Bingham April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith (1978 Australia 124 mins) Source: NFSA Prod, Dir: Fred Schepisi Scr: Fred Schepisi, based on Thomas Keneally's n...
The Great McGinty (Preston Sturges, 1940) Brian Darr April 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film On February 27, 1941, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave an introductory address during the radio broadcast of the 13th annual Academy Awards ceremony. Hi...
The Magic of Risking Everything For a Dream Nobody Sees: Million Dollar Baby: The Shadow Film Carloss James Chamberlin April 2005 On Recent Films A unique interpretation of Clint Eastwood's much-praised film that counters much of the more straightforward readings of the film as a humanist melodrama.
Some Notes on “Political Cinema” Prompted by Seeing Raoul Peck’s Sometimes in April in Competition at the Berlin Film Festival Jon Jost April 2005 On Recent Films A personal reflection written in the heat of the moment soon after the film's screening at the recent Berlin Film Festival.
2046: A Matter of Time, A Labour of Love Stephen Teo April 2005 On Recent Films An analysis of the themes of time and memory in Wong Kar-waiís 2046, and how the film forms a trilogy of sorts with In the Mood for Love and Days of Being Wild.
House of Flying Daggers: A Reappraisal Hwanhee Lee April 2005 On Recent Films Unlike Hero – to which it was inevitably compared – Zhang Yimou's follow up film should be considered more as an “intimate drama” about love than as a historical epic or political allegory.
Little Shop of Genres: An interview with Charles B. Griffith Aaron W. Graham April 2005 Conversations with Filmmakers The work of one of the most distinctive voices in B-grade cinema gets discussed at length. From the mouth of Charles B. Griffith comes a fascinating tale of his adventures in the screen trade.
L’Intrus: An Interview with Claire Denis Damon Smith April 2005 Conversations with Filmmakers Acclaimed filmmaker Claire Denis discusses her new feature and the evolving æsthetics of her art.
An Interview with Françoise Romand Adam Hart April 2005 Conversations with Filmmakers In recent times, documentaries have been big at the box-office, but some of the best and most experimental in approach remain relatively unknown. Françoise Romand discusses her films and her concept of “fictional documentary”.
To Remember History: Hu Jie Talks about His Documentaries Shen Rui April 2005 Conversations with Filmmakers Chinese art-house features have had much attention of late, unfortunately less so Chinese documentaries. Independent filmmaker Hu Jie discusses his films at length.
‘Sex sells’ as a Revolution David Theelen April 2005 Brief Encounters The seminal hardcore cross-over film Deep Throat gets put under the spotlight.
Illusion 24 frames per second: François Truffaut’s La Nuit Américaine Daniel Fairfax April 2005 Brief Encounters Francois Truffaut's testament on the filmmaking process. This article evaluates the film's standing amongst the many film-with-a-film themed works.
In Search of Lost Time: Friends and Paul and Michelle Scott Murray April 2005 Brief Encounters Both these films were much maligned on their initial release. This appreciation rescues them from critical oblivion.
Solzhenitsyn’s Children … Are Making a Lot of Noise in Paris Jonathan Dawson April 2005 Brief Encounters Ten years after the events of May 1968, director Michael Rubbo travels to Paris in search of the revolutionary dream. It has soured, but there is still much to shout about.
Buried Treasure: Feuillade and Franju on DVD Geoff Gardner April 2005 DVD Reviews There is much to admire about the silent cinema artistry and poetic beauty of director Louis Feuillade and the man who remade one of his classic films, Georges Franju.
Possession: DVD Review Victor Galstyan April 2005 DVD Reviews The singular vision of polish director Andrzej Zulawski's 1981 film is examined, and found to be as powerful as ever.
