Welcome to Issue 49 of our Journal … Finally! the editors February 2009 Editorial Senses of Cinema would like to apologise to both authors and readers for the lateness of this issue. Senses has undertaken a complete redesign of its website. We had hoped to launch issue 49 with a trial...
The Living London Boom Sally Jackson March 2009 Feature Articles Following on from Ian Christie’s appreciation of the significance of Living London, historian Sally Jackson traces the exhibition history of the film within Australia and New Zealand and argues that it may have “directly influenced the development of the world’s first feature-length dramatic film, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906).”
The Girl with the Speck of Dust in Her Eye: Living London Returns Ian Christie February 2009 Feature Articles Noted film historian Ian Christie celebrates the discovery of a rare and precious fragment of film that opens a window on London at the turn of the last century.
Brave New World: Some Reflections on the Digital Revolution in General and Digital Cinema in Particular Sally Shafto February 2009 Feature Articles As the effects of digital technology become increasing pervasive within contemporary culture, Sally Shafto discusses what uses it is put in a range of auteur films such as Jia Zhang Ke’s The World, Eric Rohmer’s The Lady and the Duke and Abbas Kiarostami’s Ten.
Rewriting Hollywood History in Julie Dash’s Illusions Wes Felton February 2009 Feature Articles Wes Felton analyses this 1982 film set in 1940s Hollywood and its pungent allegory about the racial politics of image/sound displacement.
The Saragossa Manuscript John Fidler February 2009 Feature Articles A new article to coincide with screenings at the Australian Centre For the Moving Image in Melbourne.
Andrei Tarkovsky: Truth Endorsed by Life Pedro Blas Gonzalez February 2009 Feature Articles An essay that reflects on Andrei Tarkovsky’s two seminal works, Solaris and Stalker, in the light of the Spanish philosopher José Ortega y Gasset’s reference to man as a “conscious cosmic phenomenon”.
The Darjeeling Limited and The New American Traveller Emily J. May February 2009 Feature Articles An insightful comparison of Wes Anderson’s film with Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider. Emily May charts the long road travelled in screen depictions of the American traveller figure.
Naked Bodies and Troubled Souls: Antonioni and the Ways of the Flesh Tony McKibbin February 2009 Feature Articles Tony McKibbin examines what he calls the “ontological problem of nudity in Michelangelo Antonioni’s work”. A refreshing focus on an aspect of Antonioni’s films not often discussed in commentaries on his work.
Arthur Shields and the Politics of Jean Renoir’s The River Antony Sellers February 2009 Feature Articles Irish actor and Nationalist Arthur Shields was a figure of considerable historical significance. While he worked with John Ford, arguably his collaboration with Jean Renoir was of more lasting import.
Gleaming Faces, Dark Realities: Dušan Makavejev’s Man Is Not a Bird and the Representation of the Working Class after Socialist Realism Constantin Parvulescu February 2009 Feature Articles Penetrating analysis of Dušan Makavejev’s 1965 first feature film in the light of its critique of the social realist æsthetic and Communist ideology of the era.
Iconic Moments in Cinema: Australia, Part 1 Various February 2009 Feature Articles The start of a series of articles on iconic shots and scenes in the cinema. Beginning with Australia, Scott Murray discusses his favourite moment from The Devil’s Playground. Darragh O’Donoghue looks at Strictly Ballroom, Adam Bingham Walkabout, and Aaron Goldberg Mad Max.
Fear and Self-Loathing: Horror and Homophobia in the Films of Herman Cohen Wheeler Winston Dixon February 2009 Feature Articles Exploitation producer Herman Cohen captured the 1950s teen market with such titles as I was a Teenage Werewolf and I Was a Teenage Frankenstein. Wheeler Winston Dixon looks at his career and the thematic subtexts that underpinned his work.
Alfred Hitchcock and The Fighting Generation Alain Kerzoncuf February 2009 Feature Articles Hitchcock scholar Alain Kerzoncuf resurrects some insightful archival material regarding Hitchcock’s 1944 short war-effort propaganda film.
In Bed With Bond: Redux Scott Murray February 2009 Feature Articles Senses Co-editor and James Bond aficionado Scott Murray puts the many claims made about the sexual politics of the Bond films (and books) under the microscope.
Small-Town Epiphanies: Auckland International Film Festival David Levinson February 2009 Festival Reports Part of The New Zealand International Film Festivals 10-27 July 2008 For native filmgoers weaned on a year-round diet of brassy popcorn-fare, ...
Expanded Cinema: Intermission: Who is Miss Roder? Penny Webb February 2009 Festival Reports 1–2 August 2008 45 Downstairs, Melbourne The nonsensical title of this series of audio-visual works presented over two evenings during the 200...
Pellucid Pique: The 27th Vancouver International Film Festival Jay Kuehner February 2009 Festival Reports 25 September – 10 October 2008 “Radishes are genius...” Such are the first words, uttered by a vivacious grandmother reigning over the kitc...
Image, Unleashed (Or, Air-Conditioning in the Bamboo Forest): A Dispatch from the 51st San Francisco International Film Festival Jay Kuehner February 2009 Festival Reports 24 April – 4 May 2008 In the State of Cinema Address at the 51st San Francisco Film Festival, delivered annually by a prominent figure ”to ad...
Pizza in a Polyglot’s Paradise: A Report on the 61st Locarno International Film Festival Alison Pouliot and Valérie Chételat February 2009 Festival Reports 6-16 August 2008 I was recently reflecting on last year’s Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), while visiting the Locarno Internationa...
Midnight at MIFF? The 57th Melbourne International Film Festival 2008 Martyn Pedler February 2009 Festival Reports 25 July – 10 August 2008 For the past few years, whispers have circulated of the Melbourne International Film Festival’s (MIFF) intention to cu...
New Directions: The 33rd Toronto International Film Festival Darren Hughes February 2009 Festival Reports 4-13 September 2008 In the weeks preceding the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), there was, among industry watchers, critics and amat...
Cinema of Lost and Found Souls: Reviewing the 11th Revelation Perth International Film Festival Tanya Vision February 2009 Festival Reports 3-13 July 2008 In an attempt to emulate the spirit and ethos of the Revelation Film Festival, this review is a mash-up of Gonzo journalism and ...
The 2008 Melbourne International Animation Festival Jim Knox February 2009 Festival Reports 16-22 June 2008 Melbourne specifically, and Australia more generally, has for many years suffered from the absence of any kind of dedicated for...
Richter, Hans Richard Suchenski February 2009 Great Directors b. 1888 Berlin, Germany d. 1976 Locarno, Switzerland Filmography Bibliography Web Resources Although its centre was Paris, the cinematic ...
Cuarón, Alfonso José Zarandona February 2009 Great Directors b. 28 November, 1961, Mexico City, Mexico. Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources Moviemakers these days work in a field undergoing m...
Alvin Purple by Catharine Lumby Brian McFarlane February 2009 Book Reviews If you take a piece of paper and cut off half of the image of Graeme Blundell on the cover of this book and then inspect the left-hand side, you w...
Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories edited by Karen L. Ishizuka and Patricia R. Zimmermann Adrian Danks February 2009 Book Reviews Mining the Home Movie: Excavations in Histories and Memories is a significant and often extremely rich contribution to the existing writing and resear...
Freedom to Offend: How New York Remade Movie Culture by Raymond J. Haberski, Jr Patrick Ellis February 2009 Book Reviews The Paris Theater, on 58th Street in Manhattan, once received bomb threats for showing Roberto Rossellini’s “Il Miracolo” (“The Miracle”) from L’Amore...
City That Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination edited by Murray Pomerance Anna Knight February 2009 Book Reviews In his essay on New York as “noir universe” in City That Never Sleeps: New York and the Filmic Imagination, Wheeler Winston Dixon argues that, New Yo...
Under the Cover of Darkness: Expressionistic Experimentation in Howard Hawks’ The Criminal Code Christopher Weedman February 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Criminal Code (1931 USA 97 mins) Prod Co: Columbia Pictures Prod: Howard Hawks, Harry Cohn Dir: Howard Hawks Scr: Fred Niblo, Jr., Seton I....
Ceiling Zero Pedro Blas Gonzalez February 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Ceiling Zero (1936 USA 95 mins) Prod Co: Cosmopolitan Pictures and First National/Warner Bros. Prod: Harry Joe Brown Dir: Howard Hawks Scr: Fra...
Tiger Shark Michael J. Anderson February 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Tiger Shark (1932 USA 80 mins) Prod Co: First National-Vitaphone/Warner Bros. Prod: Bryan Foy Dir: Howard Hawks Scr: Wells Root , from the stor...
Ossos/Bones Bárbara Barroso February 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Ossos/Bones (1997 Portugal/France/Denmark 94 mins) Prod Co: Gémini Films/IPACA/Madragoa Films/RTF/Zentropa Entertainments Prod: Paulo Branco Di...
Escaping the Future: O Sangue Daniel Ribas February 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film O Sangue/The Blood (1989 Portugal 95 mins) Prod Co: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian/IPC/RTP/Tropico Filmes Prod: José Bogalheiro Dir, Scr: Pedro C...
No Quarto da Vanda/In Vanda’s Room Miguel Marías February 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film No Quarto da Vanda/In Vanda’s Room (2000 Portugal/Germany/Switzerland/Italy 170 mins) Prod Co: Contracosta Produções/IPACA/Pandoa Filmproduktio...
The Dawn Patrol Brian Wilson February 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Dawn Patrol (1930 USA 95 mins) Prod Co: First National Pictures/Warner Bros. Prod: Robert North Dir: Howard Hawks Scr: Howard Hawks, Dan To...
Male Irresponsibility and (Temporary) Redemption: Howard Hawks’ The Crowd Roars Tony Williams February 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Crowd Roars (1932 USA 84 mins) Prod Co: First National-Vitaphone/Warner Bros. Prod: Bryan Foy Dir: Howard Hawks Scr: Kubec Glasmon, John Br...
On Abel Gance’s J’Accuse and La Roue Peter Hourigan February 2009 DVD Reviews Peter Hourigan offers an appreciative evaluation of these two silent-era classics recently released on DVD by Flicker Alley.
