Welcome to issue 51 of our journal! the editors July 2009 Editorial After decades of being little more than an exotic location for overseas filmmakers and production companies, Australia was shocked in 1971 with the release of two films that would forever change all notions...
Luc Moullet, a Bootleg Filmmaker at the Centre Georges Pompidou Sally Shafto July 2009 Feature Articles Luc Moullet is what the French call “un original”, an offbeat, quirky talent, who over a nearly fifty-year period has forged a unique filmography. Sally Shafto goes in search of what makes Moullet such an individualist.
“Cameron Fry, this one’s for you.” Or: Why the Sausage King of Chicago Doesn’t Turn Up for Lunch at Chez Quis Scott Murray July 2009 Feature Articles Ferris Bueller’s Day Off may be widely acclaimed as one of the greatest teen movies ever made, but at its heart lies a key (and previously unexamined) conundrum: Why doesn’t Abe Froman arrive for lunch at Chez Quis?
A Buñuel Scrapbook: The Last Script: Remembering Luis Buñuel (1) and Calanda: 40 Years Later Linda C. Ehrlich July 2009 Feature Articles Designed as a loosely chronological “scrapbook” marking the 25th anniversary of Luis Buñuel’s death in Mexico City, El Último guión: Buñuel en la memoria is a chat between Juan Luis Buñuel and Jean-Claude Carrière about the great director’s life and work. Linda C. Ehrlich finds it a fascinating and accurate portrait of a man of vision.
My Son John and The Red Scare in Hollywood Gwendolyn Audrey Foster July 2009 Feature Articles Leo McCarey may be revered for his string of film masterpieces (Duck Soup, The Awful Truth, Love Affair, Going My Way, et al), but he is equally reviled for his anti-Communist propaganda, My Son John. Gwendolyn Audrey Foster explores how the film shines a light on the cultural politics of the time.
Love and Social Marginality in Samson and Delilah Therese Davis July 2009 Feature Articles Warwick Thornton’s Samson and Delilah has captured the world’s imagination in a way no Aboriginal film has done before. After a century of white filmmakers controlling (often by default) the cinematic presentation of Aboriginal culture, Therese Davis wonders whether Samson and Delilah marks the start of a new era.
The Trauma Film and British Romantic Cinema 1940-1960 John Orr July 2009 Feature Articles Trauma has long played a key role in cinema. John Orr argues that “What is out there as waking nightmare in a dangerous world is often a mirror of what is hidden in here, in the human heart.” In Orr’s provocative analysis, the spectre of key British filmmaker Michael Powell inevitably emerges.
Wake in Fright: An Interview with Ted Kotcheff Raffaele Caputo July 2009 Feature Articles Kotcheff’s Wake in Fright may have run for more than a year in one Parisian cinema, but its blunt examination of lonely men in a harsh and alien landscape left many Australians of the time feeling perplexed. On the occasion of its sparkling re-release, Raffaele Caputo talks with Kotcheff, who eruditely and humorously throws new light on this Antipodean classic.
A Girl’s Own Adventure, or Something – but Not the Same Thing – for Everyone: The 19th Melbourne Queer Film Festival Cerise Howard July 2009 Festival Reports 18-29 March 2009 (1) In 2009, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival (MQFF) can – and does – still boast of being the second biggest film festival i...
“The three of us traveled the whole path together. Now that is Utopia.”: The 7th Berlinale Talent Campus Kate Matthews July 2009 Festival Reports 7–12 February 2009 On a wintery Sunday morning, in the hundred-year old HAU1 theatre in Berlin, British screenwriter Sir David Hare is in conversat...
Legacies of the Past: The 23rd Image Forum Festival Brian Coffey July 2009 Festival Reports 28 April – 5 May 2009 Now in its 23rd year, the Image Forum Festival has long since established itself as one of the foremost venues for contem...
“Dropping films and burning palaces”: The Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film Claudia Siefen July 2009 Festival Reports 17-22 March 2009 While film festivals get questioned more and more about their purpose on the contemporary film market, the Diagonale seems qui...
Silver Linings: The Diagonale Festival of Austrian Film Olaf Möller July 2009 Festival Reports 17-22 March 2009 In the years since the Emergency Diagonale and the festival’s defence at the hands of Austria’s filmmaking community aga...
East, West and More in the 28th International Istanbul Film Festival N. Buket Cengiz July 2009 Festival Reports 4-19 April, 2009 The 28th International Istanbul Film Festival closed by hosting its Closing Gala on 19 April 2009. At the gala, where Po...
The Truth and the Pleasure: The 55th Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen Claudia Siefen July 2009 Festival Reports 30 April – 5 May 2009 If you should ever come to know a film critic who is crazy not only about the A-programme screened at the Internati...
Inside and Out: The 8th AniFest: International Festival of Animated Films Cerise Howard July 2009 Festival Reports Třeboň 1-4 May 2009 Teplice 7-10 May 2009 My second AniFest, after my first sally to the Czech Republic and its proliferative animation festival j...
The Misery Tour: Can Bad News be Turned into Good Deeds?: The 14th It’s All True International Documentary Festival Shari Kizirian July 2009 Festival Reports São Paulo 25 March – 5 April 2009 Rio de Janeiro 26 March – 5 April 2009 Brasília 14-26 April 2009 A poster advertising the It’s All Tr...
Transnational Mission, International Dynamics: A Report on the International Film Festival Workshop Saër Maty Bâ July 2009 Festival Reports 4 April 2009 Centre for Film Studies (CFS), University of St Andrews, Scotland This workshop was a knowledge-transfer and outreach event, part of...
Russell, Ken John A. Riley July 2009 Great Directors b. Southampton, England, 1927 d. London, England, 2011 Filmography Bibliography Web Resources Introduction “Not one word of criticism writ...
Kaurismäki, Aki Lana Wilson July 2009 Great Directors b. 4 April 1957, Orimattila, Finland Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources Two Finns are in a bar. After hours of silence, one man raises ...
Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939 by Malte Hagener Paul Fileri July 2009 Book Reviews Malte Hagener’s Moving Forward, Looking Back: The European Avant-garde and the Invention of Film Culture, 1919-1939 offers a remarkably multifaceted a...
Cinesexuality by Patricia MacCormack Maria Walsh July 2009 Book Reviews Cinesexuality’s thesis is premised on a desire to want cinema as a lover. What this might mean alerts us firstly to the fact that the book is a title ...
Scorsese by Ebert by Roger Ebert Matthew Sorrento July 2009 Book Reviews As the internet age opened up a cosmos’ worth of publication room, film writing grew as if every solar system deserved its own life-form. Many old-tim...
The Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity by Linnie Blake Robyn Citizen July 2009 Book Reviews In The Wounds of Nations: Horror Cinema, Historical Trauma and National Identity, UK lecturer Linnie Blake argues for the horror genre’s unique abilit...
“In Between” the Moving Image: Mutant Media: Essays on Cinema, Video Art and New Media by John Conomos Sean Lowry July 2009 Book Reviews With an interest in cinema tracing back to the 1960s, an involvement in video and new media art since the 1980s, coupled with a deep understanding of ...
Sam Peckinpah: Interviews edited by Kevin J. Hayes Gabrielle Murray July 2009 Book Reviews Making a picture is a big love affair, the biggest love affair in the world. – Sam Peckinpah (1) Sam Peckinpah’s personal relationships all seemed...
Generalising from the Particular: Masculine Singular: French New Wave Cinema” by Geneviève Sellier and “Making Waves: New Cinemas of the 1960s” by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith Tony McKibbin July 2009 Book Reviews It seems the Nouvelle Vague will not go away, and we may wonder if there has been any other film movement in history - from Neorealism to Dogme, from ...
Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia by Marijke de Valck Gaik Cheng Khoo July 2009 Book Reviews In Film Festivals: From European Geopolitics to Global Cinephilia, Marijke de Valck takes a cultural theory and media studies approach to a subject th...
Four Nights with Anna Bruce Hodsdon July 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Cztery noce z Anna/Four Nights with Anna (2008 Poland/France 87 mins) Prod Co: Alfama Films/Skopia Film Prod: Paulo Branco, Jerzy Skolimowski D...
Voyage to Italy Wheeler Winston Dixon July 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Viaggio in Italia/Voyage to Italy/Voyage in Italy/Strangers (1954 Italy/France 97 mins) Prod Co: Sveva/Junior/Italiafilm Prod: Adolfo Fossataro...
Rome, Open City Darragh O’Donoghue July 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Roma città aperta/Rome, Open City/Open City (1945 Italy 103 mins) Prod Co: Excelsa Film Dir: Roberto Rossellini Scr: Sergio Amidei, Federico Fe...
Paisà Allan James Thomas July 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Paisà/Paisan (1946 Italy 115 mins) Prod Co: Organizzazione Film Internazionali/Foreign Film Production, Inc. Prod: Mario Conti, Rod E. Geiger D...
Moonlighting John Orr July 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Moonlighting (1982 Britain 97 mins) Prod Co: Channel Four Films/Southern Television/ZDF Prod: Jerzy Skolimowski, Mark Shivas, Michael White Dir...
The Machine that Kills Bad People Constantin Parvulescu July 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film La macchina ammazzacattivi/The Machine that Kills Bad People/The Machine to Kill Bad People (1948/1952 Italy 83 mins) Prod Co: Universalia/Teve...
The Ghosts of Parties Past: Exorcising India Song David Melville July 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film India Song (1975 France 120 mins) Prod Co: Sunchild/Les Films Armorial (France) Prod: Stéphane Tchalgadjieff Dir, Scr: Marguerite Duras Phot: B...
The Way We Were: Jerzy Skolimowski’s Hands Up! Adam Bingham July 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Rece do góry/Hands Up! (1967/1981 Poland) Prod Co: PRF/Syrena/Zespol Filmowy Dir, Art Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski Scr: Andrzej Kostenko, Jerzy Skoli...
Germany, Year Zero Pasquale Iannone July 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Germania anno zero/Germany, Year Zero (1947 Italy/West Germany/France 78 mins) Prod Co: Tevere Film/Sadfilm Prod: Alfredo Guarani, Roberto Ross...
L’amore Gino Moliterno July 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film L’amore (1948 Italy 78 mins) Prod Co: Tevere Film Prod, Dir: Roberto Rossellini Ed: Eraldo Da Roma Mus: Renzo Rossellini Una voce umana/A Hu...
Walkover Matilda Mroz July 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Walkower/Walkover (1965 Poland 77 mins) Prod Co: Zespol Filmowy Syrena Dir, Scr: Jerzy Skolimowski Phot: Antoni Nurzynski Ed: Alina Faflik Art ...
Optimism Unfulfilled: Jerzy Skolimowski’s Deep End and the “Swinging Sixties” Christopher Weedman July 2009 CTEQ Annotations on Film Deep End (1970 West Germany/USA 87 mins) Prod Co: Maran Films-Bavaria Atelier/Kettledrum Productions Prod: Helmut Jedele Dir: Jerzy Skolimowski...
Adieu, Eric Rohmer Rolando Caputo and Michelle Carey April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Co-editors’ introduction to this commemorative issue on Eric Rohmer.
When Rohmer Was Making ‘Silent Films’ Jackie Raynal with Berenice Reynaud April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Like many of his collaborators, filmmaker Jackie Raynal was present at the Cinémathèque Française’s memorial homage to Rohmer earlier this year. Sparked by the occasion, she looks back at her time with Rohmer in this heartfelt reminiscence.
New Interview with Eric Rohmer Pascal Bonitzer, Jean-Louis Comolli, Serge Daney and Jean Narboni April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers A landmark interview originally published in Cahiers du cinéma in 1970. The journal was in the midst of its Marxist/Leninist era, while Rohmer's Bazinian idealism was vindicated by the success of My Night at Maud’s. A fascinating joust between two entirely opposed views of the cinema
Eric Rohmer’s Place de l’Étoile Luc Moullet April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Fellow critic and filmmaker Luc Moullet gives due consideration to Rohmer’s sketch in Paris vu par… highlighting its fidelity to location.
Secrets and Lies: Three Documentaries About Eric Rohmer Bruce Perkins April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Rohmer was himself a private and reserved individual who, more often that not, shunned the spotlight. Bruce Perkins examines three documentaries on the filmmaker, and concludes that together they offer as vivid and multi-dimensional a portrait of Rohmer as we can wish for.
Eric Rohmer, Educator Alain Hertay April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Former pupil and author of a study on Rohmer, Alain Hertay, offers a reflection on the short films Rohmer made for educational television.
Cinema and the Classroom: Education in the Work of Eric Rohmer Darragh O’Donoghue April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers In both content and form, a strong pedagogical endeavour has informed the work of Rohmer throughout his career. Darragh O’Donoghue discusses this inclination, focusing on some of the earlier shorts and made-for-television documentaries.
The Sign of the Map: Cartographic Reading and Le signe du lion Roland-François Lack April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers The topographical tracings of Rohmer’s feature debut reveal a dual motif: the cartographic and the photographic. Roland-François Lack’s insightful essay meticulously traces the unfolding of this dual motif.
La collectionneuse: Dandies on the Côte d’Azur Jacob Leigh April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Jacob Leigh looks into both the production history and the general cultural influences that inform Rohmer’s first-produced but fourth listed of the feature length ‘Moral Tales’.
Night Moves Around Maud Bruce Jackson April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Arthur Penn’s 1975 detective thriller contains one of the most noted of references to My Night a Maud’s, but as Bruce Jackson argues, it is more than just a token nod.
Choice and Chance: A Dialectic of Morality and Romance in Eric Rohmer’s My Night at Maud’s Constantine Santas April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Love, morality, fidelity and chance crystallised around Pascal’s ‘wager’. Taken by many to be the key film of the ‘Six Moral Tales’ series, the fascination of this film has not receded with time. Constantine Santas unravels the film’s thematics.
The Roving ‘I’: Ambiguous Subjectivity in Eric Rohmer’s ‘Six Moral Tales’ Karen Goodman April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Karen Goodman examines the nature of desire and subjectivity, both male and female, in Rohmer’s first great series of films.
The Tale of Perceval le Gallois and the Young Althusserians Daniel Fairfax April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Infused with artifice, Rohmer’s remarkable adaptation of Chrétien de Troyes’ 12th-century verse poem marked a temporary radical shift in style for the filmmaker. But why? Daniel Fairfax looks for answers in the light of post-68 French film theory.
Love and Desire in Eric Rohmer’s ‘Comedies and Proverbs’ and ‘Tales of the Four Seasons’ Fiona Handyside April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Much of Rohmer’s ‘80s and ‘90s work concerns the myriad of amorous choices his modern heroines face. Moreover, Fiona Handyside argues, they form a meta-text on the representation of love through the ages.
Following The Law of One’s Own Being: The Crying Woman in The Green Ray Tony McKibbin April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers A discursive exploration on the philosophic significance of the figure of ‘the crying woman’ in this most radiant of films.
Short Take Tributes on Rohmer Various. April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers A selection of individual tributes and short essays by Terry Ballard, Adam Bingham, Conall Cash, John Conomos, David F. Coursen, Adrian Danks, Linda Ehrlich, and Wheeler Winston Dixon.
Reworking Romanticism: Paul Cox’s Man of Flowers Victoria Duckett December 2009 Paul Cox Dossier, Special Dossiers Let us not say, “If only the texts were richer, the witnesses more loquacious, the confessions more detailed!” Don’t we seem today to have everything ...
Paul Cox: An Appreciation Roger Ebert December 2009 Paul Cox Dossier, Special Dossiers I believe the first film by Paul Cox I saw was Man of Flowers (1983), at the 1984 Chicago Film Festival. The next year, My First Wife (1984). I heard ...
Ardea Paul Carter December 2009 Paul Cox Dossier, Special Dossiers Ardea cinerea is the scientific name of the Grey Heron found in Europe. In Human Touch (2004) a heron alights for a moment on a stone basin in the gar...
The Persistent Maverick Maria Stratford December 2009 Paul Cox Dossier, Special Dossiers “I find living itself quite difficult so you may as well make it more difficult by doing something crazy.” - Paul Cox (1) Paul Cox has been making...
A Collaboration Between Two Artists Asher Bilu December 2009 Paul Cox Dossier, Special Dossiers My work with Paul Cox as Production Designer has been successful, I believe, because we have much in common. On the surface, our backgrounds are simil...
Idiosyncrasy and Film Alexander Garcia Duttmann December 2009 Paul Cox Dossier, Special Dossiers 1. If I had to choose a motto for Paul Cox’s films, no motto would seem more appropriate to me than the phrase: “For people who like that sort of thin...
To the point on point Chris Haywood December 2009 Paul Cox Dossier, Special Dossiers “Paulus Henrikus Benidictus Cox”: the name triggers images of a character from some historical tale by Umberto Eco. From my experiences of collaborati...
On The Beach (Stanley Kramer, 1959, USA) Deane Williams September 2009 Key Moments in Australian Cinema, Special Dossiers
Strike Me Lucky (Ken G. Hall, 1934) Lesley Speed September 2009 Key Moments in Australian Cinema, Special Dossiers
Wolf Creek (Greg Mclean, 2005) William “Bill” Blick September 2009 Key Moments in Australian Cinema, Special Dossiers
On the Home Front: Newsfront (Phillip Noyce, 1978) Adrian Danks September 2009 Key Moments in Australian Cinema, Special Dossiers
Intervention: Katherine, NT (Julie Nimmo, 2008) Dugald Williamson September 2009 Key Moments in Australian Cinema, Special Dossiers
Romper Stomper (Geoffrey Wright, 1992) Lucille Paterson September 2009 Key Moments in Australian Cinema, Special Dossiers
“Take it all off baby, take it all off” – The Australian Kamasutra: Love Serenade (Shirley Barrett, 1996) Catherine Simpson August 2009 Key Moments in Australian Cinema, Special Dossiers
Moving through the Absence: Viviane Vagh’s Ground Zero NY, 2005 Diana Gonzalez July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh From there, faced with these large frescoes, the feeling of the past being wiped away, of its disappearing and the impression of ruins: of traces of...
Notes on Free Women/Femmes libres Grant Wiedenfeld July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh In a field dominated by intellectual showmanship and hermetic eccentricity, Viviane Vagh’s filmmaking speaks with a voice as familiar as it is poe...
Magical Transformations: A Conversation with Viviane Vagh Justine Gaunt July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh “There are lots of different identities in my genes”, says Viviane Vagh. We speak on the ’phone, she in Paris, me in Yorkshire, but either of us c...
Viviane Vagh and the Poetics of Disappearance, Or: A Portrait of Cinema as a Young Girl Gabriela Trujillo July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh A young girl on a sunny day. Gracefully, she comes and goes. Does she know she’s being filmed? Does she know that, as her image multiplies on the ...
Experimental Fusions: Viviane Vagh’s Beachcombers Installations Romy Sutherland July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh Viviane Vagh’s absorbing installation series, “Beachcombers”, is a celebration of fusion. Vagh explores the meeting points of natural elements, su...
Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Australia John Hughes July 2009 MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers The new feature documentary scheduled for release at the Melbourne International Film Festival this year, Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Austra...
Notes for a Critique of Going Down John Flaus July 2009 John Flaus Dossier, MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers When his 27A won the Australian Film Award for Best Fiction Film in 1974, producer Haydn Keenan brandished the trophy at the august assembly and decla...
Moving through the Absence: Viviane Vagh’s Ground Zero NY, 2005 Diana Gonzalez July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh From there, faced with these large frescoes, the feeling of the past being wiped away, of its disappearing and the impression of ruins: of traces of...
Notes on Free Women/Femmes libres Grant Wiedenfeld July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh In a field dominated by intellectual showmanship and hermetic eccentricity, Viviane Vagh’s filmmaking speaks with a voice as familiar as it is poe...
Magical Transformations: A Conversation with Viviane Vagh Justine Gaunt July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh “There are lots of different identities in my genes”, says Viviane Vagh. We speak on the ’phone, she in Paris, me in Yorkshire, but either of us c...
Viviane Vagh and the Poetics of Disappearance, Or: A Portrait of Cinema as a Young Girl Gabriela Trujillo July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh A young girl on a sunny day. Gracefully, she comes and goes. Does she know she’s being filmed? Does she know that, as her image multiplies on the ...
Experimental Fusions: Viviane Vagh’s Beachcombers Installations Romy Sutherland July 2009 Special Dossiers, Spotlight on Viviane Vagh Viviane Vagh’s absorbing installation series, “Beachcombers”, is a celebration of fusion. Vagh explores the meeting points of natural elements, su...
Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Australia John Hughes July 2009 MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers The new feature documentary scheduled for release at the Melbourne International Film Festival this year, Indonesia Calling: Joris Ivens in Austra...
Free at Last: Robert Connolly’s Balibo Adrian Danks July 2009 MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers Robert Connolly’s Balibo (2009) is one of the strongest and best Australian films of recent years, and a welcome, committed return to the territor...
Dogs in Space David Nichols July 2009 MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers In early 1985, during promotional interviews for his new group, Beargarden, Sam Sejavka told Juke magazine’s Robbie Coates that “Richard Lowenstei...
Interview with Richard Lowenstein Rolando Caputo and Peter Tapp July 2009 MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers This is an edited version of an interview originally published in Filmviews, No. 131 (Autumn 1987), pp. 2-7. It is reproduced with the kind permis...
Post-Punk and Vision Jon Dale July 2009 MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers Post-punk’s discursive watchword was “demystification”: unpack the “meaning behind the moaning” (as Public Image Ltd’s John Lydon would sing in “C...
Notes for a Critique of Going Down John Flaus July 2009 John Flaus Dossier, MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers When his 27A won the Australian Film Award for Best Fiction Film in 1974, producer Haydn Keenan brandished the trophy at the august assembly and decla...
Go-Go Gorilla: Another Time, Another Place: Making My Film at Swinburne Hugh Marchant July 2009 MIFF Premiere Fund/Post-Punk Dossier, Special Dossiers The summary of my student short film, Meanwhile Elsewhere (1981), in the National Film & Sound Archive catalogue reads: An experimental film ...
The Day of the Claw: A Synoptic Account of Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds Ken Mogg July 2009 Towards an Ecology of Cinema In this brilliantly imaginative piece, Ken Mogg takes several literary texts and uses them to synoptically illuminate Hitchcock’s intentions behind The Birds. Don’t for a second believe that Daphne du Maurier’s short story is the only literary influence.
Confining Nature: Rites of Passage, Eco-Indigenes and the Uses of Meat in Walkabout Gregory Stephens July 2009 Towards an Ecology of Cinema Gregory Stephens explores how the rites of passage chronicled in Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout contribute towards the film’s critique of the post-industrial world’s attitudes towards nature.
André Bazin’s Ontological Other: The Animal in Adventure Films Seung-hoon Jeong July 2009 Towards an Ecology of Cinema Cinema has long portrayed the lives of animals and their relationships with human beings. Seung-hoon Jeong examines André Bazin’s writings on such films as Crin blanc: le cheval sauvage and Umberto D to rethink the ontological and æsthetical concepts that define his cinematic vision.
Treasures IV: American Avant-Garde Film, 1947-1986 (Image Entertainment) Wheeler Winston Dixon July 2009 DVD Reviews This 2-disc DVD set from the National Film Preservation Foundation and Image Entertainment covers an era of filmmaking that is almost lost to authenti...
To Catch the Sun in a Net: Slovak Cinema in the 1960s Peter Hourigan July 2009 DVD Reviews A ten-feature box-set from the Slovak Film Institute has Peter Hourigan delightedly continuing his exploration of the cultural heritage of a national cinema that has been widely overlooked since the division of Czechoslovakia.
Michael Powell Down Under: Norman Lindsay’s Age of Consent Scott Murray July 2009 DVD Reviews A Backstory Thursday 27 March 1969 was an iconic day in the evolution of the modern Australian cinema. In Melbourne, at the Forum Cinema, Tim Burs...
