Welcome to Issue 65 of our journal the editors December 2012 Editorial Amour What an odd event the European Film Awards is. Recently broadcast, the European Film Awards this year celebrated its Silver Jubilee edition. Like the Eurovision Song Contest, it has a revolving door p...
Features the editors December 2012 Feature Articles Contents Love, Death, Truth–Amour by Roy Grundmann The Way Wakamatsu Chose His Own Fate: Political Mortality and Radical Dramaturgy by Philip ...
Love, Death, Truth – Amour Roy Grundmann December 2012 Feature Articles Once again, Michael Haneke gives us a story about Georges and Anne, the bourgeois couple that, in various incarnations, has populated his films since ...
The Way Wakamatsu Chose His Own Fate: Political Mortality and Radical Dramaturgy Philip Brophy December 2012 Feature Articles A 17 year old Japanese student is in his prison cell, preparing to hang himself. It’s 1960. A high pitched whine signals the slow emergence of the shō...
A Conversation with Nicolas Rey Darren Hughes December 2012 Feature Articles Nicolas Rey’s third feature film, differently, Molussia (2012), is an adaptation of a novel he’s never read. Written between 1932 and 1936, Günther ...
Quotidian Melancholy: Marcel Hanoun’s Une simple histoire Philip Cartelli December 2012 Feature Articles Cinephiles around the world mourned Chris Marker’s passing earlier this year, while the death of another avant-garde filmmaker and former countryman o...
The Kids Are Not All Right: Fanny and Alexander Thirty Years Later Marc Saint-Cyr December 2012 Feature Articles As an elaborately constructed, compulsively watchable piece of large-scale fiction made for the screen, Fanny och Alexander (Fanny and Alexander) is a...
“One day, the swan sang this with its wings”: An Interview with Teresa Villaverde Ela Bittencourt December 2012 Feature Articles Teresa Villaverde is one of the most important contemporary directors to have emerged from the school of new Portuguese cinema, which includes filmmak...
To Accept the Unacceptable: Reflections on Three Films by Teresa Villaverde Ela Bittencourt December 2012 Feature Articles “What is poetry?” “All that exists in this world. (…) Good and bad. - from Teresa Villaverde’s Transe ”There is beauty in the force of the weak, ju...
‘Chromatic Frankenstein’s Monsters?’: Restoration, Colour and Variants of Georges Méliès’s Voyage dans la Lune Wendy Haslem December 2012 Feature Articles The restored edition of ‘the original colour version’ of Voyage dans la Lune (Trip to the Moon, Georges Méliès, 1902/Lobster Films, 2011) opened the C...
Bref Magazine, or, A Tribute to Short Films and thus to the Cinema in General Viviane Vagh December 2012 Feature Articles I have been acquainted with the magazine Bref: le magazine du court métrage (1) and have followed its articles on short films for many years now. ...
The Films of James Gray: Old Testament Narratives Robert Alpert December 2012 Feature Articles Two Lovers To enter the film world of James Gray is to enter a closed world of Jewish families, with tensions between family members and frequentl...
The Yet Unclaimed Baggage of Robert Zemeckis’ Flight Joseph Natoli December 2012 Feature Articles In a mock recreation of the conditions in the air that pilot William “Whip” Whitaker, played by Denzel Washington in the film Flight (2012), faced, al...
Wild and Precious –A Film by Bill Mousoulis Fiona Villella December 2012 Feature Articles At the centre of Wild and Precious (2012) is the character of Giulio Figurelli, an impulsive, impassioned and energetic figure. His vivid, potent, occ...
The Desire and the Exception Jacques Kermabon December 2012 Feature Articles We could have found many ways to celebrate our 100th Bref edition. We could have chosen to write about one or even many questions, some suitable issue...
Andrew Sarris: The Last of a Kind John Conomos December 2012 Feature Articles “If Sarris became the critic I read and reread more than any other, it was perhaps for the sense that at the centre of his writing was a reverence for...
Festival Reports the editors December 2012 Festival Reports Contents Jorge Mourinha DocLisboa Pierce Conran on Busan Michael Laff on Busan Daniel Fairfax and Joshua Sperling on New York Pamela Cohn on CP...
Where More Meets MORE: The 37th Toronto International Film Festival Darren Hughes November 2012 Festival Reports “Where OMG Meets WTF”. This was the first tagline I spotted at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. Others included “Where Fantasy Meets R...
A Cinema Storm on the Upper West Side: The 50th New York Film Festival Daniel Fairfax and Joshua Sperling November 2012 Festival Reports A dialogue between Daniel Fairfax and Joshua Sperling I. NYFF & Richard Peña JS: A film festival is always more fun with a friend. So for th...
Minding the Gap Between Fiction and Reality: CPH:DOX Celebrates 10 Years Pamela Cohn November 2012 Festival Reports In one of the many engaging panel discussions on the “documentary arts”, as one filmmaker called them, at the 10th edition of Copenhagen’s internation...
Truth, Myths and Clichés: The 9th Beijing Independent Film Festival Ma Ran November 2012 Festival Reports Chinese independent cinema as a film movement has been regenerated at various socio-historical conjunctures throughout the past twenty years. Nowadays...
Tales of Entropy: The 31st Vancouver International Film Festival Bérénice Reynaud November 2012 Festival Reports Monster From the Deep Off the coast of Bangladesh, the tiny island of Banishanta (about 100 by 10 metres) is flat, exposed to the vagaries of the B...
Discovering the Hub of Asian Cinema: The 17th Busan International Film Festival Pierce Conran November 2012 Festival Reports Over the last few years the Busan International Film Festival (BIFF) has done much to raise its global profile. Last year, under the new direction of ...
The Last Time I Saw Lisbon & Estoril: The 6th Lisbon & Estoril Film Festival Ben Cho November 2012 Festival Reports Now in its sixth year, Paulo Branco’s Lisbon and Estoril Film Festival (LEFFEST) has carved out a niche on the roster of smaller European fests with c...
A State of Urgency: The 2012 DocLisboa – International Documentary Film Festival Jorge Mourinha November 2012 Festival Reports Urgency was the key word for the 10th anniversary of DocLisboa. The urgency of the state of the world around us; the urgency of finding new ways to tr...
Clarke, Shirley Angelos Koutsourakis December 2012 Great Directors b. Shirley Brimberg, October 2, 1919, New York City, USA, d. September 23, 1997, Boston, USA
Book Reviews the editors December 2012 Book Reviews Contents Nicholas Godfrey on The long game: Conversations with independent iconoclasts Roger Corman, George A. Romero, and Charles Burnett Do...
Shadow Economies of Cinema: Mapping Informal Film Distribution by Roman Lobato Ravi Sundaram November 2012 Book Reviews In her powerful story of early cinema, the scholar Jaine Gaines suggested that informal and pirate duplication was essential to the film form even as ...
Greek Cinema, Texts, Histories, Identities by Lydia Papadimitriou & Yannis Tzioumakis Vrasidas Karalis November 2012 Book Reviews Greek Cinema is something which, as they say in advertising, is ‘to be discovered’. Indeed, despite the fact that many Greek films have received ample...
Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board of Canada Martin Potter November 2012 Book Reviews "The films and tapes were not important in themselves. It was the process and the ideas". George Stoney Executive Producer, Challenge for Change/ Soci...
Terrorism TV: Popular Entertainment in Post-9/11 America by Stacy Takacs Ryan Taylor November 2012 Book Reviews One of the most pervasive forms of communication, television not only provides an immediate eye witness to history but also enables society to speak t...
Deleuze and World Cinemas by David Martin-Jones Cassandra Lovejoy November 2012 Book Reviews Creative betrayal can be a genuine form of fidelity: ‘one has to betray the letter of Kant,’ as Slavoj Žižek argues, ‘to remain faithful to (and repea...
The Psychology of Seeing and the Cinema of Roman Polanski by Davide Caputo Tessa Chudy November 2012 Book Reviews The films of Roman Polanski make a provocative and challenging body of work, but one which is also difficult to separate from the almost melodramatic ...
The Uses of Guilt: The Cinema of Michael Haneke: Europe Utopia edited by Ben McCann and David Sorfa Richard Martin November 2012 Book Reviews There’s a scene in Michael Haneke’s Code Unknown (2000) that epitomises both the brilliance and the frustrations that mark his entire body of work. It...
America’s Corporate Art: The Studio Authorship of Hollywood Motion Pictures by Jerome Christensen Douglas Gomery November 2012 Book Reviews Using concepts of studio allegory and corporate identity, with a touch of business magazine writing, Jerome Christensen, Professor of Literature a...
The Long Game: Conversations with Independent Iconoclasts Roger Corman, George A. Romero, and Charles Burnett Nicholas Godfrey November 2012 Book Reviews The ongoing University of Mississippi Press Conversations with Filmmakers series compiles carefully curated, career-spanning interviews with notab...
Notre musique: Godard’s Shot/Reverse Shot Ruminations on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Christopher Weedman March 2013 CTEQ Annotations on Film An admitted anti-Zionist with a history of ardent support for Palestinian opposition to Israel, Jean-Luc Godard frequently uses his films as a forum i...
Cinémathèque Annotations on Film the editors December 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film The Battle of Chile José Sarmiento on The Battle of Chile Christopher Sharrett on Nostalgia for the Light Louise Sheedy on Salvador Allende Lee...
The Battle of Chile: The Obstinate Memory of a Crushed Utopia José Sarmiento November 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Un País que no tiene cine documental es como una familia sin álbum de fotografías.” - Patricio Guzmán (1) “I made the film because I was passionate...
Nostalgia for the Light Christopher Sharrett November 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film As I write this, the United States celebrates Patriot Day, the term used to commemorate the attacks on New York and Washington, DC, of 11 September 20...
Funeral for a Memory: Patricio Guzmán’s Salvador Allende Louise Sheedy November 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film “Memory is crucial to the understanding of a culture precisely because it indicates collective desires, needs and self-definitions. We need not to ask...
The Pinochet Case Lee Hill November 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film Patricio Guzmán’s Le Cas Pinochet (The Pinochet Case, 2001) is more than just a coda to his epic La batalla de Chile (The Battle of Chile, 1975-79), i...
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion Gino Moliterno November 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film Elio Petri’s death in 1982 at the age of only 53 robbed Italy, and the world, of one of the most eclectic and audacious directors to have emerged in t...
Nightmare in the Sun: Mateo Garrone’s Gomorrah Carlota Larrea November 2012 CTEQ Annotations on Film The international marketing campaign for Gommora (Gomorrah, Matteo Garrone, 2008) described it as “the best gangster film since City of God”, a Brazil...
Special Dossier: Tasmania and the Cinema Adrian Danks December 2012 Tasmania and the Cinema Introduction: Tasmania and the Cinema Van Diemen’s Land (2009) Tasmania’s intermittent relationship with the cinema dates back before the first...
Seeing With Green Eyes: Tasmanian Landscape Cinema and the Ecological Gaze Jane Stadler November 2012 Tasmania and the Cinema As Tom O’ Regan states in his discussion of “Unities of Setting and Landscape” in Australian National Cinema, “It is a commonplace that landscape is c...
Jewelled Nights: ‘Can Good Movies Be Made in Australia?’ (1) Jeannette Delamoir November 2012 Tasmania and the Cinema Introduction Photo: from the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia “Why shouldn’t we have the moving-picture industry in Tasmania?” aske...
“What sort of spot is Port Arthur?”: For the Term of His Natural Life and the Tasmanian Gothic Stephen Gaunson November 2012 Tasmania and the Cinema … Tasmanian Gothic cinema… tends to be a response to its dark and wet landscapes, which register a paradoxical sense of beauty and menace. The dramati...
Manganinnie – The First Tasmanian Feature Film John Honey November 2012 Tasmania and the Cinema Credit: G. Hansen, John Honey Collection *Indigenous Australians please be aware that this article contains the name of an Aboriginal man who is n...
Van Diemen’s Land Jonathan auf der Heide November 2012 Tasmania and the Cinema I first heard the story of escaped convict Alexander Pearce when I was a teenager on the tour boat to Sarah Island in Macquarie Harbour. I’d been work...
Eating and Othering in Jonathan auf der Heide’s Van Diemen’s Land Guinevere Narraway November 2012 Tasmania and the Cinema “If colonialism can be said to have its own origin myths, none is more powerful than the suppression of the threatening ‘other’ – the disavowed animal...
A Culture Cleft in Two – The Documentaries of Scott Millwood Dan Edwards November 2012 Tasmania and the Cinema “I want to talk about epic poetry.” I still remember the shock when Scott Millwood opened a documentary masterclass in the bowels of the Bondi Pavilio...
Errol Flynn: A Life at Sea Robert de Young November 2012 Tasmania and the Cinema “The only real wives I have ever had have been my sailing ships. Up front, on the prow of the Zaca, there was painted, appropriately, a rooster, a cro...
“Change – why should I? I never pretended to be anything than I am”: The Films of Errol Flynn and Raoul Walsh (1) Adrian Danks November 2012 Tasmania and the Cinema “Flynn does not deal in depth, but he has a freshness, a galvanizing energy, a cheerful gaiety (in the old sense) made to inspire boys.” (2) “ never ...
2012 World Poll – Part One the editors January 2013 2012 World Poll THE ENTRIES PART ONE Antti Alanen Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Sean Axmaker Martyn Bamber Michael Bartlett Paolo Bertoli...
2012 World Poll – Part Two the editors January 2013 2012 World Poll Geoff Gardner Antony I. Ginnane Chiranjit Goswami Jaime Grijalba Lee Hill Alexander Horwath Florent Houde Peter Hourigan Cerise Howard ...
2012 World Poll – Part Three the editors January 2013 2012 World Poll Peter Nagels Brad Nguyen Andy Norton Darragh O’Donohue Michael Pattison David Pearson Antoni Peris David Phelps Jit Phokaew Matías Piñe...
