Consistent Pickings But Few Difficult Pleasures: The 55th Sydney Film Festival Hamish Ford August 2008 Festival Reports Issue 48 4–22 June 2008 The 2008 Sydney Film Festival was a bigger event – longer, and with more films – than previously, and the first year the festival has included work “in competition”. I managed...
A Promising Start to a Rejuvenated Festival: The 54th Sydney Film Festival Hamish Ford October 2007 Festival Reports Issue 44 8-24 June 2007 By almost any measure, the 2007 Sydney Film Festival has been the best since at least 2004. The range of films was good, even if there weren’t an abundance of surprises; many of the...
Paris nous appartient/Paris Belongs to Us Hamish Ford May 2007 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 43 Paris nous appartient/Paris Belongs to Us (1961 France 140 mins) Prod Co: Ajym Films/Les Films du Carrosse Prod: Roland Nonin Dir: Jacques Rivette Scr: Jacques Rivette, Jean Gruault Phot: Charles Bitsch...
The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami by Alberto Elena Hamish Ford February 2006 Book Reviews Issue 38 It seems extraordinary that Alberto Elena’s The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami is the first book in English devoted to a reference-style coverage of Kiarostami’s filmmaking career, even if it is a translated...
Some Gems in a Modest Program: The 52nd Sydney Film Festival Hamish Ford October 2005 Festival Reports Issue 37 June 10–25, 2005 Despite procuring State Government funding, the 52nd Sydney Film Festival featured a reduced number of films (170) compared to previous years, the most notable effect of the...
Antonioni’s L’avventura and Deleuze’s Time-image Hamish Ford October 2003 Feature Articles Issue 28 Deleuze's concept of the "time-image" offers insights into Antonioni's still-radical treatment of time and space.
Summer with Monika Hamish Ford March 2003 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 25 Summer with Monika (1952 Sweden 96 mins) Source: ACMI/NLA Prod Co: Svensk Filmindustri Prod: Allan Ekelund Dir: Ingmar Bergman Scr: Ingmar Bergman and Per Anders Flogelström, from a story by...
Bergman, Ingmar Hamish Ford December 2002 Great Directors Issue 23 b. July 14, 1918, Uppsala, Sweden d. July 30, 2007, Fårö, Sweden filmography bibliography web resources The radical intimacy of Bergman Prologue: facing the void I came out of that movie house...