Issue 16
The Work of a Festival: A Report on the 50th Melbourne International Film Festival
Weighing up Melbourne's latest international film festival
John Cassavetes Filmography
John Cassavetes (1929 – 1989) Shadows (first version 1958, second version 1959) Johnny Staccato episodes: ‘Murder for Credit’ (1959), ‘Evil’ (1959), ‘A Piece of Paradise’
Cross of Iron
Cross of Iron (1977 UK/West Germany 119mins) Source: NLA/CAC Prod Co: Anglo-EMI (London)/Rapid Film (Munich)/Terra Filmkunst (West Berlin) Prod: Wolf Hartwig Dir: Sam Peckinpah Scr:
Meet John Cassavetes
A review of Ray Carney's recent books on Cassavetes and a heartfelt homage to the director
Korean Films at the 2001 Melbourne International Film Festival
A large section of the Festival's program was devoted to this extraordinarily accomplished national cinema
Spirits in the Night – A Reply to Adrian Martin on Garrel’s L’Enfant secret
A continuing, poetic dialogue on a 'sacred' film and a reflection on film criticism and cinephilia
The Art of Memory: Terence Davies’ Distant Voices, Still Lives
(1) An earlier version of this article first appeared in Metro 116 (1998): 53-4. * * * Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988 UK 85 minutes)
Imperfection
Part review of recent books on Cassavetes and part discussion of the fiction-documentary, art-life binaries and notions of performance operative in Cassavetes' cinema
From Stage to Screen: Silent Partner
A precise and insightful analysis of the differences between stage and screen in relation to this film
René Clair – Author-legislator
An insightful analysis of Clair as equal parts theoretician and practitioner, a visionary and inspiring figure in early cinema