Issue 17
Watching from a Distance: September 11 as Spectacle
I switched on the TV soon after the planes hit, and there were the twin towers smouldering like giant cigarettes. As I watched this ‘live’
Toronto 2001: A Film Festival Diary
A personal, rewarding overview of the Festival and key films, making you wish you were there
Some Notes on This Side of Paradise: Fragments of an Unfinished Biography (1999)
Exploring themes of intimacy, memory and loss in Mekas's 'home video' of the Kennedys
On the Big Set
Following the advice of a few New York City friends and family, I decided to walk from my 34th Street location and into the core
Extract of The Money Shot: Introduction
The following extract of Jane Mills’ The Money Shot – Cinema, Sin and Censorship (Pluto Press Australia, 2001) is published here with the permission of
Equinox Flower
Equinox Flower (1958 Japan 118mins) Source: NLA/CAC Prod Co: Shochiku Dir: Yasujiro Ozu Scr: Ozu, Kogo Noda from the novel by Ton Satomi Phot: Yuharu
Abbas Kiarostami: A Dialogue Between the Authors
Saeed-Vafa and Rosenbaum discuss the singularity of Kiarostami and general problems of cross-cultural criticism and interpretation
Email from Australian Documentary Filmmaker Tom Zubrycki to Friends, New York, September 18 2001
Dear Friends, It’s hard to describe the last few days except that they’ve been traumatic and difficult – yet also strangely life-affirming. Last Tuesday I
East Asian Films at the 26th Toronto International Film Festival – A Report
Asian cinema enthusiast No.2, Shelly looks at East Asian films at Toronto
Jonas Mekas Film and Videography
Compiled by Anthology Film Archives and Pip Chodorov Jonas Mekas: filmmaker, videomaker, film critic, poet, lecturer, curator. Born into a farming family in Lithuania on