Issue 32
Hold Me While I’m Naked: Notes on a Camp Classic
Hold Me While I’m Naked (1966 USA 15 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Kuchar Film Presentation Filmmaker: George Kuchar Cast: Donna Kerness, George Kuchar, Andrea
You Say You Want a Revolution: How Yoko Ono’s Rape Could Have Changed the World
Despite its provocative title, Ono's film has lost its power due to the “enigma of postmodernism”. Using the theory of Alain Badiou, Richardson argues there
Record of a Tenement Gentleman
Record of a Tenement Gentleman/Nagaya Shinshiroku (1947 Japan 72 mins) Source, Prod Co: Shochiku Films Dir: Yasujiro Ozu Scr: Yasujiro Ozu, Tadao Ikeda Phot: Yuharu
To Each Their Own: Multiple Modernities: Cinemas and Popular Media in Transcultural East Asia edited by Jenny Kwok Wah Lau
The blanket terms “Asian cinema” and “East Asian cinema” tend to elide the distinctive ways individual nations, regions, and cities have represented themselves in the
An Interview with Jia Zhangke
In the context of Jaffee's piece on the cinema of the Chinese underground, Jia is here interviewed on the set of his new film, The
Desistfilm
Desistfilm (1954 USA 7 mins) Filmmaker: Stan Brakhage A buzz over the handmade titles disintegrates into a screech of feedback and a piano that sounds
Taking Off: The 47th San Francisco International Film Festival
An international film festival can be likened to an airplane trip around the world, only instead of stopping to get out of the cabin and
Homicide: “Flashpoint” (episode 56)
Homicide ep. 56: “Flashpoint” (1965 Australia 48 mins) Source: ScreenSound Australia, courtesy Crawfords Australia Prod Co: Crawford Productions Prod: Dorothy Crawford Dir, Scr: Ian Jones
The Private Guy Maddin
Maddin's films both invite and resist “personal” interpretations. Hart wonders what the filmmaker really wants to say
Dragnet Girl (Hijosen no onna)
Dragnet Girl/Hijosen no onna (1933 Japan 100 mins) Source, Prod Co: Shockiku Films Dir: Yasujiro Ozu Scr: Tadao Ikeda, based on a story by “James