Issue 34
Images from Afar: AFI Los Angeles International Film Festival
November 4–14, 2004 In spite of making “an effort” in the direction of world cinema, the American Film Institute (AFI) Festival still remains a middlebrow
Magick in Theory and Practice: Ritual Use of Colour in Kenneth Anger’s Invocation of My Demon Brother
A thorough analysis of this critically neglected film, highlighting its complex pattern of symbolism
Modern Times: Notes Toward a Reading of Michael Haneke’s 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance (1994 Austria 96 mins) Source: Bavaria Films Prod Co: Wega Film Prod: Vit Heiduschka Dir, Scr: Michael Haneke
Keith Gordon on Keith Gordon, Part Two: Less Afraid of Happy Endings
The second half of an in-depth interview, covering Gordon's recent films, therein revealing an evolution of his thematic and stylistic concerns
Support Your Local Filmmaker: Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision by Brad Stevens
The ’90s was an extraordinary decade for the cinema. As the elephantine decadence of the mainstream increased in grossness, a dizzying constellation of alternatives seemed
Putting the Cards Back on the Table: An Interview with Anna Abrahams and Erwin van’t Hart
These two curators outline the background for the genesis of MM2 and D-Light
Screening History: 12th Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand
Canberra, Australia, December 2–5, 2004 2004 has been a turbulent year in the 20-year history of ScreenSound Australia, the National Screen and Sound Archive (1).
The Decade of Living Dangerously: A Chronicle from Lav Diaz
Ten years in the making, Lav Diaz's epic ten-hour Evolution of a Filipino Family has finally left the editing room and is more than worth
Code inconnu: Récit incomplete de divers voyages
Code inconnu: Récit incomplete de divers voyages (2000 France 118 mins) Source: CNC Prod Co: ARTE France Cinéma/Bavaria Films/Filmex/Les Films Alain Sarde/France 2 Cinéma/MK2 Productions/Romanian
Manila at the Edge of Realism
Mario O'Hara is one of the great contemporary Filipino directors and his 25th feature film Woman of the Breakwater examines contemporary Manila through a community