Issue 35
‘Sex sells’ as a Revolution
The seminal hardcore cross-over film Deep Throat gets put under the spotlight
Place de l’Etoile
Paris vu par…: Place de l’Etoile (1965 France 27 mins) Source: ACMI Collections Prod Co: Les Filmes du Cyprès/Les Films du Losange Prod: Barbet Schroeder
An Interview with Françoise Romand
In recent times, documentaries have been big at the box-office, but some of the best and most experimental in approach remain relatively unknown. Françoise Romand
Underworld
Underworld (1927 USA 81 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Paramount Prod: Hector Turnbull Dir: Josef von Sternberg Scr: Robert N. Lee, from Ben Hecht’s story,
To the Distant Insider: A Local’s Guide to the 2005 Adelaide Film Festival
February 18–March 3, 2005 In the second of his two programmed lectures at the Mercury Cinema, special guest film scholar David Bordwell described the second
Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Essential Critic: Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons by Jonathan Rosenbaum
Jonathan Rosenbaum’s Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University, 2004), takes a canonical view of cinema, asserting the
Illusion 24 frames per second: François Truffaut’s La Nuit Américaine
Francois Truffaut's testament on the filmmaking process. This article evaluates the film's standing amongst the many film-with-a-film themed works
A Tale of Springtime
A Tale of Springtime/Conte de Printemps (1990 France 107 mins) Source: Level Four Films Prod Co: Les Films du Losange/Roissy Films Prod: Margaret Menegoz Dir,
Solzhenitsyn’s Children … Are Making a Lot of Noise in Paris
Ten years after the events of May 1968, director Michael Rubbo travels to Paris in search of the revolutionary dream. It has soured, but there
Volcano High
Volcano High/Hwasan Go (2002 South Korea 99 mins) Source: Madman Entertainment Prod Co: SBS/Shin Seung-soo Productions/Sidus Pictures/Terasource Venture Capital Co. Ltd Prod: Cha Seung-chae, Kim