Issue 42
The Pick of Pusan: The 11th Pusan International Film Festival
12–20 October 2006 South Korea’s Pusan International Film Festival, now 11 years old and the most dynamic in Asia, almost had a problem – but
Syndromes of an Inland Film Snob Empire: The 44th New York Film Festival
29 September–15 October 2006 For 44 years we’ve been accused of being demanding, inflexible and insanely selective…. Remarkably like our audience. – Voiceover from 44th
The Last Picture Shows: Midnight Madness Films at the 31st Toronto International Film Festival
7-16 September 2006 “The Midnight Madness category was originally devised as a spot for films that didn’t really ‘fit in’ with a traditional festival agenda…
Void in the Voices: The 44th Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale)
13–25 October 2006 If an annual festival like the Viennale were to be encapsulated by a general motto, this year’s edition might be called If
American Triptych: Vidor, Hawks and Ford
Three legendary classical directors are put under the spotlight, and the results of Gallagher’s analysis are always illuminating and surprising
Why are We in Vancouver?
28 September–13 October 2006 So the big man in the pink shirt has stubbed out his last cigarette and marched down the aisle of the
Gravity of the Flux: Michael Mann’s Miami Vice
Mann’s film is more than a mere transposition of the 1980s television series onto the big screen; it extends the thematic and stylistic complexities of
Noir by Day: Interview with Jonathan Ogilvie on Emulsion
After having his first two short films screened at respective Cannes Film Festivals in the mid-1990s, a decade later director Ogilvie has shot his first
Turnstyled, Junkpiled: On High or Dry
Bill Craske looks at one of the best low-budget feature documentaries about the vicissitudes of the drug life
Hidden’s Disinherited Children
A thorough examination of Michael Haneke’s troubling film about the sins of the past and their effects on the present