Issue 45
The Blurring of Boundaries: The 15th Vila do Conde Short Film Festival
7-15 July 2007 Vila do Conde is a friendly beach town near Oporto, the second largest city in Portugal. Every July since 1993, it hosts
Violence and Liberation in The Hour of the Furnaces
The Hour of the Furnaces (1968 Argentina 260 mins) Prod Co: Grupo Cine Liberacion/Solanas Productions Prod: Edgardo Pallero, Fernando E. Solanas Dir, Scr: Fernando E.
Emperor of the North: The Last Hurrah of Lee Marvin
The Emperor of the North Pole/Emperor of the North (1973 USA 118 mins) Prod Co: Inter-Hemisphere Productions Prod: Stanley Hough Dir: Robert Aldrich Scr: Christopher
Treasure-Hunting: The 11th Views from the Avant-Garde
6-7 October 2007 My annual pilgrimage this year to the Views from the Avant-Garde (the experimental film sidebar at the New York Film Festival) was
The Emperor of the North Pole
The Emperor of the North Pole/Emperor of the North (1973 USA 118 mins) Prod Co: Inter-Hemisphere Productions Prod: Stanley Hough Dir: Robert Aldrich Scr: Christopher
Dead Heart
Dead Heart (1996 Australia 106 mins) Prod Co: Dead Heart Productions Prod: Bryan Brown, Helen Watts Dir, Scr: Nick Parsons Phot: James Bartle Ed: Henry
Observation in Progress: The 11th Views from the Avant-Garde
6-7 October 2007 Standing outside the Walter Reade Theater in between screenings at this year’s Views from the Avant-Garde, P. Adams Sitney recounted how the
The Documentaries of Louis Malle (Criterion box set)
After six months in India you’re not even quite sure that two plus two is four. – Louis Malle (1) In 1967, Louis Malle was
Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema 1928-1954 (Kino International)
Avant-Garde 2: Experimental Cinema 1928-1954 is a laudable, curious and at times frustrating collection of French and mostly American experimental films made across a 25-year-period.
America First: Naming the Nation in US Film edited by Mandy Merck
WILLIE [John Lurie] (eating a TV dinner): Eva, stop bugging me, will you? You know, this is the way we eat in America. I got