Issue 47
You Know My Name: On Beginnings and Replications in the New Bond
The success of Casino Royale has radically re-energised and redefined perceptions of the long-standing 007 franchise. The authors offer some unexpected insights about the ever-developing
Day of Wrath
Day of Wrath/Vredens dag (1943 Denmark 100 mins) Prod Co: Palladium Film Prod: Tage Nielsen Dir: Carl Theodor Dreyer Scr: Mogens Skot-Hansen, Poul Knudsen, Carl
Boxing on with Mao and Mundine: Come Out Fighting
Come Out Fighting (1973 Australia 50 mins) Dir: Nigel Buesst Scr: Nigel Buesst, based on the play by Harry Martin Phot: Byron Kennedy Ed: Tony
What I Owe to Hammer Horror
Autobiography and critical analysis blend together as the author looks back to his days as a boy in the flatlands of regional Australia and the
Forgotten Lean: The Ann Todd Trilogy
Though other titles loom larger in perceptions of David Lean’s career, John Orr makes a case for the significance of Lean’s collaboration with Ann Todd
On the Terminal in Cinema
Taking up literary critic A. Alvarez’s notion of a “terminal æsthetic” (as first applied to Samuel Beckett’s work), Schenker discusses its relevance to a range
The World Tasted: Dušan Makavejev’s Sweet Movie
The author of the forthcoming first English-language book devoted to the director, Terror and Joy: The Films of Dušan Makavejev, dissects this most sensuously complex
Sweet Movie: The Gentle Side of “Destructive Art”
The esteemed director of this landmark movie looks back at his most controversial film
Slovak Cinema of the 1970s Revisited
For the West, the “Czech New Wave” label unintentionally elided what was in fact a productive mix of Czech and Slovak filmmakers. Recent DVD releases
“When men, even unknowingly, …”: Quién sabe?, Love is Colder than Death, Le Cercle rouge: The Buddy Movie Becomes Romance
A Spaghetti Western, a Brechtian gangster film and a stylised French crime film by, respectively, Damiani, Fassbinder and Melville are brought together in this perceptive