Issue 48
Consistent Pickings But Few Difficult Pleasures: The 55th Sydney Film Festival
4–22 June 2008 The 2008 Sydney Film Festival was a bigger event – longer, and with more films – than previously, and the first year
Children of the Palais: The 25th St Kilda Film Festival
6–11 May 2008 The St Kilda Film Festival is an annual showcase for short films that celebrated its 25th anniversary this year. St Kilda is
Rotterdam Delights aka Asia Expanded, Russia Displayed and China Revisited: The 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam
23 January – 3 February 2008 If one had the time, if one were able to perceive life and its screens on a multiple level,
Circling Back: The Avant-Garde Looks to the Past, and Other Small (But Substantial) Pleasures: The 37th International Film Festival Rotterdam
23 January – 3 February 2008 The V2_Institute for the Unstable Media is housed in a small warehouse building down a modest alleyway in Rotterdam’s
“Pure Artifice”: Fritz Lang’s Moonfleet
(1) Moonfleet (1955 USA 88 mins) Prod Co: MGM/Loew’s Incorporated Prod: John Houseman Dir: Fritz Lang Scr: Jan Lustig, Margaret Fitts, based on the novel
Medium Cool
Medium Cool (1969 USA 110 mins) Prod Co: Paramount Prod: Tully Friedman, Haskell Wexler, Jerrold Wexler Dir, Scr, Phot: Haskell Wexler Ed: Verna Fields Art
Comment je me suis disputé… (ma vie sexuelle)
Comment je me suis disputé… (ma vie sexuelle)/Ma vie sexuelle/My Sex Life… or How I got into an Argument (1996 France 178 mins) Prod Co:
La Maman et la putain
La Maman et la putain/The Mother and the Whore (1973 France 215 mins) Prod Co: Elite Films/Ciné Qua Non/Les Films du Losange/Simar Films/V. M. Productions
Gymnasts, Homunculi and Burning Crocodiles: A Few Thoughts on If….
If…. (1968 UK 107 mins) Prod Co: Memorial Enterprises Prod: Michael Medwin, Lindsay Anderson Dir: Lindsay Anderson Scr: David Sherwin Phot: Miroslav Ondriček Prod Des:
Greetings
Greetings (1968 USA 88 mins) Prod Co: West End Films Prod: Charles Hirsch Dir, Ed: Brian De Palma Scr: Brian De Palma, Charles Hirsch Phot: