Issue 50
“Re-mapping Cinema, Re-making History”?: A Report from the 14th Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand
27-30 November 2008 The strength of the biennial conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand (and why it remains a
Latin Love Triumphs: The 57th International Film Festival Mannheim-Heidelberg
6-16 November 2008 For eleven days in November, two neighbouring cities on the Rhine brought 32 new films to Germany at the Mannheim-Heidelberg Festival, 18
No Business Like Shoah Business: The 19th Festival of Jewish Cinema
5-23 November 2008 Melbourne In a perfect world, Australian filmgoers would be juggling super-sized boxes of buttery popcorn and buckets of icy cola syrup, and
The Evil That Boys Do: Louis Malle’s Lacombe, Lucien
Lacombe, Lucien (1974 France/West Germany/Italy 137 mins) Prod Co: Nouvelles Éditions de Films/UPF (Paris)/Vides Film (Rome)/Hallelujah Films (Munich) Prod: Louis Malle, Claude Nedjar Dir: Louis
Recherchez: José Luis Guerín’s In the City of Sylvia
En la Ciudad de Sylvia/Dans la ville de Sylvie/In the City of Sylvia (2007 Spain 84 mins) Prod Co: Château-Rouge Productions/Eddie Saeta S.A./Televisió de Catalunya/Televisión
Innisfree
Innisfree (1990 Spain 110 mins) Prod: Paco Poch Dir, Scr, Ed: José Luis Guerín Phot: Gerardo Gormezano Art Dir: Sindria Segura “Cast”: Bertley O’Feeney, Padraig
Le Feu follet
Le Feu follet/The Fire Within (1963 France 103 mins) Prod Co: Nouvelles Éditions de Films Dir: Louis Malle Scr: Louis Malle, from the novella by
Erotikon
Erotikon (1920 Sweden 97 mins) Prod Co: Svensk Filmindustri Dir: Mauritz Stiller Scr: Gustaf Molander, Arthur Nordén, Mauritz Stiller, based on the play A Kék
Welcome to our 50th Anniversary Issue!
Late in 1999, a Melbourne based independent filmmaker decided to take a well-earned hiatus from his prolific filmmaking activities and thought it would be a
The Imp of Mischief: “Have You Seen…?” A Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films by David Thomson
If Pauline Kael is often pugnacious, Jonathan Rosenbaum belligerent, Anthony Lane frivolous, then what word should we bestow upon David Thomson? Perhaps impertinence fits best,