Issue 59 | June 2011
The Third Generation
In Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s first film, Der stadtstreicher (The City Tramp, 1966), the director enters a public pissort and sneers at his derelict anti-hero (Christoph
Hollywood, Germany: The Longing of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Veronika Voss
Although with regard to career chronology Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss (Veronika Voss) marks the culmination of Fassbinder’s so-called “BRD (Budesrepublik Deutschland) Trilogy”, its narrative
Fox and His Friends
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s films create an intriguing dialogue between subject and spectator where opposing fabrics of the social and personal are profoundly interwoven. It is
The Conscious Collusion of the Stare: The Viewer Implicated in Fassbinder’s Fear Eats the Soul
In a scene from Fassbinder’s Fear Eats the Soul, Emmy, an aging, widowed German national, and Ali, a much younger Moroccan immigrant, sit together at
A Question of Scale: The 2010 AFI FEST / American Film Market
Two important figures of the cinephilic landscape left Los Angeles in 2010. One was Rose Kuo, who since 2007 had assumed the direction of the
To Capture Life: The 5th Biennial Bigpond Adelaide Film Festival
Unlike older and more established Australian international film festivals (the Melbournes, the Sydneys, even the Brisbanes) the still very young Bigpond Adelaide Film Festival (BAFF)
Take the A Train and Don’t Look Back: The 30th Sundance Film Festival and the 19th Pan African Film and Arts Festival
It’s at Sundance that independent queer cinema was launched in the US media. Since Todd Haynes’ Poison (1991) (1) and Gregg Araki’s The Living End
Many Things to Ever More People: The 25th Fribourg International Film Festival
For two years running I’ve attended the Fribourg International Film Festival. The timing of my engagements with the festival has been propitious; it strikes me
Defeating the Irremediable Solitude of the Guest: An Interview with José Luis Guerin
José Luis Guerin discusses his recent film Guest, based around the year-long itinerary of the director visiting many film festivals and cultures
Marcel Carné
b. 18 August 1906, Paris, France d. 31 October 1996, Clamart, Hauts-de-Seine, France Cinema is the art of forming a team. –Jean Cocteau Carné’s films