Issue 8
What are They Writing About?
A critique of academic writing
Work Never Done: Australian Women Filmworkers from the 1930s to 1970s
Presented in association with ScreenSound Australia, with the support of Film Australia and the ABC Archives. Further details on this program will be included with
Cinephilia and Monstrosity: The Problem of Cinema in Deleuze’s Cinema Books
Reflections on Deleuze's film theory and philosophy
(An Outsider’s) Overview: 47th Sydney Film Festival
Filmspeak The Films – Alan Clarke Retrospective The Films – Main Programme This year’s 2000 (as opposed to “47th”, according to most flyers, programmes, etc.)
The 49th Melbourne International Film Festival, or: How I Learned to Give Up Resisting, and Consume Hours and Hours of the Moving Image
18 days of madness - here are some tips
Welcome to Issue 8 of our journal!
Festival fever has taken hold of Australia currently. The Sydney Film Festival took place recently, and we have a couple of reports from it, and
Chinese Film Festival
Following on from the French Film Festival held at the same venue (Como Cinema, Melbourne) a couple of months back, this Chinese Film Festival was
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950 USA 95 mins) Source: NLA Prod Co: 20th Century-Fox Prod, Dir: Otto Preminger Scr: Ben Hecht from a novel by
Death Comes as an End: Temporality, Domesticity and Photography in Terrence Malick’s Badlands
Malick's first film is full of haunting images expressing the melancholic impossibility of life