Welcome to Issue 38 of our journal! the editors February 2006 Editorial Issue 38 As expected, this current issue of Senses of Cinema contains the 2005 World Poll. As old as Senses itself, this is the sixth such edition of the ‘year in review’ poll. Inevitably, it has changed and...
Ride Lonesome: The Career of Budd Boetticher Sean Axmaker February 2006 Feature Articles, Revisiting Budd Boetticher Issue 83 A biographical and critical overview of this greatly admired filmmaker and seminal stylist of the Hollywood B-movie tradition.
Riding the New Wave: The Case of Bonnie and Clyde Elaine Lennon February 2006 Feature Articles Issue 38 A further instalment (see Issue 37) on the career of this fabled American screenwriter. Elaine Lennon examines in detail Towne’s contribution to this key film of the post-classical Hollywood era.
Faozan Rizal: Landscapes of Feeling Nathan Andersen February 2006 Feature Articles Issue 38 Independent Indonesian filmmaker Faozan Rizal was the unofficial subject of a retrospective at the 2005 Singapore International Film Festival. Relatively still unknown outside the region, this article provides a welcome introduction to the poetics of Rizal’s cinema.
Battle in Heaven: An Interview with Carlos Reygadas Maximilian Le Cain February 2006 Feature Articles Issue 38 One of the more controversial films of 2005, Mexican filmmaker Carlos Reygadas discusses the merits of his film.
A Journey into the Light: Matthias Müller’s Film Pensão Globo Daniel Kothenschulte February 2006 Feature Articles Issue 38 Insightful discussion on the fragility of cinema and life in the æsthetic practice of experimental filmmaker Matthias Müller.
Fragments of a Great Event Viewed from a Tiny Room: Abel Gance’s Napoléon, Film History and Conservation Dean Bowman February 2006 Feature Articles Issue 38 Abel Gance’s multi-screen 1926 silent epic was one of the first to receive an up-market, highly publicised restoration (Francis Coppola was one of its sponsors). Dean Bowman examines the legacy.
“A Vessel of Imagery”: An Interview with Gregg Araki Gilbert Caluya and Damon Young February 2006 Feature Articles Issue 38 For many, Mysterious Skin was one of the best films of 2005. In this wide-ranging discussion director Gregg Araki talks about what attracted him to the story, and much else about his career in general.
Ride Lonesome: The Career of Budd Boetticher Sean Axmaker February 2006 Feature Articles, Revisiting Budd Boetticher Issue 83 A biographical and critical overview of this greatly admired filmmaker and seminal stylist of the Hollywood B-movie tradition.
Deux Fois: Some Thoughts on the 24th Vancouver International Film Festival Bérénice Reynaud February 2006 Festival Reports Issue 38 September 29–October 14, 2005 Cinema is still a young art compared to the first six – yet it is not exempt from a certain lassitude. There...
In a Box (Canyon) and on a Line: The 32nd Telluride Film Festival Sarah A. Heller February 2006 Festival Reports Issue 38 September 2–5, 2005 Geographically speaking, the Telluride Film Festival takes place on a line, a border of sorts. But this line need not be...
My Un-queer Pusan: Or How I Got into an Argument with The Unforgiven: The 10th Pusan International Film Festival Paolo Bertolin February 2006 Festival Reports Issue 38 October 6–14, 2005 The 10th edition of Pusan International Film Festival (PIFF), which ran 6-14 October 2005, was a well-concerted...
Three Flavours of Polish Films’ Rejuvenation and Stability: The 30th Polish Feature Film Festival in Gdynia Renata Murawska February 2006 Festival Reports Issue 38 September 12–17, 2005 The flavour of the Polish Feature Film Festival in the coastal Gdynia is defined not only by the screened films, but...
What Price Cinema?: A Report from the 43rd New York Film Festival Kevin Lee February 2006 Festival Reports Issue 38 September 23–October 9, 2005 I would be remiss if this year’s recap of the New York Film Festival neglected a tip of the hat to my...
Imagining Iran: A Symposium on Iranian Cinema Greg Dolgopolov February 2006 Festival Reports Issue 38 November 18, 2005 School of Media, Film & Theatre, University of New South Wales Censorship, lepers, allegory, half-made cinema,...
Between Seeing and Memory: A Report on the 62nd Venice Film Festival Saul Symonds February 2006 Festival Reports Issue 38 August 31–September 10, 2005 The day after the 62nd Venice Film Festival has ended (and only hours after leaving the closing night party,...
Ambiguous Adventures: The 23rd Torino Film Festival Olaf Möller February 2006 Festival Reports Issue 38 November 11–19, 2005 In the last few years, the Torino Film Festival (originally called Cinema Giovani) has gained something of an...
Towards World Domination: The 30th Toronto International Film Festival Dan Sallitt February 2006 Festival Reports Issue 38 September 8–17, 2005 Returning to the Toronto Film Festival after missing last year’s event, I noticed that the enterprise had moved a few...
The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami by Alberto Elena Hamish Ford February 2006 Book Reviews Issue 38 It seems extraordinary that Alberto Elena’s The Cinema of Abbas Kiarostami is the first book in English devoted to a reference-style coverage of...
Cary Grant: A Biography by Marc Eliot Anthony D’Amato February 2006 Book Reviews Issue 38 “The best movie actor that ever was” (said Alexis Smith). “The most handsome, witty, and stylish leading man” (Eva Marie Saint). “What he...
Not Reconciled: Australian Cinema after Mabo by Felicity Collins and Therese Davis Eva Rueschmann February 2006 Book Reviews Issue 38 Felicity Collins and Therese Davis’ Australian Cinema after Mabo joins other recent books on Australian film, such as Ian Craven’s essay...
Le Varianti Trasparenti: I Film con Ingrid Bergman di Roberto Rossellini by Elena Dagrada Geoffrey Nowell-Smith February 2006 Book Reviews Issue 38 The story begins with a letter sent, speculatively, by Ingrid Bergman to the Italian director Roberto Rossellini. “Dear Mr Rossellini,” it...
Shepperton Babylon by Matthew Sweet Daniel Gritten February 2006 Book Reviews Issue 38 The rediscovery of British cinema is underway. The BBC’s recent series The Lost World of Mitchell and Kenyon was an admirable success. Modules on...
Close Up: An Actor Telling Tales by John Fraser David Melville February 2006 Book Reviews Issue 38 A quite ridiculously handsome leading man in British films of the 50s and 60s, John Fraser worked at the top of his profession without ever quite...
Hitchcock’s Cryptonymies, Volume 1: Secret Agents by Tom Cohen Polona Petek February 2006 Book Reviews Issue 38 American scholar Tom Cohen, whose areas of expertise include literature, cinema and cultural studies, gained international reputation with the...
Horizons West: Directing the Western from John Ford to Clint Eastwood by Jim Kitses Saige Walton February 2006 Book Reviews Issue 38 The original publication of Jim Kitses’ Horizons West in 1969 revealed the heavy impact of auteurism on the development of genre criticism. Thanks...
Chimes at Midnight Darragh O’Donoghue February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 38 Chimes at Midnight/Campanadas a medianoche/Falstaff (1966 Spain/Switzerland 119 mins) Source: NFSA Prod Co: Alpine Films/Internacional Films...
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Transnational Poet of the New Thai Cinema: Blissfully Yours/Sud Sanaeha Brett Farmer February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 38 Blissfully Yours/Sud Sanaeha (2002 Thailand 125 mins) Prod Co: Anna Sanders Films/Kick the Machine/La-ong Dao Prod: Eric Chan, Charles de...
The Big Heat Dan Shaw February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 38 The Big Heat (1953 USA 89 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Columbia Pictures Prod: Robert Arthur Dir: Fritz Lang Scr: Sidney Boehm, from the novel...
36 Fillette Lee Hill February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 38 36 Fillette (1988 France 88 mins) Source: NFSA Prod Co: CB Films/French Productions Prod: Emmanuel Schlumberger, Valérie Seydoux Dir:...
Bend, Don’t Break: André Téchiné’s Wild Reeds Katharine Thornton February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 38 Les roseaux sauvages/Wild Reeds (1994 France 110 mins) Prod Co: Ima films/Les Films Alaine Sarde/Canal +/La Sept Arte Prod: Alain Sarde,...
Tropical Malady Holger Römers February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 38 Tropical Malady/Sud pralad (2004 Thailand/France/Germany/Italy 118 mins) Prod Co: Anna Sanders Films/Backup Films/Downtown Pictures/Kick the...
The Trial Temenuga Trifonova February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 38 Le Procès/The Trial/Il Processo/Der Prozess (1962 France/Italy/West Germany/Yugoslavia 118 mins) Source: Level Four Films Prod Co:...
The Time to Live and the Time to Die Kevin Lee February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 80 The Time to Live and the Time to Die/Tong nian wang shi (1985 Taiwan 138 mins) Source: NFSA Prod Co: Central Motion Pictures Corporation Dir: Hou...
El sur Miguel Marías February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 38 El sur (1983 Spain/France 94 mins) Source: NFSA Prod Co: Elías Querejeta Producciones Cinematográficas S.L./Televisión Española/ Chloë...
Johnny Staccato: “Swinging Long Hair” Noah Tsika February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 38 Johnny Staccato: “Swinging Long Hair” (1960 USA 24 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Revue Studios (for NBC) Dir: Jeffrey Hayden Scr: Sam...
Mr. Arkadin/Confidential Report Nelson Kim February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 38 Mr. Arkadin/Confidential Report (1955 USA/Spain 99 mins) Source: NFSA Prod Co: Mercury Productions/Film Organization S.A./Filmorsa/ Cervantes...
Les Mistons Wheeler Winston Dixon February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 38 Les Mistons (1957 France 18 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Les Films du Carrosse Prod: Robert Lachenay Dir: François Truffaut Scr: Truffaut,...
The Magnificent Ambersons Tamara Tracz February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 38 The Magnificent Ambersons (1942 USA 88 mins) Prod Co: Mercury Productions/RKO Pictures Prod, Dir: Orson Welles Scr: Orson Welles, based on the...
The Immortal Story: Like the Sound of the Sea Deep Within a Shell Adrian Danks February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 38 The Immortal Story (1968 France/Spain 63mins) Source: ScreenSound Prod Co: ORTF, Albina Films Prod: Micheline Rozan Dir, Scr: Orson Welles...
Dangerous Dreamers: Fantasy, Passion and Psychosis in Heavenly Creatures David Melville February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 38 Heavenly Creatures (1994 New Zealand 108 mins) Source: Prod Co: Wingnut Films/Buena Vista/Fontana/NZFC Prod: Jim Booth Dir: Peter Jackson Scr:...
The Hearts of Age Brian L. Frye February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 38 The Hearts of Age (1934 USA 8 mins @ 18 fps) Source: PC Prod, Phot: William Vance Dir: Orson Welles, William Vance Cast: Orson Welles,...
Edvard Munch Robert Keser February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 38 Edvard Munch (1974 Norway 210 mins) Prod Co: NRK/Sveriges Radio AB/Norsk Film A/S Dir, Ed: Peter Watkins Scr: Peter Watkins, in collaboration...
Macbeth Tony Williams February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 38 Macbeth (1948 USA 107 mins) Source: Library of Congress Prod Co: Mercury Productions/Republic Pictures Corporation Prod, Dir: Orson Welles...
The Third Man Chris Justice February 2006 Cinémathèque Annotations on Film Issue 38 The Third Man (1949 UK 104 mins) Source: Chapel Films Prod Co: London Films Prod: Alexander Korda, David O. Selznick Dir: Carol Reed Scr:...
Yoshimitsu Morita Bob Davis February 2006 Great Directors Issue 38 b. 25 January, 1950, Chigasaki, Kanagawa, Japan Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources In his review of Keiho (39 keihou dai...
Roger Corman Wheeler Winston Dixon February 2006 Great Directors Issue 38 b. Roger William Corman b. April 5, 1926, Detroit, Michigan, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web...
Steven Spielberg Stephen Rowley February 2006 Great Directors Issue 38 b. 18 December 1946, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources You're on to a much safer bet liking someone like...
Phillip Noyce Ingo Petzke February 2006 Great Directors Issue 38 b. Phillip Roger Noyce b. 29 April 1950, Griffith, New South Wales, Australia Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web...
An Analysis of the Soundtrack in the Work of Malcolm Le Grice Denice McMahon February 2006 On Movies, Musicians and Soundtracks Issue 38 Avant-garde cinema has a long and illustrious tradition of experimentation between image and music. The work of this seminal structural/materialist filmmaker is further testament to that abiding practice.
No Direction Home: Looking Forward from Don’t Look Back Tim O’Farrell February 2006 On Movies, Musicians and Soundtracks Issue 38 Given that much of this Bob Dylan documentary sources its material from the archives of the Direct Cinema movement of the 1960s, this article addresses the historical reframing of such footage for contemporary use.
Give Me a Second Grace: Music as Absolution in The Royal Tenenbaums Carole Lyn Piechota February 2006 On Movies, Musicians and Soundtracks Issue 38 An insightful thematic cross-reading of the film’s narrative in relation to its pop-music soundtrack.
Observable Death: Gus Van Sant’s Last Days John Lars Ericson February 2006 On Movies, Musicians and Soundtracks Issue 38 Ostensibly about very little, Van Sant’s film on the last days of a rock musician is discussed in the light of theorist Siegfried Kracauer’s ideas on filmic realism.
2005 World Poll – Part 3 Various February 2006 2005 World Poll Issue 38 Editors’ Note As readers may seek and search entries, rather than read from beginning to end, full titles, director credits and years of release...
2005 World Poll – Part 2 Various February 2006 2005 World Poll Issue 38 Editors’ Note As readers may seek and search entries, rather than read from beginning to end, full titles, director credits and years of release...
2005 World Poll – Part 1 Various February 2006 2005 World Poll Issue 38 Editors’ Note As readers may seek and search entries, rather than read from beginning to end, full titles, director credits and years of release...
The Genesis of The Naked Bunyip John B. Murray February 2006 Australian Cinema Issue 38 A producer, director, screenwriter and activist for an Australian national cinema provides a first-hand socio-cultural account of the era surrounding the late 1960s-early ’70s revival in local film production.
Portraits of Settler History in The Proposition Carol Hart February 2006 Australian Cinema Issue 38 Hailed as an antipodean Western, this Nick Cave scripted and John Hillcoat directed feature raises considerable debate about the representation of Australia’s colonial history.
Regarding Bitter Victory: Hollywood’s Philoctetes in the Desert or La Politique des Comédiens Carloss James Chamberlin February 2006 Nicholas Ray: Two Classics Revisited Issue 38 For many, the films of Nick Ray are a litmus test for the pros and cons of la politique des auteurs. This article provides the most extensive analysis to date of the elusive ‘Nick Ray Style’.
Bigger Than Life: The Picture, the Production, the Press Sam Wasson February 2006 Nicholas Ray: Two Classics Revisited Issue 38 Comprehensive examination of one of Nick Ray’s most renowned melodramas.
