La collectionneuse: Dandies on the Côte d’Azur Jacob Leigh April 2010 Eric Rohmer Dossier, Feature Articles, Special Dossiers Jacob Leigh looks into both the production history and the general cultural influences that inform Rohmer’s first-produced but fourth listed of the feature length ‘Moral Tales’.
Kaurismäki, Aki Lana Wilson July 2009 Great Directors b. 4 April 1957, Orimattila, Finland Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources Two Finns are in a bar. After hours of silence, one man raises his glass to the other and says, “Cheers.” The other man sna...
Midnight at MIFF? The 57th Melbourne International Film Festival 2008 Martyn Pedler February 2009 Festival Reports 25 July – 10 August 2008 For the past few years, whispers have circulated of the Melbourne International Film Festival’s (MIFF) intention to cull its juggernaut-sized cinema choices down to something a l...
Fury John Fidler August 2008 CTEQ Annotations on Film Fury (1936 US 92 mins) Prod Co: MGM Prod: Joseph L. Mankiewicz Dir: Fritz Lang Scr: Bartlett Cormack, Fritz Lang, from the story “Mob Rule” by Norman Krasna Phot: Joseph Ruttenberg Ed: Frank Sullivan Art...
A Partial World Viewed: Film Fables and The Future of the Image by Jacques Rancière Tony McKibbin March 2008 Book Reviews Jacques Rancière’s books, Film Fables and The Future of the Image, are really trying to do what his work in politics often does. If his collection of essays, On The Shores of Politics (1), proposes that we shou...
The Blurring of Boundaries: The 15th Vila do Conde Short Film Festival Bárbara Barroso and Daniel Ribas November 2007 Festival Reports 7-15 July 2007 Vila do Conde is a friendly beach town near Oporto, the second largest city in Portugal. Every July since 1993, it hosts one of the most relevant Portuguese film festivals dedicated to sho...
Contraband Alexander C. Ives July 2005 CTEQ Annotations on Film Contraband (1940 UK 92 mins) Source: BFI Prod Co: British National Prod: John Corfield Dir: Michael Powell Scr: Emeric Pressburger, Michael Powell, based on screenplay by Brock Williams, story by Pressbu...
Buñuel, Luis Dominique Russell April 2005 Great Directors b. February 22, 1900, Calanda, Spain d. July 29, 1983, Mexico City, Mexico Filmography Select Bibliography Articles in Senses Web Resources Luis Buñuel was a singular figure in world cinema, and a...
Becker, Jacques James Sepsey October 2004 Great Directors b. September 15, 1906, Paris, France d. February 21, 1960, Paris, France Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources What once was great, now appeared small. – Czeslaw Milosz (1) Above us are sev...
Baisers volés/ Stolen Kisses Mike Robins April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Baisers volés/Stolen Kisses (1968 France 91 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Les Films du Carrosse/Artistes Associes Prod: Marcel Berbert Dir: François Truffaut Scr: François Truffaut, Claude de Givray, B...
Crime and Punishment: A Neglected Classic Thomas Beltzer April 2004 CTEQ Annotations on Film Crime and Punishment (1935 USA 88 mins) Source: NLA/ACMI Prod Co: Columbia Prod: B. P. Schulberg Dir: Josef von Sternberg Scr: Joseph Anthony, S. K. Lauren, from the novel by Feodor Dostoyevsky Phot: Luc...
Bava, Mario Sam Ishii-Gonzales April 2004 Great Directors b. July 31, 1914, San Remo, Italy d. April 25, 1980, Rome, Italy filmography articles in Senses web resources Mario Bava directed (or co-directed) twenty-four features during an eighteen year perio...
2003 World Poll – Part 3 Various February 2004 2003 World Poll The Entries Miguel Marías Philip Matthews James May Olaf Möller Sarah Nichols Darragh O'Donoghue John Orr Alan Pavelin Alberto Pezzotta Jit Phokaew Mike Plante Jared Rapf...
Dreams of Fassbinder: An Interview with Juliane Lorenz Maximilian Le Cain and Chris Neill December 2003 Feature Articles A distinguished film editor, Juliane Lorenz was closely associated with Rainer Werner Fassbinder in the final years of his life. She shares some memories of working with this "extraordinary" genius.
von Trotta, Margarethe Ben Andac December 2002 Great Directors b. February 21, 1942, Berlin, Germany filmography bibliography web resources Born in Berlin in 1942, Margarethe von Trotta is two things: the most important woman director to emerge from the New Ger...
Film Culture in Paraguay: Interview with Hugo Gamarra Etcheverry Noel King July 2002 Feature Articles Hugo talks about his involvement in developing and sustaining a vital and active film culture in Paraguay.