Metro : Media & Education Magazine back issues from January 2002:
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Jan 01, 2002; ... AUSTRALIAN CONTENT STANDARD UNDER REVIEW THE AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTing Authority is currently reviewing the Australian Content Standard for commercial television, that is, the regulations which control the broadcast of Australian programmes on the three commercial television networks to ...
GOD BLESS AMERICA (AND THANK GOD FOR AUSTRALIA)
Jan 01, 2002; ... THE 2001 AFI FEATURE FILM AWARDS BY FELICITY COLLINS IF MOULIN ROUGE (BAZ LUHRMANN) was the much anticipated tent-pole of 2001 's slate of Australian feature films entered in the AFI Awards, then The Dish (Rob Sitch) was the supporting act, with Lantana (Ray Lawrence) and perhaps The ...
The Naked Gun Meets Jean Luc Godard?
Jan 01, 2002; ... Perhaps it's no surprise that the formative years for director Richard Lowenstein were the seventies, a time when the age of Aquarius gave way to the messy, urgent voice of punk. This is not to say that Lowenstein is a director swathed in safety pins and cut-off denim. When I meet him in a chic ...
the detective the poet and the femme fatale
Jan 01, 2002; ... dying is an art, like everything else. i do it exceptionally well MOURNING AND HERMENEUTICS IN THE MONKEY'S MASK SEX, ART AND DEATH TRAVEL AS SOMETHING OF AN UNHOLY TRINITY, INHABITING THE SHADY REALM OF THE TABOO, MARKING CERTAIN TEXTS AS THEIR TERRAIN, BUT ALSO SHADOWING A ...
SERENADES
Jan 01, 2002; ... SERENADES (MOJGAN KHADEM, 2001) WAS FIRST PRESENTED AT THE PERTH FESTIVAL IN JANUARY 2001, THEN AT THE SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL; OUTSIDE OF THE FESTIVAL CIRCUIT, IT HAS HAD LIMITED RELEASE. MANY REVIEWERS HAVE BEEN LESS THAN GENEROUS IN THEIR ANALYSIS OF THIS AUSTRALIAN FILM. COULD THIS BE BECAUSE, ...
Mission Impossible: LET'S GET SKASE
Jan 01, 2002; ... IT'S ALWAYS BEEN MY BELIEF THAT THERE'S A PLACE FOR MOVIES THAT DON'T MAKE YOU THINK. LIFE IS HARD. SOMETIMES YOU DON'T WANT TO THINK. I LIKE TO WADE THROUGH DIFFICULT cinema, complex and dark films. My recent encounter with Catherine Breillat's A Ma Soeur! (2001) is a classic example of ...
LA SPAGNOLA NOT STUPENDA
Jan 01, 2002; ... ONE MILLION DOLLARS, THE REPORTED BUDGET OF LA SPAGNOLA, NORMALLY DOESN'T BUY YOU VERY MUCH IN THE MOVIE BUSINESS. IT MIGHT PROCURE TWO MINUTES' WORTH OF SPECIAL EFFECTS, A CAMEO FROM A LOW-RENT HOLLYWOOD STAR, SOME POST-PRODUCTION WORK PERHAPS. YET EVEN THOUGH IT'S A RELATIVELY SMALL AMOUNT OF ...
a thousand pictures
Jan 01, 2002; ... LUCIEN SIMON INTERVIEWS DOROTHY PORTER AND ANNE KENNEDY IN 1994, DOROTHY PORTER'S VERSE NOVEL, THE MONKEY'S MASK, WAS RELEASED. THE BOOK WAS A SURPRISE SUCCESS, PROMPTLY ENTERING THE BEST SELLERS' LIST, WINNING THE AGE POETRY BOOK OF THE YEAR AND RECEIVING THE NATIONAL COUNCIL 'BANJO' ...
This is my land or This land is me?
Jan 01, 2002; ... One night the moon Came a rolling by Drove a big car Across the night sky One night the moon Came rolling by Called all the dreamers To come for a ride Paul Kelly, John Romeril 'A song was both map and direction-finder ....
'We Want To PUT OUR CULTURE Out to THE WORLD'
Jan 01, 2002; ... Yolngu Boy, The Latest in Aboriginal and Youth Cinema The children's Aboriginal feature film, Yolngu Boy (Stephen Johnson, 2001) premiered in Darwin and was released in mid-March in cinemas throughout Australia. It won the Bronze Gryphon Award at Italy's Giffoni Film Festival, which ...
Seeking the Believers: An Interview with Mojgan Khadem
Jan 01, 2002; ... THIRTEEN SEPTEMBER 2001: 2.45PM: THIS terrible disaster is making me more and more vocal because these are exactly the issues I've been talking about'. Mojgan Khadem's enthusiastic agreement to do an interview in light of the terrorist attacks on the United States deepened my curiosity to hear ...
Monique Schwarz's MAMADRAMA: THE JEWISH MOTHER IN CINEMA
Jan 01, 2002; ... MOTHERHOOD IS NEITHER SIMPLE NOR NATURAL. If human reproduction was once considered a natural process, the biological processes whereby a woman becomes a mother (conception, pregnancy and childbirth) are now all subject to medical and technological interuentions. But mothers are not only ...
THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER: AN INTERVIEW WITH PHILLIP NOYCE
Jan 01, 2002; ... RABBIT-PROOF FENCE TAKES PHILLIP NOYCE BACK TO BASICS, TO LOW BUDGET FILMMAKING AND A MERGING OF DRAMA AND DOCUMENTARY STYLES. THE RESULT IS A PORTRAIT OF A SHAMEFUL POLITICAL SYSTEM, PLAYED OUTAS A HEART-RENDING EXPERIENCE FOR THE CHARACTERS AND AUDIENCE ALIKE. THE STORY FOLLOWS THE ...
The Mary G Show
Jan 01, 2002; ... INTRODUCTION AN ABORIGINAL GIRL STANDS IN THE KITCHEN doorway of a pastoral homestead. She is watching a white woman preparing food. The scene has a circa 1960s feel to it, evocative of the time before the referendum on Aboriginal citizenship. The voice-over is that of the girl as an ...
MONSOON WEDDING: A DISCUSSION OF MIRA NAIR'S NEW FILM
Jan 01, 2002; ... EVERY SO OFTEN A TOUCHING, VIBRANT, MULTI-DIMEN-SIGNAL FILM COMES ALONG WHICH OFFERS ITS AUDIENCE THE OPPORTUNITY FOR DELICIOUS ESCAPISM. MONSOON WEDDING IS EXACTLY THIS KIND OF FILM. DIRECTOR MIRA NAIR (Salaam Bombay! 1988, Mississippi Masala, 1991, Kama Sutra: A Tale of Love, 1996) ...
'IT'S CALLED SPLICING' SHADOW MAGIC and That Bloke from South London
Jan 01, 2002; ... SHADOW MAGIC (ANN HU, C AND and A Productions, 2001) is a coproduction with American, Chinese, German and Taiwanese input. It is screening under the aegis of the Silk Screen Season 2001. The co-production tag is a judgement, rather than a mere industrial description. The film is fun, but it is a ...
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
Jan 01, 2002; ... TAKESHI KITANO'S BROTHER ... THE BODY COUNT MOUNTS STEADILY AND EVERYONE SEEMS TO GET IN ON THE ACT WITH RELISH AS VARIOUS GANG MEMBERS OF DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES, INCLUDING STREET DEALERS JAPANESE YAKUZA GANGSTERS, AND EVEN THE MAFIA, VIE FOR CONTROL OF THE LUCRATIVE LA DRUG ...
TELLING TALES: TELLING TRUTHS
Jan 01, 2002; ... JANG SUN-WOO'S LIES THE SOUTH KOREAN CONTEXT For the past fifteen years, there has been a revolution going on in South Korean cinema. After decades of rigid control under a series of military governments, changes to regulatory laws in the mid-1980s finally introduced a degree of ...
KIDS IN KOREA
Jan 01, 2002; ... MELISSA KYU-JUNG LEE INTERVIEWS IM SANG SOO, DRECTOR OF TEARS, AT THE 2001 SYDNEY ASIA PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL THE 2ND SYDNEY ASIA PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL (SAPFF) offered a delectable smorgasbord of epic dramas, family feuds, martial arts comedies and socially relevant documentaries from ...
Letting The Sunshine In: Reunification Issues in South Korea
Jan 01, 2002; ... IN HER LATEST DOCUMENTARY ON KOREA, RUSHING TO SUNSHINE [SEOUL DIARIES] (2001), SOLRUN HOAAS STRIVES TO CONFRONT AND UNDERSTAND ONE OF THE MAJOR SOUTH KOREAN PROBLEMS HEAD ON. THIS IS THE AMBIGUOUS LEGACY OF THE NATIONAL SECURITY LAW, ITS CONFUSED INTERPRETATION IN THE EMERGENCE OF THE 'SUNSHINE ...
ACCORDS, SLATES, SLOTS, STRANDS AND SERIES
Jan 01, 2002; ... AUSTRALIAN TELEVISION TAKES ON INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY THERE WERE TWO separate worlds. It was kind of like the Cold War. There were those that lived inside the ABC and then there were those that swarmed around the AFC and were in the Film Co-op and did all that stuff. You'd see them it ...
THE WEST WING
Jan 01, 2002; ... LOOKING A GIFT HORSE IN THE MOUTH 'YOU WANT ANSWERS?' 'I THINK I'M ENTITLED TO THEM.' 'YOU WANT ANSWERS?' 'I WANT THE TRUTH.' 'YOU CANT HANDLE THE TRUTH!' Aaron Sorkin, A Few Good Men IDIOT'S BOX THE SIGNIFICANCE OF SOME EVENTS CAN ...
YOU SAY ANIMATION I SAY ANIMATION
Jan 01, 2002; ... THIS ARTICLE WILL LOOK AT THE EVOLUTION OF ANIMATION, FROM VICTORIAN TOYS TO THE PRESENT DAY. THE PURPOSE OF THIS ARTICLE IS TO POINT TO THE SCHISM THAT TOOK PLACE WITH THE ADVENT OF TELEVISION, AND SUGGEST A SIMILAR CRUCIAL CHANGE IS OCCURRING AT PRESENT IN FILM. THIS IS AN IMPRESSIONISTIC ...
REPRODUCIBILITY: DETERMINING PRESENCE, GENERATING ABSENCE
Jan 01, 2002; ... DETERMINING PRESENCE, GENERATING ABSENCE I READ THE NEWS TODAY, OH BOY. 1 ... an article entitled 'Phantom Voices Tell You If It's Real': a digital device that reproduces voices and sounds in merchandising toys from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (George Lucas, 1999) now has a ...
CHILDREN'S VIEWS ON MEDIA HARM
Jan 01, 2002; ... Overview This paper revisits some of the findings from the University of Western Sydney/Australian Broadcasting Authority research report, Children's Views About Media Harm.1 It provides an overview of the children's views on vulnerability to media harm, and a discussion of the ...
ALAN CLARKE: THE LOST PROVOCATEUR
Jan 01, 2002; ... Britain on the Brink 'Alan Clarke was really the defining figure of authored television pieces, I would say I can't think of another director quite in that way, who had the hold over the number of the productions that he did. He always chose things that stretched him, things that hadn't ...
WORKING YOUR WAY UP THE LADDER
Jan 01, 2002; ... IN THE FILM INDUSTRY NOT ALL ROADS LEAD TO ROME-THE PATHWAY TO SUCCESS CAN BE AS DIFFICULT TO NEGOTIATE AS IT IS TO FIND THAT ELUSIVE INITIAL CONTACT THAT WILL GIVE YOU YOUR FIRST BIG BREAK. NO ONE WAY IS THE RIGHT WAY AND CAREER DIRECTIONS IN THE INDUSTRY CAN BE AS DIVERSE AS THE INDIVIDUALS ...
IN HOLLYWOOD, WHEN THEY SAY IT'S NOT ABOUT THE MONEY: IT'S ABOUT THE MONEY
Jan 01, 2002; ... AN INTERVIEW WITH JON LEWIS IN OCTOBER 2000, I DROVE DOWN FROM VANCOUVER, CANADA TO PORTLAND, OREGON TO CATCH UP WITH JON LEWIS AND DISCUSS HIS WORK ON POST-1970s AMERICAN CINEMA. HE DROVE UP FROM CORVALLIS, OREGON, THE TOWN WHERE HE LIVES AND TEACHES AT OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY, AND WE ...
FILM CULTURE 101
Jan 01, 2002; ... WHEN I WAS IN COLLEGE, I HAD TO WALK ALMOST A MILE EVERY DAY THROUGH THE SNOW ... Perhaps you've heard that one before, how your mom or dad had it tougher than you ever will, but I'm telling the truth here. I went to college in upstate New York and from October through March it snowed virtually ...
Holy Rollers
Jan 01, 2002; ... Director: Rosie Jones Producer: Sharyn Prentice For: SBS Independent/Flaming Star Films Distributor: Film Australia THERE IS A SCENE TOWARDS THE end of Holy Rollers where the central character, Israeli/Australian tour guide, Suzi Rosedale, is describing a visit to ...
COMMENTARY TRACKS
Jan 01, 2002; ... I'm going to assume that if you're reading a high-falutin' movie mag like Metro you probably know what a 'Director's Commentary' is. And yes, Metro is high-falutin'-you don't hear Angela Bishop referring to things as 'transgressive' or Tashlinesque'. But in case you've been spending more time up ...
WHAT'S A NEOPHYTE?
Jan 01, 2002; ... One year of writing and rewriting, another year of raising money, six months of pre-production hell and here I find myself, three days before the camera will roll on my debut feature film, Neophytes and Neon Lights. It's pain, exhilaration and excitement all in one; I had no idea what a rocky ...
ELEPHANTS AND MOVIE MOGULS
Jan 01, 2002; ... The following could be read as a warning, a summary of, or encouragement toward the process of making a low-budget feature film in Australia. THE PREMISE After the umpteenth rejection letter from__________(insert one: distributor, producer, government agency, finance company), I ...
SEX, DRUGS AND DEGENERATE PEOPLE ...
Jan 01, 2002; ... Anyone who's had the privilege of making a film knows it's 200% hard work and 0.1% fun and games. Even at the wrap party, you're too deliriously exhausted to have a good time. You have to restrain yourself to one beer so that a) you don't collapse on the floor; and b) you can drive home. Then, ...
NOBODY KNOWS ANYTHING, AND THAT INCLUDES ME!
Jan 01, 2002; ... The first thing you should know about me is that I have no training in film-making, no degree or post-graduate diploma, no studied points of reference, and only the faintest grasp on the history of the moving image. Apart from hands-on experience making my own films, and regular trips to film ...
COUNTING CHICKENS
Jan 01, 2002; ... It is nine a.m. on a cold, bright Thursday morning. Two West Australian film-makers sit in a red Tarago on the Fremantle foreshore. We so rule'. Andrew's voice sounds like he's been gargling razor blades. When I turn my head to look at him, the tendons in my neck make a noise ...
DATING RIDLEY SCOTT
Jan 01, 2002; ... I have to confess I am deeply infatuated with Ridley Scott at the moment. If I were writing this in 1979, it would be because of Lt. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) in Alien (Ridley Scott, 1979), seriously the greatest kick-ass chick of my time; a few years later, it would be because of Thelma ...
FOLLOW THE BOUNCING BALL AND SING ALONG ... IT'S A SMALL WORLD AFTER ALL
Jan 01, 2002; ... It was the strangest course of events that led me to film-making, for I naively believed they only made films in Hollywood and India. On completing my teaching degree I quickly realised that sweltering in a regulation Education Department tin can caravan, propped up on a brick in some remote ...
BREAKING BOWS AND ARROWS
Jan 01, 2002; ... I have worked in Papua New Guinea as a journalist, photographer, radio producer and, more recently, director of documentaries. My earliest film, The Last Magician, explores the lives and views of three traditional chieftans, two of whom are diametrically opposed in their views. Trobriand Island ...
PHILLIP NOYCE RIGHT AT HOME WITH ATLAB'S NEW TALENT AND TECHNOLOGY
Jan 01, 2002; ... BUILDING ON ITS WORLD-WIDE REPUTATION AND EXPERIENCE, THE COLOUR GRADING TEAM AT ATLAB IS MOVING AHEAD INTO THE DIGITAL ERA, INTEGRATING THE POWER OF NEW DIGITAL TECHNIQUES WITH THEIR EXPERIENCE IN TRADITIONAL FILM COLOUR GRADING. AT THE CORE OF THE AUSTRALIAN and New Zealand film ...
INS AND OUTS OF SCANNING + RECORDING
Jan 01, 2002; ... VISUAL EFFECTS HAVE BEEN USED AS PART OF THE STORYTELLING MEDIUM OF FILM FOR ALMOST A CENTURY. DIGITAL VISUAL EFFECTS ARE NOW COMMONPLACE IN FILMS AND COVER MANY ASPECTS OF POST-PRODUCTION IMAGE TREATMENT. HIGH END SPECIAL EFFECTS, TITLES, IMAGE REPAIR AND TRADITIONAL OPTICAL SEQUENCES ARE ...
THE SEARCHERS
Jan 01, 2002; ... EDWARD BUSCOMBE THE SEARCHERS BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE PUBLISHING, LONDON, 2000 An anecdote. Years ago, two French friends of mine decided at my encouragement to watch The Searchers on TV, a film they'd never seen despite their general love of cinema as art. When I found ...
CULTURAL STUDIES AND CRITICAL THEORY
Jan 01, 2002; ... PATRICK FUERY AND NICK MANSFIELD CULTURAL STUDIES AND CRITICAL THEORY OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2000. Cultural Studies and Critical Theory sets out to 'explore the questions of culture, representation, gender, power, and the postmodern'. The book examines divisions in culture (high, low ...
CINEMA INTERVAL
Jan 01, 2002; ... TRINH T. MIN-HA CINEMA INTERVAL ROUTLEDGE, NEW YORK AND LONDON, 1999. Trinh T. Mm-Ha leapt into view, and wide circulation, in the early 199Os with her book, Woman, Native, Other: Writing Postcoloniality and Feminism [ 1 989). At that moment the topic was hot, the text challenging, ...
HOW THE WEB WAS BORN: THE STORY OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB
Jan 01, 2002; ... JAMES GILLIES AND ROBERT CAILLIAU HOW THE WEB WAS BORN: THE STORY OF THE WORLD WIDE WEB OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, OXFORD, 2000. While the broad outline of the Internet's history is widely known, there is no question that the accounts of insiders of crucial moments in the development of ...
THE HORROR GENRE: FROM BEELZEBUB TO BLAIR WITCH
Jan 01, 2002; ... PAUL WELLS THE HORROR GENRE: FROM BEELZEBUB TO BLAIR WITCH WALLFLOWER PUBLISHING, LONDON, 2000. Although other film genres have generated much analysis and debate, it is arguable that horror has provoked the most wide-ranging criticism and discussion, both among film theorists and ...
THE BFI COMPANION TO EASTERN EUROPEAN AND RUSSIAN CINEMA
Jan 01, 2002; ... NANCY WOOD, JULIAN GRAFFY AND DINA IORDANOVA (EDS) THE BFI COMPANION TO EASTERN EUROPEAN AND RUSSIAN CINEMA BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE PUBLISHING, LONDON, 2000. Let me say at the outset that this is an immensely useful reference book. The editors have succeeded in their aim of making it ...
SILENT CINEMA: AN INTRODUCTION
Jan 01, 2002; ... PAULO CHERCHI USAI SILENT CINEMA: AN INTRODUCTION BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE PUBLISHING, LONDON, 2000. Silent Cinema: An Introduction is a revised edition of Cherchi Usai's Burning Passions; An Introduction to the Study of Silent Cinema (1994), which was also published by the BFI. The ...
TALKING TELEVISION: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF TELEVISION
Jan 01, 2002; ... GRAEME BURTON TALKING TELEVISION: AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF TELEVISION ARNOLD, LONDON, 2000. Despite its British focus, this introductory text is both relevant and useful for those students interested in a more general study of television. As Burton points out, television ...
MORE LONG SHOTS: AUSTRALIAN CINEMA SUCCESSES IN THE '90s
Jan 01, 2002; ... MARY ANNE REID MORE LONG SHOTS: AUSTRALIAN CINEMA SUCCESSES IN THE '90s AUSTRALIAN FILM COMMISSION, SYDNEY, AND AUSTRALIAN KEY CENTRE FOU CULTURAL AND MEDIA POLICY, BRISBANE, 1999. Sequels, if not common, are not exactly unknown in Australian cinema: Mad Max, Crocodile Dundee and Alvin ...
SONS OF CINEMASCOPE
Jan 01, 2002; ... JOHN HOWARD REID SONS OF CINEMASCOPE RED'S FILM INDEX PUBLISHING, WYONG, 1999. Once there was a time when film academia consisted only of the odd English lecturer who was slumming. Most film reviewing and writing on film history was done by cinephiles, whose main qualification for the ...
L'ARGENT
Jan 01, 2002; ... KENT JONES L'ARGENT BRITISH FILM INSTEJTE PUBLISHING, LONCON, 1999. THE USES OF MONEY Kent Jones's L'Argent is part of the BFI's Modern Classics series of monographs 'devoted to individual films of recent years' (Editor's statement). The series, an offshoot of the BFI Film ...
ITALIAN FILM
Jan 01, 2002; ... MARCIA LANDY ITALIAN FILM CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, CAMBRIDGE, 2000. Marcia Landy's historical overview of Italian cinema, Italian Film, is one of eight books that form the 'National Film Traditions' imprint, published by Cambridge University Press. The imprint's agenda is to examine ...
ENCORE HOLLYWOOD: REMAKING FRENCH CINEMA
Jan 01, 2002; ... LUCY MAZDON ENCORE HOLLYWOOD: REMAKING FRENCH CINEMA BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE PUBLISHING, LONDON, 2000. (RE)MADE IN U.S.A. Lucy Mazdon begins Encore Hollywood: Remaking French Cinema by citing a review of The Assassin, John Bodham's 1993 remake of Luc Besson's ...
Shirley Barrett Thinks Positive Thoughts About Delusion
Jan 01, 2002; ... Shirley Barrett's Walk The Talk (2000) is an Australian film about dreamers and schemers, isolation and redemption, populated with iconic places and people familiar from our cultural landscape. Filtered through Shirley's unique eye for the lamentable, this peephole into Australian life gives us ...