Metro : Media & Education Magazine back issues from July 2002:
Innocence Lost: Hearts in Atlantis
Jul 01, 2002; ... THE EXECUTIVES AT CASTLE ROCK must have been excited. Academy Award-nominated director, Scott Hicks, hot off the heels from Snow Falling on Cedars (1999), was interested in directing their latest Stephen King adaptation. With a screenplay by Academy Award-winning screenwriter, William Goldman, ...
Performing Beneath the Clouds
Jul 01, 2002; ... THIS MONTH'S RELEASE OF IVAN SEN'S ANTICIPATED FIRST FEATURE, BENEATH CLOUDS, INTRODUCES TWO BRIGHT YOUNG TALENTS TO AUSTRALIAN AUDIENCES. JAMES BROWN DISCUSSES THE FIRST FEATURE EXPERIENCE WITH THE FILM'S LEADS, DANIELLE HALL AND DAMIAN PITT. SOUND BITES and pull-quotes from actors are ...
SHORTCUTS
Jul 01, 2002; ... AUSTRALIA'S ONLY NATIONAL SCREEN CULTURE BODY, the Australian Film Institute (AFI), has had to close down or reduce a number of its screen culture activities in the wake of severe funding cuts by the Australian Film Commission (AFC). A distribution process that has seen the wide dissemination of ...
BLOOD ON THE TRACKS
Jul 01, 2002; ... THE ROAD METAPHOR IS SIGNIFICANT IN MANY WAYS. It cuts across the divide between nature and culture, and points to a path which has been laid down, mapped out and directed. It suggests the possibility of movement from one place to another, and implies that the passage of time can move in either ...
SCENE-STEALER
Jul 01, 2002; ... A TRUNCATED ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE AND CAREER OF ACTOR, VINCE GIL My philosophy on acting is that every ball-busting bitch and every wife-beating creep has to have their moment of humanity. If I can't find that moment or create it, I take the money, run to the nearest pub and try to forget ...
FROM LITTLE THINGS BIG THINGS GROW A REVIVAL OF THE FILM MUSICAL
Jul 01, 2002; ... I THINK THE WORLD IS CURRENTLY IN THE MIDST OF A FILM MUSICAL REVIVAL. I AM NOT ENTIRELY SURE HOW MANY FILMS IT TAKES TO CONSTITUTE - A REVIVAL, AND I SUPPOSE THIS IS A _ HEFTY CALL, GIVEN THAT THE ONLY RECENT FILM MUSICAL THAT SPRINGS IMMEDIATELY TO MIND IS MOULIN ROUGE. BUT IT DOESN'T REALLY ...
SUMMERTIME BLUES
Jul 01, 2002; ... A QUICK GLANCE AT THE LIST OF ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS reveals that for whatever reason (most likely talent, drive and presence), Antipodean actors are the thespians du jour in Hollywood right now. Performers the calibre of our Russell and Nicole have been given the endorsement of their ...
Functional Harmonies
Jul 01, 2002; ... I POSED QUESTIONS TO MAIREAD HANNAN, Musical Director of One Night The Moon (Rachel Perkins, 2001), composers Mario MiIIo, Michael Nyman and Nathan Waks, and 2001 Young Conductor of the Year, Benjamin Northey, to explore how music creators work and where their inspiration comes from. I ...
MALLBOY: COMING TO A SCHOOL NEAR YOU
Jul 01, 2002; ... VINCE GIARRUSSO'S FILM, Mallboy, chosen for the Director's Fortnight in Cannes 2000 and screened nationally in 2001, began as a gamble for all involved. Producer Fiona Eagger put her career on the line, taking first time film-maker Giarrusso's story because she befieved it was a winner ....
Schtick Happens: Representation and Manipulation
Jul 01, 2002; ... SCHTICK HAPPENS IS A DOCUMENTARY DIRECTED BY MACIEJ WSZELAKI and produced by Bronwyne Smith and Peter George. Schtick Happens and Still Breathing (directed by Charlotte Roseby and produced by Nell White and Charlotte Roseby) are part of the 'My Way' series of half-hour documentaries to be ...
CINEMA'S NEW WAVES: AN INTERVIEW WITH ALBIE THOMS
Jul 01, 2002; ... ALBIE THOMS IS A SEMINAL FIGURE IN THE HISTORY OF AVANT-GARDE FILM IN AUSTRALIA. IN THE MID-1960s HE HELPED FOUND UBU FILMS, THE PRECURSOR OF THE SYDNEY FILM-MAKERS' CO-OPERATIVE, AND HE HAS MADE A NUMBER OF SHORT AND FEATURE-LENGTH EXPERIMENTAL FILMS. THOMS HAS WRITTEN ON FILM AND FILM CULTURES ...
EVERYTHING'S RELATIVE OR THE SOPRANOS AS SIGN OF THE (NEW YORK) TIMES
Jul 01, 2002; ... IDIOT'S BOX IT'S GOOD TO BE IN SOMETHING FROM THE GROUND FLOOR. I CAME TOO LATE FOR THAT. I KNOW. BUT LATELY I'M GETTING THE FEELING THAT I CAME IN AT THE END. THE BEST IS OVER. TONY SOPRANO (JAMES GANDOLFINI) TO DR MELFI (LORRAINE BRACCO)1 PERHAPS WHAT IS MOST striking ...
MEN OUT OF TIME
Jul 01, 2002; ... AN APPRECIATION OF LAST OF THE KNUCKLEMEN AUSTRALIAN FILMS ARE RARELY RE-EVALUATED. IF A FILM IS RAZZED AT THE TIME OF ITS RELEASE, IT WILL MOST LIKELY GO DOWN IN THE RECORDS AS A FAILURE. WHEN REFERRING TO AUSSIE FILMS OF THE PAST, CONTEMPORARY CRITICS TOO OFTEN REGURGITATE THE OPINIONS ...
GILLIAN ASHURST: WRITER FIRST AND FOREMOST
Jul 01, 2002; ... Snakeskin is a very assured movie, a collision of stunning postcard scenery with NZ's now familiar 'cinema of unease'. Almost a genre in its own right, this 'flipside of that postcard' melds seamlessly with the road movie genre as if they were always meant to be bedfellows. In making ...
JUST A SPOONFUL OF GRAINY FOOTAGE
Jul 01, 2002; ... CREATING 'REALISM' AND AUTHENTICITY BIG BROTHER STYLE INTRODUCTION THE FIRST AUSTRALIAN SERIES OF BIG BROTHER WAS A FORMATTED PROGRAMME AND THE SEVENTEENTH TO BE PRODUCED AROUND THE WORLD. ORIGINALLY DERIVED FROM THE 1999 DUTCH SERIES, THE REAL WORLD, BIG BROTHER IS A HYBRIDIZED ...
THE RIDICULOUS BUT DELICIOUS WORLD OF: THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL
Jul 01, 2002; ... MY RELATIONSHIP WITH TELEvision soaps goes back a long way. They seemed to be a part of my life whether I liked it or not. I was there when Charlie Cousens (Robin Ramsay) fell off the silos in Bellbird; I was there when the very first episode of The Young and the Restless aired on television in ...
SAD, MAD AND ALONE
Jul 01, 2002; ... MORGAN IN THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL IN EPISODES SCREENED EARLIER THIS YEAR, THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL'S MORGAN DE WITT (SARAH BUXTON) WAS THE ARCHETYPAL CAREER WOMAN FROM HELL. UNFORTUNATELY, SHE ALSO STOOD OUT AS THE ONLY OLDER SINGLE PROFESSIONAL WOMAN ON THE POPULAR SOAPIE, WHOSE ...
GUARANTEED FREE ACCESS
Jul 01, 2002; ... A look at Australian Community Television and its place in the changing media landscape FEATURING THE LONGEST-STANDING STATION, MELBOURNE'S MCT3I THE CONCEPT OF ACCESS TELEvision is familiar to many Australians through cultural references deriving from the US, where it is ...
WRITING KIDS' TV
Jul 01, 2002; ... TALKING TO MARK SHIRREFS 'So long as you don't encourage our children to kill their parents, everything will be fine ...' Editorial feedback from the Head of the Shanghai Film Studio to Mark Shirrefs and John Thomson on their scripts for Land Of The Dragon Lord MARK ...
PUSHING THE BOUNDARIES OF AUSTRALIAN C DRAMA
Jul 01, 2002; ... (ProQuest Information and Learning: ... denotes obscured text omitted.) AN INTERVIEW WITH THE PRODUCERS OF LI'L HORRORS An Australian Broadcasting Authority (ABA) report released in March 2000 proclaimed that over the twenty years since the children's (C) classification was ...
THE HETERONORMATIVE LIFE OF US
Jul 01, 2002; ... GENERATION X'S DESIRE FOR EGALITARIANISM and idealised notions of friendship and community is evident in Southern Star's television drama, The secret Life of Us.'1 One of the ways this is evident is in the discourse about sexuality. The programme timates that everyone's sexual orientatior is ...
WHAT'S YOUR POISON?
Jul 01, 2002; ... THE BANQUET OF REALITY TV IS LAID BEFORE US. Where do we start? With the sumptuous delicacies of RPA and Airport or the bread and butter of Funniest Home Videos'? It all began with Alan Funt's radio programme, Candid Microphone, long before the box in the corner was even conceived, but ...
THE PANEL'S DIMINISHING RETURNS
Jul 01, 2002; ... THERE WAS A TIME, WAY BACK IN THE EARLY '90S, when the D Generation were just about the coolest people on TV. With The Late Show, they ruled Saturday nights. And then, after two all-too-brief seasons, they were gone. They soon reappeared, in a variety of different guises. Tony Martin and Mick ...
FEMININE HYJINX
Jul 01, 2002; ... ADVERTISING IN THIS COUNTRY HAS COME A LONG WAY, particularly with regard to so-called 'feminine hygiene' products. Right now it seems nothing is too explicit; any bodily function can be talked about in great detail, leaving absolutely nothing to the imagination. Look through any '60s magazine ...
ALLY MCBEAL BRINGS THE HOLLYWOOD MUSICAL TO TELEVISION
Jul 01, 2002; ... ALLY MCBEAL INFUSES THE TRADITIONAL LAW DRAMA with stylistic and ideological elements drawn from Broadway and Hollywood musical comedies, pop songs and music videos, evoking a level of spectatohal identification that appeals to its media literate, original MTV audience demographic. The extensive ...
IN DEFENCE OF ALLY MCBEAL
Jul 01, 2002; ... HIGH-HEELED, MINI-SKIRTED ALLY MCBEAL (Calista Flockhart), the bane of many feminists, stirred controversy from the time that she first appeared on our television screens. Although meant to be a successful, single lawyer in a smart Boston law firm, some Australian women lawyers disapproved. They ...
COMMERCIAL POP
Jul 01, 2002; ... 'ONE TWO, ONE TWO THREE, OWWW! Wake up, kids. We've got the dreamer's disease ...' Yes, it's that incessant song from the Mitsubishi car television commercial, 'You Get What You Give', by the New Radicals. If it hasn't taken up residence in your headspace, where have you been hiding for the last ...
a dream WITHIN A DREAM
Jul 01, 2002; ... JAMES BROWN SPEAKS TO FILM-MAKER RICHARD LINKLATER ABOUT THE 20-YEAR WAIT FOR THE DREAMY WAKING LIFE IT WAS 20 YEARS AGO THAT RICHARD LINKLATER DREAMT THE DREAM THAT WAS TO BECOME WAKING LIFE. IN HIS DREAM, LINKLATER WANDERED THROUGH AN ALTERNATE REALITY, CONVERSING WITH THE MYRIAD OF ...
GEORGE A. ROMERO'S Fears for Horror and Hollywood
Jul 01, 2002; ... The Underbelly of the Monster The true subject of the horror genre is the struggle for recognition of all that civilization represses or oppresses: its reemergence dramatized, as in our nightmares, as an object of horror, a matter of terror, the 'happy ending' typically signifying the ...
ART of WAR: AN INTERVIEW WITH GILLIAN ARMSTRONG
Jul 01, 2002; ... ON A PHOTO SHOOT IN SYDNEY, GILLIAN ARMSTRONG IS BATTLING THE ELEMENTS. She steels herself against the wind and an unrelenting media schedule. It's consistent with her character. The director of Oscar and Lucinda, Little Women, The Last Days of Chez Nous and My Brilliant Career, Armstrong shows ...
THE CYBORG'S HAND: care or CONTROL?
Jul 01, 2002; ... AN INTERVIEW WITH TRINH T. MINH-HA TRINH T. MINH-HA is a writer, film-maker and composer. Born in Vietnam, Trinh is a key figure in American independent cinema. Her multidisciplinary work includes a large-scale multimedia installation (Nothing But Ways, 1999, in coll.); seven books, of ...
CREATING INDEPENDENT ANIMATION IN AUSTRALIA
Jul 01, 2002; ... SMALL TREASURES MARIAN QUIGLEY INTERVIEWS SARAH WATT SARAH WATT IS ONE OF AUSTRALIA'S LEADING INDEPENDENT ANIMATORS AND HER WORK HAS RECEIVED NUMEROUS NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL AWARDS. HER 1999 FILM, WAY OF THE BIRDS, WAS SCREENED AT THE PRESTIGIOUS ANNECY ANIMATION FESTIVAL IN ...
Still Breathing: A MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH
Jul 01, 2002; ... An Interview with Director Charlotte Roseby THE 'MY WAY' SERIES, TO BE SCREENED ON SBS LATER THIS YEAR, INCLUDES A SELECTION OF DOCUMENTARIES WHICH AIM TO APPROACH STORIES OF INDIVIDUAL LIVES IN A DIFFERENT WAY THE SERIES PROVIDES AN OPPORTUNITY TO EXPLORE STORYTELLING AND ...
(SHIQI SUI DE DANNIAN) or THE AWKWARDNESS OF BEING SEVENTEEN
Jul 01, 2002; ... BEJING BICYCLE In the press notes to Beijing Bicycle, the director, Wang Xiaoshuai, describes the bicycle as central to the Chinese experience: 'We all went through the time when we were jubilant about getting a bike and heartbroken over losing one'. Yes, yes indeed. The first bike that ...
Tran Anh Hung's Romantic Vietnam
Jul 01, 2002; ... GRACED WITH A CAMERA D'OR at Cannes and an Academy Award nomination in the Best Foreign Film category for his debut film, The Scent of Green Papaya (1993), Vietnamese-born Tran Anh Hung has gained further international recognition through awards such as the II Leone d'Oro at the Venice Film ...
YEARS IN BLOOM ...
Jul 01, 2002; ... OUR MEMORIES ARE RECREATED EACH TIME WE REMEMBER. STEPHEN ROSE1 Continuous thematic exploration, conceptual experimentation and the play of ideas are apparent in Wong Kar-wai's films. Each of his films offers a permutation of an instance, an extension to a previous experiment, or ...
the WAR diaries
Jul 01, 2002; ... Emma Green is a West Australian writer, actor and film-maker. With partner Andrew hale, these are the chronicles of The Shooting Pool, a small film company finding out exactly what it takes to make it in the Australian film industry. THIS IS NOT WHAT I ORDERED ON THE ...
a day in the life of after the rain
Jul 01, 2002; ... TIME: Pre-dawn, a brisk morning. The last Monday of March, 2001. LOCATION: A vacant block near a disused factory in Sydney's western suburbs. ACTION: A white truck lumbers through the gate. The Unit Manager steps out, goes to the back of the truck and fires up the generator he's ...
CULTURE, TRADE, TERROR AND THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION
Jul 01, 2002; ... THE 11th OF SEPTEMBER was already branded firmly as a date of global significance for the people of Melbourne, Australia, when American Airlines Flight 11 ploughed into the north tower of New York's World Trade Centre. A year earlier, 'S11' had been the name given to the huge protests ...
THE COMING OF THE GEEKS
Jul 01, 2002; ... MOVIE REVIEW AND GOSSIP WEB SITES OF MICE AND GEEKS There are two certainties in life, and becoming a movie geek is not one of them. However, the certainty in a movie geek's life is that retreating to the cyberspatial confines of the Internet is like simultaneously smoking ...
Brian Bansgrove 1941-2001
Jul 01, 2002; ... BRIAN BANSGROVE DIED IN THAILAND LAST DECEMBER, APPARENTLY BY SUICIDE. He was one of the most colourful, charismatic and talented people to work in Australia's film industry in the last 30 years. He worked as a gaffer, the chief electrician on a film unit. This person, under the direction of the ...
UGLIER THAN HOME-MADE SIN
Jul 01, 2002; ... DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE AND THE TOXIC NANNY IN THE MOVIES AND IN NANNYCAM BROADCASTING1 THE DAY WAS GREY ENOUGH, BUT THE AFTERNOON LIGHT STILL LINGERED, AND IT ENABLED ME, ON crossing the threshold ... to become aware of a person on the other side of the window looking straight in. One ...
SYDNEY'S OLYMPIC TELEVISION HOSTS1
Jul 01, 2002; ... THE OLYMPIC GAMES CONSUMED OUR TIME, OUR MEDIA AND OUR PASSIONS FOR A FEW WEEKS IN 2000. AS OTHER SPORTS EVENTS AND NEW REALITY TV SHOWS OVERTAKE OUR MEMORIES OF THE OLYMPIC MEGA-EVENT, AND AS THE PARTICIPANTS HAVE MOVED ON TO OTHER SITES, ITS SIGNIFICANCE IN THE HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN TELEVISION ...
A REPORT ON LIMELIGHT: THE DAWN OF AUSTRALIAN FILM
Jul 01, 2002; ... THE SALVATION ARMY'S LIMELIGHT Department, Australia's most successful early film production unit, seems a fitting subject for one of the first ABC Australian Centre for the Moving Image Multimedia Accords. The Limelight web site' documents the story of how the Department began screening ...
A TESTING TIME WITH DAVE FOREMAN ACS AND BRENDAN WILLIAMS ACS
Jul 01, 2002; ... A SHORT TIME AFTER the Australian release of Kodak's two new 500asa stocks, the 500T SO 633 and the Vision Expression 500T (5284), they were put through their paces by commercial director/cinematographer Brendan Williams, ACS, and feature cinematographer David Foreman, ACS. Both stocks boast ...
HDVR COMBO: AN ALL IN ONE VIDEO ASSIST SYSTEM FOR STUDIO AND LOCATION
Jul 01, 2002; ... AT LAST, A VIDEO ASSIST SYSTEM custom designed and built for the film and television industries. No more delays waiting for tape replays and searching for the take you want to review. Instant replay of any scene take or rehearsal with in-vision labelling and timecode. Playback can be at any ...
THE MEDIUM IS THE INTERACTIVE CONTENT-OR MORE IS MORE
Jul 01, 2002; ... IN THE LAST ISSUE of Metro I mentioned that we would talk about some different aspects of DVD. Let's take a slightly technical look at some features and see what they can be used for. Most people know now that DVD is not just a movie on a disc; it's also interactive. But what exactly ...
JUST KEEP ME MOVING: TRANSLATING FILM CONCEPTS TO THE INTERNET
Jul 01, 2002; ... MORE THAN 2.5 MILLION AUSTRALIANS visited web sites featuring movie reviews and trailers during the month of December last year and another 962,000 logged on to cinema sites, with Greater Union leading the pack. Only a few web sites dedicated to a single film made it into the entertainment ...
VIDEO STRATEGIES FOR MACROMEDIA FLASH WEB SITES
Jul 01, 2002; ... PRODUCT: Flash PLATFORM: All VERSIONS: 4.0 and above ID: 14571 MACROMEDIA FLASH MX AND THE MACROMEDIA FLASH PLAYER 6 Macromedia Flash MX adds full video support to the Macromedia Flash Player, allowing you to import any standard video file supported by ...
CONDITIONAL STATEMENTS: HOW TO USE 'CASE' STATEMENTS
Jul 01, 2002; ... PRODUCT: Director PLATFORM: All VERSIONS: 7.0 and above ID: 16228 A conditional statement is used to test the value of an expression and perform an action based on the result. A real world example of a conditional statement could be: 'If it is raining, I should ...
NEW DEVELOPMENTS AT SCREEN TASMANIA
Jul 01, 2002; ... IT IS NOW TWO YEARS SINCE TASMANIA'S SCREEN FUNDING BODY, SCREEN TASMANIA, WAS ESTABLISHED, AND TO DATE, 77 PROJECTS HAVE BEEN FINANCED. THE LATEST PUBLISHED FUNDING ROUND (MARCH 2001) GAVE THE GREEN LIGHTTO 19 PROJECTS, COVERING SCRIPT AND PROJECT DEVELOPMENT, FEATURE FILMS, DOCUMENTARIES, TV ...
INCOME AVERAGING FOR PERFORMERS, WRITERS, ARTISTS AND ATHLETES
Jul 01, 2002; ... MANY PEOPLE DO NOT KNOW THAT THEY CAN AVERAGE THEIR EARNINGS TO MINIMIZE HOW MUCH TAX THEY MUST PAY. THIS IS NOT A LOOPHOLE. IT IS A LEGITIMATE RULING BY THE TAX DEPARTMENT TO AVOID UNFAIRLY PENALISING BUSINESSES THAT MAY EARN LITTLE FOR YEARS AND THEN SUDDENLY EARN A WINDFALL. FOR EXAMPLE, ...
'QUICK, FOCUS!' BASIC BUILDING BLOCKS FOR CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Jul 01, 2002; ... FILM-MAKING IS A FUNNY BUSINESS, PART ART, PART BUSINESS, NEITHER FISH NOR FOWL. HOW DOES A PROFESSIONAL FASHION A CAREER IN THIS HYBRID ENVIRONMENT, WHERE THE FORMAL TRAINING IS PRIMARILY CONCERNED WITH ART AND TECHNIQUE, BUT RARELY WITH BUSINESS AND CAREER DEVELOPMENT SKILLS? As a ...
THE DAY HE DIED
Jul 01, 2002; ... It was a pretty hot day, and to be honest, the audience was definitely up for a laugh. A lazy Sunday afternoon and a crowd on the far side of tipsy are pretty much what most comedians dream about. So what went wrong? The first joke fell flat, but they often do. The pregig nerves ...
LOOKING IN FROM THE OUTSIDE
Jul 01, 2002; ... The Americans seem to have a name for everything. As you probably know, a 'Hail Mary' is a last gasp shot at scoring that seems to come out of nowhere, with breathtaking results. It's been a very effective device in so many Hollywood films that you'd prefer to hate but begrudgingly sit down to ...
DRAWING PICTURES FOR FUN AND PROFIT
Jul 01, 2002; ... I've been working in the Melbourne creative community in one guise or another since arriving here from New Zealand in the late 70s. I did the prerequisite stint in advertising (in those days, it was the best way to make a big quid and to pay for a lifestyle unheard of in the land of the long ...
THE BIG HOUSE RULZ
Jul 01, 2002; ... Rachel Ward and I set out to make The Big House at the end of 1999, applying for an AFC (Australian Film Commission) grant just weeks after we'd finished spending the money they gave us for Btindman's Bluff, the film we had recently finished and for which they'd funded the post-production. We ...
WORKING AS AN EXTRA
Jul 01, 2002; ... As a member of Corowa Bowling Club, I had heard that a film crew were going to be shooting some scenes for a film called Crackerjack at our club. All club members had been asked to be background players for the week the film company was shooting. I put my name down for Wednesday and Thursday, ...
THE MAKING OF TROUBLED WATERS
Jul 01, 2002; ... Papela is a remote village on Roti Island, which perches off the end of West Timor. It is the southernmost tip of Indonesia, a mere 280 miles from the Australian coastline, and has become infamous in recent years as a launching pad for the fishing boats carrying asylum seekers into Australian ...
A WEB OF TENSION
Jul 01, 2002; ... I've always liked the fact that there's an inherent tension involved in the development of a web site. Actually, there are several tensions, generating a creative environment that is both stressful and rewarding. To begin with, the development of a web site involves the collaboration of a team ...
PHANDOM PAINS
Jul 01, 2002; ... As with so many films, it all goes back to my childhood. Even more particularly, it all goes back to the childhood of my brother's best friend, Craig E. Tonkin, who would while away the hours playing with action figures-Masters of the Universe toys, of course, but above all, Star Wars(TM) ...
War, Human Rights and Narrating The Real
Jul 01, 2002; ... at the 14th International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam (WFA) 22 November - 02 December 2001 'Amsterdam is probably the premier location for intensely affecting human rights documentaries', said John Hughes. 'And of course, war is a central subject matter in many films this ...
ALL IN THE FAMILY
Jul 01, 2002; ... A REVIEW OF THE NEW YORK AND MONTREAL FILM FESTIVALS 2001 IT WAS A FINE RESOLUTION. THEMATICS BE DAMNED, I THOUGHT. THIS YEAR, MY ARTICLE ON THE MONTREAL AND NEW YORK FESTIVALS WOULD ESCHEW SUCH ACADEMIC ARMATURE AND VENTURE FORTH INTO NON-LINEAR, NON-NARRATIVE EXPERIMENTATION. OF ...
KEEPING IT REAL
Jul 01, 2002; ... The 2002 REAL Life On Film Documentary Film Festival A GOOD DOCUMENTARY CAN REALLY FUCK YOU. Just when you've fluffed the pillows and wrestled the blinkers into a comfortable position to enjoy a low impact world, along comes a powerful documentary, lunging out of the screen to tear your ...
ENDLESS NIGHT: CINEMA AND PSYCHOANALYSIS, PARALLEL HISTORIES
Jul 01, 2002; ... JANET BERGSTROM (ED.) ENDLESS NIGHT: CINEMA AND PSYCHOANALYSIS, PARALLEL HISTORIES UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, BERKELEY, 1999. For much of its existence QS an academic discourse, Film Studies' engagement with psychoanalysis has been profound yet difficult, Janet ...