Metro : Media & Education Magazine back issues from April 2004:
SHORTCUTS
Apr 01, 2004; ... Controversy Over Future of Archive With an eruption of protests from a large number of local and international Archive supporters and an announcement from the Labor Party that an incoming Latham federal government would reverse the process, the integration of the National Film and Sound ...
Mel Gibson's passion and 'The Passion of the Christ'
Apr 01, 2004; ... In view of the extraordinary lead-up to The Passion of the Christ, it has been harder than usual to approach this film cold. For weeks there seemed to be scarcely a day when the papers weren't fuelling the publicity surrounding the film by drawing attention either to the inflammatory ...
BROTHERLY LOVE AND LOVe'S BROTHER
Apr 01, 2004; ... As the soundtrack swells relentlessly to all-purpose Mediterranean strains, Love's Brother (Jan Sardi, 2004) gives every sign of being not merely set in the 1950s but made then as well. We are back, it is tempting to think, in the world of some big, glutinous Twentieth Century Fox romance for ...
Bearing witness
Apr 01, 2004; ... John Martinkus discusses Carmela Baranowska's documentaries on East Timor In issue 138 of Metro there was a piece by Mary Debrett titled 'Reclaiming the Personal as Political', which looked at three documentaries concerning the events in East Timor and that country's transition to ...
'GOOD TASTE AT HANGING ROCK'?
Apr 01, 2004; ... This article should be unnecessary, Its goal is to finally kill the old furphy that the majority of feature films of the Australian film revival from the 1970s onwards were nostalgic recreations of the past. FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AS A film studies academic, I became more and more ...
THE OLD MAN AND THE JUNGLE
Apr 01, 2004; ... BASED ON AN INTERVIEW WITH Rolf de Heer from 9 February 2004, as well as earlier research and a viewing of the film, The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001). Rolf de Heer's upcoming cinema release, The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001), was completed in early 2001. Ali Sharp finds ...
HIGHS AND LOWS: UNDERNEATH THE SURFACE OF 'ONE PERFECT DAY'
Apr 01, 2004; ... IN MANY WAYS, OWE PERFECT DAY (PAUL CURRIE, 2004) HAS PULLED OFF THE IMPOSSIBLE-A VISUALLY SPECTACULAR, TECHNO-OPERATIC EXTRAVAGANZA PUT TOGETHER IN A FUNDING ENVIRONMENT GROWING INCREASINGLY MORE DIRE. In an industry that frequently churns out uninspiring Aussie-battler fare like Take ...
Dirty Deeds and Good Clean Fun: Some Recent Australian Caper Movies
Apr 01, 2004; ... The definition of a caper film might often seem to be: 'An entertainment in which the cast appears to be having more fun than the audience.' Think, for instance, of Ocean's Eleven (Lewis Milestone, 1960) or any other of Sinatra's Rat Pack japes. BUT IT DOESN'T ALWAYS HAVE TO BE LIKE ...
YOU AND ME AGAINST THE WORLD: REVISITING 'PUBERTY BLUES'
Apr 01, 2004; ... Depicting thirteen-year-old girls having sex, consuming alcohol, smoking marijuana and defying adult authorities, Kathy Lette and Gabrielle Carey's 1979 novel Puberty Blues1 caused a scandal upon its original publication.2 For many of the Anglo-Australian girls who reached puberty in the ...
Negotiating Masculinities: 'Yolngu Boy'
Apr 01, 2004; ... Concern with issues about masculinity has not only spread to many countries, but also into many fields. Health services are noticing the relevance of men's gender to problems ... Educators are discussing ... programs for boys ... Criminologists have begun to explore why boys and men dominate the ...
SOUND
Apr 01, 2004; ... This Metro Special Feature Section focuses on the role of music and sound design in film. Given the diverse and impressive response to this topic, Metro has enlarged the section to include six articles on music and sound design. The selected writers have tackled the subject from a range of ...
PERFECTING THE MIX IN ONE PERFECT DAY
Apr 01, 2004; ... MARTA JARY INTERVIEWS SOUND DESIGNER PAUL PIROLA Paul Pirola is an award-winning sound designer and mixer. Pirola shared the 2000 AFI award for Best Sound in a Non-Feature Film with Mark Tarpey and Livia Ruzic, for Pozieres (Wain Fimeri, 2000). During his ...
THE MUSIC OF SOUND
Apr 01, 2004; ... Last Friday I had one of those all too rare, surreal conversations with my mechanic. While he was busy working on my four-wheel drive, I happened to mention how much time I have spent tuning vehicles. 'What do you use' he asked sarcastically, 'a laptop or a tuning fork?' As I launched into a ...
SONIC AFFECT(S): BINAURAL TECHNOLOGIES & THE CONSTRUCTION OF AURATORSHIP IN ROLF DE HEER'S BAD BOY BUBBY
Apr 01, 2004; ... INTRODUCTION This article posits the notion of 'auratorship' as offering a useful way of discussing the explicit positioning of the spectator in relation to Rolf de Heer's 1993 film Bad Boy Bubby. In Bad Boy Bubby, crafting the listener's disgust becomes an art form. It is a practice ...
WALKABOUT'S MUSIC: EUROPEAN NOSTALGIA IN THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK
Apr 01, 2004; ... Walkabout, Nicholas Roeg's 1971 film about two English children (Jenny Agutter and Lucien John) and an Aboriginal boy (David Gulpilil) in the Australian outback provoked critical acclaim and considerable discussion at the time and when re-released in 1997. Commentators agree on the ...
(RE)SOUNDING CELLULOID: NAVIGATING A CINESONIC PLACE IN THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING
Apr 01, 2004; ... While the moving image maps out visual terrains for our inspection, sound provides powerful bridges into the spaces and places of cinema, where concentrated narrative and emotional values are articulated. In geographical investigations of film, the concepts of space and place are ...
POP GOES THE MUSIC TRACK: SCORING THE POPULAR SONG IN THE CONTEMPORARY FILM SOUND TRACK
Apr 01, 2004; ... The use of popular songs in film production has been a significant trend identified by film music analysts in the last thirty years. This poses problems for the analysis of complex sound and music tracks. As this article suggests, popular music engages aspects of production and industry, in ...
NEW JOKES: KATH AND KIM, AND RECENT GLOBAL SITCOM
Apr 01, 2004; ... Something is happening in sitcom. WHILE CRITICS CONSISTENTLY claim that the genre is dead in Britain, repetitive in America, and never really came alive in Australia, recent series demonstrate there's life in the old form yet. In the past few years British series such as The Office ...
TRUE LIES - RISE OF THE CANDIDATE
Apr 01, 2004; ... JERRY SPRINGER decided not to throw his chair into the ring-but Arnold Schwarzenegger was already sitting comfortably when announcing his candidacy to Jay Leno. Springer complained that in order to be taken seriously as a political candidate, there 'had to be a separation between my show and my ...
THE SHIELD
Apr 01, 2004; ... If Clint Eastwood did nothing else, he managed to mortally wound one of twentieth century culture's most sacred cows. It seerns odd now, more than thirty years after Dirty Harry changed their face forever, but there was a time when police were figures viewed with unquestioned reverence. In their ...
SOMETHING BORROWED, SOMETHING BLUE: THE DEMISE OF WHITE COLLAR BLUE
Apr 01, 2004; ... Australian TV loves a cop show. Unfortunately, Australian TV viewers often do not. So it was with White Collar Blue, Channel Ten's two-series foray into a new(ish) style of police drama, which was axed after falling ratings saw it bumped from Mondays at 8.30 to 9.30 to 10.30 and eventually to ...
JUST SEND ME THE BILL
Apr 01, 2004; ... Someone reminded me the other day that it is nearly twenty years since I left school. This means that I have been watching The Bill (albeit on and off, but for the last ten or so mostly on) for about the same, interrupted by some time in the States where, in the early nineties The Bill was not ...
MUPPETS IN SPACE
Apr 01, 2004; ... There is a passage in Gerald Stone's Compulsive Viewing, in which he describes himself watching an episode of Farscape with other Channel Nine executives. His main reaction is amusement, and given that the episode under scrutiny involves a spaceship giving birth, this is understandable. What is ...
THE DORM: TAKING THE REALITY OUT OF REALITY TV
Apr 01, 2004; ... Remember The Dorm? The reality show set in a boarding school? Probably not, as it was never listed in your television guide and broadcast only to the characters in the imaginary world of Summer Bay. The Dorm was a fictional representation of a reality TV series, featured in several episodes of ...
Collaboration
Apr 01, 2004; ... Anitra Nelson and Brenda Addie interviewed Karin Altmann and Michael Brindley for research for a book manuscript on Australian screenwriting craft and for archive material for ScreenSound Australia. They edited these transcript extracts sourced from interviews in April 2001 and January 2004 ....
ROGER DONALDSON: 'SLEEPING DOGS'
Apr 01, 2004; ... Sleeping Dogs, the hit 1977 film starring Sam Neill, was the first foray into feature filmmaking for director Roger Donaldson (Cocktail 1988, The Bounty 1984, Dante's Peak 1997). The following interview is the inaugural in a series to be published in Metro, in which accomplished Australian and ...
CONTEXT FOR INTERNATIONAL COPRODUCTION
Apr 01, 2004; ... When the 'cultural exception' first surfaced in the international free trade arena, twenty-three out of twenty-four OECD nations were subsidizing their national cinemas.1 The nations who chose to resist regulation of the audiovisual market, at the 'Uruguay Round' of GATT in 1993, articulated ...
MAKING THEIR MARK
Apr 01, 2004; ... When we first met in the mid-1990s Georgina Willis and Kerry Rock struck me as filmmakers with a fabulously curious aesthetic. They often described emotions in surreal visual terms, Both came to film from other areas. Kerry studied economics and geography and Georgina arts and ...
AUSTRALIAN MOVIES: SMALL STORIES THAT STAY SMALL
Apr 01, 2004; ... 'The problem with Australian movies is that they're small stories that stay small. They are under-written, under-cooked and underdone.' John Lonie, Script Editor, Beneath Clouds, Japanese Story IN FORTITUDE VALLEY, Brisbane's shambolic capital of funk and beatnik hipsters, lies ...
OBITUARY: MARK WORTH
Apr 01, 2004; ... Mark Worth 23 December 1958 - 15 January 2004 In his share-house kitchen at Bondi Beach, Mark Worth was in the middle of telling me a story when something suddenly caught his eye. A trap that he had set to catch a rogue mouse had done its job. Mark pounced on the dead mouse and ...
THE 'CANNES' OF SHORT FILM FESTIVALS
Apr 01, 2004; ... 'In meeting various people who attend short film festivals all the time, all were unanimous in claiming Clermont-Ferrand to be the best short film festival in the world ...' From the AFC's 'Tips for attending Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival' 'At Clermont-Ferrand, and perhaps ...
IS QUEER THE NEW BLACK?
Apr 01, 2004; ... Now in its fourteenth year, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival is Australia's first, and one of the world's oldest, queer film festivals. Its ascension from a grass roots community group event to a major screenculture organization has earned it a respected place in Melbourne's cultural calendar ...
ADOBE AFTER EFFECTS 6.0
Apr 01, 2004; ... By virtue of the number resting after a software title, you can get an immediate perspective on the longevity, popularity and market share of a software application. Pretty much anything that is in a version beyond three has paid its dues in the cut throat environment of creative software ...
SCREENTECH
Apr 01, 2004; ... The days of working in media related fields and having a single, definable and specific job title are very quickly becoming numbered. Once upon a time you entered the biz with a rubber stamp pressed to your forehead ... 'Hi, my name is [insert abbreviated name here] And I am a ...
ADOBE CREATIVE SUITE PREMIUM EDITION
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10BA - THE POT OF GOLD (OF OLD)
Apr 01, 2004; ... ONCE UPON A TIME THERE was a magic term guaranteed to bring a twinkle to an 1980s filmmakers' eye-10BA. Said slowly, it sounded like waves of private investment money ... investors repeatedly lining up to fund your films, no matter how hopeless your previous efforts turned out at the box office ...
COLD MOUNTAIN CASE STUDY
Apr 01, 2004; ... THE EPIGRAPH FOR CHARLES Frazier's best-selling 1997 first novel, Cold Mountain, is a couplet from the Chinese poet, Han-Shan: 'Men ask the way to Cold Mountain: there's no through trail'. Clearly, the eighth century poet never met twentyfirst century master film editor, Walter Murch, whose ...
GLOBAL SCRIPTWRITING
Apr 01, 2004; ... KEN DANCYGER GLOBAL SCRIPTWRITING Focal Press, Boston, 2001. REVIEWED BY HUNTER CORDAIY Scriptwriting books are covering the shelves of bookshops and the homes of hopeful screenwriters in vast quantities. Screenwriting courses at all levels are flourishing and their contribution ...
HIGH DEFINITION AND 24P CINEMATOGRAPHY
Apr 01, 2004; ... PAUL WHEELER (BSC, FBKS) HIGH DEFINITION AND 24P CINEMATOGRAPHY Focal Press, Elsevier, UK, 2003. REVIEWED BY PAUL MORRIS Are days of a universal worldwide television standard and the end of chemical based cinema film stock just around the corner? Cinematographer Paul Wheeler ...
WRITING THE COMEDY FILM: MAKE 'EM LAUGH
Apr 01, 2004; ... STUART VOYTILLA & SCOTT PETRI WRITING THE COMEDY FILM: MAKE 'EM LAUGH Michael Wiese Production, USA, 2003. REVIEWED BY DENNY LAWRENCE Writing the Comedy Film: Make 'Em Laugh is another in a long line of primers for the aspiring Hollywood filmmaker (which must include most ...
SCREENING SCIENCE: CONTEXTS, TEXTS, AND SCIENCE IN FIFTIES SCIENCE FICTION FILM
Apr 01, 2004; ... ERROL VIETH SCREENING SCIENCE: CONTEXTS, TEXTS, AND & SCIENCE IN FIFTIES SCIENCE FICTION FILM Scarecrow Press, Maryland, US, 2001. REVIEWED BY CHRISTOPHER HAWKES It's difficult not to warm to a writer who admits that his source material 'contains some of the worst films ever ...
JAWS
Apr 01, 2004; ... ANTONIA QUIRKE JAWS BFI Modern Classics, London, 2002. REVIEWED BY JAMIE FORBES In the course of writing the Great Australian Screenplay (as I have been for the past few years, in between jobs that pay) I've been eating up books by or about other screenwriters and screenwriting ....
THE NEW MEDIA BOOK, LONDON
Apr 01, 2004; ... DAN HARRIES, (ED.), THE NEW MEDIA BOOK, LONDON BFI Publishing, 2002. REVIEWED BY TAMA LEAVER Dan Harries' edited collection The New Media Book, starts with the very sensible question of what exactly constitutes the newness of new media: 'Is it the new ways in which we interact ...
PARIS HOLLYWOOD: WRITINGS ON FILM
Apr 01, 2004; ... PETER WOLLEN PARIS HOLLYWOOD: WRITINGS ON FILM London, Verso, 2002. REVIEWED BY RICHARD ARMSTRONG Peter Wollen sees rereading the history of aesthetics as 'the mainspring of my work,1 and this is borne out in such writings as Signs and Meaning in the Cinema (1969, revised 1998), ...
CITIZEN KANE
Apr 01, 2004; ... FILM OF THE QUARTER CITIZEN KANE Orson Welles (d), Herman Mankiewicz, Orson Wolles (w), US, 1941, 159 Minutes. ACTORS INCLUDE: Orson Welles, Joseph Gotten, Dorothy Comingore, Everett Sloane, Agnes Moorehead, William Alland, George Coulouris, Erskine Sanford. DVD FEATURES INCLUDE: ...
FINDING NEMO
Apr 01, 2004; ... **** 1/2 FINDING NEMO Andrew Stanton and Lee Unkrich (d), Andrew Stanton (w), US, 2003,101 Minutes. ACTORS INCLUDE: Albert Brooks, Ellen DeGeneres, Alexander Gould, Barry Humphries, Willem Dafoe, Geoffrey Rush, Bill Hunter, Eric Bana. DVD FEATURES INCLUDE: Making of Feature, ...
BAD EGGS
Apr 01, 2004; ... **** BAD EGGS Tony Martin (w/d), Aus, 2003,94 Minutes. ACTORS INCLUDE: Mick Molloy, Bob Franklin, Judith Lucy, Bill Hunter, Nicholas Bell, Robin Nevin, Brent Swain, Marshall Napier. DVO EXTRAS INCLUDE: The Usual Suspects ... and bonus culprit ('Last Aussie Auteur' D Gen ...
ALEXANDRA'S PROJECT
Apr 01, 2004; ... *** ALEXANDRA'S PROJECT Rolf de Heer(w/d), Aus, 2003,103 Minutes. ACTORS INCLUDE: Gary Sweet, Helen Buday, Bogdan Koca. Groucho Marx once joked that 'marriage is a great institution-but who wants to live in an institution?' The answer, of course, is people wishing to ...