Metro : Media & Education Magazine back issues from July 2004:
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Jul 01, 2004; ... Dear Editor, In an article in issue 139 of Metro in an article on 50 Minute Films Michael Kitson has written 'What makes Roy Holisdotter Live unique and fresh are the tried and true, real-life routines of its lead actor, Darren casey, all of which were imported wholesale-without ...
Saskia & Hutch: doggy-style
Jul 01, 2004; ... The year was 1986 and writer/director Richard Lowenstein's second feature, 'Dogs In Space' was going to be huge. He'd won critical acclaim for his student documentary Evictions, had been to Cannes with his first feature. Strikebound, and now Dogs was testing well where the money was, in ...
HOMELESS, AIMLESS: ALKINOS TSILIMIDOS' TOM WHITE
Jul 01, 2004; ... Tom White is the sort of film that's like brussels sprouts: you don't really enjoy it, but you know it's supposed to be good for you. We've all sat through films like these, vaguely hoping that our attendance will be enough to help someone else save society. If you can just endure this lecture ...
SHORTCUTS
Jul 01, 2004; ... New Funding Guidelines For Film and TV Production Six months of extensive industry consultation have culminated in the announcement of dramatic changes to the funding structures for Australia's major film and television production investment body, Film Finance Corporation Australia. The ...
Elizabeth's Costumes: The Power of Spectacle, or Spectacles of Power?
Jul 01, 2004; ... When it was released in Australia, the film Elizabeth (Shekhar Kapur, 1998) provoked comment about its 'post-colonial' nature. Ruth Hessey, for example, in her Sydney Morning Herald piece, wrote of the 'exquisitely subversive approach' of the Indian director. She further noted that Australians ...
No Pretension Whatsoever: A Conversation with Dean Murphy
Jul 01, 2004; ... Dean Murphy is a positive guy, but he certainly doesn't have his head in the clouds. As the director of the latest vehicle to star Paul Hogan, he's well aware of the probable reception that awaits his film Strange Bedfellows, but he's also smart enough to know that it doesn't really ...
Sam NeiLL: SeRVeS up dRy WiT and chiLLinG GhOST STORieS
Jul 01, 2004; ... When female directors are fishing around for names to play the man who their female heroine is itching to give the flick, Sam Neill's face comes to mind. A curious state of affairs you might think. Handsome, intelligent, debonair, sophisticated: all adjectives that fit the versatile New Zealand ...
THE FOG OF WAR: ELEVEN LESSONS FROM THE LIFE OF ROBERT S. McNAMARA
Jul 01, 2004; ... Like great artists or thinkers, great historians are biological freaks: they father the time that has fathered them. SIEGFRIED KRACAUER1 We make a little history, baby, every time you come around. NICK CAVE2 Errol Morris's ninth feature documentary film. The Fog ...
MIDDLE EAST: SPICES UP MIFF
Jul 01, 2004; ... THIS YEAR'S MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL IS ENTHUSIASTICALLY EMBRACING MIDDLE EASTERN FILMS. CYNTHIA KARENA TALK TO JAMES HEWISON, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE FESTIVAL. Banish thoughts of a dry festival purely for cinephiles-this year's Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) ...
A Short History of the World (as it applies to video editing)
Jul 01, 2004; ... After recent discussions with a few other old-timers I decided to write this highly biased potted history of the mechanics of video editing as I have experienced it in my career. No responsibility is accepted for any errors of fact, since we are relying here on an increasingly unreliable ...
AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY CONFERENCE 2004
Jul 01, 2004; ... Hundreds of directors, producers, distributors, commissioners and others from all corners of the documentary industry, from all corners of the world, descended on Fremantle, Western Australia for this year's Australian International Documentary Conference (26-28 February). Sándor Lau, a ...
TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE IN THE POSTPRODUCTION FILM INDUSTRY: A VICTORIAN CASE STUDY
Jul 01, 2004; ... The first and last stages of filmmaking-production and projection-remain relatively unchanged, but computerization (through digitalization) has radically transformed film and sound editing. The aim here is to examine some of the effects of this transformation on postproduction employment. The ...
BRUTALITY AND BEAUTY
Jul 01, 2004; ... Myles McMullen talks to director AlkinosTsilimidos and editor Ken Sallows about collaborating on Tom White (2004). Ken Sallows has edited many of Australia's most renowned films, including Chopper (Andrew Dominik, 2000), Crackerjack (Paul Maloney, 2002), and Gettin' Square (Jonathan ...
Bollywood Re-invented? Kissing, Zombies and Aliens
Jul 01, 2004; ... Hrithic 'Bollywood Boy' Roshan, leather-clad and hair slicked, swaggers through London accompanied by an iconic bombardment of the colonial and trans-national. The arches of Westminster, Big Ben and London Bridge are merged with the equally familiar global insignia of Gucci, Starbucks and ...
Creative Energy: The vibrancy of the St Kilda Film Festival
Jul 01, 2004; ... ST KILDA FILM FESTIVAL 2004 Cynthia Karena talks to Festival Director Paul Harris and judge, Glendyn Ivan for an insider's look at one of Australia's great film festivals. I always wonder why the St Kilda Film Festival is so popular, given that there are so many other film ...
TRUST ME - I'M AN EDITOR!
Jul 01, 2004; ... TRUST; To have faith or confidence; to place reliance; to confide Oxford English Dictionary ... so I guess in that process as an editor, she trusted me to know what was needed and how to do it.1 James Bradley The key ingredient in the relationship between editor ...
THE ART OF WALKING BACKWARDS: HOW TO MAKE A DOCUMENTARY FOR NZ$12,000
Jul 01, 2004; ... An account of the journey of film student and first-time documentary maker. Sándor Lau, who walked 500km from Auckland to Cape Reinga, New Zealand's spiritual tip, to make his documentary, Behaviours of the Backpacker. A Maöri proverb says you spend your life walking backwards because ...
State of Bliss
Jul 01, 2004; ... Australian actor Ian Bliss has a distinctive face that has been seen in homegrown film productions such as Siam Sunset (John Polson, 1999) and The Bank (Robert Connolly, 2001.) ... But Bliss really made a name for himself walking in another man's shoes, when he took on the challenge of ...
GOING IT ALONE
Jul 01, 2004; ... MAKING LOW BUDGET FEATURE FILMS WITHOUT PRE-SALES You've made a few shorts and feel it's time to move on to a feature film. After a year or two of hard work, you have what you believe is a brilliant screenplay, The next step is to make it and get it on the screen. You ...
INNOVATING THE DIGITAL. UNIVERSITIES, INDUSTRY AND RESEARCH COME TOGETHER FOR LITTLE GIRL BLUE
Jul 01, 2004; ... A recent research project in Switzerland, investigating the relationship between innovation and film production, demonstrates that government assisted research can catalyse the development of local industries, progress the development of independent filmmakers and, most significantly, produce ...
EVERYTHING IS EDITING: BILL RUSSO ON BLUE MURDER, INTUITION, AND THAT SMALL DARK ROOM
Jul 01, 2004; ... At the beginning of his short course, 'The Art of Editing', Bill Russo asks the class a deceptively simple question: 'Who does the editor work for?' 'The director?' one student calls out. 'The audience!' volunteers another. 'The executive producer?' Bill shakes his head. 'The story! Anyone not ...
(PAN-)ANIMAL MAGICS: ECOFEMINIST ETHICS AND AESTHETICS IN THE WEB
Jul 01, 2004; ... The 1990s has often been dubbed 'The Decade of the Environment'. Pollution, deforestation and desertification, ozone destruction, endangerment of species of animals and wildlife, vanishing wildernesses, and energy conservation are some of the visible environmental concerns which have gained ...
True Crime
Jul 01, 2004; ... We are not selling hope, audience gratification, or cheap victories with this show. The Wire is making an argument about what institutions-bureaucracies, criminal enterprises, the cultures of addiction, raw capitalism even-do to individuals. It is not designed purely as entertainment. David ...
JON HEWITT ON 'BLOODLUST'
Jul 01, 2004; ... 'Fuck film. Digital is where it's at.' Before 28 Days Later (Danny Boyle, 2002), Once Upon a Time in Mexico (Robert Rodriguez, 2003), Dogme95 and the Star Wars prequels (George Lucas), before digital and HD became a hip and viable choice for filmmakers, there was an Australian ...
LOVING THE LIE: THE WEST WING
Jul 01, 2004; ... The West Wing is the work of gods. Every week I'm sure that it must stumble and reveal itself as the work of mortals after all, but somehow it never does. The writing is whip-smart, doing all the things that you would have sworn could never be done on television, and definitely not on American ...
THE RHYTHM OF THINKING: SPECULATIONS ON HOW AN EDITOR SHAPES THE RHYTHMS OF A FILM
Jul 01, 2004; ... Making time, sculpting in time1, creating, orchestrating or conducting rhythm. How does an editor make decisions about where and when to cut in order to make a film 'feel' right? When asked, most editors will answer: 'by intuition' or 'you just know when it's right'. These are not wrong ...
STREAMING VIDEO
Jul 01, 2004; ... Hosting your films online is a fantastic way to gain exposure to an international audience. However, we all know how painful it is to download small files on a 56k connection, let alone entire films. By offering a streamed video file you can provide your audience with a more instant, and more ...
NEWLYWEDS: OFF-KEY AND OFFBEAT
Jul 01, 2004; ... You may remember Jessica Simpson as 'the other virgin' who burst onto the pop music scene around the same time as Britney Spears. However, unlike Britney, it seems that Jessica was able to have the white wedding, with e*-98 Degrees member, Nick Lachey. Lo-and-behold, the romance between these ...
MALAYSIAN CINEMA, ASIAN FILM: BORDER CROSSINGS AND NATIONAL CINEMA
Jul 01, 2004; ... WILLIAM VAN DER HEIDE MALAYSIAN CINEMA, ASIAN FILM: BORDER CROSSINGS AND NATIONAL CINEMA University of Amsterdam Press, Amsterdam, 2002. REVIEWED BY MIKE WALSH This book provides an important introduction to a little-seen regional cinema. At the same time, it sets out a useful ...
VISUAL CULTURE
Jul 01, 2004; ... SCHOOL OF LITERARY, VISUAL & PERFORMANCE STUDIES STUDIES IN FILM & TV, FASHION & ADVERTISING, NEW MEDIA & CYBERCULTURE1 ART, ARCHITECTURE & VIDEO PRODUCTION What is Visual Culture? Visual culture is a multi-disciplinary field which incorporates film, ...
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YASH CHOPRA
Jul 01, 2004; ... RACHEL DWYER YASH CHOPRA BFI, London, 2002. REVIEWED BY HARRIET MARGOLIS It isn't necessary to have read Rachel Dwyer's All You Want Is Money, All You Need Is Love: Sex and Romance in Modern India (Cassell, London 2000) before reading her Yash Chopra, but it's more interesting to ...
GEARING UP FOR DIGITAL CINEMA IN AUSTRALIA
Jul 01, 2004; ... Despite numerous international developments, there has been little commentary concerning how the Australian film industry perceives the future of digital cinema in this country. Digital cinema is the replacement of 35mm celluloid film with digital files that are shown on special ...
THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITISH FILM
Jul 01, 2004; ... BRIAN MCFARLANE (ED.) THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITISH FILM Methuen and BFI, London, 2003. REVIEWED BY MELANIE WILLIAMS This is a book I've been waiting for all my life', says film critic Philip French in his enthusiastic preface to The Encyclopedia of British Film, and I must admit, ...
FILM EDITING: THE ART OF THE EXPRESSIVE/THE TECHNIQUE OF FILM EDITING/THE TECHNIQUE OF FILM AND VIDEO EDITING
Jul 01, 2004; ... VALERIE ORPEN FILM EDITING: THE ART OF THE EXPRESSIVE Wallflower Press, London, 2003. KAREL REISZ & GAVIN MILLAR THE TECHNIQUE OF FILM EDITING 2nd Ed., Focal Press, 2003. KEN DANCYGER THE TECHNIQUE OF FILM AND VIDEO EDITING 3rd Ed, Focal Press, 2002. REVIEWED BY ...
SCORSESE'S MEN: MELANCHOLIA AND THE MOB
Jul 01, 2004; ... MARK NICHOLLS SCORSESE'S MEN: MELANCHOLIA AND THE MOB Pluto Press, Melbourne, 2004. REVIEWED BY BRIAN MCFARLANE When Newland Archer walks away from the little square in Paris without going up to see Ellen Olenska again after many years, in the last sequence of Scorsese's The Age ...
GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES
Jul 01, 2004; ... FILM OF THE QUARTER GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES Isao Takahata (d), Akiyuki , Nosaka (w), Jap, 1988, 88 minutes, Rated M15. In English and Japanese (with subtitles). DVD FEATURES INCLUDE: Interviews with director Takahata and author Nosaka, and a 'Historical Perspective ...
SCRIPT PARTNERS: WHAT MAKES FILM AND TV WRITING TEAMS WORK
Jul 01, 2004; ... CLAUDIA JOHNSON & MATT STEVENS SCRIPT PARTNERS: WHAT MAKES FILM AND TV WRITING TEAMS WORK Michael Wiese Productions, Studio City, 2002. REVIEWED BY WARWICK BURTON 'Collaboration is a merger of the aesthetic of two different people', says Nicholas ...
PETER PAN
Jul 01, 2004; ... ** 1/2 PETER PAN RJ. Hogan (d), RJ. Hogan and Michael Goldenberg (w), Aus, 2003,109 Minutes, Rated PG. ACTORS INCLUDE: Rachel Nurd-Wood, Jeremy Sumpter, Jason Isaacs, Olivia Williams, Lynn Redgrave. DVD FEATURES INCLUDE: Deleted Scene and Alternate Ending, Set Tours, Featurettes ...
MATRIX REVOLUTIONS
Jul 01, 2004; ... **** 1/2 MATRIX REVOLUTIONS Andy and Larry Wachowski (w/d), US/ Aus, 2003, 124 Minutes, Rated M15. ACTORS INCLUDE: Keanu Reeves, Laurence Fishburne, Carrie-Ann Moss, Hugo Weaving, Jada Pinkett Smith. DVD FEATURES INCLUDE: Making of Features, Matrix Timeline and Online Game ...
SPY-FI AND SOAP OPERA
Jul 01, 2004; ... You can be sure you're onto a good thing when a show's creator describes it as ludicrous', and JJ Abrams' Alias certainly doesn't disappoint. It's unashamedly bubblegum, but like its forerunner Buffy, you can sense the writers realizing what they have on their hands halfway through its first ...
SCREENTECH
Jul 01, 2004; ... Every year there comes a time, around April, that my Inbox {both virtual and physical) fills to over flowing, stuffed with news of new technology, new media tools, new cameras, new software. Of course, most of what I'll dig out of my Inbox I will already have read on the web as blow-by-blow, ...
Apple Computer Australia
Jul 01, 2004; ... Case study From Nashville to Byron Bay, SAE Institute engineers audio magic with Apple creative technologies: Global empire of audio engineering colleges extends its Mac investment as the world's largest recording studio opens its doors to students and musicians. Sound ...
NEW GERMAN CINEMA: IMAGES OF A GENERATION
Jul 01, 2004; ... JULIA KNIGHT NEW GERMAN CINEMA: IMAGES OF A GENERATION Wallflower, London, 2004. REVIEWED BY STAN JONES On the back cover of this book, Wallflower Press's 'Short Cuts' series describes itself as: ' ... specifically designed for building an individually-styled ...
JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
Jul 01, 2004; ... GINETTE VINCENDEAU JEAN-PIERRE MELVILLE: AN AMERICAN IN PARIS British Film Institute, London, 2003. REVIEWED BY TOM KEMPER To a great degree film studies emerged as a legitimate academic field by grappling with the problematic question of the relationship between the productive ...
HOW TO MAKE GREAT SHORT FEATURE FILMS: THE MAKING OF GHOSTHUNTER
Jul 01, 2004; ... IAN LEWIS HOW TO MAKE GREAT SHORT FEATURE FILMS: THE MAKING OF GHOSTHUNTER Focal Press, Oxford, 2001. REVIEWED BY DAVID BURROWS This book attempts to fill a niche in an already crowded marketplace of filmmaking manuals-that of the short film. The term, short feature film, from ...
LOST IN TRANSLATION
Jul 01, 2004; ... *** LOST IN TRANSLATION Sofia Coppola (w/d), US, 2003, 97 Minutes, Rated PG. ACTORS INCLUDE: Bill Murray, Scarlet Johansson, Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Paris. DVD FEATURES INCLUDE: 'A Conversation with Bill Murray and Sofia Coppola', 'Lost On Location: Behind the Scenes Documentary', ...