Metro : Media & Education Magazine back issues from January 2006:
THE ACCIDENTAL AUTHOR: COLLABORATIVE AND SEQUENTIAL AUTHORSHIP IN NEW ZEALAND FILM PRODUCTION
Jan 01, 2006; ... The focus in discussions of a national cinema is usually on outstanding projects; films bidding to be included in the canon of significant national works due to their popularity with critics and/or audiences. INDEED, their inclusion is part of the process whereby they become entrenched ...
Lawrence Johnston: 'Once A Queen'
Jan 01, 2006; ... THE INTERNATIONAL AWARD WINNING AUSTRALIAN FILMMAKER LAWRENCE JOHNSTON WAS INTERVIEWED RECENTLY BY ANITRA NELSON AND BRENDA ADDIE. PART I OF THE TRANSCRIPT of that interview, which was edited by nelson and addie, focused on Johnston's recently released documentary, The Dream of Love ...
GOING NUTS ALL AT ONCE: Jack McCoy AND THE SURF FILM
Jan 01, 2006; ... One hundred years after the first film images of surfboard riding, why does filmmaker Jack McCoy sometimes risk his life to get the footage, and what motivates him to tour and screen his films here and abroad? Bruce Andrews reveals that it's all about 'the stoke'. WHILE in the water ...
From Little Things Big Things GROW: THE FITZROY SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL
Jan 01, 2006; ... For the second year, Fitzroy Shorts has continued to screen high profile Australian short films. Fitzroy, a northern suburb of Melbourne, is renowned as a centre of intense and passionate film culture. ALTHOUGH the atmosphere at Fitzroy Shorts cannot be compared to the festival fever ...
It's All About the Art, Man: Pip Mushin, Marcus Graham and Daniella Farinacci on Josh Jarman
Jan 01, 2006; ... PEOPLE WANTING TO MAKE FILMS are nuts, says Pip Mushin, a working actor and ex-TV producer who has just written and directed his first feature film Josh Jarman, which was released late last year. But he still prefers making films because it's 'more challenging and stimulating' than ...
KING KONG OR THE MONKEY ON PETER JACKSON'S BACK
Jan 01, 2006; ... Let's get one thing perfectly clear: King Kong (Peter Jackson, 2005) is a good film. It's the sort of film that will get up a lot of people's noses, but if you're even remotely fair-minded you can't deny that it is an impressive piece of cinema. HOWEVER, despite acknowledging Peter ...
Roses Doctors Lovers and Gods: Russell T. Davies' Year on Australian TV
Jan 01, 2006; ... UNTIL LAST YEAR, Australians could be forgiven for being unfamiliar with the work of Russell T. Davies. One of British television's foremost writers, there was a certain irony in the fact that Davies' most high profile pre-2005 credit on Australian TV was for the American remake of Queer as ...
The Hideous Blank at 'Wolf Creek'
Jan 01, 2006; ... Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film. [David Cronenberg] The question I want to address in this essay is why Australian critics are lauding Greg McLean's Wolf Creek, a modest little film that fails to meet expectations, even within the genre ...
'THE ROAD HOME': THE WORLD'S FASTEST INDIAN
Jan 01, 2006; ... THIS is a brilliant film because it manages simultaneously to do two very important things: nostalgically celebrate the idea of Kiwi ingenuity, but not wallow in that sense of nostalgia. The World's Fastest Indian (Roger Donaldson, 2005) gets in, looks around at the New Zealand of the 1950s, ...
THE ILLNESS NARRATIVE: AUSTRALIAN MEDIA REPORTING OF KYLIE MINOGUE'S BREAST CANCER
Jan 01, 2006; ... ON 17 May 2005, news bulletins on Australian radio and television carried the announcement that singer Kylie Minogue had been diagnosed with breast cancer earlier that day and that as a result, her forthcoming concert tour had been cancelled. State and national newspapers the next day carried ...
MAKING MOVIES MOBILE
Jan 01, 2006; ... Television did not replicate film - it evolved as a medium with its own peculiarities that required and spawned new ways of telling and structuring screen stories. Yet despite their vast differences, over the past fifty years, television and film have become intimately interwoven. We ...
New Zealand Film: National Identity and the Films of Vincent Ward
Jan 01, 2006; ... The development of New Zealand's national cinema attests to the changing nature of New Zealand's national identity. EARLY films made in New Zealand, often by filmmakers from Europe and america, rested on a vision of New Zealand as a remote pastoral paradise; a kind of antipodean arcadia, ...
Classification: The Art of Banning a Film
Jan 01, 2006; ... It's everywhere. You can't get away from it. Every time you turn on a television, whenever you walk into a movie theatre, the spectre of censorship is there looking over your shoulder. It's an inevitable part of the cinema: whatever you're watching and wherever you're watching it, ...
METRO 148 IDIOT'S BOX: THE YEAR IN REVIEW
Jan 01, 2006; ... WELCOME TO THE 2005 IDIOT'S BOX AWARDS. 2005 WAS LIKE ANY OTHER YEAR: IT WAS DISTINGUISHED BY ITS LACK OF RHYTHM OR REASON. THAT SHOULDN'T PREVENT OUR LITTLE CEREMONY, HOWEVER, FROM WANTING TO MOVE TO ITS OWN REGULATED PATTERN, BEAT OR SEQUENCE. IF THERE IS ONE THING WE'RE GOOD AT, IT'S CREATING ...
SHORTCUTS
Jan 01, 2006; ... The Path to a History of Australian Television 'Television,' said Dr liz Jacka, opening the conference, 'in its persuasiveness and everydayness penetrates every corner - it entertains, diverts, influences, informs and educates.' Despite, or perhaps because of this, she said, little has ...
ANDREW SARRIS
Jan 01, 2006; ... In 1963 a round table discussion took place at the New York Public Library between a panel of America's most eminent film critics. Historian raymond Haberski sets the scene: 'the critics plodded along, addressing american movie criticism until Dwight Macdonald stood up and made a ...
SOUND scape
Jan 01, 2006; ... RAGE AND THE ARTIST'S PERSONA: CREATION, CONSUMPTION AND EXPECTATION IN MUSIC TELEVISON I WAS RECENTLY GIVEN A COPY OF THE RIGHT SPECTACLE (2005), A DVD COMPILATION OF ELVIS COSTELLO'S MUSIC CLIPS FROM 1978 TO 1994. RESISTING THE TEMPTATION TO SKIP STRAIGHT TO MY FAVOURITES, I PUT ASIDE ...
WIRES UP
Jan 01, 2006; ... Commercial game culture is increasingly conditioned along capitalism's notoriously dehumanizing lines: segmentation, branding, and the conformity of purchase schedules to release schedules. The entire conceit of being interested in mainstream games requires, at least in part, a completely ...
OFFICIAL SITES: MOVIES, GAMES AND THE BLURRY LINES OF GENRE
Jan 01, 2006; ... The study of genre and the use of genre as a textual and media analysis tool is never going to be a 1+1=2 scenario. The borders and defining boundaries that encompass a particular genre are never set in stone, but are in a constant state of flux, continually shifted and challenged. The idea of ...
DO YOU Hear THE People Eating Chips?: JOHN HILLCOAT, SARAH WATT AND ROWAN WOODS DISCUSS THE LIFE AND MAKING OF A DIRECTOR
Jan 01, 2006; ... On 26 november 2005, the day of the AFI (Australian Film Institute) Awards, three of the nominated directors for Best Film gathered together at ACMI (Australian Centre for the Moving Image) in Melbourne's Federation Square. Megan Spencer (The Movie Show, triplej radio) hosted John Hillcoat, ...
'I MAKE FILMS I FEEL PROUD OF': Peggy Chiao AND THE NEW CHINESE CINEMA
Jan 01, 2006; ... Peggy Chiao Hsiung-ping is one of the most internationally prominent producers of Chinese cinema, though she has played many roles in the film industry. She initially studied journalism in Taiwan before going to the United States and taking up postgraduate studies in cinema. She returned to ...
Tarantino AND THE RE-INVENTION OF THE MARTIAL ARTS FILM
Jan 01, 2006; ... FROM THE OPENING ANNOUCEMENT 'SHOT IN SHAWSCOPE' TO THE CLOSING MUSIC, KILL BILL (QUENTIN TARANTINO, 2003), IS STEEPED IN MARTIAL ARTS FOLKLORE. FROM ITS PLOT AND CASTING THROUGH TO THE MANY ACTION SET PIECES, THE FILM EXUDES A STUDIED ASIAN COOL, DESPITE THE FACT IT WAS DIRECTED BY A FORMER ...
Enter the (Diaspora) Dragons: MARTIAL ARTS CINEMA AND GLOBALIZATION
Jan 01, 2006; ... In the last decade martial arts film has undergone a renaissance in Asian and American Cinema. What was once considered 'oriental' filmmaking has been embraced by Western popular culture. IS THIS TRUE symbiosis of cultures though, or does the recent success of Western martial arts ...
The Real and the Fantastic IN THE WUXIA PIAN
Jan 01, 2006; ... Sam Ho informs us that the xia (chivalrous hero) is a folkloric character who, since approximately 90 BC, has been 'increasingly romanticized, in poetry, fiction and on the Chinese opera stage before reaching the mythic position he occupies today, as an embodiment of China's ideals of courage ...
A True Demon Bound By No Rules: AN INTRODUCTION TO CHARACTER AND VENGEANCE IN THE LONE WOLF AND CUB FILMS
Jan 01, 2006; ... LONE WOLF AND CUB IS AN EPIC NARRATIVE OF VENGEANCE SET AGAINST THE BACKDROP OF FEUDAL JAPAN DURING THE TOKUGAWA ERA (1600-1867). THIS CREATIVE PROPERTY ORIGINATED AS A MANGA SERIES IN 1970, SPANNING SOME 9000 PAGES AND TWENTY-EIGHT VOLUMES. Written by Kazuo Koike with artwork by Goseki ...
HOW TO MAKE GREAT SHORT FEATURE FILMS: THE MAKING OF GHOSTHUNTER
Jan 01, 2006; ... 1 HOW TO MAKE GREAT SHORT FEATURE FILMS: THE MAKING OF GHOSTHUNTER IAN LEWIS, FOCAL PRESS, OXFORD, 2003 For aspiring short film producers, ian Lewis' 'How to Make Great Short Feature Films: The Making of ghosthunter' should serve as an invaluable resource. This book is essentially a ...
SERIAL TELEVISION: BIG DRAMA ON THE SMALL SCREEN
Jan 01, 2006; ... 2 SERIAL TELEVISION: BIG DRAMA ON THE SMALL SCREEN GLEN CREEBER, BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE PUBLISHING, LONDON, 2004 THE TREND for publishing edited anthologies on individual television programs has been ripe for over a decade now. Books such as 'Full of Secrets: Critical Approaches to Twin ...
SELLING TELEVISION: BRITISH TELEVISION IN THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE
Jan 01, 2006; ... 3 SELLING TELEVISION: BRITISHTELEVISION IN THE GLOBAL MARKETPLACE JEANETTE STEEMERS. BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE PUBLISHING, LONDON, 2004 THE MAJORITY of research and writing on the international television trade concentrates on two major characteristics: the dominant flows from american ...
THE FILMS OF PETER WEIR
Jan 01, 2006; ... 4 THE FILMS OF PETER WEIR JONATHAN RAYNER, 2ND ED, CONTINUUM, 2003 I AM familiar with Jonathan rayner's first edition of The Films of Peter Weir and with his excellent Contemporary Australian Cinema (2000) and so i can whole-heartedly recommend rayner as a reliable and well-informed ...
THE CINEMA OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND
Jan 01, 2006; ... 5 THE CINEMA OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND BRIAN MCFARLANE (ED.), WALLFLOWER PRESS, LONDON & NEW YORK, 2005 ADDING To his major contribution to the theory of screen adaptation, Brian McFarlane's work in the field of British cinema has included some prominent titles: An Autobiography of ...
PRIMATTE KEYER
Jan 01, 2006; ... 1.6 and Composite Wizard 1.2 Price: - Primatte Keyer for After Effects/ Combustion/Avid Xpress Pro $445 - Primatte Keyer for Avid Media Composer $995 - Composite Wizard $295 System requirements: - PC: XP or Windows 2000, Pentium 3 600MHz, 256 ...
TWIXTOR PRO 4.0
Jan 01, 2006; ... Price: - www.revisionfx.com Twixtor 4 Pro US$595 - Upgrade Price: from any previous version US$265 System requirements: - PC: Windows 95/98/NT 4.0/ ME/2000/XP - Mac: Mac OS X or later. Host applications: - After Effects 5.0 or later, ...
TECH NEWS
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METRO 148 TV EYE
Jan 01, 2006; ... 01 SOAP AS A STATE OF MIND: HEADLAND BY DAVE HOSKIN I'VE got a theory. In considering why I found headLand to be such an atrocious show, the fact that it was a soap opera just wouldn't get out of my head. The thing is ... I don't really watch soap operas, or if I do, ...
Good night, and good luck: All the Senator's Men
Jan 01, 2006; ... Good Night and Good Luck (George Clooney, 2005) schmoozes onto the screen with a saxophone rendition of Nat 'King' Cole's 'When I Fall in Love'. It's 1950s America and television is in the midst of its glory days. At Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), the pride and joy is the news division and ...
The Good, the Bad and 'The Proposition'
Jan 01, 2006; ... The Australian outback, circa 1880. Inside a weathered and rundown shack, a hail of bullets haemorrhages through the walls as a deadly gunfight unfolds. Bushrangers Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) and his little brother Mikey (Richard Wilson) exchange rounds with the assaulting troopers ...
Josh Jarman: Between a Rock and an Empty Space
Jan 01, 2006; ... The final reel of Josh Jarman (Pip Mushin, 2005) contains a brazenly sexy musical number that caps off Doctors and Nurses, a lavish theatrical show which is actually the adulteration of an original dramatic play written by the title character. everyone in the theatre is rapturous over the ...
Go Ape! The Identity of New Zealand Filmmaking post-Rings
Jan 01, 2006; ... 'this lucky land on a shrinking globe ...'1 'In this climate, any discussion of New Zealand film must be characterized by all kinds of qualifications, reservations and ambiguity.'2 In 2000, the newly minted Prime Minister of New Zealand, Helen Clark, published a short article in the ...
Into the WARDROBE: Imagining and Re-imagining NARNiA
Jan 01, 2006; ... The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (Andrew Adamson, 2005), is based closely on the first book in C.S. Lewis's classic children's series from the 1950s.1 The film is clearly designed as Disney's response to The Lord of the Rings and Harry Potter franchises, and has ...
Intercultural short filmmaking in Aotearoa New Zealand
Jan 01, 2006; ... In this article, I examine two short films from 2004, Fleeting Beauty (directed by myself), and Eating Sausage (Zia Mandviwalla), as examples of intercultural filmmaking practice based on productive dialogic encounters between distinct cultural communities in Aotearoa New ...
LIVING IN A POST-HOBBIT WORLD: PERSPECTIVES ON NEW ZEALAND FILM
Jan 01, 2006; ... In another introduction in another recent Australian journal (a co-edited issue, with Mary Griffiths, of Media International Australia No. 117, November 2005), I pointed to the instructive lessons Australian readers might find in the recent experiences of New Zealand television, film and ...