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Issue No. 12, Feb-Mar 2001
editorial for Issue 12

Contemporary Australian Film

Mallboy by Jake Wilson A sensitive account of this recent Australian film. Packaging Australia: Working Dog's The Dish by Mark Freeman An intriguing consideration of strategies taken by the internationally-premiered The Dish to present 'Australia'.

Mallboy

Wogboy

From Wogboy to Mallboy: The Good, The Bad and The Lovely by Andrew Bunney Just which Australian films were the most successful for 2000, and what were their dominant themes?

Genre: The Female Gothic Lady, Beware: Paths Through the Female Gothic by Adrian Martin This article is now hosted on the PANDORA archive of the National Library of Australia and Partners. A definitive, far-reaching study of this most variegated of genres.

Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1943)

Director: Clara Law

Autumn Moon by Stephen Teo Law's understated, soulful meditation on migration here discussed. Temptation of a Monk by Stephen Teo Teo considers Law's take on the epic, period film. Floating Life: The Heaviness of Moving by Stephen Teo Another meditation on migration, but this time also sketching a possible Asian-Australian cinema.

Clara Law

Director: Philippe Garrel

Voyeurism of the Soul: The Films of Philippe Garrel by Maximilian Le Cain Criminally ignored by the Anglophone film festivals, Garrel's razor-sharp, intense and brooding cinema is here paid loving tribute.

The Birth of Love

Interview: Béla Tarr

Waiting For The Prince - an interview with Béla Tarr by Fergus Daly and Maximilian Le Cain A fascinating insight into the working methods, philosophy, and influences of one of contemporary cinema's most important directors.

Contemporary Asian Cinema

On Four Prosaic Formulas Which Might Summarize Hou's Poetics by Fergus Daly A solid and fascinating account of the ideas at play in Hou's cinema, and their relation to Mizoguchi The Belated Auteurism of Johnnie To by Andrew Grossman From genre thrashing to genre deconstruction; an overview of this prolific Hong Kong filmmaker.

Goodybe South, Goodbye (Hou Hsiao-hsien)

Help!!! by Shelly Kraicer A discussion of this recent exciting, provocative film by Johnnie To and Wai Kai-fai. Notes on Tsai Ming-Liang's The River by Fiona A. Villella Some general observations on a contemporary masterpiece.

The unkindest cut of all? Some reflections on the recent cinematic release of the uncut version of Nagisa Oshima's Ai no corrida by Freda Freiberg A monumental moment in world cinema considered. Specular Failure and Spectral Returns in Two Films with Maggie Cheung (and one without) by Carlos Rojas Center Stage, Irma Vep and Flowers of Shanghai considered in light of Walter Benjamin's 'aura'.

Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas)

Actor/Auteur: Clint Eastwood

Andromeda Heights by Christoph Huber An astute, lively discussion of the director's subtle, ongoing project of revising and interrogating the classic Eastwood screen persona. "We all have it coming, Kid": Clint Eastwood and the Dying of the Light by Tim Groves An examination of the evolving Eastwood screen persona.

Unforgiven

Overlooked & Underrated What a Long, Strange Trip It's Been: William Greaves' Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One by Maria San Filippo   A fascinating discussion of this most overlooked yet seminal American independent director.

Unsentimental Journey: A Glimpse into the Cinema of Mikio Naruse by Acquarello Acquarello gives due to a cinema devoted to human struggle in the face of despair. Perception II: Mindwalk by Keith Uhlich A little known film about philosophy.

Mikio Naruse

Favourites East of Eden by Terry Ballard Ballard's personal and insightful discussion of a film he has loved for 40 years.

East of Eden

Festivals

Report from Sundance by Maria San Filippo 30th Rotterdam International Film Festival reports by Christoph Huber     Bree McKilligan The 5th Newcastle Film Festival by Andrew Slattery

Waking Life (Richard Linklater, 2000) part of Sundance Film Festival

Current Releases

The Sixth Day by Michael Cohen The Big Ride: Almost Famous by Fiona A. Villella

Almost Famous

Requiem For A Dream

Dungeons and Dragons by Mark Angeli Requiem For A Dream by Megan Ratner Harry (He Is Here To Help) by Mark Freeman

Sneak preview of Issue 13 (to be published April 9) - review of Rosetta by Rhys Graham

Cinémathèque Annotations on Film The following are annotations for films screening at the Melbourne Cinémathèque on Wednesdays during February and March. Editorial Click here for information on the editors of the annotations, the Australian Cinémathèque and queries regarding contribution.

It Happened One Night by Martha P. Nochimson Screened Feb 14 7:30 p.m. Sullivan's Travels by Dan Harper Screened Feb 14 9:30 p.m. Un Chien Andalou by Michael Koller Screened Feb 21 7:00 p.m. Les Enfants du Paradis by Girish Shambu Screened Feb 21 7:30 p.m.

Sullivan's Travels

Metaphor and Metonymy in Greenaway: M is for Man, Music, Mozart by William Van Wert Screened Feb 28 7:00 p.m. The Draughtsman's Contract by James Mackenzie Screened Feb 28 7:40 p.m. The Big Sleep by Andrew Slattery Screened Mar 7 7:00 p.m. Scarface by Michael Cohen Screened Mar 7 9:10 p.m.

The Draughtsman's Contract

Full Moon in New York by Stephen Teo Screened Mar 14 8:50 p.m. Red River by Adrian Miles Screened Mar 21 9:30 p.m. Autumn Moon by Stephen Teo Screened Mar 28 7:00 p.m.

Full Moon in New York

Notes on Negative Space by Benjamin Halligan Screened Apr 4 7:00 p.m. I Was a Male War Bride by Adrian Danks Screened Apr 4 9:30 p.m. Outer Space: The Manufactured Film of Peter Tscherkassky by Rhys Graham Screened Apr 11 7:00 p.m. Office Killer: A Movie Not for Every Taste by Constantine Santas Screened Apr 11 7:25 p.m.

Office Killer

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