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THE “RING” MASTER: INTERVIEW WITH HIDEO NAKATA The story is about this couple, the wife and masseur, coming back to life haunt the husband. Valérie, Christine, Donato, Hideo Nakata, Milton. Offscreen: I found the flashback footage of the psychic with Shizuko and Sadako shot in a very interesting way, THE GANGSTER AS HERO IN HONG KONG CINEMA The gangster genre, hence, began to develop in such a climate, as filmmakers revised historical Chinese “survival myths” into stories of criminal outlaws struggling with strict Triad codes of brotherhood and honour. As Hong Kong critic Li Cheuk-To (Williams 2000: 141) noted, “People have a feeling of foreboding over1997These heroes
HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE ITALIAN SPAGHETTI WESTERN Homosexuality and the Italian Spaghetti Western. by Jenna Bond Volume 11, Issue 11 / November 2007 12 minutes (2817 words) To say that homosexuality in Italy is a complicated issue would be an understatement. To claim that some of the films from the country’s most popular genre, the Spaghetti Western, contain homosexualtendencies would be
AN INTRODUCTION TO KOREAN CINEMA Peter Rist, Ph.D has been teaching film history and aesthetics at Concordia University, Montreal, since 1989. He was principal writer for, and edited, Guide to the Cinema(s) of Canada (2001) and (co-edited with Timothy Barnard) South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography, 1915-1994 (1998). His more recent publications (from 2014) include Historical Dictionary of South American Film and a INTRODUCTION TO ANDRÉ BAZIN, PART 1: THEORY OF FILM STYLE André Bazin Revisited. by Donato Totaro Volume 7, Issue 7 / July 2003 23 minutes (5677 words) André Bazin, film critic, theorist, philosopher, and humanist wrote a series of essays between the years 1944 and 1958, before he died at the young age of 40. The majority of them were anthologized in their original language in the four volumeset Qu
UNDERSTANDING THE ‘LUBITSCH TOUCH’ The screen is black. Slowly the instantly recognisable image of the Paramount logo appears, accompanied by the introductory bars of the song Trouble in Paradise.As the unspecified singer states that “Most any place can seem to be a paradise” the logo is replaced by the words ‘Trouble in.’ Presently these words are accompanied by the image of a double bed which is almost obscured a INDEPENDENT HORROR CINEMA Independents: $10,000 to $10,000,000. It is important to realize that there is a strong hierarchy among indies. The big brothers among the indies are: Miramax, New Line, Gramercy, Goldwyn, Sony and October. Independents range from large companies with diversified interests or auxiliary distribution arms (Miramax, New Line, Disney), to tightly THE SENTINEL (1977 ): HELL ON THE 5TH FLOOR The Sentinel is a supernatural horror film from 1977 that was produced by Universal studios to profit from the recent successes of films such as The Exorcist, Amityville Horror, and The Omen.For Michael Winner, better known for crime films (Death Wish, Death Wish 2, Death Wish 3, The Mechanic, Scorpio, The Big Sleep), The Sentinel was the first and only horror film he directed. LONELY BOY: DOCUMENTING THE MANUFACTURE OF A POP IDOL The 1962 documentary Lonely Boy, directed by Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor, is a film about the manufacture of a pop idol.Paul Anka, the subject of the documentary, is a popular performer at the peak of his career, but the directors use a variety of strategies to express their view of him as an isolated figure who is seen by his handlers as a piece of merchandise and whose success is NOTES TOWARD A MASOCHIZING OF CULT CINEMA The phenomenon of cult cinema is most often generated by the dual combination of a) textual peculiarities and b) specific audience reading/consumption strategies. While certain films (e.g., Repo Man, Alex Cox, 1984) may be seemingly tailor-made at a textual level to foster instant cult consumption (with varying degrees of success), afilm’s
THE “RING” MASTER: INTERVIEW WITH HIDEO NAKATA The story is about this couple, the wife and masseur, coming back to life haunt the husband. Valérie, Christine, Donato, Hideo Nakata, Milton. Offscreen: I found the flashback footage of the psychic with Shizuko and Sadako shot in a very interesting way, THE GANGSTER AS HERO IN HONG KONG CINEMA The gangster genre, hence, began to develop in such a climate, as filmmakers revised historical Chinese “survival myths” into stories of criminal outlaws struggling with strict Triad codes of brotherhood and honour. As Hong Kong critic Li Cheuk-To (Williams 2000: 141) noted, “People have a feeling of foreboding over1997These heroes
HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE ITALIAN SPAGHETTI WESTERN Homosexuality and the Italian Spaghetti Western. by Jenna Bond Volume 11, Issue 11 / November 2007 12 minutes (2817 words) To say that homosexuality in Italy is a complicated issue would be an understatement. To claim that some of the films from the country’s most popular genre, the Spaghetti Western, contain homosexualtendencies would be
AN INTRODUCTION TO KOREAN CINEMA Peter Rist, Ph.D has been teaching film history and aesthetics at Concordia University, Montreal, since 1989. He was principal writer for, and edited, Guide to the Cinema(s) of Canada (2001) and (co-edited with Timothy Barnard) South American Cinema: A Critical Filmography, 1915-1994 (1998). His more recent publications (from 2014) include Historical Dictionary of South American Film and a INTRODUCTION TO ANDRÉ BAZIN, PART 1: THEORY OF FILM STYLE André Bazin Revisited. by Donato Totaro Volume 7, Issue 7 / July 2003 23 minutes (5677 words) André Bazin, film critic, theorist, philosopher, and humanist wrote a series of essays between the years 1944 and 1958, before he died at the young age of 40. The majority of them were anthologized in their original language in the four volumeset Qu
INDEPENDENT HORROR CINEMA Independents: $10,000 to $10,000,000. It is important to realize that there is a strong hierarchy among indies. The big brothers among the indies are: Miramax, New Line, Gramercy, Goldwyn, Sony and October. Independents range from large companies with diversified interests or auxiliary distribution arms (Miramax, New Line, Disney), to tightly THE BRITISH NEW WAVE AND ITS SOURCES The British New Wave and Its Sources. The films associated with the British “New Wave” period that ran roughly between 1959 and 1963 were in some ways a break from what came before it. However, many of the characteristics this cycle of films was noted for were already present in British cinema. Attempts at realistic documentation of the NOTES TOWARD A MASOCHIZING OF CULT CINEMA The phenomenon of cult cinema is most often generated by the dual combination of a) textual peculiarities and b) specific audience reading/consumption strategies. While certain films (e.g., Repo Man, Alex Cox, 1984) may be seemingly tailor-made at a textual level to foster instant cult consumption (with varying degrees of success), afilm’s
FRIENDSHIP, IDEAS, SEX, AND A NEW MOVEMENT: A DANGEROUS The key to the film A Dangerous Method, with a screenplay by Christopher Hampton based on his own theatrical play, The Talking Cure, that was itself inspired by a book, John Kerr’s A Most Dangerous Method, is not the key that one expects it to be: the beautiful young actress Keira Knightley plays Sabina Spielrein, a Russian Jewish woman who arrives on the doorsteps of the great Swiss THE SPIRITUAL CINEMA OF ANDREI TARKOVSKY Robert Bresson wrote: “to TRANSLATE the invisible wind by the water it sculpts in passing.”. This is precisely what Tarkovsky tries to do: to depict the invisible by showing what it touches and moves. The invisible in Tarkovsky’s philosophic cinema is the spiritual, the divine, the unknown and unknowable. So he depicts a group of trees THE SIXTH SENSE: HUMANIZING HORROR Humanist Horror. by Leah A. Cheyne Volume 7, Issue 11 / November 2003 25 minutes (6221 words) M. Night Shyamalan’s The Sixth Sense (1999) explores the supernatural from a humanized perspective. The success of the film derives, in part, from the complex narrative structure that confounds the spectator’s understanding of the narrative, until JAMES MARSH’S THE KING In James Marsh’s The King (2005) a young Mexican named Elvis (Gael García Bernal) discharges himself from the US Navy to meet, for the first time, his American father, Pastor David Sandow (William Hurt). Things don’t go as smoothly as Elvis might have hoped: David now has a family of his own and is not interested in accepting his new son, the product of a relationship with a Mexican “LA DONNA È MOBILE…” MARIO BAVA AND THE ETERNAL FEMININE Lisa and the Devil. Lisa (Elke Sommer), the titular heroine of Lisa e il diavolo (aka Lisa and The Devil, 1973) is perhaps the director’s most enigmatic incarnation of the eternal feminine. She is introduced as a modern-day, independent, single woman on a trip to Toledo, but once she loses herself in the maze-like alleys of the Spanish town “UNMASKING” THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA The 2011 edition of Fantasia had the unenviable task of living up to its 2010 inaugural gala presentation of the restored version of Metropolis, which was a stunning success.The programmers did right by returning with another silent cinema classic, The Phantom of the Opera, and while it could not quite scale the lofty heights of the Metropolis event, it was still a worthy sequel. WERNER HERZOG’S CAVE OF FORGOTTEN DREAMS, A FILM hose of us who love art know its power to fill the imagination, mind, and spirit; to charm and delight; to heal and inspire; to correct, to share wisdom; and we are sometimes, many times, mystified by those for whom art means nothing. In Werner Herzog’s documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams, an investigation of cave paintings proved by radiocarbon dating to be more than thirty-thousand years NOTES TOWARD A MASOCHIZING OF CULT CINEMA The phenomenon of cult cinema is most often generated by the dual combination of a) textual peculiarities and b) specific audience reading/consumption strategies. While certain films (e.g., Repo Man, Alex Cox, 1984) may be seemingly tailor-made at a textual level to foster instant cult consumption (with varying degrees of success), afilm’s
REVOLUTION & SEX: THE EVOLUTION OF TV A personal note here first, although I realize if you are a Sopranos (1999-2007) fan it may make you stop reading this article. I grew up in the American Midwest, went to college for four years on the East Coast, and have now lived on the West Coast for fifty years. When The Sopranos first came on, I watched one episode. It seemed to me to be mostly about ugly, stupid, violent people doing JAMES MARSH’S THE KING Badlands-like Imagery in The King. If The King has problems with dramatic structure, they probably arise out of the director’s apparent wish to offer both political polemic and symbolic dream-text. On the whole the film works much better when upholding the latter through a series of tightly-constricted social settings which portray a suffocating vision of America, which certainly REFLECTIONS ON THE PICKPOCKET STATISTICAL ANALYSIS A demonstration of the critical value of statistical analysis. The statistical breakdown of Pickpocket conducted by Anna Romatowska is modeled after a partial methodology I employed in my PhD dissertation analyzing the relationship between the long take, narrative, theme, and temporality. On their own such statistical breakdowns of films are rarely any more enlightening or revelatory than what THE SPIRITUAL CINEMA OF ANDREI TARKOVSKY Robert Bresson wrote: “to TRANSLATE the invisible wind by the water it sculpts in passing.”. This is precisely what Tarkovsky tries to do: to depict the invisible by showing what it touches and moves. The invisible in Tarkovsky’s philosophic cinema is the spiritual, the divine, the unknown and unknowable. So he depicts a group of trees LONELY BOY: DOCUMENTING THE MANUFACTURE OF A POP IDOL The 1962 documentary Lonely Boy, directed by Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor, is a film about the manufacture of a pop idol.Paul Anka, the subject of the documentary, is a popular performer at the peak of his career, but the directors use a variety of strategies to express their view of him as an isolated figure who is seen by his handlers as a piece of merchandise and whose success is “LA DONNA È MOBILE…” MARIO BAVA AND THE ETERNAL FEMININE Lisa and the Devil. Lisa (Elke Sommer), the titular heroine of Lisa e il diavolo (aka Lisa and The Devil, 1973) is perhaps the director’s most enigmatic incarnation of the eternal feminine. She is introduced as a modern-day, independent, single woman on a trip to Toledo, but once she loses herself in the maze-like alleys of the Spanish town DECODING THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES: DOMESTIC AND The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos) (2009), a tightly written crime thriller from writer-director Juan José Campanella which mixed mystery, romance, politics, and moments of comedy to produce a box office phenomenon, can be seen as commercial fare with what seems at first to be at best a tenuous connection to the two types of film most identified by international critics with HONG KONG MEETS HOLLYWOOD Hollywood is an emotion-making machine rather than story-telling machine” (“The Emotional Basis of Film Comedy” in Passionate Views, ed. Carl Plantinga and Greg M. Smith, 1999, p. 84-99). This may the case with Hollywood, but in relative terms, is truer for Hong Kong cinema, a virtual “emotion-making machine”. HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE ITALIAN SPAGHETTI WESTERN Homosexuality and the Italian Spaghetti Western. by Jenna Bond Volume 11, Issue 11 / November 2007 12 minutes (2817 words) To say that homosexuality in Italy is a complicated issue would be an understatement. To claim that some of the films from the country’s most popular genre, the Spaghetti Western, contain homosexualtendencies would be
NOTES TOWARD A MASOCHIZING OF CULT CINEMA The phenomenon of cult cinema is most often generated by the dual combination of a) textual peculiarities and b) specific audience reading/consumption strategies. While certain films (e.g., Repo Man, Alex Cox, 1984) may be seemingly tailor-made at a textual level to foster instant cult consumption (with varying degrees of success), afilm’s
DECODING THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES: DOMESTIC AND The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos) (2009), a tightly written crime thriller from writer-director Juan José Campanella which mixed mystery, romance, politics, and moments of comedy to produce a box office phenomenon, can be seen as commercial fare with what seems at first to be at best a tenuous connection to the two types of film most identified by international critics with SURE SEATERS: THE EMERGENCE OF ART HOUSE CINEMA Sure Seaters: The Emergence of Art House Cinema by Barbara Wilinsky Minneapolis: Minnesota UP, 2001. To paraphrase Robert Morley in Beat the Devil (1953), every assay into cultural studies is a guinea in the bank of cultural capital. Raymond Williams’ views on cultural materialism are still generating interest in this bank, and Barbara Wilinsky’s Sure Seaters: The Emergence of Art House “LA DONNA È MOBILE…” MARIO BAVA AND THE ETERNAL FEMININE Lisa (Elke Sommer), the titular heroine of Lisa e il diavolo (aka Lisa and The Devil, 1973) is perhaps the director’s most enigmatic incarnation of the eternal feminine.She is introduced as a modern-day, independent, single woman on a trip to Toledo, but once she loses herself in the maze-like alleys of the Spanish town, appearances are destined to fall and Lisa’s very essence changes like REFLECTIONS ON THE PICKPOCKET STATISTICAL ANALYSIS A demonstration of the critical value of statistical analysis. The statistical breakdown of Pickpocket conducted by Anna Romatowska is modeled after a partial methodology I employed in my PhD dissertation analyzing the relationship between the long take, narrative, theme, and temporality. On their own such statistical breakdowns of films are rarely any more enlightening or revelatory than what LONELY BOY: DOCUMENTING THE MANUFACTURE OF A POP IDOL The 1962 documentary Lonely Boy, directed by Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor, is a film about the manufacture of a pop idol.Paul Anka, the subject of the documentary, is a popular performer at the peak of his career, but the directors use a variety of strategies to express their view of him as an isolated figure who is seen by his handlers as a piece of merchandise and whose success is HONG KONG MEETS HOLLYWOOD Hollywood is an emotion-making machine rather than story-telling machine” (“The Emotional Basis of Film Comedy” in Passionate Views, ed. Carl Plantinga and Greg M. Smith, 1999, p. 84-99). This may the case with Hollywood, but in relative terms, is truer for Hong Kong cinema, a virtual “emotion-making machine”. GALAXY OF TERROR (BRUCE D. CLARK 1981) AND FORBIDDEN WORLD “Galaxy” is, by far, the more deliberately trippy of the two. Centered around a blue collar space ship crew, in proper “Alien” fashion, responding to a distress call from a far-off planet, the early scenes have most of the cast – an impressive bevy of recognizable faces, from cult figures like pre-Freddy Robert Englund, the very seriously acting Zalman “Red Shoes Diaries” King DEATH, DESPAIR, AND DREAMS: TOM FORD’S FILM INTERPRETATION I read several of Christopher Isherwood’s novels many years ago and what I admired them for was a fundamental intelligence and integrity. Christopher Isherwood, a twentieth-century British novelist, wrote about many of the things that concerned other people, other writers—war and wealth, love and sex, among them—but did so in a way that accepted and respected human nature. HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE ITALIAN SPAGHETTI WESTERN Homosexuality and the Italian Spaghetti Western. by Jenna Bond Volume 11, Issue 11 / November 2007 12 minutes (2817 words) To say that homosexuality in Italy is a complicated issue would be an understatement. To claim that some of the films from the country’s most popular genre, the Spaghetti Western, contain homosexualtendencies would be
THE SPIRITUAL CINEMA OF ANDREI TARKOVSKY Robert Bresson wrote: “to TRANSLATE the invisible wind by the water it sculpts in passing.”. This is precisely what Tarkovsky tries to do: to depict the invisible by showing what it touches and moves. The invisible in Tarkovsky’s philosophic cinema is the spiritual, the divine, the unknown and unknowable. So he depicts a group of trees LOCAL AND GLOBAL IDENTITY IN EUROPEAN FILM For an exploration of local and global identity in European film, then, I felt it appropriate to choose a film from each category outlined above. Carne trémula ( Live Flesh) (Pedro Almodóvar, 1997) is by a recognized Spanish auteur filmmaker, while Snatch (Guy Ritchie, 2000) adopts the mainstream Hollywood aesthetic, even takingit to extremes.
ALFRED HITCHCOCK & GRACE KELLY Elaine Lennon’s extensive, detailed research paper explores aspects of Grace Kelly’s collaboration with Alfred Hitchcock, which represents the apex of both their careers, centering on marriage, mystery and suspense in a triptych of theatrical artifice for cinema in glorious Technicolor. HONG KONG MEETS HOLLYWOOD Hollywood is an emotion-making machine rather than story-telling machine” (“The Emotional Basis of Film Comedy” in Passionate Views, ed. Carl Plantinga and Greg M. Smith, 1999, p. 84-99). This may the case with Hollywood, but in relative terms, is truer for Hong Kong cinema, a virtual “emotion-making machine”. DECODING THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES: DOMESTIC AND The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos) (2009), a tightly written crime thriller from writer-director Juan José Campanella which mixed mystery, romance, politics, and moments of comedy to produce a box office phenomenon, can be seen as commercial fare with what seems at first to be at best a tenuous connection to the two types of film most identified by international critics with GALAXY OF TERROR (BRUCE D. CLARK 1981) AND FORBIDDEN WORLD “Galaxy” is, by far, the more deliberately trippy of the two. Centered around a blue collar space ship crew, in proper “Alien” fashion, responding to a distress call from a far-off planet, the early scenes have most of the cast – an impressive bevy of recognizable faces, from cult figures like pre-Freddy Robert Englund, the very seriously acting Zalman “Red Shoes Diaries” King DEATH, DESPAIR, AND DREAMS: TOM FORD’S FILM INTERPRETATION I read several of Christopher Isherwood’s novels many years ago and what I admired them for was a fundamental intelligence and integrity. Christopher Isherwood, a twentieth-century British novelist, wrote about many of the things that concerned other people, other writers—war and wealth, love and sex, among them—but did so in a way that accepted and respected human nature. DO GENRES IN THE CINEMA REALLY EXIST AND IF SO, CAN THEY We can now hazard a tentative response to the initial question proposed by Buscombe: genres do not really exist in the cinema, but it is useful and necessary —for critics and audiences— that they do. But if we accept their existence, we should not define them with utterprecision.
A DELEUZIAN ANALYSIS OF TARKOVSKY’S THEORY OF TIME Andrei Tarkovsky is the most celebrated filmmaker of the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s (until his death in Paris on Dec. 29, 1986). He is the patriarch of the contemporary Soviet “poetic film.”. Tarkovsky strongly opposed montage and believed that the basis of art cinema(film art) is
HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE ITALIAN SPAGHETTI WESTERN Homosexuality and the Italian Spaghetti Western. by Jenna Bond Volume 11, Issue 11 / November 2007 12 minutes (2817 words) To say that homosexuality in Italy is a complicated issue would be an understatement. To claim that some of the films from the country’s most popular genre, the Spaghetti Western, contain homosexualtendencies would be
INDEPENDENT HORROR CINEMA Independents: $10,000 to $10,000,000. It is important to realize that there is a strong hierarchy among indies. The big brothers among the indies are: Miramax, New Line, Gramercy, Goldwyn, Sony and October. Independents range from large companies with diversified interests or auxiliary distribution arms (Miramax, New Line, Disney), to tightly A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO BRAZILIAN CINEMA The first screening of films in Brazil took place in 1896, only six months after the very first Lumiere Brothers showing in Paris. In 1898, an Italo-Brazilian, Affonso Segreto began to make films and from 1900, locally made films began to dominate Brazilian screens. Indeed, the period 1908–1912 has been called the bela época, the “golden NOTES TOWARD A MASOCHIZING OF CULT CINEMA The phenomenon of cult cinema is most often generated by the dual combination of a) textual peculiarities and b) specific audience reading/consumption strategies. While certain films (e.g., Repo Man, Alex Cox, 1984) may be seemingly tailor-made at a textual level to foster instant cult consumption (with varying degrees of success), afilm’s
THE SPIRITUAL CINEMA OF ANDREI TARKOVSKY Robert Bresson wrote: “to TRANSLATE the invisible wind by the water it sculpts in passing.”. This is precisely what Tarkovsky tries to do: to depict the invisible by showing what it touches and moves. The invisible in Tarkovsky’s philosophic cinema is the spiritual, the divine, the unknown and unknowable. So he depicts a group of trees DECODING THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES: DOMESTIC AND The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos) (2009), a tightly written crime thriller from writer-director Juan José Campanella which mixed mystery, romance, politics, and moments of comedy to produce a box office phenomenon, can be seen as commercial fare with what seems at first to be at best a tenuous connection to the two types of film most identified by international critics with LONELY BOY: DOCUMENTING THE MANUFACTURE OF A POP IDOL The 1962 documentary Lonely Boy, directed by Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor, is a film about the manufacture of a pop idol.Paul Anka, the subject of the documentary, is a popular performer at the peak of his career, but the directors use a variety of strategies to express their view of him as an isolated figure who is seen by his handlers as a piece of merchandise and whose success is THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN EARLY FILM CULTURE: NELL SHIPMAN AND *Menard looks at the early career of Canadian actress/writer Nell Shipman and her seminal film Back to God’s Country and assesses how her struggles were a by-product of an industry predicated not only on profit but on a patriarchal ideology that denigrates women and non-white characters DEATH, DESPAIR, AND DREAMS: TOM FORD’S FILM INTERPRETATION I read several of Christopher Isherwood’s novels many years ago and what I admired them for was a fundamental intelligence and integrity. Christopher Isherwood, a twentieth-century British novelist, wrote about many of the things that concerned other people, other writers—war and wealth, love and sex, among them—but did so in a way that accepted and respected human nature. INTRODUCTION TO ANDRÉ BAZIN, PART 1: THEORY OF FILM STYLE André Bazin Revisited. by Donato Totaro Volume 7, Issue 7 / July 2003 23 minutes (5677 words) André Bazin, film critic, theorist, philosopher, and humanist wrote a series of essays between the years 1944 and 1958, before he died at the young age of 40. The majority of them were anthologized in their original language in the four volumeset Qu
HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE ITALIAN SPAGHETTI WESTERN Homosexuality and the Italian Spaghetti Western. by Jenna Bond Volume 11, Issue 11 / November 2007 12 minutes (2817 words) To say that homosexuality in Italy is a complicated issue would be an understatement. To claim that some of the films from the country’s most popular genre, the Spaghetti Western, contain homosexualtendencies would be
INDEPENDENT HORROR CINEMA Independents: $10,000 to $10,000,000. It is important to realize that there is a strong hierarchy among indies. The big brothers among the indies are: Miramax, New Line, Gramercy, Goldwyn, Sony and October. Independents range from large companies with diversified interests or auxiliary distribution arms (Miramax, New Line, Disney), to tightly A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO BRAZILIAN CINEMA The first screening of films in Brazil took place in 1896, only six months after the very first Lumiere Brothers showing in Paris. In 1898, an Italo-Brazilian, Affonso Segreto began to make films and from 1900, locally made films began to dominate Brazilian screens. Indeed, the period 1908–1912 has been called the bela época, the “golden NOTES TOWARD A MASOCHIZING OF CULT CINEMA The phenomenon of cult cinema is most often generated by the dual combination of a) textual peculiarities and b) specific audience reading/consumption strategies. While certain films (e.g., Repo Man, Alex Cox, 1984) may be seemingly tailor-made at a textual level to foster instant cult consumption (with varying degrees of success), afilm’s
THE SPIRITUAL CINEMA OF ANDREI TARKOVSKY Robert Bresson wrote: “to TRANSLATE the invisible wind by the water it sculpts in passing.”. This is precisely what Tarkovsky tries to do: to depict the invisible by showing what it touches and moves. The invisible in Tarkovsky’s philosophic cinema is the spiritual, the divine, the unknown and unknowable. So he depicts a group of trees DECODING THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES: DOMESTIC AND The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos) (2009), a tightly written crime thriller from writer-director Juan José Campanella which mixed mystery, romance, politics, and moments of comedy to produce a box office phenomenon, can be seen as commercial fare with what seems at first to be at best a tenuous connection to the two types of film most identified by international critics with LONELY BOY: DOCUMENTING THE MANUFACTURE OF A POP IDOL The 1962 documentary Lonely Boy, directed by Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor, is a film about the manufacture of a pop idol.Paul Anka, the subject of the documentary, is a popular performer at the peak of his career, but the directors use a variety of strategies to express their view of him as an isolated figure who is seen by his handlers as a piece of merchandise and whose success is THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN EARLY FILM CULTURE: NELL SHIPMAN AND *Menard looks at the early career of Canadian actress/writer Nell Shipman and her seminal film Back to God’s Country and assesses how her struggles were a by-product of an industry predicated not only on profit but on a patriarchal ideology that denigrates women and non-white characters DEATH, DESPAIR, AND DREAMS: TOM FORD’S FILM INTERPRETATION I read several of Christopher Isherwood’s novels many years ago and what I admired them for was a fundamental intelligence and integrity. Christopher Isherwood, a twentieth-century British novelist, wrote about many of the things that concerned other people, other writers—war and wealth, love and sex, among them—but did so in a way that accepted and respected human nature. INTRODUCTION TO ANDRÉ BAZIN, PART 1: THEORY OF FILM STYLE André Bazin Revisited. by Donato Totaro Volume 7, Issue 7 / July 2003 23 minutes (5677 words) André Bazin, film critic, theorist, philosopher, and humanist wrote a series of essays between the years 1944 and 1958, before he died at the young age of 40. The majority of them were anthologized in their original language in the four volumeset Qu
HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE ITALIAN SPAGHETTI WESTERN Homosexuality and the Italian Spaghetti Western. by Jenna Bond Volume 11, Issue 11 / November 2007 12 minutes (2817 words) To say that homosexuality in Italy is a complicated issue would be an understatement. To claim that some of the films from the country’s most popular genre, the Spaghetti Western, contain homosexualtendencies would be
INDEPENDENT HORROR CINEMA Independents: $10,000 to $10,000,000. It is important to realize that there is a strong hierarchy among indies. The big brothers among the indies are: Miramax, New Line, Gramercy, Goldwyn, Sony and October. Independents range from large companies with diversified interests or auxiliary distribution arms (Miramax, New Line, Disney), to tightly A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO BRAZILIAN CINEMA The first screening of films in Brazil took place in 1896, only six months after the very first Lumiere Brothers showing in Paris. In 1898, an Italo-Brazilian, Affonso Segreto began to make films and from 1900, locally made films began to dominate Brazilian screens. Indeed, the period 1908–1912 has been called the bela época, the “golden THE NATURAL AND MODERN WORLDS IN SOLARIS In Solaris (1972), Andrei Tarkovsky presents a vision of contemporary society as one that has become cut off from nature, and provides a narrative that illustrates the possibility of remaining human in the inhuman world that is the result. The film contrasts a life-affirming natural landscape to an urban, constructed landscape where the natural world is submerged and invisible. VALHALLA RISING: A VIKING ODYSSEY “Valhalla Rising is a sci-fi movie. It’s about traveling into outer space beyond the stars. It’s like an acid trip. It’s almost like a post-apocalyptic future.” 1 It is perhaps difficult to understand director Nicolas Winding Refn’s comment that Valhalla Rising (2009), a film set in Medieval Europe is, to his mind at least, a Science Fiction film. THE SISTER OF URSULA & THE TERZA VISIONE The Sister of Ursula is one of the most transparent terza visione films on offer, a textbook recipe in such mechanisms, but with an irony that suggests a certain reflexive awareness of the conditions. As the pull quote states on the cover of the Severin DVD box, “Delightfully sleazy. With one of the more unusual weapons in giallocinema.”.
IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (JOHN CARPENTER, 1994) In the Mouth of Madness. (John Carpenter, 1994) by Douglas Buck September 16, 2018 6 minutes (1385 words) 35mm Cinémathèque québécoise. “Every species can smell its own extinction. The last ones left won’t have a pretty time of it. And in ten years, maybe less the human race will just be a bedtime story for their children; amyth
MAY 1968 AND AFTER: CINEMA IN FRANCE AND BEYOND, PART 1 May 1998 marks the 30th anniversary of the student riots and subsequent strikes that took hold of France from mid-May to June 5, 1968. The disturbances and events that led to the uprising are well chronicled. The revolt began harmlessly enough with students protesting against what they felt were deteriorating university conditions (overcrowdedGEORGE KOWALIK
Offscreen is an online film journal that publishes essays, reviews, interviews and festival reports monthly. Offscreen is the longest running monthly online film journal, active since 1997 and takes writing about film seriously. NOT BEAUTIFUL BUT BRUTAL, UGLY FACTS AND TRANSCENDENCE IN Biutiful, a film directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Starring Javier Bardem. Focus Features, 2010. I imagine that a cosmopolitan vision of the world, as expressed in art, could help us to better understand the world and act with compassion, intelligence, and even grace in our lives, but I do not know if that is really true.ANTON M. KOLEV
Anton M. Kolev is a Bulgarian philosopher. He is the founding editor of adopto.net, a Bulgarian-language web portal specializing in literary & film theory and social critique and a member of Collective for Social Interventions, Sofia — an engaged research NGO andpublishing house.
INDEPENDENT HORROR CINEMA Independents: $10,000 to $10,000,000. It is important to realize that there is a strong hierarchy among indies. The big brothers among the indies are: Miramax, New Line, Gramercy, Goldwyn, Sony and October. Independents range from large companies with diversified interests or auxiliary distribution arms (Miramax, New Line, Disney), to tightly A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO BRAZILIAN CINEMA The first screening of films in Brazil took place in 1896, only six months after the very first Lumiere Brothers showing in Paris. In 1898, an Italo-Brazilian, Affonso Segreto began to make films and from 1900, locally made films began to dominate Brazilian screens. Indeed, the period 1908–1912 has been called the bela época, the “golden NOTES TOWARD A MASOCHIZING OF CULT CINEMA The phenomenon of cult cinema is most often generated by the dual combination of a) textual peculiarities and b) specific audience reading/consumption strategies. While certain films (e.g., Repo Man, Alex Cox, 1984) may be seemingly tailor-made at a textual level to foster instant cult consumption (with varying degrees of success), afilm’s
THE SPIRITUAL CINEMA OF ANDREI TARKOVSKY Robert Bresson wrote: “to TRANSLATE the invisible wind by the water it sculpts in passing.”. This is precisely what Tarkovsky tries to do: to depict the invisible by showing what it touches and moves. The invisible in Tarkovsky’s philosophic cinema is the spiritual, the divine, the unknown and unknowable. So he depicts a group of trees DECODING THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES: DOMESTIC ANDMOVIE SECRET IN THEIR EYESSECRET IN THEIR EYES 2015SECRET IN THEIR EYES STORYSECRET IN THEIREYES SYNOPSIS
The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos) (2009), a tightly written crime thriller from writer-director Juan José Campanella which mixed mystery, romance, politics, and moments of comedy to produce a box office phenomenon, can be seen as commercial fare with what seems at first to be at best a tenuous connection to the two types of film most identified by international critics with LONELY BOY: DOCUMENTING THE MANUFACTURE OF A POP IDOL The 1962 documentary Lonely Boy, directed by Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor, is a film about the manufacture of a pop idol.Paul Anka, the subject of the documentary, is a popular performer at the peak of his career, but the directors use a variety of strategies to express their view of him as an isolated figure who is seen by his handlers as a piece of merchandise and whose success is THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN EARLY FILM CULTURE: NELL SHIPMAN AND *Menard looks at the early career of Canadian actress/writer Nell Shipman and her seminal film Back to God’s Country and assesses how her struggles were a by-product of an industry predicated not only on profit but on a patriarchal ideology that denigrates women and non-white characters DEATH, DESPAIR, AND DREAMS: TOM FORD’S FILM INTERPRETATION I read several of Christopher Isherwood’s novels many years ago and what I admired them for was a fundamental intelligence and integrity. Christopher Isherwood, a twentieth-century British novelist, wrote about many of the things that concerned other people, other writers—war and wealth, love and sex, among them—but did so in a way that accepted and respected human nature. INTRODUCTION TO ANDRÉ BAZIN, PART 1: THEORY OF FILM STYLE André Bazin Revisited. by Donato Totaro Volume 7, Issue 7 / July 2003 23 minutes (5677 words) André Bazin, film critic, theorist, philosopher, and humanist wrote a series of essays between the years 1944 and 1958, before he died at the young age of 40. The majority of them were anthologized in their original language in the four volumeset Qu
HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE ITALIAN SPAGHETTI WESTERN Homosexuality and the Italian Spaghetti Western. by Jenna Bond Volume 11, Issue 11 / November 2007 12 minutes (2817 words) To say that homosexuality in Italy is a complicated issue would be an understatement. To claim that some of the films from the country’s most popular genre, the Spaghetti Western, contain homosexualtendencies would be
INDEPENDENT HORROR CINEMA Independents: $10,000 to $10,000,000. It is important to realize that there is a strong hierarchy among indies. The big brothers among the indies are: Miramax, New Line, Gramercy, Goldwyn, Sony and October. Independents range from large companies with diversified interests or auxiliary distribution arms (Miramax, New Line, Disney), to tightly A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO BRAZILIAN CINEMA The first screening of films in Brazil took place in 1896, only six months after the very first Lumiere Brothers showing in Paris. In 1898, an Italo-Brazilian, Affonso Segreto began to make films and from 1900, locally made films began to dominate Brazilian screens. Indeed, the period 1908–1912 has been called the bela época, the “golden NOTES TOWARD A MASOCHIZING OF CULT CINEMA The phenomenon of cult cinema is most often generated by the dual combination of a) textual peculiarities and b) specific audience reading/consumption strategies. While certain films (e.g., Repo Man, Alex Cox, 1984) may be seemingly tailor-made at a textual level to foster instant cult consumption (with varying degrees of success), afilm’s
THE SPIRITUAL CINEMA OF ANDREI TARKOVSKY Robert Bresson wrote: “to TRANSLATE the invisible wind by the water it sculpts in passing.”. This is precisely what Tarkovsky tries to do: to depict the invisible by showing what it touches and moves. The invisible in Tarkovsky’s philosophic cinema is the spiritual, the divine, the unknown and unknowable. So he depicts a group of trees DECODING THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES: DOMESTIC ANDMOVIE SECRET IN THEIR EYESSECRET IN THEIR EYES 2015SECRET IN THEIR EYES STORYSECRET IN THEIREYES SYNOPSIS
The Secret in Their Eyes (El secreto de sus ojos) (2009), a tightly written crime thriller from writer-director Juan José Campanella which mixed mystery, romance, politics, and moments of comedy to produce a box office phenomenon, can be seen as commercial fare with what seems at first to be at best a tenuous connection to the two types of film most identified by international critics with LONELY BOY: DOCUMENTING THE MANUFACTURE OF A POP IDOL The 1962 documentary Lonely Boy, directed by Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor, is a film about the manufacture of a pop idol.Paul Anka, the subject of the documentary, is a popular performer at the peak of his career, but the directors use a variety of strategies to express their view of him as an isolated figure who is seen by his handlers as a piece of merchandise and whose success is THE ROLE OF WOMEN IN EARLY FILM CULTURE: NELL SHIPMAN AND *Menard looks at the early career of Canadian actress/writer Nell Shipman and her seminal film Back to God’s Country and assesses how her struggles were a by-product of an industry predicated not only on profit but on a patriarchal ideology that denigrates women and non-white characters DEATH, DESPAIR, AND DREAMS: TOM FORD’S FILM INTERPRETATION I read several of Christopher Isherwood’s novels many years ago and what I admired them for was a fundamental intelligence and integrity. Christopher Isherwood, a twentieth-century British novelist, wrote about many of the things that concerned other people, other writers—war and wealth, love and sex, among them—but did so in a way that accepted and respected human nature. INTRODUCTION TO ANDRÉ BAZIN, PART 1: THEORY OF FILM STYLE André Bazin Revisited. by Donato Totaro Volume 7, Issue 7 / July 2003 23 minutes (5677 words) André Bazin, film critic, theorist, philosopher, and humanist wrote a series of essays between the years 1944 and 1958, before he died at the young age of 40. The majority of them were anthologized in their original language in the four volumeset Qu
HOMOSEXUALITY AND THE ITALIAN SPAGHETTI WESTERN Homosexuality and the Italian Spaghetti Western. by Jenna Bond Volume 11, Issue 11 / November 2007 12 minutes (2817 words) To say that homosexuality in Italy is a complicated issue would be an understatement. To claim that some of the films from the country’s most popular genre, the Spaghetti Western, contain homosexualtendencies would be
INDEPENDENT HORROR CINEMA Independents: $10,000 to $10,000,000. It is important to realize that there is a strong hierarchy among indies. The big brothers among the indies are: Miramax, New Line, Gramercy, Goldwyn, Sony and October. Independents range from large companies with diversified interests or auxiliary distribution arms (Miramax, New Line, Disney), to tightly A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO BRAZILIAN CINEMA The first screening of films in Brazil took place in 1896, only six months after the very first Lumiere Brothers showing in Paris. In 1898, an Italo-Brazilian, Affonso Segreto began to make films and from 1900, locally made films began to dominate Brazilian screens. Indeed, the period 1908–1912 has been called the bela época, the “golden VAPORS (ANDY MILLIGAN, 1964), THE GHASTLY ONES (ANDY Vapors (Andy Milligan, 1964), The Ghastly Ones (Andy Milligan, 1968), The Filthy Five (single reel) (Andy Milligan, 1968). by Douglas Buck June 4, 2021 9 minutes (2102 words) THE NATURAL AND MODERN WORLDS IN SOLARIS In Solaris (1972), Andrei Tarkovsky presents a vision of contemporary society as one that has become cut off from nature, and provides a narrative that illustrates the possibility of remaining human in the inhuman world that is the result. The film contrasts a life-affirming natural landscape to an urban, constructed landscape where the natural world is submerged and invisible. VALHALLA RISING: A VIKING ODYSSEY “Valhalla Rising is a sci-fi movie. It’s about traveling into outer space beyond the stars. It’s like an acid trip. It’s almost like a post-apocalyptic future.” 1 It is perhaps difficult to understand director Nicolas Winding Refn’s comment that Valhalla Rising (2009), a film set in Medieval Europe is, to his mind at least, a Science Fiction film. IN THE MOUTH OF MADNESS (JOHN CARPENTER, 1994) In the Mouth of Madness. (John Carpenter, 1994) by Douglas Buck September 16, 2018 6 minutes (1385 words) 35mm Cinémathèque québécoise. “Every species can smell its own extinction. The last ones left won’t have a pretty time of it. And in ten years, maybe less the human race will just be a bedtime story for their children; amyth
THE SISTER OF URSULA & THE TERZA VISIONE The Sister of Ursula is one of the most transparent terza visione films on offer, a textbook recipe in such mechanisms, but with an irony that suggests a certain reflexive awareness of the conditions. As the pull quote states on the cover of the Severin DVD box, “Delightfully sleazy. With one of the more unusual weapons in giallocinema.”.
MAY 1968 AND AFTER: CINEMA IN FRANCE AND BEYOND, PART 1 May 1998 marks the 30th anniversary of the student riots and subsequent strikes that took hold of France from mid-May to June 5, 1968. The disturbances and events that led to the uprising are well chronicled. The revolt began harmlessly enough with students protesting against what they felt were deteriorating university conditions (overcrowded NOT BEAUTIFUL BUT BRUTAL, UGLY FACTS AND TRANSCENDENCE IN Biutiful, a film directed by Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu. Starring Javier Bardem. Focus Features, 2010. I imagine that a cosmopolitan vision of the world, as expressed in art, could help us to better understand the world and act with compassion, intelligence, and even grace in our lives, but I do not know if that is really true.ANTON M. KOLEV
Anton M. Kolev is a Bulgarian philosopher. He is the founding editor of adopto.net, a Bulgarian-language web portal specializing in literary & film theory and social critique and a member of Collective for Social Interventions, Sofia — an engaged research NGO andpublishing house.
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