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CineAction articles from January 2001
An academic journal that examines film from a variety of viewpoints, with each issue focused on a central theme. Publishes scholarly articles on film theory, plus interviews with filmmakers, film reviews, book reviews, and reports from international film
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CineAction archives from January 2001
IN THIS ISSUE.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2001... I want to open by forestalling a possible objection. I am of course aware that an unusually large portion of this issue has been written by myself, and it will appear that I have greedily seized upon the opportunity to create a 'vanity' issue....
The Same, But Different.(marriage in comic motion pictures)
January 1, 2001... THE AWFUL TRUTH ABOUT MARRIAGE, REMARRIAGE AND SCREWBALL COMEDY
There is a moment early in The Awful Truth (1937) when Lucy Warriner/Irene Dunne, having decided to divorce her husband, Jerry/Cary Grant, telephones their lawyer. Rather than...
Screwball and the Masquerade.(women masquerading in comic motion pictures)(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2001... THE LADY EVE AND TWO-FACED WOMAN
1. Resemblances
Preston Sturges' The Lady Eve and George Cukor's Two-Faced Woman both appeared in 1941. I have long been struck by the fact that they share an identical basic trajectory. In this they...
Handy-Dandy.("Susana," by Luis Bunuel)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... BUNUEL'S SUSANA
"...see how yon justice
rails upon yon simple thief...
change places and, handy-dandy,
which is the justice, which is the thief?"
(King Lear, IV.vi)
Fifty years ago I went to my university library to...
Beautiful People.(motion picture)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... Jasmin Dizdar's Beautiful People, besides being a work of great achievement and among the most pleasurable experiences any film has given me over the past few years, offers a perfect bridge between the first two sections of this issue: it is...
Eden and Beyond.(motion picture "Eden")(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... "These films are not examinations of social or political issues except in the most superficial sense; they are about extreme states of consciousness and feeling deprived of satisfactory forms of expression."
--Raymond Carney, The Films of...
INTERVIEW WITH Fridrik Thor Fridriksson.(film director)(Interview)
January 1, 2001... September 12, 2000
Introduction
In a way, this is another 'crossover' piece, linking two of the themes of this issue: an interview with the director of a film featured in the Toronto Film Festival, who is also the creator of at least...
Diversity or Dumb Realism.(experimental films)(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... SPECULATIONS ON CANADIAN FILM AND ON SEA IN THE BLOOD BY RICHARD FUNG
Unquestionably, the challenge of contemporary civilization is the challenge of diversity. Every day, pollutants endemic to industrial development diminish the...
Above and Beneath.(Review)
January 1, 2001... FRANCOIS OZON'S SOUS LE SABLE
Francois Ozon's Sons le sable (Under the Sand) is a delicate study of the loss of a loved partner through death. Not having seen Ozon's four previous feature films, and given what I have read, Sous le sable is...
Amos Gital's Kippur.(Review)
January 1, 2001... In the closing credits of Amos Gital's Kippur, his latest work which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival, the director acknowledges Sam Fuller, signaling Kippur's affinity with Fuller's war movies. (Fuller's The Big Red One was...
Asian Fusion.(heroes in Japanese and Chinese films)(Correction Notice)
January 1, 2001... SOME NOTES ON THE HYBRIDIZATION OF THE 'HEROIC WARRIOR' GENRE
With a record 356 films being screened over a 10 day period, the Toronto International Film Festival this anniversary year presented an overwhelming array of delights and...
Platform.(Review)
January 1, 2001... Mainland director Jia Zhangke caught the Chinese film world's attention with his debut feature Xiao Wu (1998). Made independently in China without official permission, hence un-showable there, Xiao Wu caused a small sensation as it circulated...
Juan Carlos Tabio, Cuban Cinema and The Waiting List.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2001... The Cuban director, Juan Carlos Tabio, is justly celebrated for his comic satires, like Plaff, of Cuban daily life and its human and bureaucratic follies, as well as for several memorable collaborations, including Strawberry and Chocolate, with...