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CineAction articles from January 2002
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 2002
Editorial.
January 1, 2002... The theme of this issue, WORLD CINEMA SINCE 1990: Landmarks and Patterns, elicited an unusual number of really interesting articles. Choice became very difficult, and I am still not sure if my final choices were the best. I would like to tell...
Party time or can't hardly wait for that American pie: Hollywood high school movies of the 90s.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... The first question is, I suppose, Why? Why bother, when everyone knows these films are trash? ('Everyone' being the journalist critics, always eager to express their superiority and make themselves look like intellectuals). First, I must...
Time and point of view in contemporary cinema.
January 1, 2002... In Cinema II Deleuze situates the beginnings of what he calls the cinema of "the time-image" in post World War II European cinema, specifically in Italian neo-realism. This is a cinema of duration, whether psychological duration (emphasizing...
Are you with me? Unemployed negativity in Mike Leigh's Naked.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2002... Judging by his output so far, Secrets and Lies is in many ways a much more typical Mike Leigh film than Naked. As we can see when we note some of the things Leigh has to say about his work in the interview he granted to Graham Fuller in 1995....
The import/export business: the road to Abbas Kiarostami's Taste of Cherry.
January 1, 2002... The road is a recurring trope in the cinema of Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami and is the explicit backbone of his 1997 film Taste of Cherry. Kiarostami's films repeatedly use the road to comment critically upon international and...
The most dangerous game: failed male friendship in De Palma's Snake Eyes.
January 1, 2002... If Brian De Palma is the most abused and misunderstood of great American directors--and I believe that he is--then the praise he has, on occasion, been given proves as ornery a problem as the scorn. "His new trash heart is the ultimate De Palma...
Flowing desire, floating souls: modern cultural landscape in Tsai Ming-Liang's Taipei trilogy.
January 1, 2002... Emerging in the early 1980s, Taiwanese New Cinema has developed its style as a reflection of Taiwan's history and society, representing the country's colonial past, social transformation, and contemporary cultural development. Consistently...
Chop Suey: photographs to remember you by.
January 1, 2002... Bruce Weber's Chop Suey is one of the overlooked pleasures of the 2001 Toronto International Film Festival, receiving scant critical attention from the local press during the festival. Judging from its limited distribution, (the film, as far as...
Beautiful People: in praise of the liberal state.
January 1, 2002... Robin Wood's favorable reading of Jasmin Dizdar's award winning Beautiful People (CineAction #54) inspired me to re-view a film I had originally dismissed as an inconsequential if heartwarming exercise in humanism. (The jacket of the DVD...
Letter.
January 1, 2002... To the Editors,
When I watched Amos Gitai's Kippur I became depressed about its lack of political content. When I read the CineAction review by Florence Jacobowitz in Issue 54, I felt a strong sense of deja vu. Neither Getai nor Jacobowitz...