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CineAction articles from January 2004
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 2004
Being a clown: curious coupling in The Pirate.
January 1, 2004... The final sequence of The Pirate is in some ways conventional and in others very odd. Don Pedro/Walter Slezak has been unmasked as the pirate Macoco and is overpowered on the stage by a bombardment of theatrical props wielded by members of the...
The Cobweb.
January 1, 2004... The Cobweb (1955) is based on William Gibson's novel about a psychiatric clinic (the Castlehouse Clinic for Nervous Disorders) in which the members of staff are almost as troubled as their patients. Its narrative revolves around the decision to...
Home from the Hill: Vincente Minnelli, 1959.
January 1, 2004... It is a measure of my esteem for Home from the Hill that I have already discussed aspects of it in two previous articles in CineAction, linking it to other '50s melodramas about a patriarch and two sons--or one son and one son-figure--in an...
Love and the city: an analysis of Vincente Minnelli's The Clock.
January 1, 2004... The song "You and I," as sung by Mr. and Mrs. Smith (Leon Ames and Mary Astor) in Vincente Minnelli's small town musical Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), contains the lyrics: "Time goes by/ But we'll be together/ You and I". In his analysis of the...
The far side of Paradise: the style and substance of Yolanda and the Thief.
January 1, 2004... Yolanda and the Thief (1945) is perhaps the most widely underrated and misperceived of Minnelli's musicals. Minnelli himself, who conceived the film in avant-garde terms under the influence of the surrealists, defended it in his autobiography...
The spaces in-between: the Cinema of Yasujiro Ozu.
January 1, 2004... The recent, international centenary celebration retrospective of the work of Yasujiro Ozu, during which has played every one of the director's thirty-six extant films (from the fifty-four he completed over the course of his career), has been...
Notes toward a reading of Tokyo Twilight (Tokyo boshoku).
January 1, 2004... On February 27th I was at last able to see Ozu's Tokyo Twilight for the first time. I am writing this on the 29th, to be in time for this issue's deadline: something I almost never do, especially for films of obviously high value, preferring to...
Los Angeles Plays Itself.(Toronto International Film Festival)(Movie Review)
January 1, 2004... In 2003 a number of intelligent, provocative and creative documentaries, Capturing the Friedmans, The Weather Underground and The Fog of War, were released and Thom Andersen's Los Angeles Plays Itself needs to be added to the list. The film,...
Notes on the Toronto Film Festival.
January 1, 2004... The organizing principle of the Toronto Film Festival is the opposite of that of its New York counterpart. The New York festival is so selective that a number of important films are eliminated (and one might well question some of the inclusions...
Amos Gitai's Alila.(Movie Review)
January 1, 2004... Alila, screened at the Toronto International Film Festival 2003, is Amos Gitai's latest film set in contemporary Tel Aviv. It follows Eden and Kedma, two films which rethink the period surrounding the founding of the state of lsrael and are...
Drifters: smoking and moping on the mainland.('Drifters')(Movie Review)
January 1, 2004... "Is anyone in China happy?"
The above question, asked recently by a genuinely perplexed viewer on an internet conference dedicated to Chinese films, prompted one response that not only listed a series of depressing themes the writer...
Tabio's So Far Away.(Movie Review)
January 1, 2004... This is Cuban director Juan Carlos Tabio's second film since his collaborations with the late, and revered, director Tomas Gutierrez Alea. Strawberry and Chocolate (1993) and Guantanamara (1995) remain among the most interesting and challenging...
The Brown Bunny.(Movie Review)
January 1, 2004... A Vincent Gallo Production. Produced, Written, and Directed by Vincent Gallo. Cinematography and Editing by Vincent Gallo. Production Design, Sound, and Music by Vincent Gallo. Starring Vincent Gallo and Chloe Sevigny. After its horrendous...
Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2004... To the editors,
It was with some surprise that I read the letter from Alexander Jacoby in Cineaction 62, responding to my article "Three Japanese Actresses of the 1950s" which had appeared in Cineaction 60. I was surprised because I had...