CineAction articles from June 2006

CineAction archives from June 2006

Protest and revolution.(global warming, Aulis Sallinen, composer)(Editorial)
June 22, 2006... Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold, Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of...

The documentary films of citizen activist: Michael Moore; A man on a mission or how far a reinvigorated Populism can take us.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... My focus in this essay will be on Michael Moore's four documentaries--Roger and Me (1989), The Big One (1997, Bowling for Columbine (2002) and Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)--with most of my attention being given to the first and third of these, and...

Assessing V for Vendetta.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... "Wiser than lesser men, with their hands on the levers of power, did they know that no movie had ever brought about public upheaval, that no matter what was said in a theatre, no matter how long the lines were in front of the ticket offices...

Bearing witness: the Dardenne brothers' and Michael Haneke's implication of the viewer.(Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne)(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... I never really bought into this whole notion that characters have to be, first and foremost, likable. They have to be, first and foremost, interesting. You don't have to give Travis Bickle a dog. --Paul Schrader ... without judgment,...

Excesses of millennial capitalism, excesses of violence: several critical fragments regarding the cinema of Michael Haneke.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... I have not been able to touch the destruction within me. But unless I learn to use The difference between poetry and rhetoric My power too will run corrupt as poisonous mold... --Audre Lourde, Power Exegetical Method and Polemic on...

Le Temps du loup/time of the wolf.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... Michael Haneke's Le Temps du loup was made following La Pianiste and prior to Cache, two films which were more accessible and commercially successful. Haneke claims he wanted to make Le Temps du loup before La Pianiste, but could only fund the...

Mourning and Misfortune: 9/11 and the domestic terror of pedophilia.(The Aristocrats, movie)
June 22, 2006... Start with a Joke In the climax of, and seeming inspiration for, The Aristocrats (2005), Gilbert Gottfried offers an off-colour monologue at the New York Friar's Club Roast of Hugh Hefner that derails with a joke about September 11, 2001....

Intuitions in Africa: personal and political knowledge in the Constant Gardener.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... There are two kinds of knowledge possessed by characters in The Constant Gardener (Fernando Meirelles, 2005) (1). The film explores intuitions that we can call personal, generally understandings about what others are doing or feeling, or could...

"What you see is happening right now." Thermageddon and a search for tomorrow.(climate change)
June 22, 2006... "The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." --Roger "Verbal" Kint, The Usual Suspects The question hangs over anyone concerned with the broad malaise of contemporary society: How does one fight...

Good Night, and Good Luck: history replays itself.(Critical essay)
June 22, 2006... Good Night, and Good Luck is the first mainstream film to respond to the consequences of 9/11 and the Bush administration's reaction to it. George Clooney, who directed, co-wrote and co-stars in the film, takes an indirect approach to present...