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CineAction articles from March 2003
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CineAction archives from March 2003
New Canadian cinema.(Brief Article)
March 22, 2003... This special issue devoted to filmmaking in Canada is the 6th in our magazine's history. As always when discussing films in Canada, these writers range across regions, genres, qualities, themes, politics--and a characteristic diversity among...
Wotcha lookin' at, anyway? An examination of point-of-view in Denys Arcand's Stardom.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; which is the chief reason for that kind reception it meets in the world, and that so very few are offended with it. But if it should happen...
Quebec's next generation: from Lauzon to Turpin.
March 22, 2003... Quebec's new wave of feature filmmakers from the mid-sixties climaxed with Arcand's masterful portrayal of the new Quebec in Delin de l'empire americain (1986). Their achievement encouraged a new generation of directors that had not grown up in...
Blood in the maple syrup: canon, popular genre and the Canuxploitation of Julian Roffman.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... In his entire career, Julian Roffman (also alternatively known as Hoffman) has directed only two feature length films. Despite the modest international success of his second feature, The Mask (1961), which also represented the only Canadian...
Charting the course of the Pacific New Wave.
March 22, 2003... The first time that I heard about the Pacific New Waxe was at the Vancouver International Film Festival in 1999. Then Canadian Images Programmer, Ken Anderlini, had been asked about this new west coast filmmaking movement ay Cori Howard of the...
An interview with R. Bruce Elder.(Interview)
March 22, 2003... On a cold February night this year, Cinematheque Ontario presented the world premiere of Eros and Wonder, R. Bruce Elder's latest experimental film. Being part of the impressed and delighted crowd that night at the Cinematheque, my mind...
Beyond the homeland: a comparative introduction to Latino film in Canada and the U.S.
March 22, 2003... In comparison to parallel areas of scholarly inquiry into the history and aesthetics of marginalized identity formations--Feminist, Queer, or Black and Native American--Latino Film Studies is a relative newcomer to the North American academic...
Seeing and being seen in media culture: Shelley Niro's Honey Moccasin.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... In the work of Mohawk visual artist Shelley Niro native stereotypes are deconstructed while at the same time racial identity is not taken as historically fixed and timeless. Rather, identity is understood as an ongoing formative process whereby...
Border crossings: representations of North American culture in Bruce McDonald's Highway 61.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2003... Bruce McDonald's Highway 61, which came out in 1991, is centrally concerned with Canada's America. (1) It is a road movie that explores the North American continent from Thunder Bay to New Orleans, representing United States society and culture...
The consequences of seduction: Adolphe.(Movie Review)
March 22, 2003... Benoit Jacquot's Adolphe was screened at the 2002 Toronto International Film Festival, and elicited little response. The local press ignored it, the public did not welcome it at the screening we attended, and the influential trade paper Variety...
The Intended.(Movie Review)
March 22, 2003... I thought Kristian Levring's The King Is Alive one of the finest, most fascinating films I saw in the 2000 Toronto Film Festival. I appear to be in an invisible minority over this. The press screening was very sparsely attended, I read no...
Unknown Pleasures.(Movie Review)
March 22, 2003... Unknown Pleasures (Ren xiao yao, 2002), Jia Zhangke's latest feature film, is a poetic, ruminative drama about two young drifters (first-time actors Wu Qiong as Xiao Ji and Zhao Weiwei as Binbin) and a professional dancer (Platform's Zhao Tao...
Making and remaking class in Ken Loach's recent films.
March 22, 2003... Ken Loach has always been a favourite of the Toronto International Film festival. In 1991, he was featured with a complete retrospective and his new films premiere each year, celebrated at festivals though not often theatrically released. Of...
Fruit Chan's 'excremental vision': Public Toilet.(Movie Review)
March 22, 2003... What can you say about a film that sticks your nose in public toilets, literally as well as metaphorically? As Fruit Chan proclaimed at the Question and Answer session after the screening of Public Toilet at this year's Toronto International...
When fiction turns real suspending disbelief.
March 22, 2003... Portentous winds from Germany's neighbor opened the 51st International FilMfestival Mannheim-Heidelberg with 28-year-old Przemyslaw Wojcieszek's Louder than Bombs, a boisterous critique of wanderlust for the West with an eye to a new Poland....
Allan King, Filmmaker.(Book Review)
March 22, 2003... Edited by Seth Feldman Published by Toronto International Film Festival in conjunction with Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis, with support from The Canada Council for the Arts, 2002. 111 pages.
In writing about Seth...