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CineAction articles from March 2005
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 March 2005
Questions of value.(Editorial)
March 22, 2005... As our subscribers and regular readers must have gathered, the five editors of CineAction work as a collective, but independent issues are not edited collectively, one editor (occasionally two) being responsible for each. We never interfere...
A.I. or, the Agony of Steven Spielberg.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... The modes of Spielberg
As everyone knows, Steven Spielberg's filmmaking career has different modes. Tim Kreider, writing at length about A.I.: Artificial Intelligence (2001) in Film Quarterly, says there are two of them: "movies for...
Metropolis: restoration, reevaluation.(Critical Essay)(Cover Story)
March 22, 2005... In view of the narrative preoccupation in Metropolis with various forms of creation, destruction and reconstruction, it is ironic that the film should itself have undergone a complex version of such processes during the course of its eventful...
Pleasures of The Big Sleep.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... Perhaps the most remarked upon aspect of Howard Hawks' 1946 film The Big Sleep is its labyrinthine storyline. The oft quoted tale is that it was asked on set one day who was supposed to have killed Owen Taylor, the Sternwood family's chauffeur:...
The centre cannot hold: betrayals in Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... Topaz, Alfred Hitchcock's antepenultimate film, has received minimal attention from either audiences or critics, most of it dismissive. Dan Auiler describes it as "a disaster in any terms," for example, while Raymond Bellour simply dismisses...
This is not a game: Alan J. Pakula's Rollover.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... This piece will argue for Alan J. Pakula's 1981 film Rollover as an undervalued work, and I think the underlying premise--that no one places much value on the film--is fairly uncontroversial. I've been bringing it up in conversations here and...
"But it's good": finding value in Twentynine Palms.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005...
"Everything exists, nothing has value."
--Mrs Moore in E.M. Forster, A Passage to India (1924)
"In sum, then, the disciplines have simply rendered themselves incapable
of approaching the problem of values because it is only when you get...
From within: music in the style of Jean Renoir.(Critical Essay)
March 22, 2005... A solitary flute breathes over a pastoral scene. A nymph frolics across the stage. A pipe-playing, vine-clothed, middle-aged satyr bounds in pursuit, the silence of his steps belying his portly frame. This is the summer daydream of Monsieur...