CineAction articles from September 2001

CineAction archives from September 2001

Canadian Cinema in the age of globalization.
September 22, 2001... I feel very uncomfortable about this stuff, because for so long I've gotten a certain energy from being outside that it's difficult for me to accept the fact that part of me has now been accepted into the system. But of course it completely...

Stet.(analysis of filmmaker Phil Hoffman's "What These Ashes Wanted")(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... It means "let it stand." Without explanation, for now. Instead, let me oblige you to indulge in the fantasy of a moment of inscription: imagine Phil Hoffman darkly embunkered in his digital basement, bringing to fruition several years'...

Toward the Quebec Auteur: From Perrault to Arcand.(a look at Canadian filmmakers from the 1960s and 1970s)
September 22, 2001... Quebec cinema burst forth with a new spirit in the early 1960s. It was following the lead of the new interventionist Liberal government of Quebec that wanted Quebeckers to become "maitres chez nous." Quebec filmmakers decided to become masters...

The party's over: Rollercoaster.(analysis of Scott Smith's film "Rollercoaster")(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... Prelude: 'Efforts' and 'small films' Recently, in Toronto, a rare event: a filmmaker actually had the nerve to attack the reviewers for not liking his film. The filmmaker was David Weaver (who once long ago wrote for CineAction); the film...

"In the Sun it all looks so nice": A note on Paul Almond's Isabel.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... I find it hard to write about Isabel (1968). That is in .part because (as is of course not the case with; .say, Hitchcock's or Bergman's work) I can't depend on its being known well, or at all, outside Canada: it isn't even listed by Maltin or...

Persistence of Vision: The wonderful World of John Paizs.(Canadian Filmmaker)(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... John Paizs is Canadian cinema's forgotten child. Although his early films virtually established the postmodern style of the Winnipeg Film Group, (1) and his first feature, Crime Wave (1985), was named Best Film Made in Manitoba, (2) Paizs and...

The new face of British Heritage.(analysis of the film "Face")(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... Current definitions of heritage films focus on narratives of privilege that present a very narrow image of British cultural heritage, one anchored by literary, aristocratic visions. The abandonment of the term heritage to an upper-class point...

Distance Hirokazu Kore-eda. (Toronto International Film Festival).(analysis of Japanese filmmaker Kore-eda's "Distance")(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2001... While the majority of films made in the last few decades seem to have adopted a sesame street/mtv approach to editing and pacing let alone plot, there still remain a few filmmakers who aim their works at a mature audience capable of savoring...

The intimate screen: Dogme and Beyond.(analysis of filmmaking)
September 22, 2001... The cinema is essentially supernatural. Everything is transformed.... The universe is on edge. The philosopher's light. The atmosphere is heavy with love. I am looking. (1) Jean Epstein, 1921 But you should make films that look at your...

Cinema's Recounting of the Ordinary. (Book Review).(Disclosure of the Everyday: Undramatic Achievement in Narrative Film)
September 22, 2001... Disclosure of the Everyday: Undramatic Achievement in Narrative Film By Andrew Klevan Trowbridge, Wiltshire: Flicks Books, 2000 Aptly enough, it is in his entry on Douglas Sirk that David Thomson waxes poetic on the connection between...