Cineaste articles from December 2001

Cineaste archives from December 2001

Editorial.(Brief Article)
December 22, 2001... Guaranteed to spark all sorts of critical posturing, heated controversy, and sometimes even genuine, thoughtful debate--not to mention brisk newsstand sales--sex in the cinema presents itself as a topic for serious examination every few years...

From words to images: An interview with Buck Henry.(Interview)
December 22, 2001... Over the last fifty years, Buck Henry's work as a writer, actor, and director has made him a legendary figure in American mass media. His first professional work came at age sixteen when he was an actor in a 1946 Broadway production of Life...

Escape from freedom: The films of Dusan Makavejev.(Critical Essay)
December 22, 2001... Looking backward, the four films made by Dusan Makavejev between 1966 and 1971 constitute an esthetic-political intervention in postwar cinema so spirited, powerful, and emblematic of their period that if they didn't exist, film history would...

Elusive intimacy: An interview with Patrice Chereau.(Interview)
December 22, 2001... In stark contrast to recent examples of French porno-chic--Catherine Breillat's Romance and Virginie Despentes and Coralie Trinh Thi's Baise-Moi are the two most prominent examples--Patrice Chereau's Intimacy is a resolutely--and...

Cinema and the sex act.
December 22, 2001... With the arrival of hard-core pornography in America in the early and mid-Seventies, the explicit, as opposed to simulated, representation of sex acts on the legitimate film screen enjoyed a rare prestige. During this brief moment of 'porno...

The human cost of ideology: An interview with Joseph Cedar.(Interview)
December 22, 2001... In the wake of the Sept. 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, an Israeli thriller about an attempted act of terrorism by Orthodox nationalists, Time of Favor, might have made an immediate contribution to a wider...

Apocalypse Now Redux. (Film Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Produced and directed by Francis Ford Coppola; screenplay by John Milius and Francis Ford Coppola; narration by Michael Herr; cinematography by Vittorio Storaro; production design by Dean Tavoularis; edited by Richard Marks; sound design by...

Y Tu Mama Tambien. (Film Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Pat Aufderheide [8] Produced by Jorge Vergara; directed by Alfonso Cuaron; written by Alfonso Cuaron and Carlos Cuaron; cinematography by Emmanual Lubezki; production design by Miguel Alvarez and Sandra Solarres; edited by Alfonso Cuaron...

La Captive. (Film Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Directed by Chantal Akerman; adapted from Marcel Proust's La Prisonniere by Akerman and Eric de Kuyper; cinematography by Sabine Lancelin; edited by Claire Atherton; sound by Thierry de Halleux; costume design by Nathalie du Roscoat; music from...

Together. (Film Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Produced by Lars Jonsson; directed and written by Lukas Moodysson; cinematography by Ulf Brantas; production design by Anna Malini Ahlberg; edited by Michal Leszczylowski and Frerik Abrahamsen; art direction by Carl Johan De Geer; costume...

From Hell. (Film Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Produced by Don Murphy and Jane Hamsher; directed by Alien Hughes and Albert Hughes; screenplay by Terry Hayes and Rafael Yglesias, based on the graphic novel by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell; cinematography by Peter Deming; production design...

Lumumba. (Film Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Produced by Jacques Bidou, Diana Elba urn. Philippe Bober, Raoul Peck, Richard Boidin, Georges Goldenstern, and Arletee Zylberberg; directed by Raoul Peck; screenplay by Raoul Peck and Pascal Bonitzer; cinematography by Bernard Lutic; edited by...

Films by and about Mohsen Makhmalbaf. (Home Video).
December 22, 2001... As Iranian cinema gains prominence in international circles, audiences have come to expect a particular kind of film--meditative, self-reflexive, poetically structured, often featuring children, dealing with political and religious issues...

Tell About the South: Voices in black and white. (Home Video).
December 22, 2001... Part One, Tell About the South (1915-1940), VHS, 80 mins.; Part Two, Prophets and Poets (1940-1962), VHS, 70 mins.; Part Three, Let Freedom Ring (1963-Present), VHS, 70 mins. Produced, written and directed by Ross Spears; cinematography by Neil...

L'Avventura. (Home Video).
December 22, 2001... Directed by Michelangelo Antonioni; screenplay by Michelangelo Antonioni, Elio Bartolini and Tonino Guerra; cinematography by Aldo Scavarda; music by Giovanna Fusco; edited by Eraldo da Roma; starring Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea...

Eclecticism triumphs at the montreal world film festival. (Communiques).
December 22, 2001... To usher in its twenty-fifth anniversary, Montreal's World Film Festival opened with a film--L'Ange de goudron--by a Montreal native, Denis Chouinard. For a festival occasionally berated by the local press for ignoring Quebecois talent, this...

Beyond Hollywood at the Toronto international film festival.
December 22, 2001... On September 11, the Toronto International Film Festival's director, Piers Handling, was faced with what might have been the most troubling quandary of his career. Urged by many to shut down the festival entirely, he wisely chose to give the...

Asian American retrospective at the Locarno film festival.
December 22, 2001... The Locarno Film Festival is one of Europe's premier film events. Its unique feature is a nightly screening in the Piazza Grande where some 8,000 plus spectators view a recently released film on a gigantic screen. Seven other theaters and...

The buenos aires festival and the renaissance of Argentine cinema.
December 22, 2001... The third edition of the Buenos Aires International Festival of Independent Cinema, held in April 2001, boasted a strong official competition consisting of eighteen features. Festival organizers seek to emphasize new tendencies in world cinema,...

Cassavetes on Cassavetes & The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies & John Cassavetes: The Adventure of Insecurity & Shadows & John Cassavetes: Lifeworks. (Book Reviews).(Bibliography)
December 22, 2001... Cassavetes on Cassavetes Edited by Ray Carney. London and New York: Faber and Faber, 2001. 526 pp., illus. Paperback: $25.00. The Films of John Cassavetes: Pragmatism, Modernism, and the Movies by Ray Carney. Cambridge, New...

The Films of Martin Ritt: Fanfare for the Common Man. (Book Reviews).
December 22, 2001... by Gabriel Miller. Foreword by Sally Field. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2000. 240 pp., illus. Hardcover: $45.95 and Paperback: $18.95. Martin Ritt's career as an actor and director carried him all the way from the heady...

How a Film Theory Got Lost and Other Mysteries in Cultural Studies. (Book Reviews).
December 22, 2001... by Robert B. Ray. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001. 164 pp., illus. Hardcover: $39.95 and Paperback: $18.95. The film theory that got lost was that of photogenie, a "theory" of the image developed by French...

Citizen Sarris, American Film Critic: Essays in Honor of Andrew Sarris. (Book Reviews).
December 22, 2001... Edited by Emanuel Levy. Lanham, MD and London: The Scarecrow Press. 2001. 300 pp. Hardcover: $45.00. If it is one (among many) of the principles of criticism to have the graciousness to judge a work 'in its own terms,' to evaluate whether...

Returning the Gaze: A Genealogy of Black Film Criticism, 1909-1949. (Book Reviews).
December 22, 2001... by Anna Everett. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2001. 376 pp., illus. Hardcover: $54.95 and Paperback: $18.95. With Returning the Gaze, Anna Everett, an assistant professor of film studies at the University of California at Santa...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
December 22, 2001... Movie Wars Skirmish James Monaco's review of Jonathan Rosenbaum's book Movie Wars (Cineaste, Vol. XXVI, No. 4) makes a few good points, particularly regarding Rosenbaum's tendency to concentrate his anger on the same predictable targets....

Advertising and the end of the world. (Short Takes).
December 22, 2001... This lively, provocative video takes the form of a richly illustrated lecture on the ideology of advertising, particularly American television commercials. The man in the foreground is Sut Jhally, Professor of Communication at the University of...

Children uUnderground. (Short Takes).
December 22, 2001... Edet Belzberg's documentary is a harrowing portrait of Romania's street children. Shot on video, its bleak esthetic and unsparing camera recall the intimate, almost voyeuristic, approach found in the work of Albert and David Maysles. Children...

Fighter. (Short Takes).
December 22, 2001... Amir Bar-Lev's film centers on an emotionally turbulent journey undertaken by two elderly Czech Holocaust survivors and friends--a writer, Arnost Lustig (Diamonds of the Night) and a professor, Jan Weiner. It retraces the perilous escape route...

Jung: In the land of the Mujaheddin. (Short Takes).
December 22, 2001... 'Jung' means 'war' in the Dan language--specifically the Afghan War between the Taliban and the Northern Alliance led by Rabbani, last president of the country after the fall of the pro-Soviet Najibullah in 1992, and his military commander,...

Live nude girls unite! (Short Takes).
December 22, 2001... The exotic dancers of San Francisco's Lusty Lady, including codirector and stand-up comic Julia Query, grow disillusioned with poor working conditions and decide to unionize in order to be recognized as legitimate workers worthy of job...