Cineaste articles from December 2002

Cineaste archives from December 2002

Editorial.(US denial of visa to Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami)(Editorial)
December 22, 2002... Even during the darkest days of the Cold War, the notion of "cultural exchange," however hypocritically invoked, was held up as a mechanism to ease tensions between hostile nations. With a myopia that is ultimately self-defeating, the Bush...

Men with swords and men with suits: the cinema of Akira Kurosawa.
December 22, 2002... Fifty-one years after the sensational screening of Rashomon in Venice, Akira Kurosawa is the first Japanese director whose films are widely released in digital form. Most of his thirty-one films have been available on English-subtitled video...

The lack of historical memory: an interview with Gianni Amelio.(Interview)
December 22, 2002... Although Gianni Amelio's latest film, The Way We Laughed (Cosi ridevano), was awarded the Venice Film Festival's top prize, the Golden Lion, in 1998, it later received a decidedly mixed critical and popular reception in Italy. This owed perhaps...

Birth and death of a nation.
December 22, 2002... The following article originally appeared in the Italian magazine Lo Straniero and has been translated for Cineaste by Joanna Dezio. Rocco, Simone, Giovanni The key moment in the film is when Giovanni (Enrico Lo Verso), speaking with...

Storytelling in the Arctic circle: an interview with Zacharias Kunuk.(director and producer of Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner))(Interview)
December 22, 2002... If all had gone according to the centuries-old plan of his Inuit ancestors, Zacharias Kunuk, director and producer of Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner), would have followed his father's footsteps: He would have been a hunter, leading his own...

Palestinian perspectives: new documentaries on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict.
December 22, 2002... Hoping to fill the void left by conventional accounts of the ongoing Middle East conflict, several filmmakers have recently produced documentaries whose aim is to portray the reality of Palestinin life in the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, and...

The Toronto International Film Festival. (Communiques).
December 22, 2002... If any Americans visiting the 2002 incarnation of the Toronto International Film Festival assumed there were few substantial differences between Canada and the United States, they were quickly disabused of that notion during the course of this...

Karlovy Vary: Take 37. (Communications).(Karlovy Vary International Film Festival)
December 22, 2002... Each year in early July the elegant Bohemian spa town of Karlovy Vary is invaded by enthusiastic young Czechs in search of the most interesting recent national and international films. The thirty-seventh edition of the Karlovy Vary...

The Montreal World Film Festival. (Communiques).
December 22, 2002... Seasoned veterans of the cinematic smorgasbord known as the Montreal World Film Festival realize that the movies enshrined in the MWFF's official competition are often the least worthy of attention. While the competition films tend towards...

Road to Perdition. .(Movie Review)
December 22, 2002... Produced by Richard D. Zanuck, Dean Zanuck, and Sam Mendes; directed by Sam Mendes; screenplay by David Self; cinematography by Conrad L Hall; edited by Jill Bilcock; production design by Dennis Gassner; costume design by Albert Wolsky; music...

24 Hour Party People. .(Movie Review)
December 22, 2002... Produced by Andrew Eaton; directed by Michael Winterbottom; screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce; cinematography by Robby Muller; edited by Trevor Waite; costume design by Natalie Ward and Stephen Noble; music supervisor, Liz Gallacher;...

The Kid Stays in the Picture. .(Movie Review)
December 22, 2002... Produced by Nanette Burstein, Graydon Carter and Brett Morgen; directed by Nanette Burstein and Brett Morgen; screenplay by Brett Morgen, based an the book by Robert Evans; cinematography by John Bailey; editing by Jun Diaz; production design...

All or Nothing. .(Movie Review)
December 22, 2002... Produced by Simon Channing-Williams; directed and written by Mike Leigh; cinematography by Dick Poe; edited by Lesley Walker; music by Andrew Dickson; production design by Eve Stewart; costume design by Jacqueline Durran; starring Timothy...

Going beyond despair: an interview with Mike Leigh.(Interview)
December 22, 2002... Cineaste: Was there any special reason after making Topsy-Turvy that you returned in All or Nothing to a contemporary milieu--one where working-class families live despairing, unfulfilled Lives? Mike Leigh: Of course, on the crudest, most...

Senorita Extraviada.(Movie Review)
December 22, 2002... Produced and directed by Lourdes Portillo; written by Olivia Crawford, Julie Mackaman and Sharon Wood; cinematography by Kyle Kibbe; edited by Vivien Hillgrove; music by Todd Boekelheide; sound recording by Jose Araujo. Color, 74 mins....

Eisenstein: The Sound Years. (Home Video).(Criterion Collection Box Set, DVD)(Movie Review)
December 22, 2002... While Sergei Eisenstein's films have been fixtures in film courses since cinema studies became a separate area of academia some thirty years ago, it's unclear just how familiar they are to nonacademic audiences beyond such celebrated excerpts...

Weekend Stories. (Home Video).(Video Recording Review)
December 22, 2002... Produced by Telewizja Poiska/Tor Film Studios; written and directed by Krzysztof Zanussi. VHS, B&W, eight one-hour videos, total running time of 434 mins., Polish with English subtitles. Distributed by Facets Video, 1517 West Fullerton Ave.,...

Vamps, Vixens, and Virgins. (Home Video).(silent film collection from Kino on Video)(Movie Review)
December 22, 2002... Seductively packaged as "Vamps, Vixens, and Virgins," the latest high-concept come-on from the silent film purveyors at Kino on Video showcases an alliterative lineup of female archetypes, two thirds of which should entice the devoted coterie...

Manufacturing Consent. (Home Video).(Movie Review)
December 22, 2002... Noam Chomsky and the Media Directed by Peter Wintonick and Mark Achbar. Color, 167 mins., DVD. Released by Zeitgeist Video, 247 Centre St., 2nd Floor, New York, NY 10013, phone (2121 274-1989, www.zeitgeistfilm.com. Noam Chomsky has become...

Out of the Present. (Home Video).(Movie Review)
December 22, 2002... Directed by Andrei Ujica; cinematography by Vadim Yusov; video and montage by R. Hennenger, H. Leihbecher and D. Ivanova; music by Lazonby, Mory Kante, Johann Strauss and Jean-Luc Ponty; with Sergei Krikalev, Anatoli Artsebarski, and Alexander...

The Interview. (Home Video).(Movie Review)
December 22, 2002... Produced by Bill Hughes; directed by Craig Monahan; written by Craig Monahan and Gordon Davie; cinematography by Simon Duggan; edited by Suresh Ayyar; music by David Hirschfelder; starring Hugo Weaving, Tony Martin, and Aaron Jeffrey. Color,...

Shakespeare After Mass Media & The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film & Spectacular Shakespeare: Critical Theory and Popular Cinema & Shakespeare in the Cinema: Ocular Proof. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Shakespeare After Mass Media Edited by Richard Burt. New York, NY: Palgrave, 2002. 340 pp., illus. Paperback: $24.95. The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare on Film Edited by Russell Jackson. Cambridge, England: Cambridge...

After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age & The Cinema of Economic Miracles: Visuality and Modernization in the Italian Art Film. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... After Fellini: National Cinema in the Postmodern Age by Millicent Joy Marcus. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2002. 377 pp., illus. Paperback: $21.95. The Cinema of Economic Miracles: Visuality and Modernization...

Clint: The Life and Legend. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Clint: The Life and Legend by Patrick McGilligan. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 2002. 612 pp., illus. Hardcover: $35.00. "This book is not authorized by Clint Eastwood," announces, tersely, a full page at the start of Patrick...

Lindsay Anderson: Maverick Film Maker & Mainly About Lindsay Anderson & Camera Cambridge University Film Quarterly. .(Book Review)
December 22, 2002... Lindsay Anderson: Maverick Film Maker by Erik Hedling. London/Washington, Cassell, 1998. 246 pp., illus. $74.95. Hardcover: $74.95 and Paperback: $44.95. Mainly About Lindsay Anderson by Gavin Lambert New York: Alfred A. Knopf,...

Errata.(Correction Notice)
December 22, 2002... VOL. XXVII, NO. 4 In our Short Takes review of The Town is Quiet, the correct spelling of the director's name is Robert Guediguian, not Guedigiuan; the director of Changing Lanes is Robert Michell, not Mitchell; in the Triumph of the Will...

After Auschwitz: the battle for the Holocaust. (Short Takes).(Movie Review)
December 22, 2002... Paul Yule's densely-layered documentary articulates complex arguments in the debate concerning politically and financially profitable 'uses' of the Holocaust. The film supports Norman Finkelstein's notion of a "Holocaust industry" as source of...

Ghosts of Attica. (Short Takes).(Movie Review)
December 22, 2002... Brad Lichtenstein's documentary provides a harrowing account of the 1971 prison uprising and its aftermath. In the violent assault to retake the prison, twenty-nine inmates and ten guards taken hostage were killed. Focusing on three people...

Hell House. (Short Takes).(Movie Review)
December 22, 2002... "Hell House X: The Walking Dead" sounds like a movie sequel you'd rather skip, but it's really an event presented by the Trinity Church in Cedar Hill, Texas, a couple of years ago--the tenth edition of an annual extravaganza staged by local...

Sacrificio: who betrayed Che Guevara? (Short Takes).(Movie Review)
December 22, 2002... This documentary, directed by Erik Gandini and Tarik Saleh, is not so much concerned with Che himself as it is with the supporting cast of the bloody and final drama, the men supposedly responsible for betraying Che to Bolivian authorities and...