Cineaste articles from January 1996

Cineaste archives from January 1996

The belly of the beast: Oliver Stone's 'Nixon' and the American nightmare.
January 1, 1996... In the annotated screenplay to Oliver Stone's Nixon (1995), our thirty-seventh president regularly hallucinates a surreal, Bosch-like monstrosity referred to as "The Beast," an emblem of the roiling, viral evil within both Richard Nixon's psyche...

Spike Lee's 'Clockers': a lament for the urban ghetto.
January 1, 1996... Despite receiving generally respectful to excellent reviews, Spike Lee's Clockers disappeared from view not much more than a month after its nationwide release. Clockers was Lee's first film to enter the territory of what Ed Guerrero has called...

A novelist and screenwriter eyeballs the inner city. (interview with Richard Price)
January 1, 1996... Richard Price first burst onto the literary scene in 1974 with his novel The Wanderers, an episodic account of the world of a teenage gang cum social club in the Bronx of the early Sixties. In quick succession he wrote Bloodbrothers (1976), a...

Screening history: new documentaries on the Tiananmen events in China.
January 1, 1996... For most Americans, the images of the 1989 Tiananmen democracy movement offered a vision of the Chinese people as reassuringly similar to ourselves. The media showed hundreds of Chinese college students hunger-striking in defiance of an...

The Seberg we missed. (Jean Seberg) (interview with Mark Rappaport)(Interview)
January 1, 1996... An Interview with Mark Rappaport Even for longtime fans like myself of his independent features - Casual Relations (1973), Mozart in Love (1975), Local Color (1977), The Scenic Route (1978), Imposters (1979), Chain Letters (1984) - Mark...

The lighter side of feminism: an interview with Marlene Gorris.
January 1, 1996... Dutch writer-director Marlene Gorris made a lasting impact on feminist filmmaking with her first film, A Question of Silence (1982). Three women, strangers to one another, are arrested for brutally murdering the male proprietor of a women's...

The revolution betrayed: an interview with Ken Loach.(Interview)(Transcript)
January 1, 1996... Ken Loach, unquestionably one of Britain's most important filmmakers, is best known for his gritty and compassionate portrayals of working-class life. Early in his career, a series of socially conscious BBC films established the fact that Loach...

Land and Freedom.
January 1, 1996... It is a truism that history is written by the victors, not the vanquished, but the events in Spain from 1936-1939, known to the mainstream left as merely the Spanish Civil War and alternately referred to by anarchists and libertarian Marxists as...