Cineaste articles from March 1997

Cineaste archives from March 1997

Family romances: an interview with Atom Egoyan.(filmmaker)(Interview)
March 22, 1997... Widely regarded as Canada's leading independent filmmaker, Atom Egoyan is frequently hailed as brilliantly innovative and occasionally damned as a purveyor of arid cinematic parables. Egoyan's wry self-deprecation, however, allows him to view...

The Powell and Pressburger mystery.(books on films of Michel Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
March 22, 1997... Rich and strange are the movies of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Masterpiece or misfire, stunning or disappointing, they bristle with odd angles, they hook and tease the mind. Underappreciated by critics in their day, their Hollywood...

Michael Powell.(Review)
March 22, 1997... by James Howard, with an Introduction by Deborah Kerr. Batsford, England and North Pomfret, VT: Trafalgar square Press, 1997. 160 pp., illus. Paperback: $24.95 Rich and strange are the movies of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger....

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.(Review)
March 22, 1997... by A.L. Kennedy. London, England: British Film Institute, 1997. Distributed by Indiana University Press, 73 pp., illus. Paperback: $9.95 Rich and strange are the movies of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Masterpiece or misfire,...

Million Dollar Movie.(Review)
March 22, 1997... by Michael Powell, with an Introduction by Martin Scorsese. New York, NY: Random House, 1995. 626 pp., illus. Hardcover: $30.00 Rich and strange are the movies of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Masterpiece or misfire, stunning or...

Emeric Pressburger: the Life and Death of a Screenwriter.(Review)
March 22, 1997... by Kevin MacDonald, with an Introduction by Billy Wilder. London, England: Faber and Faber, 1994. 467 pp., illus. Hardcover: $24.95, Paperback: $17.95 Rich and strange are the movies of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Masterpiece or...

The Films of Michael Powell and the Archers.(Review)
March 22, 1997... by Scott Salwolke. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 1997. 272 pp., illus. Hardcover: $39.50 Rich and strange are the movies of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. Masterpiece or misfire, stunning or disappointing, they bristle with odd...

Licensed to kill: an interview with Arthur Dong.(filmmaker)(Interview)
March 22, 1997... In 1957, when a black teenager named Emmet Till was murdered by two white men in the Mississippi Delta, William Faulkner reflected upon the circumstances under which "two adults, armed, in the dark, kidnap a fourteen-year-old boy and take him...

The devil beats his wife: small moments and big statements in the films of Charles Burnett.
March 22, 1997... Maybe it's just part of being a successful artist: you're proud of the work that made your reputation, but, being an artist, you want to put it behind you and move on to something new. Trouble is, your fans don't want to let you. If you're...

The way they really were.(Hollywood blacklist)
March 22, 1997... For fifty years the period of the Hollywood blacklist has been written about extensively. Much of that lively discussion, unfortunately, has been disingenuous. This applies both to the contention that there was a conspiracy in Hollywood to...

A true-blue red in Hollywood: an interview with Paul Jarrico.(Interview)
March 22, 1997... Screenwriter Paul Jarrico was a man of tireless radical zeal. He was, during the HUAC sessions, one of the most-named Hollywood communists, his traducers led by his sometime writing partner, Richard Collins, a "friendly witness. "A stalwart of...

In the Company of Men.(Review)
March 22, 1997... Produced by Mark Archer and Stephen Pevner; written and directed by Neil LaBute; cinematography by Tony Hettinger; edited by Joel Plotch; music by Ken Williams and Karel Roessingn; starring Aaron Eckhart, Stacy Edwards, Matt Malloy and Michael...

The Ice Storm.(Review)
March 22, 1997... Produced by Ted Hope, James Schamus and Ang Lee; directed by Ang Lee; screenplay by James Schamus; cinematography by Frederick Elmes; edited by Tim Squyres; music by Mychael Danna; starring Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Christina...

Disgraced Monuments.(Review)
March 22, 1997... Produced, written and directed by Mark Lewis and Laura Mulvey; cinematography by Thomas H. Turnbull; edited by Tom Hayes; VHS, color, 48 mins. Distributed by The Cinema Guild, 1697 Broadway, New York, NY 10019, phone (800) 723-5522. The...

East Side Story.(Review)
March 22, 1997... Produced by Andrew Horn; directed by Dana Ranga; written by Dana Ranga and Andrew Horn; cinematography by Mark Daniels; edited by Guido Krajewski; color, 77 mins. Distributed by Kino International, 333 West. 39th Street, New York, NY 10018,...

Blacks and Jews.(Review)
March 22, 1997... Produced by Alain Snitow, Deborah Kaufman and Bari Scott; written and directed by Alan Snitow and Deborah Kaufman; cinematography by Ashley James; edited by Veronica Selver. Distributed by California Newsreel, 149 9th Street, Suite 420, San...

New School Order.(Review)
March 22, 1997... Produced and directed by Gini Reticker; associate producer, Libby McDonald; cinematography by Joseph Friedman; edited by Kristen Huntley; a presentation of the Independent Television Service; distributed by ITVS, 22D Hollywood Avenue, Hohokus,...

Meantime: desolate lives in London.(filmmaker Mike Leigh)(Review)
March 22, 1997... Long before the critical and popular success of Secrets & Lies, Mike Leigh made many low-budget films for television. Most of these subtle and unique works - e.g., Grown Ups (1980) and Home Sweet Home (1982) - depicted the everyday domestic...

Century of Cinema.(Review)
March 22, 1997... To celebrate the "100th anniversary of cinema," the British Film Institute has commissioned a series of documentaries about national cinemas. Some of them are still being made, but the ten I want to discuss here, all of which have been...

Stalingrad.(Review)
March 22, 1997... Directed by Joseph Vilsmaier; VHS, color, 150 mins., German with English subtitles. Distributed by Fox Lorber Home Video, 419 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016, phone (212) 686-6777. This is an unrelentingly harrowing war film, told...

Hyenas.(Review)
March 22, 1997... Directed by Djibril Diop Mambety; VHS, color, 113 mins.; in Senegalese with English subtitles. Theatrical and homevideo distribution by Kino International, 333 West 39th Street, NYC 10018, phone (800) 562-3330 and nontheatrical distribution by...

By Angles Driven: The Films of Derek Jarman.(Review)
March 22, 1997... Edited by Chris Lippard. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1996. 202 pp., illus. Hardcover: $59.95, Paperback: $22.95 With a portfolio of work that crosses media boundaries, including film, video, painting, and literary memoirs, Derek...

Derek Jarman Dreams of England.(Review)
March 22, 1997... by Michael O'Pray. London: British Film Institute, 1996; distributed by Indiana University Press. 184 pp., illus. Hardcover: $29.95 With a portfolio of work that crosses media boundaries, including film, video, painting, and literary...

Derek Jarman: A Portrait.(Review)
March 22, 1997... Introduction by Roger Wollen. New York, NY: Thames and Hudson, 1996. 176 pp., illus. Hardcover: $24.95 With a portfolio of work that crosses media boundaries, including film, video, painting, and literary memoirs, Derek Jarman (1942-1994)...

Holding My Own in No Man's Land: Women and Men and Film and Feminists.(Review)
March 22, 1997... by Molly Haskell. NY and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. 207 pp. Hardcover: $25.00 In her attempt to straddle two worlds - that of popular film criticism and that of academic film study - Molly Haskell has posed a problem for some...

The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation.(Review)
March 22, 1997... by Andrew Horton. Princeton, NY: Princeton University Press, 1997. 227 pp., illus. Hardcover: $35.00 For some, the films of Theo Angelopoulos are painfully enigmatic and too cerebral for comfort; for others, including myself, his work is...

The Last Modernist: The Films of Theo Angelopoulos.(Review)
March 22, 1997... Edited by Andrew Horton. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1997. 144 pp., illus. Hardcover: $59.95, Paperback: $ 24.95 For some, the films of Theo Angelopoulos are painfully enigmatic and too cerebral for comfort; for others, including...

Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from Their Beginnings to Stonewall.(Review)
March 22, 1997... by Tom Waugh. New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1996. 470 pp., illus. Hardcover: $60.00 Tom Waugh's book, Hard to Imagine: Gay Male Eroticism in Photography and Film from the Beginnings to Stonewall, is perhaps the first and...

Montreal's World Film Festival wages cultural warfare.(Review)
March 22, 1997... The rivalry between Canada's major film festivals seems to have developed into a full-blown cold war. At least that's the impression one gets reading between the lines of Serge Losique, President of Montreal's World Film Festival, who opened...