Cineaste articles from March 1999

Cineaste archives from March 1999

Rediscovering radical film style: an interview with David Riker.(documentary filmmaker)(Interview)
March 22, 1999... La Ciudad (The City), a black-and-white, Spanish-language film made with nonprofessional actors in the Hispanic neighborhoods of New York City, became one of the surprise critical successes of last fall's Toronto International Film Festival....

Anarchists on film: from mad bombers to secular saints.
March 22, 1999... Conservatives, liberals, and mainstream socialists alike have long either heaped calumny upon the anarchist movement or damned it with faint praise. From "early cinema" to the supposedly more sophisticated present, the demonization of anarchist...

Something rotten in the state of Denmark: an interview with Thomas Vinterberg.(film director)(Interview)
March 22, 1999... While The Celebration has received considerable critical acclaim - the film was awarded prizes for Best Foreign Language Film by both the New York Critics Circle and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association - its director, twenty-eight-year-old...

If only life were so beautiful.("Life is Beautiful" motion picture)
March 22, 1999... For the last three months, I have had a recurring nightmare. Somehow, I am sitting in the audience at the Academy Awards ceremony. Two glamorous figures, their identities indistinct, stand at a podium. They are about to announce the award for...

Irish cinema: the national in the international.
March 22, 1999... When Neil Jordan won an Oscar for Best Screenplay for The Crying Game in 1993, it could hardly be envisaged that this endorsement by the members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for a film dealing less with Ireland than with...

Filming in the North.(Northern Ireland)
March 22, 1999... The peculiar status of Northern Ireland - geographically a part of the island of Ireland but politically a part of the U.K. - has meant that the history of filmmaking in Northern Ireland has been a modest one, confined to the periphery of both...

Reimagining the nation: themes and issues in Irish cinema.
March 22, 1999... One of the ironies in the relationship between cinema and Ireland is the fact that, despite the relative poverty of indigenous film production until the 1980s, Ireland has enjoyed a considerable presence in the cinemas of other cultures,...

Those bad-tempered, redhaired Celts.(portrayal in motion pictures)
March 22, 1999... Ireland may well have a higher proportion of redheaded people than the blonde and brunette norms of mainland Europe, but within the country, those whose hair fits the Celtic cliche of fiery locks amount to no more than one in ten of the whole...

Working-class Dublin on screen: the Roddy Doyle Films.
March 22, 1999... A smart young man with a head full of foreign notions and an eye for controversy writes a drama about the breakup of an Irish family. He pretends that its material is a realistic vision of Irish life, a mirror held up to the nation, but it is...

Feisty colleens and faithful sons: gender in Irish cinema.
March 22, 1999... "Is that real? It couldn't be!," says Sean Thornton (John Wayne) on first viewing Mary Kate Danaher (Maureen O'Hara) in John Ford's The Quiet Man (1952) when, like a Dresden maiden, she appears herding a flock of sheep, her red hair flowing,...

Myth, mammon and mediocrity: the trouble with recent Irish cinema.
March 22, 1999... Despite rumors to the contrary, stage Irishness is alive and kicking. Films such as The Matchmaker (1997), and, most recently, Waking Ned Devine, play on the sort of awful whimsy that sets Irish teeth on edge. Most of these films have been...

Film in the fifth province.(Irish motion pictures)
March 22, 1999... The People populating your dreams are now American Though the country they're set in is always Ireland. Greg Delanty, "The Fifth Province" "Do you ever miss home?," Cormac asks Malachy, as they stand three thousand miles from Ireland,...

Challenges and problems in contemporary Irish cinema: the Protestants.
March 22, 1999... The representation of minorities in narrative and documentary film has always attracted critical attention. Good reasons exist for this interest, since it is through such an examination we can judge how mainstream society - however defined, and...

A construction site queered: 'gay' images in new Irish cinema.
March 22, 1999... Despite a revival in film production since the relaunch of The Irish Film Board (1993) and the early work of the Northern Ireland Film Council (1991), the idea of Irish cinema is still problematic: it's less a completed building in which one...

Irish cinema at the crossroads: a filmmakers' symposium.
March 22, 1999... Since we felt it was important to include the views of Irish filmmakers as part of our overview of Contemporary Irish Cinema, we sent a questionnaire to several dozen producers, directors, screenwriters, and other filmmakers and film industry...

The International Beirut Film Festival.
March 22, 1999... The Arab world is not known for producing great films. Occasionally, a powerful one slips through but it rarely reaches any further than the international film festivals. Hoping to change that, a group of diligent cinema lovers created the...

Elizabeth.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Produced by Alison Owen, Eric Fellner and Tim Bevan; directed by Shekhar Kapur; screenplay by Michael Hirst; cinematography by Remi Adefarasin; production design by John Myhre; edited by Jill Bilcock; costume design by Alexandra Byrne; music by...

Shakespeare in Love.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Produced by David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein and Edward Zwick; directed by John Madden; screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard; cinematography by Richard Greatrex; production design by Martin Childs; edited by David Gamble;...

Happiness.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Produced by Ted Hope and Christine Vachon; written and directed by Todd Solondz; cinematography by Maryse Alberti; production design by Therese Deprez; edited by Alan Oxman; music by Robbie Kondor; starring Jane Adams, Elizabeth Ashley, Dylan...

The Thin Red Line.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Produced by Robert Michael Geisler, John Roberdeau and Grant Hill; executive producer, George Stevens, Jr.; written and directed by Terrence Malick, based upon the novel by James Jones; cinematography by John Toll; production design by Jack...

Woman with a movie camera: the films of Marina Goldovskaya.
March 22, 1999... The glasnost policies of the late Soviet period, the last Soviet period, 1985-1991, liberated Russian documentarists. With a burst of candid, exposure films they showed the public contemporary and historical themes once forbidden by the cinema...

Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Produced and directed by Kevin Brownlow and David Gill; narrated by Kenneth Branagh; music by Carl Davis. VHS, color and tinted black and white. Distributed by The Cinema Guild, 1697 Broadway, Suite 506, New York, NY 10019-5904, phone 1 (800)...

The War Symphonies: Shostakovich Against Stalin.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Directed by Larry Weinstein; with Valery Gergiev, The Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre; VHS, color, 80 mins. Distributed by Bullfrog Films, Box 149, Oley, PA 19547, phone (800) 543-3764. There is little...

The Adventures of Roberto Rossellini.(Review)
March 22, 1999... by Tag Gallagher. New York: Da Capo Press, 1998. 852 pp., illus. Paperback: $24.50. Among connoisseurs of classic European films, Roberto Rossellini's career is universally associated with the appearance of Open City in 1945 and the birth...

More Than Night: Film Noir and Its Contexts.(Review)
March 22, 1999... by James Naremore. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. 345 pp., illus. Hardcover: $45.00, Paperback: $19.95. If we are currently in the midst of a bull market in film book publishing - at one point last year, five of the ten...

Shocking Entertainment: Responses to Violent Movies.(Review)
March 22, 1999... by Annette Hill. Carbondale, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1997. 256pp., illus. Hardcover: $24.00. Shocking Entertainment offers a summary exploration of the processes by which viewers respond to film violence. Having gathered viewers...