Cineaste articles from October 1 1994

Cineaste archives from October 1 1994

Revisiting high school: an interview with Frederick Wiseman. (Interview)
October 1, 1994... Frederick Wiseman's camera has been studying the structure and exercise of power in American institutions since 1967, when it probed the interactions at Bridgewater State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Massachusetts. The product was...

Who wrote 'Lawrence of Arabia?': Sam Spiegel and David Lean's denial of credit to a blacklisted screenwriter.
October 1, 1994... On two separate occasions--once during preproduction in 1960 and again during filming in 1961--the Sam Spiegel-David Lean production of Lawrence of Arabia nearly collapsed for lack of a script, coming perilously close to joining several...

Francesco Rosi: Italy's postmodern neorealist. (Cover Story)
October 1, 1994... In his latest film, Neapolitan Diary (1992), Francesco Rosi uses a variety of cinematic 'notes'--interviews, archival footage, fictional scenes, TV news clips, documentary sequences, personal reminiscence, and even a bit of tourist...

Investigating the relationship between causes and effects: an interview with Francesco Rosi. (Interview)
October 1, 1994... During his visit to New York in December 1993 for screenings of Neapolitan Diary at the Public Theater, Francesco Rosi was interviewed at the Italian Cultural Institute by Cineaste Editor Gary Crowdus. Simultaneous translation from the Italian...

Tragically hip: Hollywood and African-American cinema. (Race in Contemporary American Cinema, part 2)
October 1, 1994... In this second installment of a continuing Cineaste series, two African-Americans discuss their experiences in Hollywood and the challenges which they and other African-Americans face in the film industry. Our next issue will feature an article...

Integrating the film industry's craft unions: an interview with Grace Blake. (Interview)
October 1, 1994... Grace Blake has more than twenty-five years of experience in the film industry, over that period of time graduating from Production Coordinator to Executive Producer on theatrical and made-for-television feature films. She began her career as an...

So many alternatives: the alternative AIDS video movement.
October 1, 1994... In the twelve years since AIDS was first identified with a name, thousands of programs about the crisis have been produced by videomakers who work outside of commercial television.(*) Most critics, viewers, and producers refer to this large and...

People and politics, simple and direct: an interview with Tian Zhuangzhuang. (includes related article) (Interview)
October 1, 1994... Tian Zhuangzhuang is the latest of China's Fifth Generation filmmakers to gain international recognition, and it has proven, at best, a bittersweet experience. Following the success of Tian's The Blue Kite (1993) at Cannes and at North American...

Reflections of an Englishman abroad: an interview with John Schlesinger. (Interview)
October 1, 1994... The rise to prominence of the British director John Schlesinger during the late Sixties, and his subsequent fall from critical grace, provides an object lesson in how the commercial cinema has in the last twenty-five years become boringly...

A second look: 'The Red Shoes.'
October 1, 1994... By the time both the usual opening disclaimer ("Any resemblance to persons living or dead...") and the first image of the credits (a book titled "The Red Shoes by Hans Christian Andersen" with a candle burning next to it) have flickered by, The...

In the Name of the Father.
October 1, 1994... In Ireland, Jim Sheridan's In the Name of the Father has been a box office phenomenon, racking up admissions to a point where it is now second only to Spielberg's Jurassic Park in the list of all-time top grossers. Indeed, when the film was...

La Scorta.
October 1, 1994... In American gangster movies, the Mafia usually appears in loud, showy images. Within approaches as different as the high opera of the first two Godfather films (or the feeble comic book of The Godfather, Part III) or Martin Scorsese's sprightly...

Bhaji on the Beach.
October 1, 1994... Gurinder Chadha's first feature film, Bhaji at the Beach, is a work of social realism suffused in charm and a deft sense of comedy. Chadha speaks about owing an artistic debt to the English realist director Ken Loach (Riff-Raff), but she has made...

Savage Nights.
October 1, 1994... Produced by Jean-Frederic Samie; directed by Cyril Collard; screenplay by Collard based on his novel, Lee Nuits Fauves; cinematography by Manuel Teran; edited by Lisa Beaulieu; starring Cyril Collard, Romane Bohringer, Carlos Lopez, Maria...

Homevideo: Andrzej Wajda's war trilogy. (Polish film director)
October 1, 1994... Andrzej Wajda's first three features are at last available on video. And what better time for such a release than now, when the state-owned film industry in Poland has been interred and all but forgotten? It's a good moment to look back at some...

Second Circle.
October 1, 1994... Alexander Sokurov might introduce the main character in his 1990 film, Second Circle, simply by paraphrasing a famous passage from Dostoyevsky's Notes from the Underground. "The principal character in this film is, of course, fictitious," he...

My Name is Ivan.
October 1, 1994... Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986) is another of those deep dish Russian directors whose films you either love or hate. A fiercely uncompromising filmmaker with a singular artistic vision who refused to abide by the dictates of the Soviet film...

Shades of Noir.
October 1, 1994... As has often been pointed out, film noir is the only quasigeneric category which has its origins in serious film criticism rather than in the film industry itself or in the entertainment press, being first formulated in French film criticism in...

The Book of Film Noir.
October 1, 1994... As has often been pointed out, film noir is the only quasigeneric category which has its origins in serious film criticism rather than in the film industry itself or in the entertainment press, being first formulated in French film criticism in...

Black Popular Culture.
October 1, 1994... The self-confident assertions spawned by the Black Arts movement of the 1960s are being replaced by an increasing awareness of the diversity to be found within black communities, a critique of monolithic assumptions concerning racial identity (or...

Black American Cinema.
October 1, 1994... The self-confident assertions spawned by the Black Arts movement of the 1960s are being replaced by an increasing awareness of the diversity to be found within black communities, a critique of monolithic assumptions concerning racial identity (or...

Making Movies Black: The Hollywood Message Movie from World War II to the Civil Rights Era.
October 1, 1994... The self-confident assertions spawned by the Black Arts movement of the 1960s are being replaced by an increasing awareness of the diversity to be found within black communities, a critique of monolithic assumptions concerning racial identity (or...

Redefining Black Film.
October 1, 1994... The self-confident assertions spawned by the Black Arts movement of the 1960s are being replaced by an increasing awareness of the diversity to be found within black communities, a critique of monolithic assumptions concerning racial identity (or...

Cinemania. (CD-ROM containing 23,000 film reviews)(Software Review)
October 1, 1994... In the last few years, the CD-ROM has soared beyond the realms of computer hackers and landed in the workspace of the home consumer. With its vast storage possibilities--up to 300,000 single-spaced pages of text--and its ability to reproduce...

Magill's Survey of the Cinema. (CD-ROM containing 15,000 film reviews)(Software Review)
October 1, 1994... In the last few years, the CD-ROM has soared beyond the realms of computer hackers and landed in the workspace of the home consumer. With its vast storage possibilities--up to 300,000 single-spaced pages of text--and its ability to reproduce...

Images: My Life in Film.
October 1, 1994... Despite his premature retirement from filmmaking in 1983, Ingmar Bergman continues, at the age of seventy-five, to be immensely productive. He directs plays, writes novels and turns them into screen-plays (Best Intentions, Sunday's Children),...

Cinema of Solitude.
October 1, 1994... Historically, Mexican cinema has been one of the most important in Latin America in terms of the high number of films produced annually and their cultural weight. Nevertheless, Mexican cinema has been little studied in English. Now Charles...