Cineaste articles from September 2002

Cineaste archives from September 2002

Editorial.(factual accuracy in publishing)(Editorial)
September 22, 2002... "I think details of film fact are worth a letter," one of our readers recently commented in a lengthy missive that praised a book review published in Cineaste, while also pointing out "an unconscionable number of errors" that appeared in that...

The politics of American cinephilia: from the Popular Front to the age of video.
September 22, 2002... During a recent film series at the Queens-based American Museum of the Moving Image, which featured an eclectic mix of overlooked and downright obscure films selected by New York's most eccentric cinephiles, AMMI Curator David Schwartz added...

Preparing to live in the present: an interview with Hou Hsiao-hsien.(Interview)
September 22, 2002... Assembled from several encounters with Hon Hsiao-hsien over a period of months--an initial meeting at Columbia University in late 2001 and a subsequent follow-up at the Rotterdam Film Festival in February 2002--this interview concentrates on...

Shedding light on Darkness at High Noon.
September 22, 2002... Fourteen years ago, for this magazine, I wrote an article entitled "The Squishiness of Current Blacklist Documentaries." In it I criticized the makers of those documentaries for failing to ask and answer serious questions about their topic. I...

High Noon on DVD.
September 22, 2002... Made in 1951, on a small budget, High Noon would win four Academy Awards (Best Actor for Gary Cooper, Best Editing for Harry Gerstad and Elmo Williams, and Best Music and Best Song by Dimitri Tiomkin), and be acclaimed as one of the greatest...

Screenwriting with your eyes: an interview with Suso Cecchi d'Amico.(Interview)
September 22, 2002... Among the writing credits of Martin Scorsese's epic, rousing journey through postwar Italian cinema, II Mio Viaggio In Italia (My Voyage to Italy, 2001), there's a name most people assume belongs to a man--Suso Cecchi d'Amico. It doesn't. It...

Redefining Human Rights: The Human Rights Watch International Film Festival.
September 22, 2002... Since its inception in 1988, the International Film Festival has become the most radical and visible advocacy tool of Human Rights Watch, a privately funded, nongovernmental organization that monitors human-rights violations worldwide,...

Windtalkers. .(Movie Review)
September 22, 2002... Produced by John Woo, Terence Chang, Tracie Graham, Alison Rosenzweig; directed by John Woo; screenplay by John Rice and Joe Batteer; cinematography by Jeffrey Kimball; edited by Steven Kemper, Jeff Gullo and Tom Rolf; production design by...

The Piano Teacher. .(Movie Review)
September 22, 2002... Produced by Veit Heiduschka, Mann Karmitz and Alain Sarde; directed by Michael Haneke; screenplay by Michael Haneke, based on the novel by Elfriede Jelinek; cinematography by Christian Berger; production design by Christoph Kanter; edited by...

Changing Lanes. .(Movie Review)
September 22, 2002... Produced by Scan Rudin; directed by Roger Mitchell; screenplay by Chap Taylor and Michael Tolkin, based on a story by Chap Taylor; cinematography by Salvator Totino; edited by Christopher Tellefsen; production design by Kristi Zea; music by...

Bloody Sunday. .(Movie Review)
September 22, 2002... Produced by Mark Redhead; coproduced by Don Mullan and Paul Myler; directed by Paul Greengrass; screenplay by Paul Greengrass and Don Mullan, based on Don Mullan's Eyewitness Bloody Sunday; cinematography by Ivan Strasburg; edited by Ciare...

Monsoon Wedding. .(Movie Review)
September 22, 2002... Produced by Mira Nair and Caroline Baron; directed by Mira Nair; screenplay by Sabrina Dhawan; cinematography by Declan Quinn; edited by Allyson C. Johnson; production design by Stephanie Carroll; costume design by Arjun Bhasin; music by...

About a Boy. .(Movie Review)
September 22, 2002... Produced by Tim Bevan, Robert De Niro, Brad Epstein, Eric Fellner and Jane Rosenthal; directed by Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz; screenplay by Peter Hedges II, Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz, based on the novel by Nick Hornby; cinematography by Remi...

Triumph of the Will. (Homevideo).(DVD)(Video Recording Review)
September 22, 2002... Directed by Leni Riefenstahl. DVD, B&W, letterboxed format, 110 minutes. German dialog with English subtitles. Audio commentary by Dr. Anthony R. Santoro. Disc also includes Riefenstahl's Day of Freedom (1935), B&W, 17 mins. Produced and...

Juliet of the Spirits. (Homevideo).(DVD)(Video Recording Review)
September 22, 2002... Directed by Federico Fellini; screenplay by Federico Fellini, Tulilo Pinelli, Ennio Flaiano and Brunello Rondi; cinematography by Gianni di Venanzo; edited by Ruggero Mastrolanni; production and costume design by Piero Gherardi; starring...

The Ruling Class. (Homevideo).(DVD)(Video Recording Review)
September 22, 2002... Directed by Peter Medak; screenplay by Peter Barnes; cinematography by Ken Hodges; music by John Cameron; edited by Ray Lovejoy; starring Peter O'Toole, Alastair Slim Arthur Lowe, Harry Andrews, Coral Browne, Michael Bryant, Nigel Green,...

Wild Strawberries. (Homevideo).(DVD)(Video Recording Review)
September 22, 2002... Written and Directed by Ingmar Bergman; cinematography by Gunnar Fischer; music by Erik Nordgren; edited by Oscar Rosander; starring Victor Sjostrom, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, and Gunnar Bjornstrand; B&W, 90 mins. A Criterion Collection...

Z. (Homevideo).(DVD)(Video Recording Review)
September 22, 2002... Directed by Costa-Gavras; screenplay by Costa-Gavras and Jorge Semprun: cinematography by Raoul Coutard; edited by Francoise Bonnot; music by Mikis Theodorakis; starring Yves Montand, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Jacques Perrin, Charles Denner, and...

Letters.(Letter to the Editor)
September 22, 2002... Hearst's Propaganda Films While I am flattered by the kind words Thomas Schatz wrote about my book Hearst Over Hollywood (Vol. XXVII, No. 3), and pleased that he understood the overriding themes in my work, I find it necessary to correct a...

Playing the Race Card: Melodramas of Black and White from Uncle Tom to O.J. Simpson.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Linda Williams. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2001. 401pp., illus. Hardcover: $32.50. Linda Williams's Playing the Race Card began as a fairly conventional scholarly monograph on "the melodramatic imagination as...

The End of Cinema as We Know It: American Cinema in the Nineties.(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... Edited by Jon Lewis. New York, NY: NYU Press, 2001. 385 pages. Hardcover: $55.00 and Paperback: $18.95. I don't think it is an exaggeration to say that in recent years there has been something of a crisis in academic writing. While turgid,...

Hollywood and Anti-Semitism: A Cultural History Up to World War II. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by Steven Carr, London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.342 pp., illus. Hardcover: $70 and Paperback: $24.95. "What ground is there for thinking that the motion picture industry is in the despotic control of four or five...

How to Read a Film: Multimedia Edition. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)
September 22, 2002... by James Monaco. New York: Harbor Electronic Publishing, 2000. DVD-ROM Mac/PC Compatible. $39.97. www.Readfilm.com Across many cultures, throughout time, there has always been a tendency to revere the written word over visual means of...

Much ado about something. (Short Takes).(documentary film)(Movie Review)
September 22, 2002... In this engaging documentary, director and cameraman Michael Rubbo bravely sets off with his Betacam into a minefield already littered with the corpses of journalists who have dared to question that William Shakespeare wrote his own plays....

The Navigators. (Short Takes).(Movie Review)
September 22, 2002... Ken Loach has made a social-realist film with political bite and a great deal of humorous camaraderie and banter. It's a tragicomedy focusing on a group of Sheffield railroad-maintenance workers whose lives are transformed by the privatization...

Occupation. (Short Takes).(Movie Review)
September 22, 2002... At a time when victorious labor struggles are rare and corporate malfeasance is an everyday event, Maple Razsa and Pacho Velez's documentary is a stirring reminder that idealism and pragmatic organizing can still have a decisive impact....

The Town is Quiet. (Short Takes).(Movie Review)
September 22, 2002... Several recent films have dealt with the changing landscape of the European Union and the plight of immigrant communities. Michael Haneke's Code Unknoivn, Bruno Dumont's The Life of Jesus, and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's La Promesse all...

War Photographer. (Short Takes).(documentary)(Movie Review)
September 22, 2002... why photograph war?" Since war is dehumanizing, says James Nachtwey, the subject of this Oscar-nominated documentary, the photographer's uncompromising stare at its horrors gives it a human face and so helps to eliminate it. The response, both...

Hidden history, modern hedonism: The films of Hou Hsiao-hsien.(Critical Essay)
September 22, 2002... It's difficult to argue that he's neglected or underrated--not with his multiple international prizes, regular festival appearances, frequent film-society retrospectives, and a reputation, among critics and programmers who follow global...