Author Archive for: ‘Fincina Hopgood’

Lisa French (editor), Womenvision: Women and the Moving Image in Australia. Melbourne: Damned Publishing, 2003. ISBN: 1 876310 01 4 336pp Au$29.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Damned Publishing) Womenvision  makes an important contribution to writing on Australian cinema, one that continues the tradition of the landmark collection Don’t Shoot Darling! Women’s Independent Filmmaking in Australia  (Greenhouse Publications, 1987) edited by Annette Blonski, …

Kenneth Turan, Sundance to Sarajevo: Films Festivals and the World they Made. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. ISBN: 0 520 21867 1 192pp US$35.00 (hb) (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) At this year’s Melbourne international film festival, I brought along a film critic from the Los Angeles Times for company. Between screenings, I had Kenneth Turan regale me …

Raffaele Caputo & Geoff Burton, Third Take: Australian Film-makers Talk. Crows Nest: Allen & Unwin, 2002. ISBN: 1 86508 507 3. 224pp Au$27.95 (pb) (Review copy supplied by Allen & Unwin) Third Take is a valuable historical resource and an insight into contemporary filmmaking both in Australia and overseas. This is the second instalment in Raffaele Caputo and Geoff Burton’s series …