Issue 13 – Auteurism 2001

Uploaded 1 March 2001 I am speaking of the auteur in a strict sense of the term: the auteur of literary or artistic works. Not the auteur of a crime,…

Uploaded 1 December 2001 Chantal Akerman's most recent film, La captive (France/Belgium 2000), has been described as the latest contribution to a small cluster of works within her oeuvre that could be loosely…

Uploaded 1 December 2001 | Modified Friday, 11 January 2002 D-Day, 6 June 1944. John Ford was there. Twenty years later, he said it was the most vivid experience of…

Uploaded 1 December 2001 How inadequate I feel, watching Kenji Mizoguchi's movies! I want to feel closer to his people, the way I feel close to John Ford's cowboys, Jean…

[1] Uploaded 1 December 2001 A male director's relationship with his actress is almost always imbued with myth. Kenji Mizoguchi's (1898-1956) collaboration with Kinuyo Tanaka (1909-1977) is no exception. Stories…

Uploaded 1 December 2001 [T]heatre for Cassavetes restores that vital link between the spoken word, the script and physical actions that are forever rearranged in a surprising way, ready to…

Uploaded 1 December 2001 Violence, action, psychotic characters, the darker side of sexuality, confused realities and unstable, disturbing social spaces: this is the world of Paul Verhoeven's films. A mathematics…

Uploaded 1 December 2001 Whilst studying poetry at Columbia University in the early to mid 1970s, Jim Jarmusch took a sojourn to Paris where he discovered world art cinema at…

Uploaded 1 December 2001 'Marvelous,' Erik exclaimed. 'Just what we want - we should congratulate ourselves.' Hundreds of Bruce Hardings' photographs chronicling the Flaherty Seminar were splayed across my rustic…

Uploaded 1 December 2001 In the jargon of Canadian literary critic Northrop Frye, Joe Dante is a low-norm satirist. (High-norm satire, of which Horace would be a good example, is…