This issue pays tribute to Blake Edwards (1922 – 2010) by republishing some of most important essays and interviews to have appeared on Edwards over the past 50 years. These include articles by Peter Lehman and William Luhr, Andrew Sarris, Myron Meisel, Alain Masson, Dave Kehr, Charles Barr and many more.
Adieu, Mr Edwards.
First Release
“The China Film”: Madame Chiang Kai-shek in Hollywood by Jane Park
Tokens of Exchange, or The Cook, The Thief, The Wife and Lover: Marginal Asian Characters in 1920s Australian Cinema by Olivia Khoo
Working Within the System: An Interview with Gerry O’Hara by Wheeler Winston Dixon
Two Channels, Two Truths: Reporting the Iraq War in Control Room by Ursula Boser
‘Give It a Go You Apes’: Relations Between the Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals, and the Early Australian Film Industry (1954–1970) by Cathy Hope and Adam Dickerson
A tribute to Blake Edwards
Introduction to Reprints of Two Essays on Blake Edwards by Peter Lehman and William Luhr
Detecting, Defecting & Whistling in the Dark: The Films of Blake Edwards by William Luhr and Peter Lehman
“Crazy World Full of Crazy Contradictions”, Blake Edwards’ Victor/Victoria by William Luhr
On Blake Edwards by Myron Meisel
The Bitter Essence of Blake Edwards by Andrew Sarris
Sophisticated Naturalism by Jean-Francois Hauduroy
Ridicule and Panic: On Blake Edwards by Alain Masson
Blake Edwards, Switch, and the Price of a New Man by Adrian Martin
Topping the Topper: Blake Edwards by Raffaele Caputo
Strange Bodies: On The Great Race by Serge Daney
The Party by admin
You Can’t Keep A Good Auteur Down / Cruel To Be Kind by admin
The Party by admin
Classics and Re-runs
China’s New “Women’s Cinema” by Chris Berry
Reviews
Ford At Fox Part 3b by Bill Routt
Films by Gordon Ball (dvd review) by Wheeler Winston Dixon
Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento, Maitland McDonagh by Alexia Kannas
Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince, Mark A. Vieira by Anthony McKenna
Lost in Translation: Orientalism, Cinema, and the Enigmatic Signifier, Homay King by Belinda Smaill
Film Violence: History, Ideology, Genre, James Kendrick by Craig Frost
The Last Silent Picture Show: Silent Films on American Screens in the 1930s, William M. Drew by Jan-Christopher Horak
New Korean Cinema: Breaking the Waves, Darcy Paquet by Emily Ashman
Hidden Talent: The Emergence of Hollywood Agents, Tom Kemper by James Lyons
British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade, Laurel Forster and Sue Harper (eds) by Kevin M. Flanagan
Casablanca: Movies and Memory, Marc Augé (Translated and with an Afteword by Tom Conley) by Lan Xuan Le
English Filming, English Writing, Jefferson Hunter by Michael Fleming
Calling All Cars: Radio Dragnets and the Technology of Policing, Kathleen Battles by Sue Turnbull
The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia, James M. Welsh, Gene D. Phillips, and Rodney F. Hill (eds) by Tony Fonseca
Béla Balázs: Early Film Theory – Visible Man and The Spirit of Film, (Edited by Erica Carter, Translated by Rodney Livingstone) by Tyson Namow
Idols of Modernity: Movie Stars of the 1920s, Patrice Petro (ed.) by Wheeler Winston Dixon
Wake in Fright, Tina Kaufman by Gabrielle Murray
Neo-Noir, Mark Bould, Kathrina Glitre, and Greg Tuck (eds.). by Tony Williams
Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel, Carolyn Jess-Cooke and Constantine Verevis (eds.) by Kathleen Loock
On Michael Haneke, Brian Price and John David Rhodes (editors) by Josh Nelson