Author Archive for: ‘Roger Hillman’
Malick’s Music of the Spheres: The Tree of Life
The small but accelerating output of Terrence Malick has largely been approached via its visual poetry. Balancing this, each film has also brought a distinctive soundtrack, in particular the extended use of voice overs. The music channel has frequently combined an original score with increasingly long (unedited) excerpts from classical music. Via a brief survey of earlier Malick film scores, …
Read MoreFassbinder, and Fassbinder/Peer Raben
Uploaded 1 March 2001 Fassbinder and auteurism Fassbinder’s own indelible presence largely operated within a tightly knit, even claustrophobic, group of regular colleagues. Hanna Schygulla for one is remembered as Fassbinder’s frequent female lead to the point of eclipsing her work with other leading directors. But she was not alone, either among his casts or the rest of his troupe …
Read MoreFilm at the Millennium
Abstract Approaching the millennium, and in its immediate wake, a strong sense of historical lateness emerged, a very particular fin de siècle. In film history, this was immediately preceded by the milestone of 1995, with its retrospective gaze across the first century of cinema, complemented by a gaze into the future. And the rise of digital technology ensured that the circulation …
Read MoreAlexander Kluge: The Last Modernist
Peter C. Lutze, Alexander Kluge: The Last Modernist. Wayne State University Press. Detroit, 1998. ISBN 0 814326 560 (pb) 296pp US$29.95 (Review copy supplied by Wayne State University Press) Uploaded 30 June 2000 While Cinemedia’s holdings of Kluge’s films are wideranging, taking in both shorts and features, it would be interesting to know their current lending rate. In terms of …
Read MoreCelluloid Symphonies: Texts and Contexts in Film Music History
Julie Hubbert (ed.), Celluloid Symphonies: Texts and Contexts in Film Music History Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011 ISBN: 9 780 5202410 22 US$34.95 (pb) 528pp (Review copy supplied by University of California Press) This volume is a welcome addition to the literature on film and music. It runs to just under 500 pages, with 53 contributions (historical documents) assembled …
Read MoreBeyond the Subtitle: Remapping European Art Cinema
Mark Betz, Beyond the Subtitle: Remapping European Art Cinema. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2009 ISBN: 978-0-8166-4036-2 US$25.00 (pb) 384pp (Review copy supplied by University of Minnesota Press http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/B/betz_beyond.html) This book aptly starts with Susan Sontag and cinephilia, but any danger of retro wallowing in nostalgia is dispelled by p. 3: “What is dead…is…European art cinema as an …
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