Issue 12 – First Release

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 March 2001 An anecdote... In the 1980s, the film study program I was teaching in received authorization to make a new hire. One of the candidates we brought…

[1] Uploaded 1 March 2001 Table of contents 1. The exigency of writing 2. On writing and directing 3. Lois Weber, writer of cinema 4. Lois Weber, writing exigence 5.…

Uploaded 1 March 2001 Preliminary reading [B]irds seem to combine the absence of emotion with irrational drive and therefore epitomize blind nature in contradistinction to the human, and this makes…

Uploaded 1 March 2001 The growing literature on Unforgiven (US 1992) suggests that the film attempts to examine several intersecting concerns. [1]  These include generic issues pertaining to the western, such as…

Uploaded 1 March 2001 Tarkovsky with a photograph of the house from The Sacrifice not the foreknowledge of death but the project of seeing conscious life rescued from death defines and…

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…

Uploaded 1 March 2001 Introduction This paper is an exploration of the pleasurable aspects of the visual and narrative dimensions of Jane Campion's cinema, especially for women. In what is…

Uploaded 1 March 2001 for Bill Krohn Edgar G.Ulmer (1904-72) suffered a series of strokes and toward the end of his life was almost totally paralyzed and unable to speak.…

Uploaded 1 March 2001 "It's a comedy about subjects which more easily lend themselves to tragedy (...)The Pick-Up Artist was more of a collaboration than any other film by far,…

Uploaded 1 March 2001 Jacques Becker's Le trou (The Hole France 1960) is a particular kind of sound film. It captures your ears, takes them and holds them weightless as it traces a sensory…

Uploaded 1 March 2001 Why did it become fashionable to say we are "reading" a film? One reads a score; one hears music. One may read a score while hearing,…