Category Archive for: ‘Issue 2 – Classics & Re-runs’

Introduction: Deane Williams These program notes, reprinted from the April 1933 bulletin of the Realist Film Association in Melbourne, Australia, were written for the screening there of the film Turksib, written and directed by Victor Turin in 1928-29. Turksib deals with one of the great achievements of the first Soviet Five Year Plan, the building of the Turkestan-Siberia railway to link …

Ultimatum: An Introduction to the Work of Nicole Brenez Adrian Martin In 1955, Jacques Rivette wrote: “It seems to me impossible to see Voyage to Italy [Roberto Rossellini, 1953] without receiving direct evidence of the fact that the film opens a breach, and that all cinema, on pain of death, must pass through it”. [1] The history of high level, theoretically-informed film criticism …

Introduction Into its short life, the cinema has compressed a development that the older arts have taken centuries to attain. Its scope is at least as wide as that of the printed word; for cinema includes not only the narrative film that constitutes the bulk of commercial production, but also the abstract film, the documentary film, the educational film, the …