Category Archive for: ‘Issue 3 – Reviews’

Neil McDonald & Peter Brune, 200 shots: Damien Parer, George Silk, and the Australians at war in New Guinea. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 1998. ISBN 1 86448 541 8 197 pp. A$39.95 Uploaded 29 May 1998 The ‘Foreword’ to this book is provided by Damien Parer himself. In a 1943 article he explained to the people back home what …

Donald F. Stevens (ed.), Based on a True story; Latin American history at the Movies. Wilmington DE: Scholarly Resources Inc, 1997. ISBN 0 8420 8482 0 239 pp Au$50.00 (hb) Uploaded 6 June, 1998 In a famous text for screenwriters Syd Field argues that adaptation relies on ‘NOT being true to the original’ (1982: 162). Whether it be fact or …

Melbourne University Film Society Uploaded 5 June, 1998 October 1998 will be the 50th anniversary of the first committee meeting of The Melbourne University Film Society (MUFS). March 1999 will be 50th anniversary of MUFS first screening (of the film Battleship Potemkin) at the University ofMelbourne ‘s Union Theatre. The Melbourne Cinematheque (the Cinematheque) is the successor to this original Melbourne …

Les McLaren & Annie Stiven Taking Pictures Distributed by Ronin Films, 1996. http://www.datatrax.com.au/roninfilms/ Uploaded 29 May 1998 Taking Pictures is a history of documentary filmmaking between 1969 and 1992 by non-Papua New Guinea (PNG) nationals. Inter-cut with original footage from 19 films made during this period are interviews with the filmmakers in which they remember what they were trying to do …

Peter Young & Peter Jesser The Media and the Military: From the Crimea to Desert Strike. Melbourne: Macmillan Press, 1997. ISBN 0 7329 4436 8 (hb) 0 7329 4435 (pb) Uploaded on 29 May 1998 The mutual contempt that the military and the media have for each other would always make for interesting reading. It is the sitcom I always …