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archive of contentsIssue No. 11, Dec 2000 - Jan 2001
editorial for Issue 11
World Favourites 2000 Compilation by Fiona A. Villella
Parts of this article are now hosted on the PANDORA archive of the National Library of Australia and Partners.Critics, programmers and filmmakers from around the globe list their film highlights for 2000.
Australian Favourites 2000
Parts of this article are now hosted on the PANDORA archive of the National Library of Australia and Partners.
Local critics and filmmakers give their most memorable Australian film for 2000.Compilation by Fiona A. Villella
Martha Ansara Tom Conyers Dean Francis
Jo Kennedy Marion Lee Adrian Martin
Bill Mousoulis Cherie Nowlan Julie Ryan
Fiona A. Villella Terrie Waddell Jake Wilson
Mr. Accident (Yahoo Serious)
Eastern European Cinema
Down There: Goran Rebic's Jugofilm (1997) by Adrian Martin
This article is now hosted on the PANDORA archive of the National Library of Australia and Partners.
A fascinating account of this curious Austrian film.The Country of Movies: An Interview with Dusan Makavejev by Ray Privett
Always a step ahead with his ingenious and subversive dismantling of political icons, Privett gets closer to the great Makavejev.
Jugofilm
Then You Just Do Your Work: An Interview with Boris Frumin by Ray Privett
Privett speaks to Soviet filmmaker and émigré, Boris Frumin.The Anatomy of Madness: Independent Documentary Film in Milosevic's Serbia by Boris Trbic
A fascinating discussion of independent film in a time of severe political oppression, only just recently overturned.
Taboo Serbia: An Interview With Janko Baljak by Boris Trbic
Trbic speaks to a filmmaker at the heart of Serbia's independent documentary scene.Janko Baljak
Hope Deep Within - Bela Tarr's Werckmeister Harmonies by Gabe Klinger
Klinger realises it's probably more fulfilling watching the films than speaking with the man.Just Who Owns the Shop? Identity and nationality in Obchod na korze by Andrew James Horton
Czech or Slovak? When consideration of a film's origin becomes a complicated affair.
Italian Cinema
Salò: 15 years of vision by Alberto Pezzotta
Italian writer, Pezzotta sheds light on Pasolini's infamous masterpiece.A Noble Ruin: Remembering De Sica by Dan Harper
Harper sensitively discusses an uneven yet prodigious career.Salò
Roberto Rossellini's Germany, Year Zero: A child's journey through the crumbling skeleton of war-torn Germany by Tina Marie Camilleri
A poignant reflection on transcendental neo-realism at its most haunting.Germany, Year Zero
Philosophy, Criticism & Film
Immanence And Transcendence In The Cinema Of Nature by Fergus Daly
An intriguing discussion of films that philosophise the human-nature relation.Vernon Young: Unpopular Critic of a Popular Art by Dan Harper
Harper looks back into the history of film criticism to uncover a notable critic.Sublime Moments by Paul Coughlin
What links Heidegger, Benjamin, Epstein and Willeman?
After LIfe (Hirozaku Kore-eda, 1998)
Jean Eustache
Desire & Despair: the Cinema of Jean Eustache by Jared Rapfogel
An Eustache retrospective was recently held in New York.
The Mother and the Whore (Jean Eustache, 1973)
DVD & Video
Out of the Past - Three French Films Released On DVD Reveal A Pristine Glory by Geoff Gardner
Gardner revels in the wonderful world of DVD.Video: Ten Gems From The $3 Weekly Shelves by John C. Murray
Murray's video recommendations.
Book Reviews
Movie Wars: How Hollywood And The Media Conspire To Limit What Films We Can See by Jonathan Rosenbaum Review by Steve Erickson
WR: Mysteries of the Organism by Raymond Durgnat Review by Benjamin Halligan
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Current Releases
Love and Swords: The Dialectics of Martial Arts Romance. A Review of Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon by Stephen Teo
O Brother Where Art Thou? by Michael Cohen
Show Me Love by Bill Mousoulis
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Dancer in the DarkDancer in the Dark by Rhys Graham
Charlie's Angels by Mark Freeman
Festivals, Markets, Screenings
To Market, To Market by George Papadopoulos
George recently returned from two of the biggest annual film markets in London and Milan.
Outsider Cinema - Observations on the 41st Thessaloniki International Film Festival by Cleo Cacoulidis
Cleo reflects on a festival to be proud of.The Jewish Film Festival.brings them in, and shows how to bring it off by Freda Freiberg
Freda explores the program of the annual Jewish Film Festival and its continued success.To be or not to be (a filmmaker)?: VCA graduate screenings by Fiona A. Villella
Fiona considers the graduating films by this year's film students.
Sunshine (part of Jewish film festival)
Documentary
Sex: The Annabel Chong Story by Dmetri Kakmi
Yep, it's still playing.Genghis Blues by Mim Whiting
A short review.Cinema Vérité: Defining the Moment by Katherine Speller
Revelling in vérité.
Genghis Blues
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