Out of Oblivion: Chris Marker and Cinematic Memories of Israel in Dan Geva’s Description of a Memory
“It is an opportunity to film people and events that could be recalled at any time to affirm, lament, or challenge a moment in time in this troubled region.” A…
We Still Have to Work Just as Hard as Before: Michael Glawogger’s Workingman’s Death
“The tourist says that it’s a lot to carry and the worker agrees, then gets on with his work.” Fifteen years after the fall of the Iron Curtain and the…
The Immortality Blues: Talking with Fruit Chan About Dumplings
And other tasty subjects Fruit Chan’s Dumplings provoked unprecedented attention at the 2005 Melbourne International Film Festival, first and foremost because of its controversial and idiosyncratic narrative, but also because…
In the Realm of Natural Transcendence: Emir Kusturica’s Life Is a Miracle
Out of the pastoral Unlike the overwhelming majority of films about the war in the former Yugoslavia, Life Is a Miracle (Kad je zivot bio cudo) teems with character, passion and humour. Kusturica’s…
Beyond Subtitles: Some Thoughts on Viewing Foreign Language Films
It’s the visuals, stupid I was recently working on an article about Korean film at the Melbourne International Film Festival. The article was written for a Korean website, in English,…
Norbert, We Hardly Knew Ye: Rethinking the Late German Composer
He composed “Lili Marleen” and, oh yeah, hundreds of other songs and scores When Norbert Schultze, one of the most famous film composers of the twentieth century, died in 2002,…
