Senses of Cinema

Description d’un combat/Description of a Struggle (1960 Israel/France 60 mins) Prod Co: Wim van Leer/SOFAC Prod: Yitzhak Zohar Dir, Scr: Chris Marker Phot: Ghislain Cloquet, Mayer Levin, Bertrand Hesse Ed: Eva Zorz Narration: Jean Vilar, Howard Vernon, Alan Adair Memories are at…

May 24-29, 2005 Australian Shorts This year’s St Kilda Film Festival (SKFF), held in Melbourne’s famous beachside suburb, introduced some changes in the programming volume, selection and general conception that…

Im Kwon-Taek’s Chunyang (2000), a screen adaptation of an old Korean folk tale (1), was the first Korean film to have been included in the official Cannes competition, in the year 2000. This…

Kids Return (1996 Japan 107mins) Source: JIS Prod Co: Office Kitano Prod: Masayuki Mori, Takio Yoshida, Yasushi Tsuge Dir, Scr, Ed: Takeshi Kitano Phot: Katsumi Yanagishima Art Dir: Shibata Hirohide Mus: Joe Hisaishi Cast: Masanobu Ando, Ken…

A Generation (1954 Poland 85mins) 35mm Source: Screensound Prod Co: Film Polski Prod: Aleksander Ford Dir: Andrzej Wajda Scr: Bohdan Czeszko Phot: Jerzy Lipman Ed: Czeslaw Raniszewski Art Dir: Roman Mann Mus: Andrzej Markowski Cast: Tadeusz Lomnicki, Urszula Modrzynska,…

“Life in the movie business is like the, is like the beginning of a new love affair; it’s full of surprises, and you’re constantly getting fucked.” (1) The alchemy of business…

They Who Step on the Tiger’s Tail (Tora no o wo fumu otokotachi, 1945 Japan 58mins) Source: FSR Prod. Co: Toho Prod: Motohiko Ito Dir, Scr, Ed: Akira Kurosawa, after a kabuki Phot: Takeo Ito Art…

The vast majority of documentary films made throughout the ’90s and produced independently of state-controlled Serbian television and sponsored by independent media, small production houses and distributors consistently displayed a…

The Early Days: “We tried to draw the line between the regime and the people” Boris Trbic: What were the most important independent documentary films produced in the early years…

Great Expectations (1946 UK 118mins) Source: CAC Prod Co: Cineguild Prod: Ronald Neame Dir: David Lean Scr: Lean, Neame, Anthony Havelock-Allan Phot: Guy Green Ed: Jack Harris Art Dir: John Bryan Mus: Walther Goehr Cast: John Mills, Valerie Hobson, Francis L. Sullivan, Alec Guiness, Jean Simmons, Martita Hunt. Great…