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Film International - Volume 1, Issue 1, 2003
Volume 1, Issue 1, 2003
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Intermedial Variations in Ingmar Bergman's Writings and Films
More LessIngmar Bergman has been the subject of numerous books, but no-one has been allowed into his private collections. Until now. In this excerpt from her new book, Maaret Koskinen publishes documents and stills that reveals important aspects of the director and especially of his early work.
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The Perfect Money Machine(s): George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Auteurism in the New Hollywood
By Jon LewisTwo of the world's most successful and important filmmakers in the last thirty years, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, are also the most criticized. Jon Lewis looks back at two careers that has led Hollywood's march from renaissance to blockbuster ressurection.
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Genre Films and Cultural Myth
More LessWhether they are set in the past or in the future, on the mean streets of contemporary New York or long ago in a galaxy far away, genre movies are always about the time and place in which they are made. Inevitably, as Barry Keith Grant suggest in this essay, they are expressions of the cultural zeitgeist, instances of society engaging in dialogue with itself. Genre movies may reflect, reinforce, question or subvert accepted ideology, but viewers enjoy them as genre movies whether they fulfill, violate or thwart conventions and expectations.
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Nobody's Perfect: Billy Wilder and the Postwar American Cinema
More LessBilly Wilder's reputation as filmmaker is built on his tight, cynical and witty sceenplays. But where is Billy Wilder, the director? In this study of scenes from four filmsDouble Indemnity, Sunset Blvd, Some Like It Hot and The ApartmentWilliam Rothman looks for his signature.
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Peter Watkins' Culloden and the alternative form in historical filmmaking
More LessCulloden (1964) is considered a landmark production in British TV history. It also launched the career of controversial director Peter Watkins. In this essay Nicholas J Cull gives us the backstory to the film and its maker.
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The Last Battle: Peter Watkins on DVD
Authors: John R Cook and Patrick MurphyReleased on new DVD editions the very same day this issue is distributed (25 January), Peter Watkin's two celebrated films, Culloden and The War Game, are accessible to a wider audience again nearly forty years after they were made. John R Cook explains the significance of this event.
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