Film International - Volume 1, Issue 3, 2003

Biographical legend, national history and art cinema aesthetics make up the films of the Kaurismki Bros. Tytti Soila portraits the two filmmakers and explores the cultural context of their work.

Cinema should have been the perfect new art form for the Italian Futurists. Yet they made very few works in this new invention. Daniel Lindvall explains why they hesitated to use fllm and the photographic media in general.

What was the real reason behind BBC's banning of Peter Watkins' groundbreaking 1965 film, and who were the responsible behind this controversial decision? Patrick Murphy has found some revealing documents pointing to a chain of command all the way up to the highest political level: 10 Downing Street.

Although the mainstream have continually shunned his work, Xavier Mendik argues that there is far more to films such as The Toxic Avenger and Tromeo and Juliet that just blood and boobs.

What happens when Rasta intersects with yakuza, Ginza chic with that of Paris, Joseph Cornell with Stanley Kubrick? John Baxter plunges into the cyberpunk world five minutes into the future of William Gibson.

Michel Chion Eyes Wide Shut London: BFI 2003

Tony Lee Moral Hitchcock and the Making of Marnie Manchester: Manchester University Press 2002

Paula Rabinowitz Black & White & Noir: America's Pulp Modernism New York: Columbia University Press 2002

Gary Crowdus & Dan Georgakas (eds) The Cineaste Interviews 2: Film-makers, the Art and Politics of the Cinema New York: Cineaste 2002

John Baxter De Niro: A Biography London: HarperCollins 2002

Torben Grodal Filmoplevelse en indfring i audiovisuel teori og analyse Film experience an introduction to audiovisual theory and analysis Frederiksberg: Samfundslitteratur 2003

Lennard Hjbjerg & Peter Schepelern (eds) Film Style and Story A Tribute to Torben Grodal Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press 2003

Steve Neale (ed) Genre and Contemporary Hollywood London: BFI 2002

Geoffrey NowellSmith Luchino Visconti London: BFI 2003

John Trumpbour Selling Hollywood to the World: US and European Struggles for Mastery of the Global Film Industry, 19201950 Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002

David Lavery (ed) This Thing of Ours: Investigating The Sopranos London: Wallflower Press 2002

Fascinating Fascism Hero Ying xiong China 2002

An Actor's Revenge Yukinojo henge Japan 1962

DVD United Kingdom 2002

Bob le Flambeur France 1955

DVD USA 2002

La Commune (Paris 1871) France 2001

DVD France, 2002

Hearts and Minds USA 1974

DVD USA 2002

The Killers 2

The Killers USA 1946

The Killers USA 1964

DVD USA 2002

The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp United Kingdom 1943

DVD USA 2002

Solaris 2 Solaris Solyaris USSR 1972

DVD USA 2002

Solaris USA 2002

Straw Dogs USA 1971

DVD USA 2003