bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Association of serum magnesium level with resistant hyperlipidemia in diabetic and hypertensive patients
Authors: Kaveh Pardis , Malekpour Tehrani Afsaneh , Mardani Saeid
Published: August 2019

Introduction: Both diabetes mellitus and hypertension are aspects of metabolic syndrome. Objectives: The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between serum magnesium level with resistant hyperlipidemia in a group of diabetic and hypertensive patients. Patients and Methods: The present cross-sectional study was carried out on 90 hypertensive and diabetic patients who referred to outpatient university clinic in Shahrekord (45 hypertensive and 45 diabetic patients). Included patients had high triglyceride levels despite 8 weeks of treatment with lipid-lowering agents. Results: There was an inverse significant relationship between serum magnesium and triglyceride levels in diabetic patients (P=0.002, r=-0.458), however, this correlation was not significant in hypertensive patients (P=0.754, r=0.048). Conclusion: This study showed, serum magnesium may affect triglycerides levels in diabetic patients, however, our finding requires further investigation with larger population.
Difficulties in histological diagnosis of a case of lymphoma secondary to acute renal failure in a nephrology department in sub-Saharan Africa
Authors: Cyr Guei Monlet , Hubert Yao Kouamé , Justin N’DahKouamé , Amelie Lagou Delphine , Melanie Tia Weu , Didier Konan Serge , Carole Choho , Patrick Diopoh Sery , Clément Ackoundou-N’Guessan Kan , Appolinaire Gnionsahé Dazé
Published: August 2019

Nephrology is a new discipline in sub-Saharan Africa. For a better management of various nephropathies, histological data are necessary in terms of diagnosis, therapy as well as prognosis. However, performing renal needle biopsy is very challenging. We are reporting inadequacy of human, material and financial resources for histological data collection through a case of 21-yearold patient with lymphoma complicated by acute renal failure (ARF).
Pelanggaran Prinsip Kesantunan Berbahasa pada Teks di Media Sosial
Authors: Jayanti Mey , Subyantoro Subyantoro
Published: August 2019

Tujuan penelitian ini adalah, 1) mendeskripsi bentuk pelanggaran tindak pengancaman muka positif, 2) mendeskripsi tindak pengancaman muka negatif pada tuturan teks media sosial berdasarkan teori Brown dan Levinson, 3) mendeskripsi strategi kesantunan dalam tuturan pada teks media sosial. Penelitian ini dilakukan pada tuturan teks media sosial facebook dan twitter tahun 2018. Metode yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini yakni metode deskriptif kualitatif. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan teknik catat. Tindak pengancaman muka positif pada teks media sosial facebook terdapat tiga subbidal, yaitu 1) ungkapan ketidaksetujuan, 2) ungkapan emosi, 3) ungkapan yang tidak sopan. Tindak pengancaman muka negatif pada teks media sosial facebook terdapat dua subbidal, yaitu 1) ungkapan peringatan, dan 2) ungkapan perasaan negatif. Tindak pengancaman muka positif pada teks media sosial twitter terdapat lima subbidal, 1) ungkapan ketidaksetujuan, 2) ungkapan emosi, 3) ungkapan yang tidak sopan, 4) ungkapan yang tidak kooperatif, dan 5) ungkapan yang menunjukan sebutan 2 data. Tindak pengancaman muka negatif pada teks media sosial twitter terdapat dua subbidal, yaitu 1) ungkapan peringatan, dan 2) ungkapan perasaan negatif. Strategi ketidaksantunan pada teks media sosial facebook dan twitter terdapat empat subbidal, yaitu 1) strategi tanpa basa-basi, 2) strategi kesantunan postif, 3) strategi kesantunan negatif, dan 4) strategi kesantunan tidak langsung. The purpose of this study is, 1) to describe the form of violation of positive face-threatening action and negative face-to-face on social media text texts based on Brown and Levinson's theory; 2) to describe the politeness strategy in speech on social media texts. This research was conducted on social media text texts facebook and twitter in 2018. The method used is qualitative descriptive method. Technique of collecting data using technique note. There are four subbidal faces in facebook text media, namely 1) expression of disapproval, 2) emotional expression, 3) impolite expression. Adverse action on facebook social media text there are two subbidal, namely 1) warning expression, and 2) expression of negative feelings. There are five subbidials, 1) expression of non- negative on the text of social media twitter there are two subbidal, that is 1) warning expression, and 2) expression of negative feelings. Strategy is generally done to reduce the threat to the self-image of the speaker, respect it and to reduce the threat. The politeness strategy on the social media text facebook and twitter there are four subbidal, that is 1) the strategy of no-nonsense, 2) the positive politeness strategy, 3) the strategy negative politeness, and 4) indirect indirection strategy.
Perlawanan Perempuan terhadap Dominasi Patriarki dalam Novel Geni Jora Karya Abidah El Khalieqy Kajian Feminisme Psikoanalisis Karen Horney
Authors: Nugroho Bayu Aji
Published: August 2019

Penelitian ini berjudul “Perlawanan Perempuan Terhadap Dominasi Patriarki dalam Novel Geni Jora Karya Abidah El Khalieqy Kajian Feminisme Psikoanalisis Karen Horney. Konflik perlawanan yang dilakukan oleh tokoh perempuan di analisis menggunakan teori psikoanalisis feminisme Karen Horney. Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mencari korelasi antara karakter perempuan dalam novel dengan perlawanan terhadap dominasi patriarki yang dialami perempuan. Metode dalam penelitian ini adalah metode Deskriptif Kualitatif, di mana peneliti berupaya mendeskripsikan hasil dari bacaan terhadap sumber data primer dan sekunder kemudian mengolah dalam bentuk data kualitatif. Secara teoretis peneliti menggunakan teori feminisme psikoanalisis Karen Horney yang menyatakan bahwa perlawanan perempuan didasarkan atas pola asuh dan lingkungan sosial di mana perempuan tersebut tinggal. Perlawanan perempuan secara psikoanalisis dibagi dalam tiga bentuk perlawanan antara lain, pergerakan mendekati orang lain, melawan orang lain, dan menjauhi orang lain. Dampak dari perlawanan tersebut, mengakibatkan perempuan mengalami berbagai macam mekanisme pertahanan diri seperti, pemindahan, sublimasi, identifikasi, represi, dan proyeksi. This research is entitled "Women's Resistance to Domination of Patriarchy in Geni Jora's Novel by Abidah El Khalieqy Study of Feminism in Psychoanalysis Karen Horney. Conflicts of resistance carried out by female figures were analyzed using Karen Horney's psychoanalytic theory. This research aims to find the correlation between female characters in the novel with resistance to patriarchal domination experienced by women. The method used in this research was a Qualitative Descriptive method, where the researcher attempted to describe the results of the reading of the primary and secondary data sources then processed them in the form of qualitative data. Theoretically, the researcher used the theory of psychoanalytic feminism Karen Horney who stated that women's resistance is based on parenting and the social environment where the woman lives. Psychoanalytic resistance of women was divided into three forms of resistance, among others, the way of approaching others, against others, and away from others. The impact of this resistance has resulted in women experiencing a variety.of self-defense mechanisms such as transfer, sublimation, identification, repression and projection.
Bangkok 2001
Authors: Toh Hai Leong
Published: August 2019

IN THE MOOD FOR FILMS: BANGKOK INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2001 The prospect of watching a good selection of indie films from more than 20 countries and the best of Thai shorts in competition should be attractive enough for most film buffs but the 4th Bangkok Film Festival (15th-25th November 2001) also promised the presence of the legendary director Wong Kar-wai and his star Leung Chiu-wai at the Gala opening film, In the Mood for Love (HK, 2000) in what is now one of Thailand's most important cultural events. Both honoured guests, however, failed to turn up to the disappointment of the eagerly-awaiting media and the many admirers at the grand opening. With hindsight, perhaps some other equally worthy film such as Kurosawa Kiyoshi's Pulse (Kairo, Japan, 2001) or Tsai Ming-liang's latest masterpiece, What Time Is It There? (Taiwan-France, 2001) should have taken pride of place instead, knowing the unpredictability...
Krzysztof Kieślowski's No End
Authors: Haltof Marek
Published: August 2019

REQUIEM FOR SOLIDARITY: KRZYSZTOF KIEŚLOWSKI'S NO END This is a film about people with bowed heads.Krzysztof Kieślowski(1) Immediately after martial law, it was not the best time to break with the artistic preferences of "moral concern." The country was again in need, the nation suffered, and the mothers shed tears.Waldemar Krzystek(2)...
The Cinema of Francesca Archibugi
Authors: Laviosa Flavia
Published: August 2019

THEMES AND MOTIFS IN THE CINEMA OF FRANCESCA ARCHIBUGI THE Italian cinema of the 1980s and 1990s has been characterized by a new trend labelled carineria. Enrico Magrelli defines this style as a form of creative aphasia that tries to metabolize fragments of the commedia all'italiana. He maintains that it imitates "the aesthetics of the reality-shows and talk-shows by exploiting cliché family chronicles and illustrating a catalogue of human passions" (Zagarrio 13). The carino genre has produced nice and sentimental films, criticized for revealing the contemporary directors' inability to narrate ambivalent, mysterious images or enigmatic ideas. This kind of cinema, denigrated with euphemisms such as "dignified, evasive, and promising" (Vitti 235), shows a disinterest in the exploration of the world of the soul and the mind, and insists on the complete removal of serious topics like history, politics or memory. Critics have defined Archibugi's cinema as carino (Sesti 1994)...
Nationalist Hindi Cinema
Authors: Vitali Valentina
Published: August 2019

NATIONALIST HINDI CINEMA: QUESTIONS OF FILM ANALYSIS AND HISTORIOGRAPHY The forty years or so from the beginning of cinema world-wide at the end of the nineteenth century to the consolidation of a domestic film industry in South Asia in the 1930s coincided with the project of nation-building that envisioned a variety of horizons, and with the sedimentation of some of those prospects into the coalition ready to inherit the rule from the British Raj. Cinema played a crucial role in mediating the terms by which India came into being as a modern nation. As Ernest Gellner saw it, it is the homogenizing effect of an economic system such as industrial capitalism, and, within it, the occupational mobility and the division of labour leading to the breaking down of pre-industrial, hierarchical, self-contained social categories, that lead to the "invention" of nationalism. With the advent and spread of capitalism, "culture is...
Five Easy Pieces
Authors: Stoneman Rod
Published: August 2019

THIS BRIEF and itinerate survey of the airwave spectrum, a somewhat arbitrary scan across the audio visual radar, takes a glancing read of some current films and television programmes. There should never be any inhibition or snobbery about the range or pluralism of the material we take seriously, in fact there is an imperative to attend to the things that most people watch. Even if these five fragments, very different pieces from different places in film and television, cannot possibly add up to a balanced overview, they form some part of the pattern of how things are now. 1) Kill BillAs the opening credits announce, this is indeed the fourth film by Quentin Tarantino; (it's worth remembering that Ford, Hawks and Huston used to produce that number every couple of years rather than over a decade and a half). But this is part of the enhanced self-promotion of...
The Struggle for a South African Film Audience
Authors: Botha Martin P.
Published: August 2019

IN THIS ARTICLE, the author aims to discuss the historical process which led to the fragmented nature of film audiences in South Africa presently. He examines the current status of film audiences and stresses the importance of audience development as an important option for the commercial growth of South African film industry. 1. Background and ContextThe years 1959 to 1980 had been characterised by an artistic revival in filmmaking throughout the world, ranging from exciting political films in Africa and Latin America to examples of great art cinema in Europe and Asia. National cinemas(1) emerged in Australia, West Germany, Iceland and New Zealand. In 1977 Iceland, for example, was nearly invisible on the map of world cinema. Few films were made there, but since the establishment of a national film commission similar to our NFVF (National Film and Video Foundation) an independent cinema emerged. Following the establishment of...
Nantes 2004
Authors: Dönmez-Colin Gönül
Published: August 2019

FESTIVAL DES 3 CONTINENTS NANTES 2004 Festival des 3 Continents (November 2004) in the Atlantic city of Nantes, France is the best place to be in late autumn for film lovers who seek to discover little-known territories and the program this year was no exception. Images of Afghanistan have been on our TV screens for some time thanks to Mr Bush, but who has ever seen an authentic Afghan film that pre-dates post-invasion co-productions? Latif Ahmadi's Hamesh Ishq (The Epic of Love, 1986), a Romeo and Juliet story involving two rival buskashi teams and Akhter Maskaneh (Akhter, the Joker, 1981) about a poor alcoholic clown whose humiliation by his rich ‘friends' leads him to crime were delightful to watch. Toryalai Shafaq's Mujasema ha Mekhandan (The Statues are Laughing, 1976), an existential tale about the predicaments of an artist was a revelation. Ishq Wa Dost (Love and Friendship, 1946) could easily...
Toronto 2005
Authors: Wee Brandon
Published: August 2019

30th TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2005 As the Toronto International Film Festival (8-17 September 2005) delights in what some insiders claim is a position second to Cannes, it would make sense to examine the substance of this claim. Industry broadsheets are increasingly enamoured of Toronto, which despite not having an official marketplace, has managed to achieve the desired status as a time-sensitive breeding ground for Hollywood to test market their latest titles. Moreover, to be positioned in the wake of a major continental spectacle like Cannes may present difficulties, since festivals perceived as challenging the European leader are often hard pressed to pay tribute through their own selections. As it happens, this year's Cannes' official victors shown at Toronto were featherweights - a reminder that no jury is beyond bias and that ‘prestigious' awards are sometimes concerned with conferring latent box office success than recognising intelligent merit. The overrated...
New Directing Voices in South African Cinema
Authors: Botha Martin P.
Published: August 2019

NEW DIRECTING VOICES IN SOUTH AFRICAN CINEMA: GRADUATES FROM FILM SCHOOLS IntroductionAlthough 1994 saw the birth of democracy in South Africa our film industry is much older; in fact, our great documentary film tradition dates back to 1896 and the Anglo Boer War.(1) While celebrating the past ten years of democracy we shouldn't forget those filmmakers, who created films against all the odds. Jans Rautenbach (Jannie Totsiens)(2), Ross Devenish (Marigolds in August)(3) and the younger generation of the 1980s challenged moral and political censorship, a severe lack of audience development and inadequate film distribution to shape progressive texts, which became the foundation of a new, critical South African cinema during the 1990s. Publications by Balseiro and Masilela (2003), Botha and Van Aswegen (1992), Blignaut and Botha (1992), Botha and Dethier (1997), Davis (1996), Gutsche (1972), Louw and Botha (1993) and Tomaselli (1989) documented developments in South...
Pierrot le fou DVD
Authors: Uhde Jan
Published: August 2019

Despite the proliferating production of DVDs of all kind - bare-bone titles, directors' cuts, discs with special material, collector's editions, digital transfers and restorations, "ultimate" collections, not to mention bootleg ware and the new blu-ray and high-definition discs - there are still many missing pieces in the DVD mosaic which include even the most significant milestones of cinema's not-so-long history. Who would believe, for example, that Erich von Stroheim's American silent classic Greed is still unavailable on DVD or that the DVD of Luchino Visconti's Ludwig would exist only on PAL-Region 2 in the German-Italian language? Some of the long overdue titles, however, are coming out. Most recently, Bernardo Bertolucci's brilliant and neglected The Conformist has in recent months appeared on the shelves as well as his historical opus 1900 (in a 315-minute uncut original version). Criterion has published Buñuel's Viridiana and Louis Malle's famous "adolescent trilogy": Murmur of the Heart,...
Churchill's Island and 'Bush's Island'
Authors: Nellis Robert Christopher
Published: August 2019

CHURCHILL'S ISLAND AND REFLECTIONS UPON 'BUSH'S ISLAND' AND THE 'WAR ON TERROR' In those fateful autumn days of 1940 when none knew what terror the skies might hold, there appeared from end to end of Britain the strangest fighting force the world has ever seen, an army of citizens, self-organized, self-disciplined. Their armament? Hoses, stirrup pumps, sand bags, brooms, and buckets. Their purpose, to save their town, their city, their community from the fate of Rotterdam and Warsaw. (Legg, 1941) These words are part of the narration from a classic Wartime documentary film, a propaganda film if you will, called Churchill's Island (Legg, 1941). It is not a British film as one may imagine, but is, in fact, an early effort of the National Film Board of Canada, an example of one of its Wartime 'patriotic' (National Film Board of Canada, 2003) films. Churchill's Island was successful...
On the Road to Multiculturalism
Authors: Hoecherl-Alden Gisela
Published: August 2019

ON THE ROAD TO MULTICULTURALISM: CHALLENGING CONCEPTS OF NEUTRALITY AND TOLERANCE IN SWISS-GERMAN CIEMA Switzerland, which prides itself on its political neutrality, democratic ethos and multilingualism, has long been celebrated as a unique model for the peaceful co-existence of diverse cultural groups residing within autonomous cantons (see Altermatt et. al. 1998). Yet by exploring the national culture, transgressing boundaries, and mapping life-transforming experiences, three Swiss-German films challenge this commonly accepted image of their nation. Although not road movies in the sense that the primary movement is shot from a vehicle's point of view (see Laderman 2002: 13), the films Die Schweizermacher (The Swissmakers, Switzerland, 1978) by Rolf Lyssy, Reise der Hoffnung (Journey of Hope, Switzerland-Turkey, 1990) by Xavier Koller, and Pastry, Pain and Politics (Switzerland, 1998) by Stina Werenfels nevertheless integrate road imagery and mobility into their political and visual narratives. The journeys undertaken are "a means of cultural...
Tokyo 2005
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

TOKYO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2005 Credit festival chairman Tsuguhiko Kadokawa with the remarkable revival of the Tokyo International Film Festival (TIFF). Three years ago, when the Kadokawa Group (the "Japanese Bertelsmann" in some literary circles) expanded its publications-and-media base to rejuvenate a then moribund national film event, Tsuguhiko Kadokawa, together with Yusuke Okada (executive committee chairman), pulled out all the stops to assure that TIFF would become a key international festival on both the world and Asian film scenes. "I like to think of the Tokyo International Film Festival as the mirror of the world cinema industry," Kadokawa stated in his address penned for the festival catalogue. And, indeed, the 18th Tokyo International Film Festival (22-30 October 2005) was one for the books. A balanced slate of 15 art and entertainment films competed for the renamed Tokyo Sakura (Cherry Tree) Grand Prix, with its US$100,000 purse going to the...
La double vie de Veronique DVD
Authors: Uhde Jan
Published: August 2019

A real surprise for all film aficionados is this set of Kieślowski's chef-d'œuvre issued by the respected MK2 (Marin Karmitz), featuring an HD restoration with three hours of supplements, including interview with Irène Jacob, Ruben Korenfeld's 53-minute unpublished documentary Kieślowski - Dialogue (1991), and three Kieślowski shorts: Fabryka (Factory, 1970); Szpital (Hospital), 1976; and Dworzec (Railway Station, 1980). [The UK DVD issue of Veronique (Artificial Eye) was made available within months. Criterion isued a Region 1 edition late in 2006.]...
Eroticon DVD
Authors: Uhde Jan
Published: August 2019

THE FILM WORLD is familiar with Gustav Machatý's Ecstasy (Extase, 1932) with Hedy Lamarr (b. Kiesler) that became famous as the first mainstream movie featuring full frontal female nudity. This probably contributed to the fact that the director's earlier silent feature Erotikon (1929) is much less known, despite being called "the most important Czech film of the silent era."...
Interview with Filmmaker Pat Murphy
Authors: Bell Desmond
Published: August 2019

FILMMAKER Pat Murphy began studying art at the Ulster College of Art and Design and was the first European to spend a scholarship year at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She holds an MA in Film and Television from the Royal College of Arts, London. Pat Murphy was a founder board member of Film Base in 1987, and has taught Film Studies and Film History at a number of institutions. She is currently a lecturer in Film Studies at Queens University Belfast. Her Films include Maeve (1981) Anne Devlin (1984) and Nora (2001) which was selected for the Berlin Film Festival and won the First prize at the Trieste Film Festival for Best Script. (1) SOURCES Desmond Bell: Pat - where did the idea for the film Nora come from? Pat Murphy: It originally came from Brenda Maddox's book of the same name.(1) I...
Cinema and Visual Studies in the Digital Era Blue
Authors: Grønstad Asbjørn
Published: August 2019

'NO ONE GOES TO THE MOVIES ANYMORE:'(1) CINEMA AND VISUAL STUDIES IN THE DIGITAL ERA BLUE WITHIN the variegated domain of media studies, convergence seems to be one of the buzzwords of the day. Forms that were previously discrete entities merge into new constellations, in the process uprooting the entire ecosystem of the media. Business conglomerates merge, on the cultural horizon new technologies continuously emerge, and the different artistic practices flow seamlessly into each other to produce works that are thoroughly hybrid and transaesthetic. The landscape of the arts and the media already looks radically different from what it did less than a decade ago. Coinciding with all these changes is another and – in Europe, at least – perhaps less heralded kind of convergence, which is first and foremost institutional and disciplinary in nature. This is the relatively recent appearance of the field of visual studies, also...
Interview with Lenny Abrahamson and Mark O'Halloran
Authors: Tracy Tony
Published: August 2019

IN SEARCH OF THE SUBTEXT: INTERVIEW WITH LENNY ABRAHAMSON AND MARK O'HALLORAN DIRECTOR Lenny Abrahamson and writer Mark O'Halloran are widely acknowledged as two of the most original and exciting young voices in Irish cinema. They first collaborated on Adam and Paul (2004); a bleak but also blackly-humorous portrait of Dublin drug addicts caught in a spiral of fixes and failures. This grim scenario was substantially leavened by quirky and unexpected interludes of absurd dialogue and situations interspersed with moments of tenderness and genuine sympathy for the protagonists' hopeless fate. The film marked a return to working class themes and characters in Irish cinema and signalled a departure from the generic and rural narratives that increasingly dominated Irish film production during the 1990s. The film's originality and sophisticated sensibility was acknowledged in its widespread success at film festivals and among the Irish viewing public and it has since...
Subtle Varieties of Love within Cecil B. DeMille's Samson and Delilah (1949)
Authors: Kozlovic Anton Karl
Published: August 2019

EXPLORING THE SUBTLE VARIETIES OF LOVE WITHIN CECIL B. DeMILLE'S SAMSON AND DELILAH (1949) Introduction: Cecil's Samson SagaProducer-director(1) Cecil B. DeMille(2) (1881-1959), affectionately known as CB, was a co-founder of Hollywood, a progenitor of Paramount studio and an unsung auteur who helped turn an obscure Californian orange grove into a major movie centre that became the synonym for commercial filmmaking worldwide.(3) Not only did DeMille help institute "the Age of Hollywood" (Paglia 1994, 12), but this pioneering "auteur of auteurs" (Vidal 1995, 303) became the master of the American biblical epic with such indelible classics as The Ten Commandments (silent), The King of Kings, Samson and Delilah and The Ten Commandments (sound). Not surprisingly, he was subsequently tagged "King of the epic Biblical spectacular" (Finler 1985, 32), the "high priest of the religious genre" (Holloway 1977, 26) and the "arch apostle of spectacle" (Clapham 1974,...
Karlovy Vary 2008
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

KARLOVY VARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008 A Festival for Independents One glance at the line-ups of the top A-category competition film festivals, and you can rate and measure – even criticize – them for their respective portfolios carried proudly on their backs. Cannes is honoured as an authentic "auteur festival," respected each May for discovering new directorial talent while furthering the careers of past auteur directors even when they are evidently over the hill. Venice, praised as a "director's haven," scores among veteran festivaliers as a laid-back September rendezvous for cult directors at the end of summer, a must for cineastes. Berlin likes to promote its "Hollywood image," using its February dates to book as many box-office hits of the previous Christmas season as slots will allow, knowing full well that LA producers easily benefit from a Berlinale festival launch before their films hit the lucrative German screens....
Puchon 2008
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

PUCHON INTERNATIONAL FANTASTIC FILM FESTIVAL 2008 Asked by by a Korean colleague if I would be willing to serve on the international jury for the 12th Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival (7–18 July 2008) – "PiFan" for short – I responded that I wasn't quite sure what a "fantastic" film is in the first place. Not a problem, he said, for he had heard that grouse often enough before. As it turned out, when I arrived at this bustling satellite city on the outskirts of Seoul (now known officially as Bucheon instead of Puchon), there, above a prominent "PiFan" logo, was a banner that highlighted "Love, Fantasy and Adventure" as the festival's all-embracing theme. Further, in PiFan's 200-page catalogue you could find concisely penned film notes that underscored the fantastic elements in 215 films from 39 countries, including 17 world premieres and 15 international premieres. Indeed, there is –...
Toronto 2008
Authors: Wee Brandon
Published: August 2019

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2008 Reflecting tough economic times, Toronto's 33rd annual edition presented a leaner program, substituting less films with multiple screenings as a trade off. Yet, this didn't deter criticism that the festival has gone to the dogs, with at least one local tabloid observer accusing it of elitism. Among this year's programme highlights: a stellar selection of Japanese titles represented across the festival's several sections, and a rare screening of a Lino Brocka film. Less compelling was the festival's inaugural commitment to the cinemas of Southeast Asia, for none of this year's representative Filipino and Thai titles were remarkable. Elsewhere however, there were exceptions: Achilles and the Tortoise (Kitano Takeshi, Japan 2008) Opening with a dramatic first act about Machisu, a boy whose dreams of being a painter are thwarted by the death of his rich parents, Kitano Takeshi's latest film then...
Hana Bi
Authors: Toh Hai Leong
Published: August 2019

Hana Bi (Fireworks, 1997). Japan. Dir: Takeshi Kitano. Cast: Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi, Susumu Terajima, Tetsu Watanabe, Hakuryu Minato-ku. After winning the Golden Lion at last year's Venice Film Festival, the elegiac and violent yakuza-cop film Hana-Bi (Fireworks) by Japanese director (Beat) Takeshi Kitano drew a full crowd at its preview at the Academy Theatre on a frosty morning in Pusan last October. The full house testified to the power of a Kitano film which now commands a loyal following verging on the fanatical. In fact, his films attract far more viewers than the cult films of Quentin Tarantino such as Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction. Kitano's films are characterised by his uncanny ability to create, like in the eye of a storm, a quiet beginning which is suddenly whipped into a ferocious chain of events. However, they have none of the sadness of Hou Hsiao-hsien's landmark gangster...
Berlinale 2008
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

58th BERLINALE 2008 Box Office BonanzaWill it ever end? During his seven years as Berlinale director, Dieter Kosslick's festival tenure is annually boosted by success at the box office. Following the close of the 58th Berlin International Film Festival (7-17 February 2008), bonanza statistics were promptly released to the press. The 58th Berlinale recorded an overall audience of 430,000, of which some 230,000 purchased tickets, thus exceeding last year's record by more than 6,000. The number of visiting film professionals (exhibitors, sales agents, industry representatives) increased to 20,000 from 125 countries, topping last year's total of 19,155. The number of accredited journalists rose to 4,105. The sum of public screenings also rose to 1,256, compared with 934 screenings in 2007. Only the number of films participating in this year's official programs dipped in comparison to last year - down from 396 to 383 - but even this adjustment...
Polish Feature Film after 1989
Authors: Miczka Tadeusz
Published: August 2019

CINEMA IN THE LABYRINTH OF FREEDOM: POLISH FEATURE FILM AFTER 1989 “Freedom does not exist. We should aim towards it but the hope that we will be free is ridiculous.”Krzysztof Kieślowski1 This essay is the continuation of my previous deliberations on the evolution of the Polish feature film during socialist realism, which summarized its output and pondered its future after the victory of the Solidarity movement. In the paper “Cinema Under Political Pressure…” (1993), I wrote inter alia: “Those serving the Tenth Muse did not notice that martial law was over; they failed to record on film the takeover of the government by the political opposition in Poland. […] In the new political situation, the society has been trying to create a true democratic order; most of the filmmakers’ strategies appeared to be useless. Incipit vita nova! Will the filmmakers know how to use the...
Short Filmmaking in South Africa
Authors: Botha Martin P.
Published: August 2019

SHORT FILMMAKING IN SOUTH AFRICA AFTER APARTHEID Historical ContextAlthough 1994 saw the birth of democracy in South Africa the South African film industry is much older. In fact, our great documentary film tradition dates back to 1896 and the Anglo Boer War(1). Surprisingly only a few books have been published regarding the history of one of the oldest film industries in the world and one of the largest on the African continent. Between 1910 and 2008 1434 features were made in South Africa (Armes 2008). Approximately 944 features were made in the period between 1978 and 1992, as well as nearly 998 documentaries and several hundred short films and videos (Blignaut & Botha 1992). South African film history is captured in a mere twelve books. Developments in early South African cinema (1895 - 1940) have been chronicled in Thelma Gutsche's The History and Social Significance of Motion...
Shot Transitions and Narrative Logic in Hitchcock's Rope
Authors: Mather Philippe
Published: August 2019

SHOT TRANSITIONS AND NARRATIVE LOGIC IN HITCHCOCK'S ROPE Rope (1948, Alfred Hitchcock) belongs to a group of films including Lady in the Lake (1947, Robert Montgomery) which, in the history of classical Hollywood cinema, have experimented with the conventions of the continuity editing system, hoping perhaps to achieve a heightened spectatorial identification with the narrative, through a consistent use of the point-of-view shot for instance, or a seemingly uninterrupted long take with camera movement. These experiments are informative in that they tend rather to confirm the established system's apparent neutrality, its ability at "invisible" narration. I will argue that Rope's attempts at creating "hidden" cuts, chiefly through camera movement and close-ups of a jacket, result in defamiliarizing classical découpage: the "hidden" cuts become much more noticeable than those involving eyeline matches, for example. Firstly, there are technological factors which play a role in determining the way in which a...
Criterion and Others
Authors: Uhde Jan
Published: August 2019

THE DVD MEDIUM, born a decade ago, has by now considerably broadened its content range to what one could only dream about just a few years ago. Masterpieces of world cinema new and old, movies forgotten, prohibited, censored, damaged or presumed lost, are now available on the small inexpensive silver discs in increasing quantities. Among the growing numbers of DVD publishers, some have earned worldwide reputation for the choice of content and superior technical quality of their output. The most noticeable among them is the Criterion Collection which has been distributing films of exceptional quality since 1984. By early 2009, Criterion had published over 460 outstanding DVD titles. Other companies fuelled by similar ambition have joined their ranks. Their discs have significantly contributed to the DVD revolution. The following are just a few examples of the recent output of remarkable titles....
The Art of Creative Scriptural Extrapolation
Authors: Kozlovic Anton Karl
Published: August 2019

THE ART OF CREATIVE SCRIPTURAL EXTRAPOLATION: BITHIAH, MERED AND I CHRONICLES 4:18 WITHIN CECIL B. DE MILLE'S THE TEN COMMANDMENTS (1956) DeMille: Master of the American Biblical Epic THE LEGENDARY Cecil B. DeMille(1) (1881-1959), affectionately know as "CB," was a seminal cofounder of Hollywood and a progenitor of Paramount studio who helped turn an obscure Californian orange grove into a major US movie production centre that became the synonym for filmmaking worldwide.(2) Not only did this pioneering "auteur of auteurs"(3) help institute "the Age of Hollywood,"(4) and is today considered "one of the comparatively few filmmakers who might justifiably be described as a 'household name'"(5), but he also earned an international reputation as the master of the American biblical epic and awarded such honorific tags as: "King of the epic Biblical spectacular,"(6) the "arch apostle of spectacle,"(7) the "high priest...
Osian's Cinefan 2009
Authors: Dönmez-Colin Gönül
Published: August 2019

OSIAN'S CINEFAN 2009 Celebrating its eleventh birthday in New Delhi, Osian's Cinefan Film Festival (25-30 October 2009) started its second decade with a new direction, well-known independent filmmaker Mani Kaul as the director-general, and an eclectic program that stretched over several continents. Founded in 1999 as a small festival of Asian cinema by Aruna Vasudev, the president of Netpac (Network for Promotion of Asian cinema) and the founder and editor-in-chief of the now defunct Cinemaya Asian Film Quarterly, Cinefan gradually enlarged its scope to include Arab cinema as well and has become one of the largest festivals of contemporary Asian and Arab cinema in the world. This year, the thirteen first, second or third films 'InCompetition' from Asian and Arab world included two films from Turkey: a highly experimental film, Knot by Uigur Asan and There by Hakk Kurtulu and Melik Saraçolu, with overt influences of Ingmar Bergman. The...
Mad Max, Reaganism and The Road Warrior
Authors: Winn J. Emmett
Published: August 2019

IN 1981 THE AUSTRALIAN-MADE FILM The Road Warrior drove into the US film market.(1) The film was well received and quickly became, at that time, the most popular Australian movie ever released in the US, and since its debut has played regularly on US cable television.(2) Much has been written about the international success of this film and its predecessor, Mad Max, and the last in the trilogy Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.(3) Contributing to that body of research, this paper addresses the American success of this Australian film within the cultural/political context of the US at the time of its North American release, and discusses its resonance with Reaganism. The fundamental goal of this examination is to situate the films in the larger context of cultural hegemony. The importance of this study lies in the critique of these films as they aid us in understanding the...
The Woman Who Made Hollywood
Authors: Schwartzman Roy
Published: August 2019

THE great motion pictures of the silent era unseen by generations which have known only "talking pictures" had about them an unforgettable hypnotic, luminous quality that held audiences in thrall. Tales of heroic characters whose lives were caught up in adventure, adversity, and romance -- where the poor were put upon but valiant and the rich provided satisfactions to be strived for -- captured the imagination of audiences everywhere who suffered and triumphed along with their favourite players whom they loved and adored....
Aspects of Chinese Cinema Today
Authors: Toh Hai Leong
Published: August 2019

1. THE TAIWANESE ANTONIONI: TSAI MING-LIANG'S DISPLACEMENT OF LOVE IN AN URBAN ENVIRONMENT NO, Tsai Ming-liang is not in fact Taiwanese. The bespectacled 40-year-old bachelor was born in Kuching, Sarawak (East Malaysia) and only came to Taiwan for a college education. After graduating with a degree in drama and film in Taiwan's University, he settled there and impressed critics with several experimental plays and television movies such as Give Me A Home (1988), The Happy Weaver(1989), My Name is Mary (1990), Ah Hsiung's First Love(1990). He made a brilliant film debut in 1992 with Rebels Of The Neon God and his film Vive l'amour shared Venice's Golden Lion for Best Film with Milcho Manchevski's Before The Rain (1994). Rebels of the Neon God, a film about aimless and nihilistic Taipei youths, won numerous awards abroad: Among them, the Best Film award at the Festival International Cinema Giovani (1993), Best...
Zhang Yimou's Shanghai Triad
Authors: Ng Yvonne
Published: August 2019

Just when it seemed as if every variety of the gangster genre had been played out, Mainland Chinese director Zhang Yimou sprang a pleasant surprise with his film Shanghai Triad (Yao a yao yao dao wai po qiao, 1995). The film is probably the last collaboration between the director and Gong Li, the leading actress in all his previous films(1) and his off-screen partner until the completion of this film. Few gangster movies have been made in recent years that equal the film in its freshness, style, intelligence, sensual and lyrical beauty. However, in his interview with Zhang at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival, Nigel Andrews reported that Zhang's latest film had been indifferently received by critics who thought no more of it than "just a gangster film" and a mere waste of the director's talent(2). Though under-appreciated as a gangster film, Shanghai Triad's merit has not been totally ignored....
Nosferatu the Book
Authors: Pratley Gerald
Published: August 2019

THIS IS is a very curious novel, masquerading as a biography, about the German film director, F. W. Murnau, remembered for his legendary horror film, Nosferatu and his American classic, Sunrise. The author describes his book as "a work of imagination" and "an original life" and this leaves the reader wondering just what is true and what is invented. This is not without interest as we wander the streets and the UFA studios of Berlin during the twenties but how much is Murnau, and what is not, in conversations rendered and behaviour described, is open to question. In tones somewhat impressionistic in the German film tradition, Murnau remains shadowy and elusive....
Notes
Authors: Pratley Gerald
Published: August 2019

AND NOW A WORD ABOUT BIOGRAPHY During the Fifties the number of books published dealing seriously with the cinema, including biographies of filmmakers, was never more than a trickle. Students of film and its enthusiasts looked forward eagerly to new volumes coming out along with the very few journals devoted to the thoughtful consideration of motion pictures: (Sight and Sound (BFI)), Film (UCLA). Television was seldom in the publishing picture at that time other than in commercial magazines. What literature became available about film during these years was easy to keep up with; there was time to read the books and magazines thoroughly, and without having to spend an entire pay cheque every week to purchase them. Contrast this situation with today; the trickle is a constantly running tide, film and tv books in English of all kinds pour from the regular presses, at one end, and from the...
In Praise of Tim Burton
Authors: Woof William
Published: August 2019

IN PRAISE OF TIM BURTON: FINDING THE MASTERPIECE IN MARS ATTACKS "Science fiction is a literary province I used to visit fairly often; if I now visit it seldom, that is not because my taste has improved but because the province has changed, being now covered with new building estates, in a style I don't care for. But in the good old days I noticed that whenever critics said anything about it, they betrayed great ignorance.... A great many writers use it for satire; nearly all the most pungent criticism of the American way of life takes this form, and would at once be denounced as un-American if it ventured into any other. C.S. Lewis"(1) Published two years before his death in 1963, Lewis's comments on critical methods and practices were written in order to highlight the dangers of pigeonholing the entire corpus of a popular...
Johnnie To Kei-Fung's Where a Good Man Goes
Authors: Wong Vicky
Published: August 2019

REVERTING TOSOCIAL ORDER BY CONTAINMENT: JOHNNIE TO KEI-FUNG'S WHERE A GOOD MAN GOES The 1999 Hong Kong International Film Festival hailed the Hong Kong director Johnnie To Kei-Fung as a Director in Focus, featuring eleven of his films. The opening film of the Festival was his world premiere, Where a Good Man Goes, casting Lau Ching-wan and Ruby Wong, telling a story of the return of a prodigal son. The film, in short, evolves around a central theme "home". The author of this article suggests that this "home" is of the concept of a traditional home held by the Chinese, from ancient days to the present, and is also patriarchal. The film's story also tells of the "grand narratives" governing the order of the Chinese society since the early ages, which incidentally coincide with the Western view, that no evil can escape judgment and if a prodigal son returns,...
Singapore Cinema: Director Eric Khoo Speaks Up
Authors: Uhde Jan , Ng Yvonne
Published: August 2019

ERIC KHOO was born in 1965 to a well-to-do family in Singapore. According to Khoo, his mother started taking him to the movies at the age of two, developing in him a love for the cinema (delete sentence- repeated in main text). According to Khoo, when he was about eight years old, he (chanced upon) his mother's Super 8 camera, started making "little animated films" on it and has since been unable to put his camera down. Khoo's interest led him to study cinematography at the City Art Institute in Sydney, Australia. Back in Singapore, he began making award-winning short films before venturing into feature film-making. In 1990, Khoo's animated short film, Barbie Digs Joe, won five awards at the Singapore Video Competition and became the first Singapore short film to travel to film festivals abroad. His next short, August (1991) won the Best Singapore Short Film at...
Berlin 1999
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

WHEN THE INTERNATIONAL JURY chose to ignore John Madden's Shakespeare in Love (UK) for Golden Bear honours in favour of giving the Grand Prix to Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line (USA), you can guess what happened next: audiences jammed Berlin venues to see Shakespeare in Love immediately after the festival closed, to be followed a few weeks later with the Academy Award victory. By an odd coincidence, Berlinale history had repeated itself - for thirty years ago, back in 1969, the international jury had bypassed John Schlesinger's Midnight Cowboy (USA) for the Golden Bear, only to suffer a bit of embarrassment when both director and film went on to win Academy Awards. At least this time around, Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, the screenwriters on Shakespeare in Love, were awarded a Silver Bear for "Single Artistic Achievement" - an acclamation that is puzzling, distinguished though it may sound....
A Theoretical Defence of Film Theory and Criticism
Authors: Miller Blair
Published: August 2019

THE WORK OF INTERPRETATION: A THEORETICAL DEFENCE OF FILM THEORY AND CRITICISM READING on both critical theory and aesthetics has taught me is that anything -- namely art, and for my own personal purposes, movies -- can help us improve our moral wherewithal and self-understanding. Surely this is not what half of the artists intended their art to be used for, but nonetheless, critics and theorists do it all of the time, and with productive results. Yet, although those who believe in the didactic force of movies do so wholeheartedly, film theorists of the humanist sort are part of an overwhelming minority. This is especially true when weighed against the number of general moviegoers who see films as a means to get away from moral arguments, not to get into them. In other words, moviegoers often go above and beyond the duty of ignoring interpretive theories of movies; they...
Hong Kong and Singapore 1999
Authors: Toh Hai Leong
Published: August 2019

HONG KONG AND SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVALS The 23rd Hongkong International Film Festival, (31st March to 15th April), focussed on a few interesting and topical issues, the most pervasive being the feeling of alienation and loneliness. The recent Balkan conflicts found their reflection in the festival as well, especially in the nonconformist Greek film-maker Theo Angelopoulos' Balkan Trilogy, a sweeping fresco including the 1991 Suspended Step of the Stork, the 1995 Ulysses' Gaze, and culminating in the sublime Eternity and a Day (Mia eoniotita ke mia mera, 1998). The reverberation of the painful Kosovo conflict is most noticeable in the Eternity, where the artist brings home the reality of the Serbs' ethnic cleansing of the Muslim Albanians through the portrait of a runaway Albanian street urchin who crosses path with the film's hero, a celebrated dying writer (played by the unsurpassable Bruno Ganz). Theo Angelopoulos' protagonist is often a...
Motovun 2000
Authors: Holloway Ron
Published: August 2019

MOTOVUN FILM FESTIVAL 2000 Twice as exciting as its first outing, Motovun Film Festival -- "The Second" (1-8 August 2000) showed no signs of that fabled jinx of the follow-up year. Rather, under the anxious gaze of the local populace, the five-day festival prompted a pilgrimage to this picturesque medieval town perched atop a hill on the Istrian peninsula in Croatia (closer to Trieste and Ljubljana than to Zagreb). Indeed, too many cineastes and visitors came, as the open-air arena on the town square comfortably seats only a couple thousand, while the restored town movie theatre can't squeeze in more than 200. Thus, just a day after the box office opened, the circa 50 films on the program were nearly all sold out, so ad hoc screenings had to be arranged on a school playground in the lower town. Ask artistic director Rajko Grlić where all this flamboyant festival flair...