Light Readings : Film Criticism and Screen Arts

by Darke, Chris

• ISBN13: 9781903364079
• ISBN10: 1903364078
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-09-01
• Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr

Summary

In Light Readings: Film Criticism and Screen Arts, leading film critic Chris Darke re-visits his writing over recent years to address important questions emerging out of the changes effecting film and digital media. Was the 1990s the decade in which cinema as a medium and collective experience finally became subsumed within a converging universe of multiple media? Should the cinema be reconsidered to accommodate the new possibilities of the moving image? This insightful collection of reviews and essays also includes interviews with Atom Egoyan, Bill Viola, Olivier Assayas, Jacques Audiard and Xavier Beauvois.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	vii
21st Century Cinema: Confessions of a Freelance Film Critic	1	(68)
Wittgenstein	8	(3)
Sliver	11	(2)
Blue	13	(2)
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media	15	(2)
Kalifornia	17	(2)
The Shape of Pain: Interview with Atom Egoyan	19	(6)
Suture	25	(3)
Dumb & Dumber	28	(2)
Intimate with a Stranger	30	(2)
Dead Presidents	32	(3)
L'Awentura	35	(3)
Smoke	38	(3)
Blue in the Face	41	(3)
Beyond the Clouds	44	(3)
The Last Supper	47	(3)
Where Is My Friend's House?	50	(2)
The Eighth Day	52	(2)
Loaded	54	(2)
Surviving Picasso	56	(2)
Normal Life	58	(2)
Pusher	60	(2)
Close Up	62	(2)
The River	64	(2)
Robert Mitchum & Out of the Past	66	(3)
Cinema sans papiers: Writing on French Cinema	69	(90)
L627	76	(2)
Les Roseaux Sauvages	78	(2)
Histoire(s) du cinema parts l a and l b	80	(2)
Madame Bovary	82	(2)
Les Enfants du Paradis	84	(3)
Le Petit Prince a diit	87	(2)
Godardville: Alphaville, the nouvelle vague and 1960s Paris	89	(5)
L'Ombre du doute	94	(2)
Lancelot du Lac	96	(2)
La Reine Margot	98	(2)
Un Hussard sur le toit	100	(2)
L'Appat	102	(2)
La Separation	104	(2)
La Haine	106	(3)
Les Rendezvous de Paris	109	(3)
Nelly et M. Arnaud	112	(3)
N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir	115	(4)
Chacun cherche son chat	119	(3)
Irma Vep	122	(3)
Interview with Olivier Assayas	125	(4)
Interview with Jacques Audiard	129	(5)
Regarde les hommes tomber	134	(2)
Select Hotel	136	(2)
Nouvelle Vague	138	(2)
Portraits Chinois	140	(2)
Y aura-t-il de la neige a Noel?	142	(3)
Lucie Aubrac	145	(2)
Clubbed to Death	147	(2)
Fin aout, debut septembre	149	(3)
Alice et Martin	152	(2)
The Young French Cinema	154	(5)
Cinema Exploded: Film, Video and the Gallery	159	(8)
Art and Film: on `Spellbound' and `Pandaemonium'	167	(4)
Cheryl Donegan	171	(2)
Daniel Reeves	173	(3)
Gang Warfare	176	(2)
Terminal Futures	178	(2)
Gary Hill: In the Light of the Other	180	(2)
Bill Viola: Landscapes of the Mind	182	(3)
Feelings Along the Body: Interview with Bill Viola	185	(6)
Someone to Watch Over You: on Sophie Calle and Michel Klier	191	(2)
Cinema and Video at War	193	(5)
From the Millennial Image-Mill: on found-footage film	198	(3)
Asylum	201	(3)
Profession Reporter: on The Blue Summer	204