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GRAD 808.29 D2145Li • FILM CRITICISM AND SCREEN ARTS CHRIS9ARKE .. ·., . « •, . I • .. , • 'I • ' • WALLFLOWER LONDON C-1"~~ ~C)g',~7' L] ~ 13/SL. ,# A Wallflower Paperback First published in Great Britain in 2000 by Wallflower Publishing Limrted 16 Chalk Farm Road, Camden Lock. London NW I BAG www.wallflowerpress.co.uk Copyright Chris Darke 2000 The moral right of Chris Darke to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act of 1988 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transported in any form or by any means, electronic, mechani cal, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of both the copyright owner and the above publisher of this book A catalogue for this book is available from the British Library ISBN I 903364 07 8 Book Design by Rob Bowden Design Printed in Great Britain by Creative Print and Design Group, (Wales) Ltd. GzRf¼D '-t 06C, 61 /Jct Fv..sT 11/01/0( This book is dedicated, in memoriam, to Hrvoje Horvatic ( 1958-1997) and Marc Karlin ( 194 3-1999): film-makers, elders and teachers. • CONTENTS vii Acknowledgements Chapter One / 21 st Century Cinema: Confessions of a Freelance Film Critic 8 Wittgenstein I I Sliver 13 Blue I 5 Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media I 7 Kalifomia I 9 The Shape of Pain: Interview with Atom Egoyan 25 Suture 28 Dumb & Dumber 30 Intimate with a Stranger 32 Dead Presidents 35 L'Awentura 38 Smoke 41 Blue in the Face 44 Beyond the Oouds 4 7 The Last Supper 50 Where Is My Friend's House? 52 The Eighth Day 54 Loaded 5 6 Surviving Picasso 58 Normal Ufe 60 Pusher 62 Oo.se Up 64 The River 66 Robert Mitchum & Out of the Past Chapter Two 69 Cinema sans papiers:Writing on French Cinema 76 L627 78 Les Roseaux Sauvages parts 80 Histoire(s) du dnema I a and I b 82 Madame Bovary 84 Les Enfants du Paradis 8 7 Le Petit Prince a diit 89 Godardville: Alphaville, the nouvelle vague and 1960s Paris V 94 L'Ombre du doute 96 Lancelot du Lac 98 La Reine Margot I 00 Un Hussard sur le toit I 02 L'Appat I 04 La Separation 106 La Haine I 09 Les Rendezvous de Paris I I 2 Nelly et M. Arnaud I I 5 N'oublie pas que tu vas mourir I I 9 Chacun cherche son chat 122 Irma Vep 125 Interview with Olivier Assayas I 2 9 Interview with Jacques Audiard I 34 Regarde les hommes tomber I 3 6 Select Hotel 138 Nouvelle Vague 140 Portraits Chinois a 14 2 Y aura-t-il de la neige N~ef? I 45 Lucie Aubrac 14 7 Oubbed to Death I 4 9 Fin aoat de but septembre I 5 2 Alice et Martin 154 The Young French Cinema Chapter Three 159 Cinema Exploded: Film,Video and the Gallery I 6 7 Art and Film: on 'Spellbound' and 'Pandaemonium' I 7 I Cheryl Donegan I 73 Daniel Reeves I 76 Gang Warfare I 78 Terminal Futures I 80 Gary Hill: In the Ught of the Other 182 Bill Viola: Landscapes of the Mind I 85 Feelings Along the Body: Interview with Bill Viola I 9 I Someone to Watch Over You: on Sophie Calle and Michel Klier I 9 3 Gnema and Video at War 198 From the Millennial Image-Mill: on found-footage ftlm 201 Asylum 20 4 Profession Reporter: on The Blue Summer VI ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Thanks to the following who commissioned, edited and, in some cases, talked through with the author the material collected here: Leslie Felperin, Nick James, Philip Dodd and Pam Cook at Sight and Sounct. Nick Coleman, Richard Hollidge, Mark Pappenheim and Chris Maume at The Independent; Gavin Smith at Film Comment; Amanda Sharp and Matthew Slotover at Frieze; Daniel Etherington at Artists Newsletter. Gareth Evans and Ben Slater at Entropy; Giles Lane at Coil; Steven Bode and Mike Jones at Film And Video Umbrella. Thanks also to the staff at the British Film Institute Library. For inspiration, support and example above and beyond the call of film-going, special thanks to Jonathan Romney. Breda Beban, Keith Griffiths, Simon Field, Sandra Hebron, Helen De Witt, Karen Alexander, Deborah Salter, Sarah Turner, Peter Playdon and Dominique Hoff at L'.lnstitut Francais. For scholastic guidance, Ginette Vincendeau and V. F. Perkins at the University ofW arwick. For the Super-8 days, Pat Magnolo and Nigel Karikari.To a fellow hooligan for meaning, Jonathan Derbyshire. Also, to Jean, Sarah and Nathalie. And Nina .. VII
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