Recently added articles from Metro : Media & Education Magazine:
THE LAUNCH OF AL JAZEERA INTERNATIONAL
Oct 01, 2006; Hay, Rod ... AFTER A SERIES OF PROTRACTED DELAYS, AL JAZEERA'S NEW ENGLISH LANGUAGE CHANNEL FINALLY GOT OFF THE GROUND, PROVIDING AN ALTERNATIVE SOURCE OF NEWS TO THE WESTERN MEDIA. MUCH OF THE DELAY WAS CAUSED BY THE RELUCTANCE OF THE WESTERN SATELLITES TO PROVIDE AIR SPACE FOR AL JAZEERA. However, ...
THE FIRST FEATURE: 'The Story of the Kelly Gang'
Oct 01, 2006; Berger, Randall ... WHO HASN'T BEEN TO A FEATURE FILM IN THE PAST 100 YEARS? RANDALL BERGER FINDS THAT ONE OF THE WORLD'S BIGGEST CULTURAL PHENOMENA ALL STARTED IN MELBOURNE. ON BOXING DAY 2006, an international centenary will be celebrated in Melbourne. The world's first feature-length motion picture, The ...
CRITICAL Moments: The Evolution of the Film Journal
Oct 01, 2006; Armstrong, Richard ... THE FOLLOWING PIECE WAS THE FIRST OF A SERIES OF ARTICLES WHICH ORIGINALLY RAN IN THE BRITISH MAGAZINE FILMWAVES BETWEEN 2003 AND 2005 AND WAS INTENDED AS A WAY OF HISTORICIZING THE EVOLUTION OF THE SERIOUS WESTERN FILM JOURNAL IN THE POST-WAR DECADES. I SAW this work as informed by a ...
SOUND AND VISION: THE BOOM IN COMMUNITY RADIO
Oct 01, 2006; Beatson, Jim ... THIRTY YEARS ON AIR, 340 STATIONS, 20,000 VOLUNTEERS, OVER FOUR MILLION TUNING IN EACH WEEK. OUR WORLDLEADING COMMUNITY RADIO IS BOOMING, DESPITE PROBLEMS AT SOME STATIONS. JIM BEATSON REPORTS. IN April this year, 65-year-old semiretired Ken Russell, a softly spoken Kiwi, walked in ...
THE New Kid ON THE Block: Todd Wagner And 2929 Entertainment
Oct 01, 2006; Karena, Cynthia ... TODD WAGNER IS A HOLLYWOOD FILM PRODUCER AND DISTRIBUTOR WHO HAS A NEW AND INNOVATIVE FILM DISTRIBUTION STRATEGY THAT IS ROCKING THE INDUSTRY. HE WANTS TO SIMULTANEOUSLY RELEASE FILMS ACROSS THEATRICAL, TELEVISION AND HOME ENTERTAINMENT PLATFORMS. WAGNER SPOKE about this contentious new ...
The Cinema of (Coming) Attractions
Oct 01, 2006; Beattie, Keith ... BRUCE CONNER'S A MOVIE AND DOCUMENTARY DISPLAY BY KEITH BEATTIE SPEAKING OF THE ABUNDANCE of images in the mass-mediated world of the late twentieth century, one observer has commented, 'the job of future documenters may be more in the nature of editing than of creating'.1 the editorial ...
THE IMPOSSIBLE DREAM: 'HUNT ANGELS'
Oct 01, 2006; Bertrand, Ina ... DURING WORLD WAR TWO, A SMALL BOOK WAS PUBLISHED, CALLED LET'S MAKE A MOVIE1 - A POLEMIC ABOUT THE NECESSITY FOR A VIABLE AUSTRALIAN FILM INDUSTRY TO CHALLENGE THE FLOOD OF IMPORTED FILMS ON AUSTRALIAN SCREENS, AND TO MAKE EFFECTIVE WARTIME PROPAGANDA FILMS. BY INA BERTRAND THE TONE WAS ...
ENGLAND'S DREAMING (AND LAUGHING): THE BRITISH TV COMEDY EXPERIENCE... AND WHAT AUSTRALIA CAN LEARN FROM IT
Oct 01, 2006; Bosanquet, Tim ... BRITAIN HAS LONG BEEN CONSIDERED the home of classic television comedy. While its film industry has lost its once pre-eminent place in the world, the UK continues to produce the world's most innovative television comedies. From the classic galton and simpson comedies Steptoe and Son and ...
Enjoying the Moment: Kim Ji-woon on 'A Bittersweet Life'
Oct 01, 2006; Brown, James ... SINCE RISING TO PROMINENCE AS THE WRITER-DIRECTOR OF LOW-BUDGET DARK COMEDIES 'THE QUIET FAMILY' (1998) AND 'THE FOUL KING' (2000), SOUTH KOREAN FILMMAKER KIM JI-WOON HAS DELVED INTO VARIOUS REALMS OF TRAGEDY, A TRANSITION MARKED BY HIS GORY 40-MINUTE GHOST FILM 'MEMORIES' FOR THE OMNIBUS ...
THE SHOCK OF THE OLD: 'EYES, LIES & ILLUSIONS'
Oct 01, 2006; Clayfield, Matthew ... AN EXHIBITION OF PRE- AND EARLY CINEMATIC MEDIA AT THE AUSTRALIAN CENTRE FOR THE MOVING IMAGE (ACMI) FORCES US TO HISTORICIZE AND RETHINK OUR CONCEPTIONS OF 'NEWNESS'. BY MATTHEW CLAYFIELD 'New media' is a funny term - part buzzword, part discursive umbrella - which gets bandied around a ...
The Secret and 'The Caterpillar Wish'
Oct 01, 2006; Davidson, Rjurik ... 'THE CATERPILLAR WISH' (SANDRA SC IBERRAS, 2005) IS A FILM DOMINATED BY THE IDEA OF 'THE SECRET': THAT TRUTH WHICH IS KEPT HIDDEN, EITHER BECAUSE OF WHAT IT REVEALS - ABOUT THE PERSON WHO HIDES IT, OR THE NATURE OF THINGS AND EVENTS - OR FOR FEAR OF SOCIAL DISAPPROVAL. SECRETS DRIVE THE FILM'S ...
Every day is SATURDAY and Sunny: PRODUCTION STORIES FROM BLUE WATER HIGH
Oct 01, 2006; Cordaiy, Hunter ... BLUE WATER HigH is the story of young people at a surf academy on Sydney's northern beaches. Blue Water High is a Southern Star Entertainment Production in association with the Film Finance Corporation (FFC), the New South Wales Film and Television Office (NSWFTO), North German Broadcasting (NDR ...
'We Don't Want To Watch This': The Boy-Child's Gaze IN JANE CAMPION'S 'SWEETIE'
Oct 01, 2006; Gillett, Sue ... 'THOUGH CINEMA'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH YOUTH, AND TO A LESSER EXTENT CHILDHOOD, IS ONGOING, CR ITICAL ENGAGEMENT WITH THE TEXTUAL AND CONTEXTUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF THE YOUNG SUBJECT IS SCARCE' - ANNA MARIA MULLALY.1 ARTICLE BY SUE GILLETT. The Romantic Child AT THE 2004 SCREEN ...
GETTING THE COMMUNITY TV GO-GO 'DUKE AND LEON'S FILM SCHOOL'
Oct 01, 2006; Fish, Leon ... I'm sitting with Duke Hendrix in this room talking to a bunch of young filmmakers. It suddenly dawns on us that they think we're heroes. Some kind of dynamic-duo art-punks, gatecrashing our way to underground legendary status. I say: 'Can you believe this Duke?' 'Mate, everyone ...
Double Trouble: 'Like Minds'
Oct 01, 2006; Davidson, Rjurik ... 17-YEAR-OLD ALEX FORBES (EDDIE REDMAYNE) SITS IN A POLICE INTERVIEW ROOM CALMLY. HE RADIATES A SUBTLE INTELLIGENCE, INDICATING THAT HE IS IN CONTROL OF THE SITUATION. NOT AT ALL THE REACTION OF A BOY WHO HAS JUST BEEN ARRESTED FOR THE MURDER OF HIS BEST FRIEND. BY RJURIK DAVIDSON WHAT ...
Storm Warning 'AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH'
Oct 01, 2006; Hoskin, Dave ... WITH THE AMERICAN BROADCAST MEDIA SUPPOSEDLY WEIGHTED TOWA RDS CONSERVATISM, PERHAPS THE RISE IN POPULARITY OF LEFT-WING DOCUMENTARIES PROVES THE THEORY THAT AUDIENCES WILL GO TO THE CINEMA FOR SOMETHING THEY CAN'T GET ELSEWHERE. BY DAVE HOSKIN A quick look at what sort of non-fiction ...
STRUGGLE NO MORE: An Interview with Costa Botes
Oct 01, 2006; Jones, Stan ... NEW ZEALAND FILMMAKER COSTA BOTES' DIVERSE CAREER SPANS THE MOCKUMENTARY FORGOTTEN SILVER (1995, CODIRECTED WITH PETER JACKSON), THE FEATURE FILM SAVING GRACE (1997) AND THE DOCUMENTARY THE MAKING OF 'THE LORD OF THE RINGS' (2002), FOR WHICH HE SPENT MONTHS ON LOCATION FILMING THE ONLY ...
TAKING IT ALL 'BROKEBACK' STYLE: Queer Cinema
Oct 01, 2006; Kakmi, Dmetri ... There is no doubt humanity loves a good romance to get the blood pumping. Whether we admit it or not, we all yearn for the tale that will carry us on dreams of an impossible tidal wave of love and desire, straight into the arms of a beloved who stands outside time and place, a man or woman who ...
The Prophet Margin: Andrew Denton's 'God On My Side'
Oct 01, 2006; Karena, Cynthia ... ANDREW DENTON IS OVERWHELMINGLY A NICE GUY, BUT TO FIND A MAN WITHOUT EGO IN THE MEDIA - WHO WOULD'VE THOUGHT ... BY CYNTHIA KARENA DENTON displays unflagging politeness and charm in the face of his umpteenth interview on the publicity tour for his first feature-length documentary, God ...
THE WORLD (SHIJIE)
Oct 01, 2006; Aoun, Steven ... THE WORLD (SHIJIE) DIRECTED and WRITTEN by Jia Zhangke, China/France/Japan, 143 Minutes STARRING: Tao Zhao, Taisheng Chen, Zhong-wei Jiang, Jue Jing, Yi-qun Wang. DVD INCLUDES: Image Gallery and Liner Notes by Stephen Teo IT has been urged that 'globalization is a transition ...
