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EDITORIAL 19/8/2010: COALITION’S $60 MILLION GAME CHANGER
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22/15/2010 EDITORIAL: INDIES ARE AS INDIES DO
One of America’s most daring indie filmmakers, David Lynch, has donated a
unique self portrait (see image) to the production team of a new doco about his
life, limited edition copies of which will be sent to fans in return for a
donation of $50 towards the film’s budget. (Either it’s a very low budget film
or it won’t be a very limited edition ...) - Andrew L. Urban
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AUSTRALIAN FILMS
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ECLIPSED FEMINISM? – READERS JOIN DEBATE
In Twilight, when Taylor Lautner takes off his shirt is he ‘asking for it’ .
. . ? Is the Twilight series a mirror of teenage girls’ fantasies, including
wanting boys to ‘do anything you say’? Our readers respond (robustly) to last
week’s (July 8, 2010) debate about Bella as an anti-feminist heroine, as argued
by Carmen Siering in Ms. Magazine – and further provoked by a male view from
editor Andrew L. Urban.
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EDITORIAL 8/7/2010:
FEMINISM ECLIPSED?
By Andrew L. Urban.
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SEX AND THE CITY 2 – A POST-FEMINIST MOVIE
“The Sex and the City films and TV shows have struck a chord with female
audiences because in a postfeminist age, women are looking for narratives that
affirm their life choices without prescribing what they should, or should not
do” (and that includes shoe shopping) says RMIT University’s Associate Professor
Lisa French*, an expert on women in film and television.
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15/4/2010: EDITORIAL: DELIVER US FROM EVIL - TODAY
By Andrew L. Urban
It was shortly after 1.20pm on November 23, 2004 during his deposition that
interviewer Jeff Donaldson put this question to Cardinal Roger Mahony: “If it
had come to your attention that Father O’Grady had told your vicar general that
he had sexual urges towards a 9 year old, or a 10 year old, or an 11 year old,
is that cause to remove him from ministry?”
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6/3/2010: EDITORIAL – FRESH NEW SCENARIOS ON WMDS TO FIRE UP AUSSIE MOVIES
In the wake of a couple of UK films with predigested plotlines, two new and
different scenarios about Iraq’s WMDs can make high profile, high impact
Australian films. They would have the necessary cinematic scale, the essential
dynamics and universal interest.
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4/3/2010: EDITORIAL - FILM GETS THE CHINA SWAGGER SYNDROME
By Andrew L. Urban
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18/2/2010: EDITORIAL – A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS (MORE) FOR THE NETWORKS
If the film industry played the political card, it could get the sort of
largesse that commercial TV networks have always had – and are still getting,
says Andrew L. Urban.
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14/1/2010: EDITORIAL – THE ILLUSION OF COMMUNICATION
Is this really the age of communication? by Andrew L. Urban.
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3/12/2009: EDITORIAL – TERRORISM FIT FOR COMEDY
By Andrew L. Urban.
It was with a burst of interest that I opened the press release announcing a
‘terrorism comedy’ being shot in Melbourne by the team that made The Jammed
(2007), led by writer/director Dee McLachlan. Titled Eliminated, the film takes
the reality TV format as its structure, with a panel of judges drawn from the
ranks of guerrillas to decide which contestant will be crowned Master Terrorist.
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MAKE OUR MYTHS: DR KAREN PEARLMAN
The purpose of Australian feature film production, argues Dr Karen Pearlman*,
is not to tell our own stories. The purpose of our feature film industry is to
make our myths.
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