Outside the shrinking American film-culture market there is a vast movie-crazed world where madmen, geniuses, and apostates roam freely, subject to a relatively minimal degree of corporate industry and spin control. In Exile Cinema, prominent film critics profile the oeuvres of working, thriving international filmmakers—from Bela Tarr to Judith Helfand, from Kiyoshi Kurosawa and Guy Maddin to Chantal Akerman and Michele Soavi, from Chris Marker to the newest thresholds of contemporary film. These filmmakers battle the greatest odds a modern artist can face: the opposition of mass culture at large and a medium that requires enormous expenditures in every stage of production and distribution. Naturally, the average American moviehead rarely gets a chance to see these marginalized directors’ work and often knows about them only through dazzled rumors and rhapsodic hearsay. Whimsical and deeply subjective, the viewpoints and evangelisms in Exile Cinema will serve as salve for the cineaste’s lonesome fury.
Table des matières
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Michael Atkinson
Part I. Rockets from East Asia
1. Double Trouble: Tsui Hark & Ching Siu-tung
Howard Hampton
2. Bullet Ballet: Seijun Suzuki
Jonathan Rosenbaum
3. Kuala L’Impure: The Cinema of Amir Muhammad
Dennis Lim
4. A Kurosawa Kiyoshi Kit
B. Kite
5 . The Bong Show: Bong Joon-ho
Ed Park
Part II. On the European Outskirts
6. Beyond the Clouds: The Films of Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Geoff Andrew
7. Pawel Pawlikowski: Dreaming All My Life
Jessica Winter
8. Bela Tarr
Jonathan Romney
9. Blunt Force Trauma: Andrzej Zulawski
Michael Atkinson
10. Sharunas Bartas
Laura Sinagra
Part III. Documentarians and Mad Scientists
11. Ken Jacobs
David Sterritt
12. A Few Moments of Arousal in a Film by Martin Arnold
George Toles
13. Ross Mc Elwee
Godfrey Cheshire
14. Judith Helfand: Secret Stories, Video Diaries, and Toxic Comedy
Patricia Aufderheide
Part IV. Lost between Genre and Myth-Making
15. The Beardo: José Mojica Marins
Guy Maddin
16. Dellamorte Dellamore and Michele Soavi
Maitland Mc Donagh
17. Guy Maddin
Mark Peranson
18. James Fotopoulos
Ed Halter
19. Christopher Munch: For Those We Have Loved
Graham Fuller
Part V. Defiant Lions of the New Wave Generation
20. Pleasures of the Flesh: Walerian Borowczyk
David Thompson
21. Chris Marker: The Return to Work at the Wonder Factory
Joshua Clover
22. Moebius Dragstrip: Monte Hellman Circles Back
Chuck Stephens
23. The Not-Too-Long Discourses of Chantal Akerman
Stuart Klawans
List of Contributors
Index
A propos de l’auteur
Michael Atkinson is Professor of Film at the C. W. Post campus of Long Island University and former staff film critic for the
Village Voice. His previous books include
Flickipedia;
Ghosts in the Machine: The Dark Heart of Pop Cinema;
Blue Velvet; and a collection of poetry,
One Hundred Children Waiting for a Train.