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INTERVIEWS

*Teller of Tales: Mariano Llinás on La Flor by Jordan Cronk

*Everything Transitory Is But an Image: Andrea Bussmann on Fausto by Josh Cabrita and Adam Cook

A Banished Life: Ying Liang on A Family Tour by Clarence Tsui.

*Mass Ornaments: Jodie Mack on The Grand Bizarre by Blake Williams

FEATURES

*Tous les garçons et les filles: Philippe Lesage’s Genèse and Les demons by Adam Nayman

*Touch Me I’m Sick: Alex Ross Perry’s Her Smell by Jason Anderson

*First Person Plural: On Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind by Phil Coldiron

Hidden Lives and Quiet Passion: Alias John M. Stahl by Christoph Huber

No Emperor, Only an Empress: The Self-Made Myth of Marlene Dietrich by Alicia Fletcher

The Business of Horror: John Carpenter, Stephen King, and In the Mouth of Madness by Sean Rogers

Beyond Good and Evil: Damon Packard’s Los Angeles by Michael Sicinski

On No Thing: Jean-Luc Godard’s Grandeur et décadence d’un petit commerce de cinéma by Lawrence Garcia

COLUMNS

*Editor’s Note by Mark Peranson

*Deaths of Cinema: Hu Bo by Celluloid Liberation Front

Film/Art: Jeremy Shaw’s Quantification Trilogy by Jesse Cumming

*Global Discoveries on DVD by Jonathan Rosenbaum

DVD Bonus: G.W. Pabst’s Westfront 1918 and Kameradschaft by Peter Mersereau

*Exploded View: Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty by Chuck Stephens

CURRENCY

*Transit by James Lattimer

Sorry to Bother You by Madeleine Wall

Blaze by Robert Koehler

*The Load by Azadeh Jafari

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- Cinema Scope 83 Table of Contents
  
  Interviews *DAU. Diary & Dialogue. Part One: A Living World, by Jordan Cronk The Land Demands Your Effort: C.W Winter
- The Land Demands Your Effort: C.W Winter (and Anders Edström) on The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)
  
  Though the process of watching the onset of life’s end yields gut-wrenching moments, some recorded, some reconstructed, it makes little sense to extract one scene from the whole picture, as the film’s ultimate strength lies in its refusal to privilege, well, anything: an image of a tree means as much as a visit to an onsen, three people walking in the dark, a farmer hoeing her land, or a black screen with no image at all, only an intricately composed soundscape (as the quote introducing the film reads, “Until the moment you are dead you can still hear”). Make no mistake: though mortality is front and centre, this is a salute to the possibilities provided by cinema, a celebration of life.
- DAU. Diary & Dialogue. Part One: A Living World
  
  At the press conference for the premiere of DAU. Natasha at this year’s Berlinale, director Ilya Khrzhanovsky pre-empted questions regarding the controversial methods involved in the realization of his 14-year passion project—collectively known as DAU—by contrasting the experiences of his actors with the everyday lives of their Soviet-era characters. “All the feelings [depicted in the film] are real,” he said, “but the circumstances are not real in which these feelings happen.
- The Math of Love Triangles: Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Trigonometry
  
  The most arresting image in the new BBC Studios series Trigonometry (airing in the US this summer on HBO Max and in Canada on CBC Gem) comes in the fifth episode, when restaurateur Gemma (Thalissa Teixeira), in the middle of a difficult Nordic honeymoon getaway with her new husband Kieran (Gary Carr), goes on an evening field trip to see the Northern Lights. As Kieran sulks back at the hotel, she gazes up at a display that imbues the uncanny sensation—for the character, as well as the audience—of a planetarium-show special effect despite its you-are-there authenticity.
- In Search of the Female Gaze
  
  The trope of a woman removing her glasses to suddenly reveal her great beauty is as familiar as it is eye-roll-inducing. She never looks that different, but her status as an erotic object changes immediately and immensely. A classic example is Dorothy Malone as a bookstore clerk in The Big Sleep (1946), but more recently there is Rachel Leigh Cook descending the stairs to the saccharine sounds of “Kiss Me” in She’s All That (1999). Give up your active gaze, this convention seems to say, and you will be alluring.

Cinema Scope 83 Table of Contents

Interviews *DAU. Diary & Dialogue. Part One: A Living World, by Jordan Cronk The Land Demands Your Effort: C.W Winter (and Anders Edström) on The More →
The Land Demands Your Effort: C.W Winter (and Anders Edström) on The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)

Though the process of watching the onset of life’s end yields gut-wrenching moments, some recorded, some reconstructed, it makes little sense to extract one scene from the whole picture, as the film’s ultimate strength lies in its refusal to privilege, well, anything: an image of a tree means as much as a visit to an onsen, three people walking in the dark, a farmer hoeing her land, or a black screen with no image at all, only an intricately composed soundscape (as the quote introducing the film reads, “Until the moment you are dead you can still hear”). Make no mistake: though mortality is front and centre, this is a salute to the possibilities provided by cinema, a celebration of life. More →
DAU. Diary & Dialogue. Part One: A Living World

At the press conference for the premiere of DAU. Natasha at this year’s Berlinale, director Ilya Khrzhanovsky pre-empted questions regarding the controversial methods involved in the realization of his 14-year passion project—collectively known as DAU—by contrasting the experiences of his actors with the everyday lives of their Soviet-era characters. “All the feelings [depicted in the film] are real,” he said, “but the circumstances are not real in which these feelings happen. More →
The Math of Love Triangles: Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Trigonometry

The most arresting image in the new BBC Studios series Trigonometry (airing in the US this summer on HBO Max and in Canada on CBC Gem) comes in the fifth episode, when restaurateur Gemma (Thalissa Teixeira), in the middle of a difficult Nordic honeymoon getaway with her new husband Kieran (Gary Carr), goes on an evening field trip to see the Northern Lights. As Kieran sulks back at the hotel, she gazes up at a display that imbues the uncanny sensation—for the character, as well as the audience—of a planetarium-show special effect despite its you-are-there authenticity. More →
In Search of the Female Gaze

The trope of a woman removing her glasses to suddenly reveal her great beauty is as familiar as it is eye-roll-inducing. She never looks that different, but her status as an erotic object changes immediately and immensely. A classic example is Dorothy Malone as a bookstore clerk in The Big Sleep (1946), but more recently there is Rachel Leigh Cook descending the stairs to the saccharine sounds of “Kiss Me” in She’s All That (1999). Give up your active gaze, this convention seems to say, and you will be alluring. More →