Offscreen. 9.4.

"Just ahead of two thematically focused issues (on Quebec and Brazilian cinema) Offscreen presents a mixed bag of subject matter and approach which demonstrates its signature eclecticism, moving between arthouse, the Mondo film and Third World Cinema proper." To catch up, then:

• In a review of a recent Tsai Ming-liang retrospective in Montreal, Donato Totaro concentrates on the two films that had not been previously screened in that city, Goodbye, Dragon Inn and The Wayward Cloud.

• There's no better summing up of Betty Kaklamanidou's than her own title: "When Pop Culture Meets High Literature. The case of Cruel Intentions and the epistolary novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses."

• Daniel Garrett argues the case - at length - for Woody Allen's Melinda and Melinda as a "small, elegant gem."

• Elie Castiel presents a primer on "the Mondo Film."

• In what'll evidently be the first in a series, Peter Rist looks at two Cuban classics, the 1955 short El Mégano and the 1969 feature La primena oaroa al machete.

Posted by dwhudson at May 30, 2005 9:08 AM