Cineaste. Fall 05.

"We at Cineaste believe that, regardless of the degree of their success with audiences or critics, those directors who develop a personal, even idiosyncratic, cinematic style are essential to the evolution of film as an art form - whether in shaping cinematic language or narrative devices and formats, or through their influence as other filmmakers pick up, refine, or enter into 'dialog' with their earlier experiments." And so, in its pages, only two of which besides that editorial are online, the magazine does what it can to encourage them.

As far as global critical reception goes, Wong Kar-wai doesn't need much help, of course. But Shelly Kraicer's piece is valuable for its mapping of the fork in the road that reception took right off the bat, Peter Brunette leading one way, Stephen Teo, another.

Cindy Lucia talks with Sally Potter about Yes.

Posted by dwhudson at September 16, 2005 12:36 PM