The following are annotations for films screening at the Melbourne Cinémathèque,
July–September 2009.

The Ghosts of Parties Past: Exorcising India Song by David Melville

Roberto Rossellini

L’amore by Gino Moliterno

Germany, Year Zero by Pasquale Iannone

The Machine that Kills Bad People by Constantin Parvulescu

Paisà by Allan James Thomas

Rome, Open City by Darragh O’Donoghue

Voyage to Italy by Wheeler Winston Dixon

Jerzy Skolimowski

Optimism Unfulfilled: Jerzy Skolimowski’s Deep End and the “Swinging Sixties” by Christopher Weedman

Four Nights with Anna by Bruce Hodsdon

The Way We Were: Jerzy Skolimowski’s Hands Up! by Adam Bingham

Moonlighting by John Orr

Walkover by Matilda Mroz

The following are annotations for films screening at the Melbourne Cinémathèque,
April–June 2009.

Master of the House by David Cairns

The State of Things by Lee Hill

Before Dietrich: Sound Technique and Thunderbolt by Tony Williams

José Luis Guerín

Recherchez: José Luis Guerín’s In the City of Sylvia by Jay Kuehner

Innisfree by Miguel Marías

Tren de sombras by Darren Hughes

Work in Progress by Steven Marsh

Japanese Noir

Black River by Adam Broinowski

Pale Flower by Freda Freiberg

Confessions of a Stray Cat: Seijun Suzuki and Pistol Opera by David Melville

Louis Malle

Ascenseur pour l’échafaud by Darragh O’Donoghue

Au revoir, les enfants by Pasquale Iannone

Le Feu follet by David Sanjek

The Evil That Boys Do: Louis Malle’s Lacombe, Lucien by Adam Bingham

Zazie dans le métro by Alice Burgin

The following are annotations for films screening at the Melbourne Cinémathèque,
January–March 2009.

* denotes a republished annotation

The Back of Beyond by Jonathan Dawson

“God was wrong”: Nicholas Ray’s Bigger Than Life by Adrian Danks

Black Narcissus by Karli Lukas

Erotikon by C. S. Leigh

Léon Morin, Prêtre * by Adrian Danks

Marilyn Times Five by Holly Willis

Shooting the President: Bruce Conner’s Report by Adrian Danks

The River by James Leahy

The Shop Around The Corner by David Sanjek

Some Came Running * by Dana Polan

Visual Variations on Noguchi by Shana MacDonald

Ingmar Bergman

The Child Archetype in Ingmar Bergman’s Fanny and Alexander by Arthur Rankin

The Seventh Seal by Darragh O’Donoghue

The Silence by Hamish Ford

Smiles of a Summer Night by Pedro Blas Gonzalez