Adrian Martin
Dr. Adrian Martin (born 1959) is an Australian film and arts critic from Melbourne. Dr. Martin is Associate Professor, Co-Director of the Research Unit in Film Culture and Theory and Head of Film and Television Studies at Monash University (Australia). His work has appeared in many magazines, journals and newspapers around the world, and has been translated into over twenty languages and has regular columns in the Dutch De Filmkrant and in Cahiers du cinéma España.
Martin was one of The Age newspaper's film reviewers for 11 years until early 2006 and has worked as a film reviewer for ABC TV and Radio National. He was co-editor of the online film journal Rouge. As of 2011 he is the co-editor, with Girish Shambu, of the online film journal Lola, and also serves as one of the editorial team of Screening The Past. He completed a PhD on film style, titled Towards a synthetic analysis of film style, through Monash University's Art and Design faculty in 2006, which won the Mollie Holman Award for best Arts PhD thesis.
Martin has plans to launch his own website, containing around 3000 pieces of writing from 1979 to the present, in late 2011.[1]
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[edit] Audio commentaries
Since 2006, Martin has been contributing feature-length audio commentaries to the 'Directors Suite' DVD series produced by Madman Entertainment in Australia. As of August 2010, he has covered the following films (release dates follow each title):
- Vivre sa vie (Godard, July '06; commentary re-used by Criterion USA, 2010)
- The Exterminating Angel (Buñuel, September '06)
- Masculin Féminin (Godard, December '06)
- Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Godard, December '06; commentary re-used by Criterion USA, 2009)
- The Promise (Dardennes, March '07)
- Dr Mabuse the Gambler (Fritz Lang, July '07)
- The Blue Angel (Sternberg, August '07)
- Alice in the Cities (in box set Wim Wenders' Road Movies, October '07)
- Journey in Italy (Rossellini, November '07)
- Gertrud (Dreyer, February '08)
- The Tarnished Angels (Sirk, May '08)
- Martha (in Fassbinder box set On Melodrama, December '08)
- There's Always Tomorrow (Sirk, co-commentary with John Flaus, Feb '09)
- Beware of a Holy Whore (Fassbinder, Feb '09)
- Les Cousins (Chabrol, Feb '09)
- Ministry of Fear (Lang, March '09)
- Fallen Angel (Preminger, April '09)
- Whirlpool (Preminger, April '09)
- F For Fake (Welles, June '09)
- Le Plaisir (Ophuls, '09)
- Madame de... (Ophuls, '09)
- Good Morning (Ozu, co-commentary with John Flaus, '09)
- A Married Woman (Godard, '09)
- Le gai savoir (Godard, '09)
- La Luna (Bertolucci, 09)
- Le Corbeau (Clouzot, '10)
- Touchez pas au grisbi (Becker, '10)
- Elena and Her Men (Renoir, '10)
- The Loyal 47 Ronin (Mizoguchi, '10)
- The Immortal Story (Welles, '10)
- Diary of a Chambermaid (Buñuel, '10)
- Lola Montès (Ophuls, '10)
- Histoire(s) du cinéma (Godard, scholarly edition overseen by Martin, 2011) [2]
[edit] Awards
- 1993 Byron Kennedy Australian Film Institute Award
- 1997 Geraldine Pascall Prize for critical writing
- 2006 Mollie Holman Award
[edit] Bibliography
- Phantasms (1994)
- Once Upon a Time in America (1998) BFI Modern Classics Series
- The Mad Max Movies (2003)
- Movie Mutations: The Changing Face of World Cinephilia (2003) co-edited with Jonathan Rosenbaum, BFI
- Raúl Ruiz: Sublimes obsesiones (2004, Altamira, Argentina)
- ¿Qué es el cine moderno? (2008), a selection of 21 essays from the period 1998-2008, in Spanish translation. Published by Valdivia International Film Festival and Uqbar editores (Chile)
[edit] References
- ^ "Authors • Jenny Darling & Associates". Jd-associates.com.au. http://www.jd-associates.com.au/authors/author/adrian-martin. Retrieved 2011-12-26.
- ^ "New DVD release of JLG's Histoire(s) du cinéma". http://www.ezydvd.com.au/DVD/histoires-du-cinema-directors-suite-3-disc-set/dp/817188.
