Adrian Martin
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Dr. Adrian Martin (b.1959) is an Australian film and arts critic from Melbourne. He is a Senior Research Fellow in Film and Television Studies, Monash University (Australia). His work has appeared in many magazines, journals and newspapers around the world, and has been translated into over ten languages. He has regular columns in the Dutch De Filmkrant and in Cahiers du cinema 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 is currently co-editor of the online international scholarly film journal Rouge. 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.
He plans to launch his own website, containing around 3000 pieces of writing from 1979 to the present, in February or March 2009.[1]
Since 2006, Adrian has been contributing feature-length audio commentaries to the 'Directors Suite' DVD series produced by Madman in Australia; all these are available from www.madman.com.au. By mid-2009, he has covered 25 films (release dates follow each title): Vivre sa vie (Godard, July ’06) - The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel, September ‘06) - Masculin Féminin (Godard, December ’06) - Two or Three Things I Know About Her (Godard, December ‘06) - 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)
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[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. Publised by Valdivia International Film Festival and Uqbar editores (Chile)
