Round Table: Ronnie Scheib

Some fifteen years ago (at the time of writing in 1996), Ronnie Scheib wrote an explicitly polemical auteurist piece on the films of Ida Lupino. In 1996, Scheib visited Melbourne under the auspices of the Melbourne International Film Festival for the presentation of an Ida Lupino retrospective. Taking time out from her duties for the Festival, Metro organised a round table discussion with Scheib – participants included Raffaele Caputo, Rolando Caputo, Anna Dzenis, Adrian Martin, Rebecca Maywald and Rick Thompson, and discussion centred mostly on the films of Lupino, New Hollywood, and on the state of film criticism.