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NO HOME MOVIE: In Warm Memory of Chantal Akerman (1950-2015)
Last updated October 8, 2015Akerman’s search for images that represent nothing, and mean nothing else (except perhaps themselves – and even this is difficult enough) while she focuses her camera on...
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Sam Rohdie's Passion(s): A Coda
Publicity for the Queen's University Belfast Study Day event held in memory of Sam RohdieFilm Studies For Free is delighted to publish four additional tributes to the late film scholar Sam Rohdie...
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Big December Round Up! Favourite Film and Media Studies Gifts of 2015 Galore!
A new online video essay on BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean, 1945), which forms an integral part of Catherine Grant’s contribution to The Videographic Essay: Criticism in Sound and Image, edited by...
View ArticleNew LOLA, [in]TRANSITION, MOVIE, Film-Philosophy, Senses of Cinema plus a...
An obvious side-by-side comparison by Catherine Grant, using images from BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean, 1945) and CAROL (Todd Haynes, 2015), and the sound from the official trailer for CAROL, featuring...
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For the Starman Who Fell to Earth - In Memory of David Bowie (January 8,...
Screenshot from the music video for David Bowie's "Blackstar" (2016, directed by Johan Renck)Film Studies For Free was shocked and saddened by the sudden news, today, of the death of David Bowie at the...
View ArticleNew FILM CRITICISM, FILM-PHILOSOPHY, 12 new film and media open access...
"[A] dense yet concise study (and experience) of the intricate poetic-cinematic patterning of Andrea Arnold’s 2009 film Fish Tank..." , published as part of the article: “Beyond tautology? Audiovisual...
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The Film-Play's the Thing: RIP Jacques Rivette 1928-2016
The best place to go today: http://www.jacques-rivette.com "Every Rivette film has its Eisenstein/Lang/Hitchcock side—an impulse to design and plot, dominate and control—and its...
View ArticleThe Persistence of Vision: Videos on the Work of Film Theorists and Scholars
THE PERSISTENCE OF VISION by Catherine GrantA New Video Tribute to the Work of Film Scholar Elizabeth Cowie.Film Studies For Free's author has just published her latest video tribute to a film...
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For all to see, and to see the sense of: In Memory of V. F. Perkins (1936-2016)
Last updated on July 30, 2016[S]election by the camera [...] asserts significance. The image is displayed not only to relay information but to claim that it matters and to guide us towards the ways in...
View ArticleAlmodóvar Studies for Free
MATCHES - On similarly flammable moments in Ray and Almodóvar(Intertextual ignition by Catherine Grant)Experience has taught me that the more honest and personal my work is,the more successful I...
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My Year’s Work in Audiovisual Essays and Videographic Film Studies
There'll be a bumper entry or two more to come here at Film Studies For Free before the global annus horribilis of 2016 is out, you mark this blog's words.But in the meantime, below is a handy list of...
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We'll Tak' a Cup o' Kindness Yet: Awesome Open Access Film Studies Links to...
A major open access eBook: Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century FilmEdited by Shane Denson and Julia Leyda (Falmer: REFRAME Books, 2016).In this end of year post, Film Studies For Free reflects on and...
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New FILM-PHILOSOPHY!
Screenshot from Trois Couleurs: Rouge/Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994) a film discussed by Eddy Troy in his article "Deleuze and Kieślowski: On the Cinema of Exhaustion"Film Studies For...
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New ALPHAVILLE on The New Old: Archaisms and Anachronisms across Media!
Vicky McClure as Lol in This Is England 86 (Shane Meadows et al, 2009) as discussed by Louis Bayman in his article "Retro Quality and Historical Consciousness in Contemporary European Television"Film...
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Videographic screen media criticism by female critics, scholars and artists...
GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES (remix remixed 2013) by Laura MulveyHappy International Women's Day! Two of the questions Film Studies For Free's author gets asked a lot—as a female video essayist, curator...
View ArticleA Sweet Life in Italian Cinema: In Memory of Peter Bondanella (1943-2017)
Dan Schneider Video Interview with Peter Bondanella and Frank Burke, recorded on October 4, 2016 #78- On Federico Fellini from Dan Schneider 'The most exciting aspect of Bondanella’s work is, in fact,...
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Richly Resourceful! On B.Ruby Rich's Work, plus A Roundup of Recent Open...
The SENSES of an ENDING from Catherine GrantThe above video treats the ending of Lucrecia Martel's La niña santa / The Holy Girl (2004), using insights about the film from Deborah Martin's book The...
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Rest in RADICAL POWER! In Warm Memory of Chuck Kleinhans, film and media...
Chuck Kleinhans giving the keynote at the Radical Film Network NYC: A Global Gathering on May 3rd, 2017(screenshot from video embedded below)Yesterday, the terribly sad news reached Film Studies For...
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12 Favourite Online Film Studies Items from 2017, and Other Links of Note!
NE ME QUITTE PAS - a new video assemblage focusing on Brief Encounter and Carol by Catherine GrantTo commemorate the somewhat sad and strange outgoing year -- and very much to welcome in 2018 --- Film...
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Links to Free Online Streaming Platforms for Films and Moving Image Work
Temperatūra ne pagal Celsijų / Off Gauge Temperature (Almantas Grikevičius, 1973)Recommended by Herb Shellenberger. Click on CC in the frame above to switch on English subtitles.Online at the...
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A Merry May Round Up of Joyous Film Links: Bergman, MAI, Jump Cut, OFFSCREEN,...
LESSON on Ingmar Bergman's Autumn Sonata by Catherine Grant, one of a number of videos made to commemorate this year's centenary of the Swedish director's birth. Don't forget FSFF's earlier entry on...
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Celebrating Ten Years of FILM STUDIES FOR FREE, with Two New Aretha-on-Film...
THINK FREEDOM by Catherine GrantA video tribute to the Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin (1942-2018), and the constantly surprising cinematic performance of her 1968 song 'Think' in The Blues Brothers (US...
View ArticleTen Festive Treats from Film Studies For Free!
1. FATED TO BE MATED: An Architectural Promenade from Catherine Grant on Vimeo. As discussed in "Screen studies as device?: Working through the video essay" and at FilmanalyticalSawing Fred Astaire and...
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Afore Ye Go, 2019: Essential Tributes (Elsaesser, Wollen, Lindner) Plus...
FALLING: 3 x Girls in UniformA comparative videographic study by Catherine Grant showcasing the repetitions and variations across two sets of corresponding sequences from the three direct film...
View ArticleIn the Nick of Time: On Cli-Fi and Ecocinema Film and Moving Image Studies
Last updated June 8, 2022Well, it's been a while... Something or other must have happened in the meantime... 🤔Film Studies For Free is nonetheless very happy to be back, still fighting the good fight...
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