Chronicle of an Auteur: More Antonioni Goodness!
Frame grab from Cronaca di un amore / Story of a Love Affair (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1950) Film Studies For Free presents the second of its celebrations of the centenary of the birth of Italian...
View ArticleNew SENSES OF CINEMA: Haneke, Méliès, Hanoun, Bergman, Villaverde and more
Frame grab from Amour (Michael Haneke, 2012). Read Roy Grundmann's article on this film. Film Studies For Free brings you glad tidings of a new issue of Senses of Cinema. All the contents are linked...
View ArticleAUDIENCES - a wonderful new book from Amsterdam University Press and a bumper...
Frame grab from Le Voyage dans la lune/A Trip to the Moon (Georges Méliès, 1902). Read Dan North's great blog entry about the audience-oriented 'attractionist aesthetic' of this film', and Frank...
View ArticleA Stocking Full of eReading and Viewing: Happy Holidays!
Updated December 31, 2012 Frame grab from Caravaggio (Derek Jarman, 1986). Read Keeley Saunders' article about the tableaux vivants in this film 'Tis the season to be jolly, apparently, and so Film...
View ArticleOn Embodiment and the Body: New Issue of CINEMA: Journal of Philosophy and...
Above, a recording of composer Simon Fisher Turner and sound artist Black Sifichi's live performance of SFT's score for Derek Jarman's 1994 film Blue at Glasgow's Tramway Theatre in 2008. Below, a...
View ArticleHoly LOLA! Issue 3 on MASKS Online
FSFF's montage of frame grabs from Les yeux sans visage / Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960) and Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012). Read Part One of LOLA's collective hailing of the latter film...
View ArticleNew Issue of MEDIASCAPE Online on "History and Technology"
Frame grab from Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980), one of the subjects of Film Studies For Free's author's latest videographic film study in her new article...
View Article“How Motion Pictures Became the Movies”: A Video Lecture by David Bordwell
Not the actual Vimeo embed! For that you MUST visit David Bordwell's website... Today something new has been added [to the Observations on Film Art website]. I’ve decided to retire some of the...
View ArticleIssue 35 of SCREENING THE PAST: Martin, Ruiz, Godard, Marker, Malick, Ophuls,...
Corrected edition! [Thanks AM!] Screen cap from Petulia (Richard Lester, 1968). Read Adrian Danks's new article on this film and its director. And read Roger Ebert's fascinating review of the film at...
View ArticleNine Open Access Issues of FRAMEWORK: The Journal of Cinema and Media
'Snakes&Funerals' by Emily Jeremiah, James S. Williams and Gillian Wylde. Taking Jean-Luc Godard’s canonic film Le Mépris / Contempt (1963) as a starting-point, Snakes&Funerals set out to...
View ArticleEmperor of the Senses: RIP Nagisa Oshima 1932-2013
Screen capture of a scene from 愛のコリーダ/Ai no Korīda/In the Realm of the Senses/L'Empire des sens (Nagisa Oshima, 1976) Compelling tension in this way is my dramaturgy (doramatsurujii). I compel tension...
View ArticlePerforming/Representing Male Bonds: Issue 2 of INMEDIA
Screencap from The Matrix (Larry and Andy Wachowski, 1999). Read Marianne Kac-Vergne 's article Losing Visibility? The Rise and Fall of Hypermasculinity in Science Fiction Films on the images of...
View ArticleNagisa Oshima (1932-2013), a Tribute by Geoffrey Nowell-Smith
Screencap from Night and Fog in Japan / 日本の夜と霧 / Nihon no yoru to kiri (Nagisa Oshima, 1960) Film Studies For Free has the honour of presenting the below tribute to Nagisa Oshima. It is written by the...
View ArticleFour Issues of INTENSITIES: The Journal of Cult Media and a Call for Papers
Screencap from the credit sequence of Games (Curtis Harrington, 1967). Read Steven Jay Schneider's 2003 article for Intensities in which he discusses this and other cult psychological thrillers and...
View ArticleQueer Film Festival Studies
Click here to visit the full interactive version of the above map. As identity-based festivals, queer film festivals have a specific relationship to the audience to which they cater. More...
View ArticleTwo new eBooks: On Stillness and Motion Film, and on Contemporary Indonesian...
Screenshot of a freeze frame from the opening credit sequence of Die Ehe der Maria Braun/The Marriage of Maria Braun (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1979) Even before the credits, the opening of the film...
View ArticleCinemagogic Echoes? Len Lye's FREE RADICALS (1958) and Fernando Solanas and...
CINEMAGOGIC ECHOES? from Catherine Grant on Vimeo. A real-time comparison, for scholarly purposes, of Len Lye's 1958 experimental animation FREE RADICALS and the opening minutes of Fernando Solanas...
View ArticleTo the Close Observer: In Memory of Donald Richie
Life in Japanese Film: Donald Richie from Berkeley Arts and Letters on FORA.tv In this excerpt from The Story of Film, Mark Cousins, Donald Richie and Kyōko Kagawa discuss the life and films of the...
View ArticleSociety for Cinema and Media Studies 2013 Conference Papers and Contributions...
Film Studies and Videographic Assemblage A Video Presentation by Catherine Grant for the S23 Workshop "Writing with Video: Beyond the Illustrated Text", Society for Cinema and Media Studies...
View ArticleNew SENSES OF CINEMA!
Frame grab from Sans Soleil/Sunless (Chris Marker, 1983) Oooh! Film Studies For Free's Sunday is complete: a new issue of Senses of Cinema is out. It has some eye-wateringly good items. Just skim,...
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