New LOLA Ruiz Adair Akerman Rosenbaum Brenez Garc�a D�ttmann

Frame grab image of John Hurt in Love and Death on Long Island (Richard Kwietniowski, 1997) an adaptation of the late Gilbert Adairs novel. 

Film Studies For Free is thrilled to alert its readers to the publication of a new issue of LOLA, the fantastic online journal edited by Adrian Martin and Girish Shambu.

You can read all about it, and also find the essential links to articles, at this account of the issue at Girishs blog, in which he additionally announced that, henceforth, LOLA would be releasing the contents of each issue in stages.

So, in the coming weeks, you should definitely watch for further texts on Bresson, Cronenberg, Grandrieux, Rotterdam Film Festival, Venice Biennale, and more.

In the meantime, you dont have to wait to read the following fabulous essays by stellar contributors, including a marvellous dossier on the work of Chantal Akerman.

LOLA Issue 2: 
Devils, Dedicated to Raúl Ruiz and Gilbert Adair

• Cinema is Another Life by Raúl Ruiz
• A Letter to My Dead Friend Gilbert Adair About Blindness by Alexander García Düttmann
• A Letter by Dana Linssen
• Chantal Akerman: The Pajama Interview by Nicole Brenez
• Chantal Akerman: The Integrity of Exile and the Everyday by Jonathan Rosenbaum
• Almayers Folly: Synopsis and Statement of Intent by Chantal Akerman

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Goodbye Cinema Hello Cinephilia Masterclasses in Film Criticism by Adrian Martin Jonathan Rosenbaum and Jacques Ranci�re

Adrian Martin - Sint Lukas Brussels - 20/10/11 from Courtisane Festival on Vimeo.

Jonathan Rosenbaum RITS-cinema Brussels 27/10/11 from Courtisane Festival on Vimeo.

Jonathan Rosenbaum KASK cinema Gent 28/10/11 from Courtisane Festival on Vimeo.

Jacques Rancière - Bozar studios Brussels - 18/11/11 from Courtisane Festival on Vimeo.

“For me, film criticism is not a way of explaining or classifying things, it’s a way of prolonging them, making them resonate differently”

- Jacques Rancière

Today, Film Studies For Free presents some videos its been meaning to link to here for an age: a series of very extensive, and very wonderful, masterclasses given by Adrian Martin, Jonathan Rosenbaum and Jacques Rancière in Brussels in 2011.

Their talks, part of the "Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia" project, explore the status and possibility of cinephilia and film critical thinking. These astonishingly good events took their title from the wonderful 2010 book by Jonathan Rosenbaum.

Below are a few related links, including one to FSFFs mammoth collection of online writing on cinephilia.

• Catherine Grant, C is for Cinephilia Studies (plus some telephilia, too), Film Studies For Free, May 28, 2009
• Adrian Martin, That Summer Feeling, Fipresci, 2005
• Adrian Martins monthly Filmkrant columns, July 2010-present 
• Jacques Rancière, The Thwarted Fable, Rouge, 8, 2006
• Jacques Rancière , Aesthetic Separation, Aesthetic Community: Scenes from the Aesthetic Regime of Art,  Art and Research, 2.1, 2008
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia, JonathanRosenbaum.com, June 24, 2004
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, The Missing Image - From Cinephilia to the World - The Trajectory of Serge Daney, originally published in The New Left Review, 34, July-August 2005
• Jonathan Rosenbaum and Adrian Martin, Preface to Movie Mutations: The changing face of world cinephilia, Fipresci Documents, 2004
• Jonathan Rosenbaum, Movie Love: Film-history tidbits in a monument to French cinephilia, Moving Image Source, March 5, 2009
• Jason Sperb, Be Kind...Rewind, Jamais Vu, May 13, 2012

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