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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Issue 35 of SCREENING THE PAST Martin Ruiz Godard Marker Malick Ophuls and RIP Vikki Riley

Corrected edition! [Thanks AM!]

Screen cap from Petulia (Richard Lester, 1968). Read Adrian Dankss new article on this film and its director. And read Roger Eberts fascinating review of the film at the time of its release.

It was somewhat remiss of Film Studies For Free to tweet the link to a new, and excellent, issue of Screening the Past, and then not to follow up with an entry here. This little oversight is corrected today with the below list of contents and links.

There are a huge number of film studies topics covered in the issue (although a fair few of them, in a variety of great contributions, by Adrian Martin!). FSFF particularly liked Lorraine Sim on the ensemble film and Roger Hillman on Malick.

This blog especially recommends, also, the dossier (introduced by Martin) dedicated to the work and memory of Vikki Riley, a highly original writer on film and a tireless political activist who tragically died in a road accident in Darwin, Australia, last September.

Screening the Past, Issue 35, 2012

First Release

• Hanging Here and Groping There: On Raúl Ruiz’s “The Six Functions of the Shot”
  by Adrian Martin
• The Art of Falling Apart: Petulia and the Fate of Richard Lester
  by Adrian Danks
• Tending the Wounds of the Nation: Gender in Contemporary Iranian War Cinema
  by Michelle Langford
• Ensemble Film, Postmodernity and Moral Mapping
  by Lorraine Sim
• JLG/Jean Améry
  by Alan Wright
• Malick’s Music of the Spheres: The Tree of Life
  by Roger Hillman
• The Sydney and Melbourne Film Festivals, and the Liberalisation of Film Censorship in Australia
  by Cathy Hope and Adam Dickerson 

Vikki Riley (1962-2012): Early Writings

• VOLA X (Introduction)
  by Adrian Martin
• The Canonisation of Junk (1982)
  by Vikki Riley
• Poetics of Pop: The Titles of Things (1982)
  by Vikki Riley
• ‘This Magazine is for Airing Personal Complaints’ (1983)
  by Vikki Riley
• Caught … Sunless and The State of Things (1984)
  by Vikki Riley

Classics and Re-runs

• Which Hollywood? Which Ophuls?
  by Adrian Martin
• The Six Functions of the Shot
  by Raúl Ruiz 

Web-teque

• Adrian Martin interview about his book Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez,
  interviewer Anna Dzenis

Reviews

• Ecce Homo: The Male-Body-In-Pain as Redemptive Figure
• by Jeremy V. Adolphson
• One Night on TV is Worth Weeks at the Paramount: Popular Music on Early Television
  by Lauren Anderson
• Ephemeral Media: Transitory Screen Culture from Television to YouTube
  by Rebecca Bell-Metereau
• A Post-May Adolescence: A letter to Alice Debord
  by Jan Bryant
• Sergio Leone Something To Do With Death (reprint edition)
  by Patrick Condliffe
• Moving Color: Early Film, Mass Culture, Modernism
  by Maura Edmond
• Fantasy Film: A Critical Introduction
  by Michael Grant
• Glimpses of Freedom: Independent Cinema in Southeast Asia.
  by David Hanan
• Science Fiction Film: A Critical Introduction
  by Adam Knee
• British Film Design: A History
  by Brian McFarlane
• New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images
  by Sarinah Masukor
• David Lynch
  by Josh Nelson
• The Neorealist body in Postwar Italian cinema
  by Luca Peretti
• Olivier Assayas
  by Claire Perkins
• The Miracle Woman
  by Eloise Ross
• Jedda
  by Shane Smithers
• Fashion in Film
  by Sue Thomas
• Alfred Hitchcock’s Frenzy: The Last Masterpiece
  by Jay Daniel Thompson
• Cinema’s Alchemist: The Films of Péter Forgács
  by Jeni Thornley
• Film Trilogies: New Critical Approaches
  by John Vanderhoef
• Shadow Economies of Cinema: Mapping Informal Film Distribution
  by Mike Walsh
• Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodore Adorno
  by Tyson Wils
• South African Cinema 1896-2010
  by Suzanne Woodward

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