Holy 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

Film Studies For Free is delighted to bring you the always lovely news that not only has a new issue of Adrian Martin and Girish Shambu's LOLA been published -- on Masks -- it has already been extended, as per the new rolling publication style of this wonderful online film journal.

There is one final roll-out for this issue coming soon. This will include texts on Jerry Lewis, Rivette and Carpenter compared, Sitges Film Festival, and the conclusion of 'Hail Holy Motors'. FSFF will add links to the below list of contents once these are online.

LOLA, Issue 3 (December 2012): Masks

• Hail Holy Motors Part One A Spontaneous LOLA collective 
• A Pilgrimage to the Peloponnese: Gregory Markopoulos, Eniaios and the Temenos Erika Balsom 
• Is It Weird? Or, Actualising Disallowed Cinema Philip Brophy  
• She Thinks She Looks Dana Linssen  
• Webs of Destiny and Bits of String: Edgar G. Ulmer Luc Moullet  
• Transient and Intrinsically Valuable in Their Impermanence: Television's Changing Aesthetic Norms Tom O'Regan  
• The Macao Gesture Cristina Álvarez López  
• Investigation of a Stolen Life: I giorni contati Yvette Bíró  
• Road Trip: Toronto International Film Festival 2012 Girish Shambu

Notes on Contributors

New Film-Philosophy: Haneke, Rivette, Cassavetes, Deleuze, Badiou, Leigh, Bacon, Jarman, Buñuel and more

Frame capture from Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, 2008). Read Basileios Kroustallis's take on this film as a thought-experiment

Film Studies For Free is delighted to relay the excellent news that another high-quality  issue of Film-Philosophy has just been published. Edited by David Sorfa, Graham Matthews, Matthew Holtmeier and Ben Tyrer, the issue boasts no fewer than thirteen great articles as well as dozens of book reviews. The former are listed in full and linked to below.

The next annual Film-Philosophy conference will take place in London in September 2012, and the full schedule has recently been published. You can find it here.

Film-Philosophy also has its very own Facebook page and Twitter account.


Film-Philosophy, Vol 16, No 1 (2012)

Articles

1. Interpreting Disturbed Minds: Donald Davidson and The White Ribbon PDF by James J Pearson
2. Haptic Aurality: Resonance, Listening and Michael Haneke PDF by Lisa Coulthard
3. To Describe a Labyrinth: Dialectics in Jacques Rivette’s Film Theory and Film Practice PDF by Douglas Morrey
4. The Subject Trapped in Gomorrah: Undecidability and Choice in Network Cinema PDF by Maria Poulaki
5. Film as Thought Experiment: A Happy-Go-Lucky Case? PDF by Basileios Kroustallis
6. Losing Face: Francis Bacon's 25th Hour PDF by Arne De Boever
7. Charm and Strangeness: The Aesthetic and Epistemic Dimensions of Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein PDF by Kieran Anthony Cashell
8. Why He Really Doesn’t Get Her: Deleuze’s Whatever-Space and the Crisis of the Male Quest PDF by Niels Niessen
9. Groundhog Day and the Good Life PDF by Diana Abad
10. Remystifying Film: Aesthetics, Emotion and The Queen PDF by Stella Hockenhull
11. Contrapuntal Close-up: The Cinema of John Cassavetes and the Agitation of Sense PDF by Daniele Rugo
12. Of Bastard Man and Evil Woman, or, the Horror of Sex PDF by Lorenzo Chiesa
13. Perversity and Post-Marxian Thought in Buñuel’s Late Films PDF by Chad Trevitte

Book reviews

The Cine-Files on the French New Wave

A video essay by Catherine Grant

Today, Film Studies For Free is delighted to flag up wonderful work by the graduate students of the Cinema Studies master's program at the Savannah College of Art and Design. They recently published the second volume of their bi-annual online journal, the Cine-Files.  This issue's theme is the French New Wave.

FSFF particularly liked the really interesting take on this well-worn topic - the interviews with luminaries (including Dudley Andrew, Richard Neupert, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Sylvie Blum-Reid and Timothy Corrigan) were an especially nice touch. This blog also very much appreciated the three student filmmaker takes on the New Wave's influence, including Jae Matthews' compelling reflection on Chabrol's Les Bonnes femmes/Good Time Gals - not only because the latter afforded an always welcome opportunity to newly embed its old video essay on the very same (favourite) film (see above). Very well done, guys!

• “Cinephiles in The Cine-Files,”  a note from the Editor, Tracy Cox-Stanton
• “The Wave Surfs Me,” a note from the Student Editor, Scotty Barnhart
• Mary Wiles, author of Jacques Rivette (University of Illinois Press, 2012), discusses Rivette's place in the New Wave
• Elliot Thompson considers the sounds of Marx and Coca-Cola
• Ryan Babula profiles Henri Langlois, "the auteur of the cinémathèque"
   

The Legacy of the French New Wave … The Experts Answer the Cine-Files' Questions:

• Dudley Andrew 
• Morris Dickstein 
• Peter Hitchcock 
• Louis Menand 
• Richard Neupert
• Geoffrey Nowell-Smith 
• Jonathan Rosenbaum 
• Sylvie Blum-Reid 
• Timothy Corrigan

Featured Scholarship:

• Chad R. Newsom, “Cahiers du Cinéma and Evaluative Criticism”
• Ryan Babula, “The Politics of Pre-Political Godard: Alphaville, Made in USA”
• Yolande Thame, “‘The Most Beautiful Fraud in the World’:  A Production Designer Reflects on the War between the French New Wave and Scenic Design”

Student Filmmakers Reflect on the New Wave’s influence:

• Jae Matthews, “Good Time Gals”
• Ben Barbour, “Queering the French New Wave, Embracing the Cardinal Virtues”
• Britt Faulkner, “Meeting Agnès Varda:  A First-Person Fan Narrative”