New MOVIE! VERTIGO, Hal Ashby, Luis Buñuel, Charles Chaplin, Kenji Mizoguchi, Robert Altman, Robin Wood, Andrew Sarris, George Toles, Charles Barr, Andrew Klevan, Hoagy Carmichael

Frame grab of Robert Mitchum in The Wonderful Country (Robert Parrish, 1959). Read Pete Falconer's study of this film in the great new issue of MOVIE

Woohoo! The wonderful issue 4 of MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism has hit the e-stands!

Edited by Andrew Klevan and Victor Perkins, this one is sure to be a classic. Highlights, for FSFF, include Andrew Sarris (on Buñuel's Viridiana [1960]) and Robin Wood tribute archives, as well as the new 'Opening Shots' feature with great contributions by Charles Barr and Pete Falconer. But there are some truly remarkable feature articles in this issue, too, including Adam O'Brien on Hal Ashby's film The Last Detail and George Toles on cinematic images of luxury.

Thanks for the film critical luxury and largesse, MOVIE people!

MOVIE, Issue 4, 2013

• Regional Horizons in The Last Detail Adam O'Brien
• Luxury and Largesse in Film George Toles
• Talking Space in Vertigo Murray Pomerance
• Play It Again, Butch, Cricket, Chick, Smoke, Happy...: The Performances of Hoagy Carmichael as a Hollywood Bar-room Pianist Ian Garwood
• Rereading A Countess from Hong Kong: Action, Speech, and Style in Charlie Chaplin's Final Feature Donna Kornhaber

• Opening Shots
• Only Yesterday Charles Barr
• The Wonderful Country Pete Falconer

• Andrew Sarris: A Tribute

• The Devil and the Nun Andrew Sarris

• A Robin Wood Archive (2)

• Mashed Marlowe Robin Wood
• Controlling the Situation Robin Wood
• Poet of the Cinema Robin Wood
• Mad Smile of a Hollow Civilisation Robin Wood
• A Matter of Life and Death Robin Wood

This issue was designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, John Gibbs, and James MacDowell.

New Issue of MOVIE: Lang, Preminger, découpage, PSYCHO and its remake, and filmmakers' choices

Frame grab from Bonjour Tristesse (Otto Preminger, 1958). See Christian Keathley's article on découpage in this film here

Film Studies For Free was thrilled that a new issue of MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism -- the best yet of this relaunched journal -- has recently hit the online newstands.

Issue 3 contains part 2 of the marvellous Fritz Lang Dossier, with contributions by, among others, V. F. Perkins, Adrian Martin, Peter Evans, Stella Bruzzi, Ed Gallafent, and Deborah Thomas.

There are also excellent articles on Preminger's film art, Psycho and its remake, and filmmakers' choices by Christian Keathley, Alex Clayton and John Gibbs.

Links to all items are set out for you below.

• The Fritz Lang Dossier, Part 2
  

• Rush to Judgement: Imperfect Justice in Fury (1936)
  Stella Bruzzi
• You Only Live Once (1937)
  V. F. Perkins
• Going Straight: The Past and the Future in The Return of Frank James (1940)
  Edward Gallafent
• The Woman in the Window (1944)
  Mark Rappaport
• Guess-Work: Scarlet Street (1945)
  Adrian Martin
• The Big Heat: Acts of Violence (1953)
  Peter William Evans
• Human Desire (1954)
  Deborah Thomas
• Lang With Lacan: The Power of the Gaze in Moonfleet (1955)
  Peter Benson

• Bonjour Tristesse and the Expressive Potential of Découpage
  Christian Keathley
• The Texture of Performance in Psycho and its Remake
  Alex Clayton
• The Cry of the Owl: Investigating Decision-Making in a Contemporary Feature Film
  John Gibbs

This issue edited by Douglas Pye and Michael Walker. Designed by Lucy Fife Donaldson, John Gibbs, and James MacDowell.

A new MOVIE: Fritz Lang, Robin Wood, Vincente Minnelli, Susan Hayward and More

Image from The Testament of Dr Mabuse (Fritz Lang, 1933). Read Michael Walker's article on this film here.

A great way to start the week, Film Studies For Free thinks. The second issue of the new Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism has just been posted online, with a wonderful looking Lang dossier, a fine tribute to the late Robin Wood, which takes the form of seven of his rarest pieces from the 1960s, 70s and 80s. And there's more besides on Susan Hayward and Vincente Minnelli. Direct links to all items are given below.

Now, to read it!

Issue 2

• Fritz Lang Dossier, Part 1
  

• Notes on Metropolis Michael Walker
• M: Leading the Blind Douglas Pye & Iris Luppa
• Das Testament des Dr Mabuse Michael Walker

• Susan Hayward in the 50s Edward Gallafent

• Madame Bovary, C’est Moi – Signed, Vincente Minnelli Mark Rappaport

• Robin Wood: A Tribute
  

• Psychoanalyse de Psycho / Psychoanalysis of Psycho Robin Wood

• Attitudes in Advise and Consent Robin Wood

• In Memoriam Michael Reeves Robin Wood

• Sense of Dislocation Robin Wood

• Signs and Motifs Robin Wood

• Moments of Release Robin Wood

• Call Me Ishmael Robin Wood

MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism

MOVIE: A Journal of Film Criticism is a refereed academic publication whose aim is to create a forum for the range of analysis, debate and discussion that only a journal devoted to a detailed film criticism can adequately provide. We are committed to publishing rigorous but accessible critical writing, at a variety of lengths, that is responsive to the detailed texture and artistry of film and television, old and new. We also welcome articles that illuminate concepts, analytical methods and questions in film aesthetics that are of significance to film criticism. The journal is published on a bi-annual basis.

Film Studies For Free is jumping for joy!  MOVIE, the legendary film magazine (1962-2000) published and designed by the late, and much lamented, Ian Cameron (1937-2010) and source of some of the most brilliant and influential writing on film ever, has inspired the beautiful birth of Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, an online and openly accessible scholarly periodical, with a website hosted by the University of Warwick. 

Many of the same people central to MOVIE's earlier incarnation are involved this time around (Victor Perkins, Douglas Pye, Jim Hillier, Charles Barr, Deborah Thomas, Ed Gallafent, Michael Walker) together with a whole host of some of the best and brightest younger film writers (Andrew Klevan, James Macdowell, John Gibbs, Kathrina Glitre). 

FSFF hasn't read it yet, but wanted to rush you the news. So, as usual, the table of contents (with direct links to PDF files) is pasted in below. 

Wow, wow, wow...

Issue 1, 2010

• Editorial

• Ian Cameron: a Tribute V. F. Perkins

• Films, Directors and Critics Ian Cameron, reprinted from Movie 2

• Access and Excess in The Texas Chain Saw Massacre Lucy Fife Donaldson

• Sleeping with Half Open Eyes: Dreams and Realities in The Cry of the Owl John Gibbs

• Fugitive Physicality and Female Performance in Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s The Marriage of Maria Braun, Veronika Voss and Lola Kate Leadbetter

• Notes on Quirky James MacDowell

• At the Border: the Limits of Knowledge in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada and No Country for Old Men Douglas Pye

• Limbo: Frustrated Narration Deborah Thomas

• Acting Ordinary in The Shop Around the Corner George Toles

• The Rhetoric of The Wire James Zborowski

• Review: Giornate del Cinema Muto, Pordenone, 3 – 10 October 2009 Michael Walker

• Robin Wood and Ian Cameron

This issue edited by Edward Gallafent and John Gibbs, with grateful acknowledgement of the contributions of Lucy Fife Donaldson and James MacDowell.