Film Studies For Free's author is excitedly preparing to give a talk at the event 'Drifting: The Films of Claire Denis'. This is the first of an annual series of symposia on 'Modern Directors' to be held at the University of Sussex on May 2nd (programme here), and is organised by Rosalind Galt and Michael Lawrence.
Below are more than sixty links to freely-accessible, mostly scholarly (or otherwise top-notch) material about Denis's work that FSFF's author has found helpful for this and previous work on this filmmaker (HERE's a link to the text of her paper on Denis's 2002 film Vendredi soir). The lists will be added to (all suggestions welcome), so please bookmark this post (last updated June 1, 2009).
In English/or with subtitles:
- Claire Denis and Jean-Luc Nancy, philosopher, author and writer, discussing and screening L'Intrus, her film based on his book, at the European Graduate School in 2007 - online at at YouTube
- Claire Denis at European Graduate School 2003 - 'Claire Denis, a director talking about the film making process...' at YouTube (also at Denis's EGS page)
- Dickon Hinchliffe's remarkable music from the score of Vendredi soir is currently available HERE (Click on 'Films & Discography' and scroll down to 'Vendredi soir' to listen to it, or to download it for free)
- At v2v you can download a video which contains the full recording of the wonderful 1.5 hours long 'Vienna Conversation' between Claire Denis and the Austrian film critics Michael Omasta and Isabella Reicher on Saturday, May 7th, 2005 (help on downloading the video is given here).
- NEW Via Filmbo's Chick Magnet, FSFF heard of two YouTube videos (part 1 and part 2) in which you can see excerpts of Claire Denis's film of Serge Daney interviewing Jacques Rivette on his early interest in filmmaking, his days with Cahiers du cinéma, and his first meetings with Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, and Eric Rohmer. A must watch for those who haven't yet seen Denis's Jacque Rivette, The Watchman. Thanks Filmbo!
- YouTube - 35 RHUMS itw de Claire Denis et Alex Descas, par Léa Rinaldi
- YouTube - Lilan Thuram par Claire Denis (Extrait de l'installation de Claire Denis pour l'exposition "Diaspora", musée du quai Branly)
- 'Où va le Cinéma?: L'auteur, le cinéaste, le collectif - Qui fait l'oeuvre?' round table event videoed at the Centre Pompidou, 4 December 2008, with Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Daniel Deshays, and Bruno Dumont (thanks to Screenville for the link - Merci, Harry!)
- 'Interview exclusive de Claire Denis à propos de son dernier film "L'Intrus"'- Entretien réalisé dans le cadre de la Mostra de Venise par Olivier Bombarda - Septembre 2004, Arte.TV (2 RealPlayer video files)
- Aimé Ancian,'Making Contact: Claire Denis’ Vendredi soi', translated by Inge Pruks and William D. Routt, Senses of Cinema, No. 23, 2002
- Muriel Andrin,' The Intuition of the Body, Time, and the Sixth Sense - from Chantal Akerman to Contemporary Women Directors [including Claire Denis]', Zehar, n° 58, 2006, pp. 14-19 & 20-24
- Martine Beugnet, 'The Practice of Strangeness: L'Intrus - Claire Denis (2004) and Jean-Luc Nancy (2000)', Film-Philosophy, Volume 12, Issue No.1, 2008
- Samantha Dinning, 'Claire Denis [Great Directors Series]', Senses of Cinema, No. 50, 2009
- Lisa Downing, Re-viewing the Sexual Relation: Levinas and Film', Film-Philosophy, 11.2, August 2007
- Rosalind Galt, 'The Obviousness of Cinema [with reference to the work of Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis], World Picture Journal, 2, Autumn 2008
- Nikolaj Lübecker, 'The Dedramatization of Violence in Claire Denis's film I Can't Sleep (J'ai pas sommeil, 1994)', Paragraph, Vol. 30, July 2007
- Adrian Martin,'Claire Denis and the cinema of the body', Screening the past, 2006
- Todd McGowan, 'Resisting the lure of ultimate enjoyment: Claire Denis' J'ai pas sommeil (I Can't Sleep, 1994)', Kinoeye, Vol 3, Issue 7, 9 June, 2003
- Laura McMahon, 'Deconstructing Community and Christianity: 'A-religion' in Nancy's Reading of Beau travail', Film-Philosophy, 12.1, 2008
- Philippe Met, 'Looking for trouble: The dialectics of lack and excess (Claire Denis' Trouble Every Day, 2001), Kinoeye, Vol. 3, Issue, 7, 9 June, 2003
- Douglas Morrey, “Introduction: Claire Denis and Jean-Luc Nancy”, Film-Philosophy, vol. 12, no. 1, 2008
- Douglas Morrey, 'Open Wounds: Body and Image in Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis', Film-Philosophy, vol. 12, no. 1, 2008
- Douglas Morrey, 'Textures of Terror: Claire Denis's Trouble Every Day', Belphégor: Littérature Populaire et Culture Médiatique, Vol. 3, No. 2, April 2004
- Jean-Luc Nancy, 'Icon of Fury: Claire Denis' Trouble Every Day, Film-Philosophy, 12.1, 2008
- Hilary Neroni, 'Lost in fields of interracial desire: Claire Denis' Chocolat (1988)' Kinoeye, Vol 3 Issue 7, 9 June, 2003
- Elena del Río, “Performing the narrative of seduction in Claire Denis’ Beau travail (Good Work, 1999)”, Kinoeye, vol. 3, no. 7, 9 June, 2003
- Wim Staat, 'The Other's Intrusion: Claire Denis's L'Intrus', Thamyris/Intersecting No. 19 (2008) 195–208
- Anja Streiter, 'The Community According to Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis,' Film-Philosophy, 11.1, 2008
- R. Emmet Sweeney, 'The Hither Side of Solutions: Body and Landscape in L'Intrus', Senses of Cinema, April 2005
- NEW Justin Vicari, Colonial Fictions: Le Petit Soldat and its revisionist sequel, Beau Travail, Jump Cut, No. 50, Spring 2008
- Fiona A. Villella, 'A Postcolonial Reading of Claire Denis' Chocolat', Senses of Cinema, vol. 1, Dec 1999
- Emma Wilson, 'Contemporary French Women Filmmakers,' French Studies 2005 59(2):217-223
Relevant (and Informative) Book Reviews:
- Acquarello, 'Claire Denis by Judith Maine', Strictly Film School, January 16, 2006
- John Orr, 'Claire Denis by Martine Beugnet', Senses of Cinema, No. 37, 2005
- Saige Walton, 'Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression by Martine Beugnet, [Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2007],' Senses of Cinema, No. 50, 2009
Excellent Items of Film Criticism:
- Joe Bowman, 'The Decade List: Trouble Every Day', Fin de Cinéma, 3 April 2009
- Joe Bowman, '[on L'Intrus]', Fin de Cinéma, 28 April 2006
- Adrian Danks, 'Travellin' Light [Vendredi soir], Senses of Cinema, No. 31, 2004
- Paul Grant, 'Jacques Rivette - Le veilleur', Senses of Cinema, No. 42, 2007
- Daniel Kasman, '35 Shots of Rum: In Honour of Changing the World', The Auteurs: Notebook, 13 September 2008
- Daniel Kasman, 'L'Intrus (The Intruder)', D+Kas, 20 December 2005
- Ryland Walker Knight, '35 Rhums on The Night Shift', The Auteurs: Notebook, 13 March 2009
- Travis Mackenzie Hoover, 'Rewriting Documentary: Claire Denis's Jacques Rivette, le veilleur', The House Next Door Online, April 3, 2007
- Travis Mackenzie Hoover, 'In the realm of Work and Play: Claire Denis's Vers Mathilde', The House Next Door Online, January 16, 2007
- Jonathan Rosenbaum, 'Unsatisfied Men [on Beau Travail]] , JonathanRosenbaum.com, 6 May 2000 (also published in the Chicago Reader Online same date, with images)
- Diana Sandars, 'Chocolat', Senses of Cinema, No. 17, 2001
- Daniel Stuyck, 'ELETRIK ALCHEMY: Claire Denis Films Sonic Youth', Film Comment, January-February 2008
- Charles Taylor, 'Beau Travail', Salon.com, March 2000, p. 1
- Tamara Tracz, 'Beau travail', Senses of Cinema, No. 42, 2007
Enlightening Interviews in English:
- Aimé Ancian, “Claire Denis: An Interview”, translated by Inge Pruks, Senses of Cinema, No. 23, 2002
- Annett Busch, 'Claire Denis about Intrusions', (Interview, May 2005), Theory Kit, January 2006
- Chris Darke, 'Desire is violence' [Interview with Claire Denis] Sight and Sound Vol. 10 no. 7 July 2000. p. 16-18
- Robert Davis, 'Interview: Claire Denis on 35 Shots of Rum', Daily Plastic, March 10, 2009
- Robert Davis, 'Outtakes from Claire Denis Interview', Errata, 14 August, 2008
- Darren Hughes, 'Dancing Reveals So Much: An Interview with Claire Denis [about 35 Rhums]', Senses of Cinema, No. 50, 2009
- Kevin Lee, 'Spectacularly Intimate: An Interview with Claire Denis', The Auteurs: Notebook, 2 April 2009
- Craig Phillips, with Jonathan Marlow, '"Making Film is to Be Inside": a Talk with Claire Denis [on Vendredi Soir]', GreenCine, May 14, 2003 (Continues on Page 2 HERE)
- Mark A. Reid, 'Interview by Claire Denis', from Jump Cut, no. 40, March 1996, pp. 67-72
- Jonathan Romney, 'Claire Denis Interviewed', The Guardian Online, 28 June, 2000
- Gavin Smith, 'Claire Denis', Film Comment, January/February 2006
- Damon Smith, 'L’Intrus: An Interview with Claire Denis”, Senses of Cinema, No. 35 (April-June 2005), p. 2
- Séverine Boularan, 'Un article sur le film "Vendredi Soir" réalisé par Claire Denis', www.cinema-poet.com, N. 4, 2008
- Saad Chakali, 'A Corps ouvert[s]', Cahiers du Cinéma (22 avril 2005)
- Irmela Marei Krüger-Fürhoff, '«L'Intrus» - Transférer la greffe', Atopia: The Polylogic E-Zine, 2009
- Jean-Luc Nancy, 'L'Intrus selon Claire Denis', remue.net, Spring Issue, 4 mai 2005
- Jean Luc Nancy, ‘L’Areligion (Beau travail de Claire Denis)’. Vacarme, n. 14, 2001
- Jean-Philippe Renouard & Lise Wajeman, '« ce poids d'ici-bas » Entretien avec Claire Denis', Vacarme, n. 14, 2001
- Martine Beugnet, Claire Denis (Manchester: Manchester and New York University Press, 2004)
- Judith Mayne, Claire Denis (Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2005)
- Martine Beugnet, Cinema and Sensation: French Film and the Art of Transgression (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2007)
Open Access campaigning note:
(Film Studies For Free's hobby horse...)
There are, of course, many further, excellent Denis resources available 'for free' if one is a student or member of faculty at an educational institution with a well-supplied library or with relevant online subscriptions. But the above list indicates, if nothing else, that truly openly accessible, high-quality, and, indeed, essential resources for researchers in and outside the academy are plentiful nowadays, especially on contemporary topics.
A big thanks, then, to the authors, artists, editors and publishers of the above works who helped to ensure that their writings, recordings, or videos about Claire Denis's films were freely available to any reader or viewer on the internet.
1 comment:
Thanks for doing this! I pointed my students to your site, as some are writing papers on Denis.
Marco Abel
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