Image from El sur/The South (Víctor Erice, Spain, 1983), subject of a recent blogpost by Kevin B Lee. See also Jo Evans, 'A Myth in Time: Victor Erice's El sur', Journal of Hispanic Research, 4 (1995-96) and Miguel Marías, 'El sur', Senses of Cinema, Issue 38, 2006.
Below is a quite horrendously long (and hyperbolic) list of live links to online and freely accessible items of note (or of quirk) as already delivered up to e-posterity (or e-phemerality) by Film Studies For Free's occasionally very vibrant Twitterfeed.
If you'd like to be almost constantly supplied with news of such magnificent resources as these (-- in 140 characters or fewer -- in real time -- as they excitedly happen --), please subscribe to the ever so abbreviated & abridged @filmstudiesff HERE. Ta!
- One of the best (and best written) reviews of film in 2009 from the ever excellent Tativille (Michael J Anderson): http://bit.ly/6lKAhv
- Yes, indeed: "oh God" (thanks to Matthew Flanagan @flanaganm): - 'The Top 10 Conservative Movies of the Last Decade' http://bit.ly/5zhsqw
- Another highly compelling decade list, this time by Chuck Tryon (@chutry) 'My Decade in Movies, Part I' http://bit.ly/8s6t8T
- Another one of the best: Michael Z Newman/Zigzigger's fab Faves 2009 http://zigzigger.blogspot.com/2009/12/faves-2009.html
- Lots of great links at Girish Shambu's blog: 'Framework on Cinephilia, etc.' http://bit.ly/5KNChe
- 7 video interview segments featuring François Truffaut discussing his filmmaking - from Scott Myers @GoIntoTheStory http://bit.ly/8fNnQP
- GREAT film decade list by Miriam Bale (House Next Door): 'Shifted Images [Not the best or worst but the most enduring]' http://bit.ly/8HCxru
- Great stuff from Jim Barratt: 2009: 'a [film business] year in rear view' http://bit.ly/5HmhUY(@BigPicResearch)
- David Cairns' (@dcairns) Hitchcock Year comes to a (near) end - http://dcairns.wordpress.com/2009/12/30/the-pattern-is-complete/
- Andrew Sarris's CONFESSIONS OF A CULTIST ON THE CINEMA (1955, 1969) Internet Archive Free Download: http://bit.ly/8U0AS7
- Some excellent pointers from Omar Ahmed at E L L I P S I S to hard to find INDIAN CINEMA on YOUTUBE - http://bit.ly/8ukI1F
- Some great film articles in new Journal of the Imaginary and Fantastic : Vol.1 No.6 : Talking Animals http://bit.ly/5uYknt
- Some end of the decade brilliance from Bordwell & Thompson: 'The ten-plus best films of … 1919' - http://bit.ly/8MWeaY
- Wonderful continuing exploration of Single Take Titles -- 'Part 4: The POV' -- thanks to @ArtoftheTitle- http://bit.ly/5cjtum
- Fab new December issue of online Irish Journal Of Gothic and Horror Studies http://bit.ly/4B4vfC
- Properly up and running online now: new Senses of Cinema, Issue 53: http://bit.ly/422jIv (RT @theauteursdaily& @sallitt)
- Acquarello (@filmref) posted some notes on Renate Günther's book on Marguerite Duras (MUP) http://tinyurl.com/yfx2q8m (RT @theauteursdaily)
- Brilliant mapping out in Chuck Tryon's MLA '09 paper: “Blogging, Scholarship, & the Networked Public Sphere” (@chutry) http://bit.ly/4T2oB4
- More truly great stuff from @drnorth: 'Gaia and Dolls: James Cameron’s Avatar' at Spectacular Attractions - http://bit.ly/5MDMUb
- Aaron Cutler on Louis Feuillade atThe House Next Door: 'The Treasure of Tih Minh' http://bit.ly/8gkdZy
- A particularly good article by Adrian Danks on the New Iranian Cinema, Close-Up and the “Film-on-film” Genre http://bit.ly/4z6HTG
- Great post @ E L L I P S I S on KANCHENJUNGHA (Satyajit Ray, 1962): 'Why accept a life of endless submission?' (indeed) http://bit.ly/8MRbB4
- Great blogpost by Kevin B. Lee (@alsolikelife) on Erice's El sur (1983): http://bit.ly/5NeJix
- Check out James MacDowell's great blog, The Lesser Feat, for a lovely tribute to Robin Wood http://bit.ly/8vO8W4
- Jonathan Rosenbaum's 1974 great Sight & Sound review of THEORY OF FILM PRACTICE by Noël Burch http://bit.ly/5yJ29d
- Monumentally BRILLIANT essay on Gamer, ('As radical as reality itself': dir. Neveldine/Taylor, 2009) by Steven Shaviro: http://bit.ly/5fjUY0
- Wonderful post by Luke McKernan at The Bioscope on fashion in silent cinema: 'Catwalks and pavements' http://bit.ly/7SBdii
- MUST-read (Via @theauteursdaily & @chutry): Jason Sperb is brilliant on on cinephilia & Gondry's BE KIND REWIND http://bit.ly/6fGIPv
- Great post by Chris Cagle at Category D: A Film and Media Studies Blog: 'The Influence Fallacy' http://bit.ly/78xeoq
- Great article by Lisa Gye on Baz Luhrmann's Australia and McLean's Wolf Creek in new Fibreculture Journal Issue 15 http://bit.ly/6AlCRA
- 'Magic, Medicine & Technology in Aronofsky’s The Fountain, Gibson’s The Neuromancer & Slonczewski’s Brain Plague' pdf http://bit.ly/4sRiha
- Martha Nochimson on Wong Kar-wai's Ashes of Time Redux in latest issue of Cineaste Magazine http://bit.ly/4Na8XC
- Matt Zoller Seitz's great video essay on Clint Eastwood and revenge (Pts 1 and 2) at Moving Image Source http://bit.ly/5C06nn
- 'A CINEMATIC FABLE': Adrian Martin on Jacques Rancière's essays (large [and beautiful...] pdf) http://bit.ly/4yHgAx
- Reverse Shot Direct Address #1: Sally Potter on direct address, her new film Rage & the power of the filmed image.http://bit.ly/7M5Sii
- Richard Brody's 'Best Films of the Decade' @tnyfrontrow is one of the most interesting lists I've read so far http://bit.ly/5lZjiW
- Interesting observations on the world premiere of Born of Hope, an independent, fan-made cinematic prequel of Lord of the Rings http://bit.ly/6tNi2O
- Viewing (3'40"). AO Scott (http://bit.ly/69zAyh) on Chris Marker's LA JETÉE (1962, http://bit.ly/sl6tH) (RT @theauteursdaily)
- And, to conclude, some shameless self-promotion... Catherine Grant's latest post at Directing Cinema - 'Auteurist collaborations: Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville' http://bit.ly/6NkQzM
2 comments:
Thanks, Catherine, for all the links and a very happy new year to you...
Cheers!
And a happy new and cinephilic year to you, JAFB - thanks!
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