Category Archives: Film Studies

Take the Survey: 50 States, 50 Filmmakers

The United States of America

I’ve been looking over Ted Hope’s blog lately and one thing he keeps returning to is the idea that in order for cinema to be truly free (i.e., liberated), we have to do our part to help film culture. I agree.
That’s part of what this blog has always been about. One [...]

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Best Film List, By Alphabet (x 2)

Chris Cagle at Category D tagged me for the Alphabet Meme.
Here are the rules:
1. Pick one film to represent each letter of the alphabet.*
2. The letter “A” and the word “The” do not count as the beginning of a film’s title, unless the film is simply titled A or The, and I don’t know of [...]

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Robert Bresson – A Bibliography

Jane Sloan, Shmuel Ben-Gad, and Frank Blaakmeer at Masters of Cinema have compiled what appears to be the most comprehensive (complete?) Robert Bresson bibliography in the world. As someone whose passion for Bresson’s work led him to trying to read Notes on Cinematography in the original French back when the English translation was out of [...]

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Film Festival World: Resources

Film Festival World has recently launched a few useful resource pages worth checking out:
Their Ezines, Journals, & More page selects some of the better sources of critical writing on film from around the (digital) globe. Alongside long-running magazines (like Cahiers du Cinema and Cineaste) are sites like the Rouge and Senses of Cinema. I’m looking [...]

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A Long Weekend of Short Filmmaking at William & Mary: Pt. 2

Saturday morning at William & Mary began with Troy Davis giving Ashley and me a tour around the William & Mary’s Swem Library Media Center. The Director of the Media Center, Troy was my host for the weekend and one of the primary organizers of the Media Center’s Long Weekend of Short Filmmaking.
The Media Center [...]

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