Latest issues of KINEMA: von Trier, Czech cinema, Romanian cinema, Woody Allen, cult cinema, de Mille, Schnabel, Practice vs. Theory

So bad it's good? Framegrab from The Room (Tommy Wiseau, 2003). Read Rod Stoneman's study of cult cinema "Inside The Room and Beyond"

Film Studies For Free continues to catch up with (fairly) recently published issues of online Film Studies journals. Below are links to the articles from the Spring and Fall 2011 issues of Canadian journal Kinema.

Lots of good stuff here, and even some good stuff on bad stuff, but FSFF especially recommends Mette Hjort's wonderful article on Lars von Trier.

Fall 2011

• "On Lars von Trier, Enfant Terrible of Danish Art Film: by Mette Hjort
• "Inside The Room and Beyond" by Rod Stoneman
• "Czech Surrealism and Czech New Wave Realism" by Alison Frank
• "Remarks on the Actual Status of Romanian Cinema" Christina Stojanova
• "Moral Luck in the Films of Woody Allen" by Ewa Mazierska

Spring 2011

• "Gerald Arthur Pratley, OC (1923-2011)" by The Editor   
• "Themes in the Cinema of Darrell James Roodt" by Martin P. Botha   
• "The Primacy of Practice?" by Desmond Bell   
• "Cecil B. DeMille and the Art of Applied Suggestibility" by Anton Karl Kozlovic    
• "The Films of Julian Schnabel" by Alex Britton   

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Cinephilia celebrated and explored in IndianAuteur

Image from The Cloud-Capped Star (Meghe Dhaka Tara, 1960) by Ritwik Ghatak (Adrian Martin's favourite Indian film)

A Film Studies For Free quickie first-off today, just to bring you news of the new issue (no. 7: November 25- December 25) of the IndianAuteur  E-magazine. In particular, FSFF wanted to flag up its fascinating series of articles on film festivals and cinephilia, crowned by a truly fantastic interview with one of the most prodigiously talented and productive cinephile film-writers out there, Adrian Martin.

You can read the issue online by clicking here; and you can download it by clicking here (for the .zip file). The magazine's great e-archive of past issues is here. Below, FSFF has pasted the table of contents of direct links to all those articles from the new issue which available online:

AUTEUR

The Legend of Herr Zolka: Anuj Malhotra

COVER STORY

Paradise Lost: Kshitiz Anand

Cinephilia in India: Nitesh Rohit

Porgramming a film festival: Sachin Gandhi

Seeing is Believing: Supriya Suri

Cinephile, Adjectiv- Cinephilia in Romania : Anamaria Dobincuic

Winds From The East: Sagorika Singha

Multiplexes, Multi-Million AND Multi-Wood: Anuj Malhotra (there's a problem loading this page so far)

Interview

Adrian Martin

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