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| Frame grab image of Jerry Lewis as 'Warren Nefron' in Smorgasbord aka Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis, 1983). Read Steven Shaviro's new article on this film |
Smorgasbord (retitled Cracking Up by the distributor) is Jerry Lewis's last self-directed feature film. It first opened in France in 1983; it never received a proper American release. (In the US, it was immediately relegated to cable television -- which is where I saw it for the first time). And Smorgasbord still isn't very well known today -- even among Lewis aficionados. (It is, for instance, the only one of Lewis's self-directed films not to appear in the index to Enfant Terrible, an academic essay collection edited by Murray Pomerance in 2002, which otherwise covers Lewis' film career quite comprehensively). Yet I think that Smorgasbord is one of Jerry Lewis's greatest films; in what follows, I will try to explain why. [Steven Shaviro, 'Smorgasbord', La Furia Umana, 12, 2012; hyperlinks added by FSFF]Film Studies For Free just heard about the latest issue of the pentalingual film journal La Furia Umana. There are lots of brilliant articles in English, and other marvellous work, too, in other languages that will be entertainingly translated by Google, if you so require.
The particular highlight, this time, is a truly brilliant and wide-ranging dossier on the work of Jerry Lewis, a human fury of an actor if ever there was one... But FSFF also had plenty of thoughts usefully and skilfully provoked by Kim Nicolini writing on the Post-Feminist Possibilities in Lars Von Trier's Melancholia.
And there's a lot more to explore and learn from besides the above. Just feast your polyglot eyes on the below...
nota editoriale
rapporto confidenziale
- Toni D'Angela / Jerry Lewis o l'impossibile. Il corpo, la voce e le “macchine”
- Carlos Losilla / Jerry le fou
- B. Kite / The Jerriad: A Clown Painting
- Zach Campbell / A Jerry Problem, or, That Uncomfortable Feeling
- Murray Pomerance / A Sensational Face
- Denis Lévy / Les grimaces de Jerry
- Alessandro Cappabianca / Jerry Lewis
- José María Latorre / Jerry Lewis, botones y mensajero
- Sarah Ohana / L'apparition comme effet comique dans le cinéma de Jerry Lewis
- Violeta Kovasics / Donde vive la imaginación
- Peter Nellhaus / Jerry Lewis Actor and Auteur
- David Phelps / The pisher dada menschs fodder
- R. Emmet Sweeney / Colgate Comedy Hour, September 18, 1955
- Enrico Camporesi / Frank Tashlin e Jerry Lewis: artist and model?
- Sudarshan Ramani / The King of Comedy: A Lament for Jerry Lewis
- Felipe Medeiros / The Bellboy
- Bruno Andrade / Mocinho encrenqueiro
- Marco Grosoli / The Errand Boy
- Óscar Brox / The Patsy
- João Palhares / Three On a Couch
- Adrien Clerc / Les dérèglements du visage dans Which Way to the Front?
- de Jerry Lewis
- John Kern / Why the Clown Died ©, A Critical Essay on Jerry Lewis’ the Day the Clown Cried
- Gina Telaroli / Hardly Working
- Steven Shaviro / Smorgasbord
- Patrizia Fantozzi / Faust (Alexander Sokurov)
- Marco Grosoli / Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki)
- Kévin Cappelli / Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
- Jaime Pena / Nana (Valerie Massadian)
- Toni D'Angela / The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo (David Fincher)
- Luc Moullet / Le Spleen de Rockefeller
- Joanna Espinosa / Cinéma marginal
- Lorenzo Pellizzari / Uomini con la macchina da presa (II)
- Lilly Papagianni / Sarah Driver: Splendor in the Dark
- Ken Jacobs / From Stupefaction to Just Plain Stupid
- L. de La Hire / Pictures at Ruscha – Godard Exhibition. Noise and “Western”, “Silenzio”, and Odysseus, 1963
- Virgilio Mortari /Jean Epstein o del cinema come strumento
- Carlos Losilla / Intervenciones #2: actualidad de Serge Daney
- Nicole Brenez / Quelques souvenirs et une image de Marcel Mazé
- Marcel Mazé / Le Festival International de Jeune Cinéma de Hyères. 1965-1983
- Doris Peternel / L'image réflexivé chez Peter Tscherkassky
western fragmenta
- Mónica M. Marinero / El indio como horizonte: The Last of the Comanches y Meek's Cutoff
- Santiago and Andrés Rubín de Celis / I film western di Robert Parrish: Looking for a New Life
- Violeta Kovacics / Un día a oscuras
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