Documentaries · Festivals & Awards
In the Realm of the Real: The 3rd Chicago International Documentary Film Festival
“The governments will be forgotten but the masterpieces will remain.”
Author: Robert Keser
Robert Keser is Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts in Aqaba, Jordan. He has written for the Pesaro Film Festival (Italy), the Jeonju Film Festival (South Korea), the Las Palmas International Film Festival (Spain), and the Melbourne Cinémathèque (Australia). He wrote thirty-two entries in Defining Moments in Movies, edited by Chris Fujiwara, and more of his film writing can be found at Senses of Cinema, Slant, and other publications. Pucker Up: The Enchantments of Resnais’ Not on the Lips
The world’s first Spherist masterpiece?
Theda Bara’s Eyes: The 40th Chicago International Film Festival, Part 2
Angelopoulos to Zhu: “This is an artistic film. You wouldn’t like it.”
Documentaries · LGBT & Queer · Memoir · Reviews
Going Mental: The Travesties of Tarnation
“He’d fuck himself if he could”
Distribute This! The Women Men Yearn For (Germany, 1929)
Lust in translation
Distribute This! Francisco Athié’s Vera (Mexico, 2003)
Bad day at Bedrock
Together Again in the Dark: The 2003 Chicago International Film Festival
The crowd has a thousand eyes
Documentaries · Film Technology & History
Cinerama Adventure
“See it without glasses!”
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · Genres · Writers & Critics
Dancing with Werewolves: John Sayles in Roger Corman’s Hollywood
It Came from New World Pictures!
The Bowery: Raoul Walsh’s Gangs of New York
They spit! They swear! They smoke in bed! Back in 1933, The Bowery scored a big hit, introducing Darryl Zanuck’s new independent venture called Twentieth Century Pictures, yet this nostalgic[…]
38th Chicago International Film Festival (2002)
“The Scandals of 2002” “There is no more universal experience than sitting in a darkened theater, watching the magic of the movies.” So says Richard M. Daley, mayor of Chicago.[…]
37th Chicago International Film Festival (2001)
“It’s so twenty-first century!” Was it coincidence that at least five festival films featured insistent cell-phone ringing onscreen, mocking transgressors in the audience? Actually, such acoustic violations were not a[…]
Historical & Epic · Reviews · Silents
Behind the Brocade: Abel Gance’s Lucrezia Borgia
The Borgias are having an orgy Old master Abel Gance directed this juicy potboiler of family values run amok as a frankly commercial job to put baguettes on the table.[…]
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