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. 
Documentaries · Music & Musicals · Reviews
“You start having to wash two times a day and grow hair in weird places.” “I like moving my hips, a lot!” That’s one preteen girl enthusing about the pleasures[…]
Doing the Continental
Documentaries · Festivals & Awards
“The governments will be forgotten but the masterpieces will remain.”
The world’s first Spherist masterpiece?
Angelopoulos to Zhu: “This is an artistic film. You wouldn’t like it.”
Documentaries · LGBT & Queer · Memoir · Reviews
“He’d fuck himself if he could”
Lust in translation
Bad day at Bedrock
The crowd has a thousand eyes
Documentaries · Film Technology & History
“See it without glasses!”
Directors · Exploitation & Erotica · Genres · Writers & Critics
It Came from New World Pictures!
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[…]
“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.[…]
“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
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.[…]
