Follow-Friday Links Round Up

Image from Frederick Wiseman’s La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris (2009)

For those of you not (yet) following Film Studies For Free on Twitter here's a meaty round up of FSFF's (aka @filmstudiesff) recent top tweeted recommendations of online and openly accessible film and media studies resources of note. They are listed mainly in reverse chronological order, so there are as many must-read recommendations at the foot of the list as there are at the top.

For Twitter aficionados, FSFF's 'Follow-Friday' recommendations are given in (@) brackets throughout:

• Two excellent and must-read items from David Bordwell:
  
  
  • 'Another Shaw Production: Anamorphic Adventures in Hong Kong'
  • The hilarious and informative blogpost on bedposts and cinematic phalluses...
    

• Scorsese, Schoonmaker, and Toback talk to Aaron Hillis at GreenCineDaily about THE RED SHOES restoration (@GreenCineDaily) 
  

• At Film International, read Robert Leeming on Joseph Losey:  (thanks to @theauteursdaily)
  

• Must-read: Hito Steyerl on the 'Poor Image' (and 'swarm circulation, digital dispersion, fractured and flexible temporalities') (thanks to @theauteursdaily)
  

• Compelling essay by Aaron Bady (@zunguzungu) at The Valve: 'Tarantino is an Inglourious Basterd'

• Excellent Guardian article by Peter Bradshaw (@guardianfilm and @peterbradshaw1) on 'What Michael Haneke owes to Kafka' 

• Fabulous piece on the essay film's jostling of cinematic pieties by Andrew Tracy for Moving Image Source (thanks to @theauteursdaily)
  

• Dan North (@drnorth) on the decline and fall of Tarzan  

• At Indian Auteur, a really good interview with Atsushi Funahashi (Deep in the Valley)  (Thanks to @niteshrohit) 
  

• Luke McKernan at The Bioscope on recovering obscure histories, e.g., that of British silent era screenwriter Mary Murillo (thanks to @theauteursdaily)

• Check out Ron Reed's fascinating post on the Coens' A Serious Man: 'Questions For Further Study' @ Filmwell  (@filmwell)

• The Open Culture blog had a good round of websites where you can watch Free Movies Online

• See Ryland Walker Knight's wonderful work transforming Michael Bay's images: "Bay Area: A Flare for "Transformers"
  

• See Matthew Flanagan's great review of "La danse - Le ballet de l'Opéra de Paris" (Frederick Wiseman)  (thanks to @theauteurs) 

• A must-read: Henry Jenkins on' Strange Overtures: Vodaphone, Tchaikovsky, Ernie Kovacs and the "Wowness" of New Media  (thanks to @henryjenkins)  
  

• A last post (sob) Mystery Man on Film's old blog: [HIS] 101 BEST ARTICLES! - Lots of great educational stuff, especially on screenwriting. (thanks to @MMonFilm)
  

• Great post at The Bourne Cinema Conspiracy on 'The Best Korean and Japanese Films of the 2000s' 
  

• Excellent essay by Ernest Mathijs, 'Threat or Treat: Film, Television, and the Ritual of Halloween' at Flow TV (thanks to @flowTV)

• Truly great stuff, as always, from Michael J Anderson: "Being Above/Being Within: A Taxonomy of the 360° Panorama" (thanks to @theauteursdaily 

• The ever excellent Michael Guillén at The Evening Class on LOS SANTOS SUCIOS/THE DIRTY SAINTS (2009) - great Q&A with Luis Ortega (@MichaelGuillen)

• David Cairns (@dcairns)  is brilliant on THE HAUNTING 'Halloween Film Club: Sick Building Syndrome' at his Shadowplay blog 

• Chris Cagle's done it again - a great overview, this time, of film history textbooks (thanks to @theauteursdaily). It's a companion piece to his extremely useful review-overview of introductory textbooks.
  

•  'Kuxa Kanema: Mozambican film … and Godard' from Damon Smith's brilliant The Hands of Bresson blog
  

• Jonathan Rosenbaum compellingly asks the big Bazinian question 'What is cinema?' in his essay 'Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia'

• A Must-read: Srikanth Srinivasan (@justanotheruser) brilliantly posted about Roman Polanski's second feature REPULSION (1965) 
  

• And last but certainly not least, read Film Editor Jo Ann Kaplan on 8 "magic" cuts (with clips) at the great website APEngine (@APEngine)
  

Back from vac with Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

Back from its screen-free holidays to one of its favourite places (the very gorgeous Andalucía, in case you were wondering), a rested and refreshed Film Studies For Free today brings you some links to high-quality, film studies-related, book reviews from that very worthy e-organ Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. Do please scroll down for those.

There are plenty more Openly Accessible film-studies delights coming up in the next days and weeks, so do please come back to this blog soon, but thanks for the toneladas of email correspondence in FSFF's absence. Free (and legal) films online and Victor Perkins are as deservedly popular as ever, FSFF is happy to note.

Oh... and those early to middle adopters among you might like to know that this (always later to the party) blog has succumbed to the delights of Twitter - partly in order to be able to follow David Hudson's brillant new film-on-the-web updates for The Auteurs Daily.

Christoper Grau (ed.)
Philosophers Explore The Matrix
Reviewed by Allan Hazlett, Texas Tech University
2006.01.15

Dan Flory
Philosophy, Black Film, Film Noir
Reviewed by Angela Curran, Carleton College
2009.03.10

Eyal Peretz
Becoming Visionary: Brian De Palma's Cinematic Education of the Senses
Reviewed by Gregg Lambert, Syracuse University
2008.03.11

Ronald Bogue
Deleuze's Wake: Tributes and Tributaries
Reviewed by Todd May, Clemson University
2004.05.07

Irving Singer
Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on His Creativity
Reviewed by Thomas E. Wartenberg, Mount Holyoke College
2008.05.23

John Mullarkey
Refractions of Reality: Philosophy and the Moving Image
Reviewed by Joseph Mai, Clemson University
2009.06.26

Giorgio Agamben
Profanations
Reviewed by Jeffery Geller, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
2008.06.35

Keith Ansell-Pearson
Philosophy and the Adventure of the Virtual: Bergson and the Time of Life
Reviewed by Daniel W. Smith, Purdue University
2002.07.14

Bernd Herzogenrath (ed.)
Deleuze/Guattari & Ecology
Reviewed by Eugene Holland, The Ohio State University
2009.07.22

Peter Hallward
Out of This World: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Creation
Reviewed by John Protevi, Louisiana State University
2007.08.03

J. M. Bernstein
Against Voluptuous Bodies: Late Modernism and the Meaning of Painting
Reviewed by Daniel Herwitz, University of Michigan
2006.09.18

Nathan Widder
Reflections on Time and Politics
Reviewed by Dorothea Olkowski, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs