Werner Herzog's Cave: videos and links

One of the most distinctive filmmakers of our time, Werner Herzog has been called the "romantic visionary" of the New German Cinema movement. His edgy, larger-than-life films fuse the epic with the intimate, redefining the scale and scope of filmmaking to include more than 60 works shot on every continent. He appeared in conversation with acclaimed author and essayist, Pico Iyer at UC Santa Barbara on October 25, 2010. (download the video here)

A 10 minute fragment from a 'masterclass' with Werner Herzog. For 7 Planete Doc Review, with Pamela Cohn with Michałem Chacińskim, 2010. Also see this video.

Film Studies For Free hopes its Werner Herzog-obsessive readers will have a few hours to spare. They'll need them to watch the above embedded (and linked to) videos, some of the more recent, and most worthwhile of freely accessible online encounters with LA's most interesting resident filmmaker.

These videos, and the critical and scholarly reading below, will help time pass before the Spring 2011 premiere of Herzog's latest (3D) film, Cave of Forgotten Dreams (trailer, related video,  second related video). Don't say that FSFF isn't looking out for you, Herzog-ites!

Scholarly online writing about Herzog:

• Jesse Amato-Grill, 'Trappings', Mercer Street, 2007

• Matthias Wilhelm Benfey, Religious cinema as virtual religious experience : a theory of religious cinema applied to Werner Herzog's Herz aus Glas, PhD Thesis, McGill University, 1986 

• Adam Bingham, 'Images from the end of the world: Werner Herzog's La Soufrière', Senses of Cinema, September 2006

• Tom Bissell, 'The Secret Mainstream: Contemplating the Images of Werner Herzog', Harpers Magazine, December 2006

• Karl-Rainer Blumenthal, 'Of Gods and Grizzlies: The Non-Aesthetic of Nature and the new Kinship of Werner Herzog and Caspar David Friedrich', Senior Thesis, Bryn Mawr College, 2006 

• Buffalo Film Seminars - selected writings about Herzog (and, especially, Aguirre: Wrath of God)

• Garrett Chaffin-Quiray, 'An Adaptation With Fangs: Herzog's Nosferatu,' Kinoeye, Vol. 2, Issue 20, December 2002

• Alkan Chipperfield, 'Murmurs from a Shadowless Land: Fragmentary Reflections on the Cinema of Werner Herzog', Senses of Cinema, June 2001

• David Church, 'Werner Herzog', Senses of Cinema, June 2006

• David Church, 'Examining the Role of Disability in Herzog's Even Dwarves Started Small', Disability Studies Quarterly, Vol 25, No 4 (2005)

• Roger Dawkins, 'Thoughts of Deleuze, Spinoza and the Cinema (The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser)', Contretemps, 3 July 2002

• Eric Dewberry, 'Conceiving Grizzly Man through the "Powers of the False"', Scope, Issue 11, June 2008

• Thomas Elsaesser, 'The Cinema of Irony', Monogram no. 5, 1973

• Thomas Elsaesser, 'Hyper-, Retro- or Counter-European Cinema as Third Cinema between Hollywood and Art Cinema', in European Cinema: Face to Face with Hollywood(Amsterdam University Press, 2005)

• Caryl Flynn, The New German Cinema: Music, History, and the Matter of Style. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2004 2004

• Andrew W. Hurley, 'Re-imagining Milirrpum v Nabalco in Werner Herzog’s Where the Green Ants Dream', Paper delivered at PASSAGES: law, aesthetics, politics 13–14 July 2006 Melbourne Australia

• David T Johnson, '"You Must Never Listen to This": Lessons on Sound, Cinema, and Mortality from Herzog's Grizzly Man', Film Criticism; Spring 2008, 32: 3

• Michael Koller, 'The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner', Senses of Cinema, February 2002

• Joe Muszynski, 'A Legacy of Quality: Werner Herzog's Nosferatu and the New German Cinema'

• Benjamin Noys, 'Antiphusis: Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man', Film-Philosophy, 11.3, November 2006

• Ingo Petzke, 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God', Senses of Cinema, February 2002

• Cynthia Rockwell, 'Werner Herzog and the Documentary Film', e-Thesis, Boston University 1994

• Antonia Shanahan, 'My Best Fiend', Senses of Cinema, February 2002

• John W. White, 'On Werner Herzog’s Documentary Grizzly Man: Psychoanalysis, Nature, and Meaning', Fast capitalism, 4.1, 2008

Michael Haneke Studies: videos, podcasts and article links

Dedicated to the memory of Peter Brunette, 1943-2010

True likeness by Catherine Grant

The above is a new video essay produced for Film Studies For Free's baby sister site Filmanalytical. It explores some of the obvious, as well as the more obscure, similarities between two films: Peeping Tom (Michael Powell, 1960) and Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages/Code Unknown: Incomplete Tales of Several Journeys (Michael Haneke, 2000). Like all mash-ups it's best enjoyed and/or most effective if you know the original films. Read an explanation of the context of this work here.

 

Thomas Elsaesser on Michael Haneke (excerpt) And see Elsaesser's book chapter on this work here (pdf -details below)

 

Geoff Andrew on Michael Haneke

Geoff Andrew on The White Ribbon

 Film Studies For Free created a big Michael Haneke links list in October last year to coincide with the flood of online material on this filmmaker as a consequence of the cinematic release of Das Weisse Band/The White Ribbon. The flood shows no sign of abating, however, and so here's a new and updated list of material. For ease of use, FSFF has listed at the top items that weren't included in the October entry.

At the top of this post is a new video essay made by FSFF's author for a new companion website to  this blog: Filmanalytical. The site will focus on video and written essays on films and will necessarily be more "occasional" than FSFF, but hopefully useful nonetheless for those of you who like your Film Studies to be online and freely accessible.

This entry, like two other FSFF posts here and here, is dedicated to the memory of Peter Brunette, the film critic and scholar who died last week. Peter's last book was on Michael Haneke, and below is a link to a wonderful podcast interview that he gave on the subject of this filmmaker.

Finally, there are some other great new English-language books on Michael Haneke -- to join Catherine Wheatley's 2008 Michael Haneke's Cinema: The Ethics of the Image -- some of which FSFF's author has been poring over. Here are links to limited previews or listings of each of them on Google Books:

• Brian Price and John David Rhodes (eds), On Michael Haneke (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2010)
• Roy Grundmann (ed), A Companion to Michael Haneke (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
• Peter Brunette, Michael Haneke (Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2010)
• Ben McCann and David Sorfa, The Cinema of Michael Haneke: Europe Utopia (London: Wallflower Press, 2010)

New freely accessible items:

• Peter Bradshaw, 'What Haneke owes to Kafka', The Guardian, November 5, 2009
• Peter Brunette interviewed by Colin Marshall about his University of Illinois Press study of Michael Haneke's films (Podcast), April 15, 2010
• Caché - Videoed roundtable discussion of Michael Haneke's film with Roy Grundman, Edward Nersessian, Brigitte Peucker, Brian Price, and Garrett Stewart (1hr25), Philoctetes Center 
• Matthew Croombs, 'Algeria Deferred: The Logic of Trauma in Muriel and Caché', Scope, no. 16, February 2010
• Thomas Elsaesser, "Performative Self-Contradictions Michael Haneke's Mind Games," in Roy Grundmann (ed), A Companion to Michael Haneke (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
• Catherine Grant, "True Likeness: Peeping Tom and Code Unknown", Filmanalytical, June 26, 2010 
• Jan Jagodzinski, 'Michael Haneke: The Spectatorship of Self-refleXivity; Between Lacan and Deleuze', 'The Scope of Interdisciplinarity' Conference, Center for Integrated Studies, November 2008
• Dan North, 'Funny Games, Funny Games', Spectacular Attractions, October 14, 2009 
• David Sorfa, "Uneasy domesticity in the Films of Michael Haneke", Studies in European Cinema, 3.2 (2006)
• Robin Wood, 'Michael Haneke: beyond compromise', CineAction, Summer 2007

Full list of freely accessible items:

• Paul Arthur, 'Endgame [on Caché]', Film Comment, November/December 2005
• Karin Badt, 'Family Is Hell and So Is the World: Talking to Michael Haneke at Cannes 2005', Bright Lights Films Journal, Issue 50, November 2005
• Pamela Biénzobas, 'Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon": The Sins of the Father Are to be Laid Upon the Children', Undercurrent, 2009
• Adam Bingham, 'Long night's journey into day Michael Haneke's Le Temps du loup (The Time of the Wolf, 2003)', Kinoeye, Vol 4, Issue 1, Mar 2004
• Adam Bingham, 'Life, or something like it: Michael Haneke's Der siebente Kontinent (The Seventh Continent, 1989)', Kinoeye, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Mar 2004
• Adam Bingham, 'Modern Times: Notes Toward a Reading of Michael Haneke's 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance', Senses of Cinema, January 2005
• Bill Blick, 'The Time of the Wolf', Senses of Cinema, January 2005
• Joe Bowman, 'The Year 2001: The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)', Film For the Soul, April 28, 2009
• Peter Bradshaw, 'What Haneke owes to Kafka', The Guardian, November 5, 2009
  
• Peter Brunette interviewed by Colin Marshall about his University of Illinois Press study of Michael Haneke's films (Podcast), April 15, 2010 
• Caché - Videoed roundtable discussion of Michael Haneke's film with Roy Grundman, Edward Nersessian, Brigitte Peucker, Brian Price, and Garrett Stewart (1hr25), Philoctetes Center
• Zach Campbell, 'Blog-a-thon: Code Inconnu', Elusive Lucidity, February 12, 2006
• Mary Caputi, 'Ambivalence and Displacement in Michael Haneke’s Caché', Centre for Cultural Studies Research Conference Journal 2007
• John Champagne, 'Undoing Oedipus: Feminism and Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 36, April 2002
• Matthew Clayfield, 'Every Sequence an Unfinished Senten', Esoteric Rabbit Blog, February 13, 2006 [link currently not working]
• Dennis Cozzalio, 'Code Unknown and Crash: Collisions, Connections and Catharsis', Sergio Leone & The Infield Fly Rule, February 13, 2006
• Matthew Croombs, 'Algeria Deferred: The Logic of Trauma in Muriel and Caché', Scope, no. 16, February 2010
• Rob Davis and Robert Parks, 'Podcast Discussion: The Films of Michael Haneke', Errata, April 27, 2008
• Dipanjan, 'Haneke's Optimism' Dipanjan's Random Muses, February 13, 2006
• Maria van Dijk, 'Alienation & Perversion: Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 36, April 2002
• Peter Eisenman, 'Interview with Haneke for Icon', Iconeye
• Thomas Elsaesser, "Performative Self-Contradictions Michael Haneke's Mind Games," in Roy Grundmann (ed), A Companion to Michael Haneke (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010)
• Christine Evans, 'Cache', UBCinephile, Volume 2, March 2006
• Richard Falcon, 'Code Unknown', Sight and Sound, May 2001
• Hamish Ford, 'Hidden: A film for our times', RealTimeArts, 75, Oct-Nov 2006
• Mattias Frey, 'Supermodernity, Capital, and Narcissus: The French Connection to Michael Haneke’s Benny’s Video', Cinetext: Film & Philosophy, September 27, 2002
• Mattias Frey, 'Michael Haneke', Senses of Cinema, August 2003
• Andrew Grant/Film Brain, 'A Crumpled Piece of Paper: Scattered and Inconsequential Musings on Code Unknown', Like Anna Karina's Sweater, February 13, 2006
• Catherine Grant, "True Likeness: Peeping Tom and Code Unknown", Filmanalytical, June 26, 2010 
• Asbjørn Grønstad, 'Downcast Eyes: Michael Haneke and the Cinema of Intrusion', Nordicom Review 29 (2008) 1, pp. 133-144
• Roy Grundmann, 'Auteur de force: Michael Haneke's "cinema of glaciation"', Cineaste, March 22, 2007
• Michael Guillén, 'Code Unknown', The Evening Class, February 13, 2006
• Steffen Hantke, 'Postwar German Cinema and the Horror Film: Thoughts on Historical Continuity and Genre Consolidation', in Caligari's Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945, Edited by Steffen Hantke (Scarecrow Press, 2006)
• Eric Henderson, 'Code Unknown', When Canses Were Classeled, February 13, 2006
• Lee Hill, 'How Do You Think It Feels', Vertigo Magazine, No 16, March 2008
• Aaron Hillis, 'Code Well Known, Or, How to Build a Better Blog-a-thon', Cinephiliac, Fevruary 13, 2006
• Andrew James Horton, 'Locked Out! Michael Haneke's Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages', Central Europe review, Vol 3, No 19, May 2001
• Andrew J Horton, 'De-icing the Emotions: Michael Haneke's retrospective in London', Central Europe Review, Vol 0, No 5, October 1998
• David Hudson, 'The Auteurs Daily: The White Ribbon, How German is it?', The Auteurs Notebook, August 28, 2009
• Darren Hughes,'Code Unknown', Long Pauses, February 13, 2006
• Daniel Hui, 'Fun and Games: On Michael Haneke's 2007 Remake of His 1997 Funny Games', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 61, August 2008
• Nina Hutchison, ' Between Action and Repression: The Piano Teacher', Senses of Cinema, April 2003
• Jan Jagodzinski, 'Michael Haneke: The Spectatorship of Self-refleXivity; Between Lacan and Deleuze', 'The Scope of Interdisciplinarity' Conference, Center for Integrated Studies, November 2008
• Ian Johnston, 'Lost World: Michael Haneke's Time of the Wolf Reconsidered', Brights Lights Film Journal, Issue 56, May 2007
• Chris Justice, 'Funny Games', Senses of Cinema, January 2005
• Dominik Kamalzadeh for Die Tageszeitung, 'Interview "Cowardly and comfortable" Michael Haneke's new film "Cache" on France's colonial history investigates the point where private and collective guilt spill over into each other', Signand sight.com, January 2006
• Daniel Kasman, 'Cannes 09: Review of The White Ribbon', The Auteurs Notebook, May 22, 2009
• Tarja Laine, '"What are you looking at and why?" Michael Haneke's Funny Games (1997) with his audience', Kinoeye, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Mar 2004
• Maximilian Le Cain,' Do the Right Thing: the Films of Michael Haneke', Senses of Cinema, May 2003
• David Lowery, 'Following [On Code Unknown], Drifting, February 13, 2006
• Kartik Nair, 'Caché and the secret image', Wide Screen, Vol 1, No 1 (2009)
• Darragh O'Donoghue, 'Code inconnu: Récit incomplete de divers voyages', Senses of Cinema, January 2005
• Ara Osterwell, 'Caché ', Film Quarterly, Vol. 59, Issue 4, 2006
• Dan North, 'Funny Games, Funny Games', Spectacular Attractions, October 14, 2009
• Brigitte Peucker, 'Effects of the real Michael Haneke's Benny's Video (1993)', Kinoeye, Vol. 4 Issue 1, Mar 2004
• Peter Sainsbury, 'Visions, illusions, and delusions', RealTimeArts, 53, Feb-Mar 2003
• A. O. Scott, 'A Nice Middle Class Couple with their own Stalker [on Caché]', New York Times, December 23, 2005
• Girish Shambu, 'Cache', girish, January 23, 2006
• Girish Shambu, 'Code Unknown: An Auto-Dialogue', girish, February 13, 2006. and for the remaining contributions to the Code Unknown Blogathon:

Aaron Hillis at Cinephiliac;Darren Hughes at Long Pauses; David Lowery at Drifting; Dennis Cozzalio at Sergio Leone & The Infield Fly Rule; .Dipanjan at Random Muses; Eric Henderson at When Canses Were Classeled; Filmbrain [Andrew Grant] at Like Anna Karina's Sweater; Matthew Clayfield at Esoteric Rabbit; Michael Guillen at The Evening Class; and Zach Campbell at Elusive Lucidity.

• Christopher Sharrett, 'The Seventh Continent', Senses of Cinema, February 2005
• Christopher Sharrett, 'The World that is Known: Michael Haneke Interviewed', Kino Eye vol. 4, no. 1, 8 March 2004
• Christopher Sharrett, 'The horror of the middle class: Michael Haneke's La Pianiste (The Piano Teacher, 2001)', Kinoeye, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Mar 2004
• David Sorfa, "Uneasy domesticity in the Films of Michael Haneke", Studies in European Cinema, 3.2 (2006)
• Joerg Sternagel, 'From Inside Us: Experiencing the Film Actor in Michael Haneke’s Cache', Film International, Issue 39
• Harry Tuttle, 'Haneke on Hidden', Screenville, October 17, 2005
• Harry Tuttle, 'Three Times 4 Eggs - Funny Games (2)', Screenville, June 18, 2008
• Justin Vicari, 'Films of Michael Haneke: Utopia of fear', Jump Cut, No. 48, Winter 2006
• Catherine Wheatley, 'Secrets, Lies, & Videotape', Sight and Sound, February 2006
• Catherine Wheatley, Michael Haneke: The Ethic of the Image (London: Bergahn Books, 2008) limited preview on Google Books
• Robin Wood, 'Michael Haneke: beyond compromise', CineAction, Summer 2007

Film-Historia: Index to English language articles

Image from Offret/The Sacrifice (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986). See "Images of War in Andrei Tarkovski's The Sacrifice: Four levels of meaning", by Gabriel Giralt, Film-Historia, No. 1, 1999

Over the years, Film Studies For Free has noticed that there were some excellent English-language articles on lots of different aspects of film history to be found at the (very difficult to navigate) website of the excellent Universitat de Barcelona-based film journal Film-Historia. 

Until today, however, there was no easy way to access all of these articles, but ...  (drum roll) ... ta-da! Cast your eyes at the awesome list of direct links below, and, if you feel so inclined, thank your lucky stars that FSFF's author needed some distraction from her country's general election shenanigans this morning.

• "Walker: the dramatic film as historical truth" by Robert A. Rosenstone, Film-Historia, No. 1, 1992
• "The Image of Mexican Heroes in American Films" by Paul J. Vanderwood, Film-Historia, No. 3, 1992
• "Absolved by History: On the Aesthetics and Ideology on History in the Cuban Film Institute" by John Mraz, Film-Historia, No. 3, 1993
• "The Historical Film is a Real History", by Robert A. Rosenstone, Film-Historia, No. 1, 1995
• "Social Roles/Political Responsabilities: Jean Renoir's Search for Artistic Integrity, 1928-1939" by Charles Musser, Film-Historia, No. 1, 1994
• "Hollywood, U.S.- Mexican Relations, and the Devolution of the "Golden Age" of Mexican Cinema" by Seth Fein, Film-Historia, No. 2, 1994
• "'We're just little people, Louis': Marie-Antoniette on Film" by Laura Mason, Film-Historia, No. 3, 1994
• "Against the Ivory Tower: An Apologia for 'Popular' Historical Documentaries" by Dirk Eitzen, Film-Historia, No. 1, 1995
• "Filming the "Discovery" of America: How and Whose History Is Being Told" by Luisela Alvaray, Film-Historia, No. 1, 1995
• "Film as Historical Narrative", by Hannu Salmi, Film-Historia, No. 1, 1995
• "The Politics of the Trilogy Form: Lucia, the Oresteia, and The Godfather", by Peter W. Rose, Film-Historia, No. 2-3, 1993
• "Who Killed Vincent Chin? (1988): Ethnicy and a Babble of Discourses", by Leslie Fishbein, Film-Historia, No. 2-3, 1995
• "Colonial History and Anglo-American tension in 1939: Allegheny Uprising and Drums along the Mohawk", by K. R. M. Short, Film-Historia, No. 1, 1996
• "Cinematic Contextual History of High Noon (1952, dir. Fred Zinnemann)", by J. M. Caparrós-Lera and Sergio Alegre, Film-Historia, No. 1, 1996
• "Spain in U.S.: cinematic relationship, 1939-1953", by Rafael de España, Film-Historia, No. 3, 1996
• "Mothering Daughters: Subjectivity and History in the Work of Helma Sanders Brahms's Germany Pale Mother" by Judith Keene, Film-Historia, No. 1, 1997
• "Paradise Found?: Ana/chronic Nostalgia in Belle Epoque", by Jose F. Colmeiro, Film-Historia, No. 2, 1997
• "Germany after Unification: Views from Abroad", by Roger Hillman, Film-Historia, No. 2, 1997
• "The Image of Ancient Rome in the Cinema", by Carl J. Mora, Film-Historia, No. 3, 1997
• "Coping Strategies: Three Decades of Vietnam War in Hollywood", by Eusebio V. Llácer and Esther Enjuto, Film-Historia, No. 1, 1998
• "The Royal Air Force: World War II Film Propaganda and The March of the Time", by K. R. M. Short, Film-Historia, No. 2-3, 1998
• "Oliver Stone's Nixon: Politics on the Edge of Darkness", by Ian Scott, Film-Historia, No. 1, 1999
• "Images of War in Andrei Tarkovski's. The Sacrifice: Four levels of meaning", by Gabriel Giralt, Film-Historia, No. 1, 1999
• "Playful Subversions: Hollywood Pirates Plunder Spanish America", by Nina Gerassi-Navarro, Film-Historia, No. 2, 1999
• "The Revolution is History: Filming the Past in Mexico and Cuba", by John Mraz, Film-Historia, No. 2, 1999
• "El día que me quieras: History, Mith and Che Guevara", by John Hess, Film-Historia, No. 2, 1999
• "Cantinfladas of the PRI: (Mis) Representations of Mexican Society and Democracy in the Films of Mario Moreno", by Jeffrey Pilcher, Film-Historia, No. 2, 1999
• "Los Hermanos Mayo: Photographing Exile", by John Mraz, Film-Historia, No. 1-2, 2000 
• "Cut from Anglophilia to Anglophobia. Hollywood's Changing Perceptions of the British" by Carl J. Mora, Film-Historia, No. 1-2, 2001
• "In search of reality through dreams: Alejandro Amenabar's Abre los ojos", by Marina Martin, Film-Historia, No. 1-2, 2002
• "The ideological meaning behind Greta Garbo's star image", by Alan McLane, Film-Historia, No. 1, 2003
• "Poor Mexican cinema, So far from Cahiers du Cinema, so close to Latino U.S.A.: A Cantankerous Essay", by Carl J. Mora, Film-Historia, No. 1, 2003
• "The War, the Air Force and the Search for Realist Cinema in Britain, 1941-1942", by Michael Paris, Film-Historia, No. 1, 2003
• The Spanish Film Industry, New Technologies, New Opportunities", by Lauren Kogen, Film-Historia, No. 1, 2006
• "The Fatherless Society: Die Blechtrommel (Tin Drum)", by Xuejuen Guo, Film-Historia, No. 1, 2007

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

Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders): homage in links

Three sequences from Wim Wender's roadmovie Alice in the cities (Alice in den Städten, 1974) with Rüdiger Vogler (featuring excerpt from Young Mr Lincoln, John Ford, 1939)

Film Studies For Free was reminded by a blogpost ('Defenders of Wenders') by Richard Brody at The Front Row (New Yorker Magazine) about just what a great film Alice in den Städten/Alice in the Cities is (Wim Wenders, West Germany, 1974). It's certainly a wonderful film to teach, both in and out of its New German Cinema or 'cinema of the everyday' contexts.

Here, in its honour, is a little list of links to scholarly or good critical resources pertaining to it and to its director Wim Wenders' other early cinematic works.

• Owen Armstrong, 'Alice in', Vertigo Magazine, No.17 - May 2008

• Michael Coles, 'A Conversation with Wim Wenders', Double Take, 25, Summer 2001

• Mark Cousins, 'Widescreen [on Wim Wenders' Road Movies]', Prospect Magazine, Issue 143, February 29, 2008

• Robert Craig, 'The Art of Seeing Rescues the Existence of Things: Notes on the Wenders Road Films and Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution (Part 1)', Offscreen Journal, January 31, 2002
  

• Robert Craig, 'The Art of Seeing Rescues the Existence of Things: Notes on the Wenders Road Films and Henri Bergson's Creative Evolution (Part 2)', Offscreen Journal, January 31, 2002
  

• Chris Holt, 'ALICE IN THE CITIES (16 Oct 2008)', abfilms.org.uk, October 16, 2008

• Gary Johnson, 'Wim Wenders Biography', Images Journal, Issue 1

• Kotto, 'Wim Wenders' Alice in the Cities', You Can't Eat the Venetian Blinds, December 4, 2008

• Nick Roddick, 'The Road Goes On Forever', Sight and Sound, January 2008

• Oliver Schill, The 'Sensibilismus' Movement in Wim Wenders' Alice in the Cities (1974) and Kings of the Road (1976) Compared to The American Friend (1975/76) (GRIN Verlag, 2007), limited preview on Google Books
  

• Dave Tacon, 'Wim Wenders', Senses of Cinema, April 2003

• Wim Wenders talking about Alice in the Cities, BBC Film Programme, January 4, 2008 (from 2 mins 15 seconds in - Real Player, probably not available outside of UK)
  

Michael Haneke: A Ribbon of Links

For an updated Haneke links list here at Film Studies For Free please go to: 

Michael Haneke Studies: videos, podcasts and article links
 

Trailer for The White Ribbon

An interview with Michael Haneke about The White Ribbon

Michael Haneke's Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages, a.k.a. Code Unknown (France/Germany/Romania 2000), is one of Film Studies For Free's author's favourite films. So she is very much looking forward to catching some of the impressive upcoming season of the Austrian director's work at the British Film Institute, from November 5-30.

The season will also showcase Haneke's latest film, the Palme D'Or winning Das Weisse Band/The White Ribbon. Another highlight, for those able to make it to London's Southbank, is the event Key Scholars in Film Studies: Thomas Elsaesser on Michael Haneke on November 5 (hmmm, Bonfire Night in the UK... What could Haneke do with that historically and culturally-charged event, FSFF wonders?).

Here, to celebrate all the above, is a list of links to mostly scholarly, and all openly-accessible, online Michael Haneke resources. If you feel that any key ones are missing, do please let FSFF know and they'll be added forthwith. Danke schön!

• Paul Arthur, 'Endgame [on Caché]', Film Comment, November/December 2005
  
• Karin Badt, 'Family Is Hell and So Is the World: Talking to Michael Haneke at Cannes 2005', Bright Lights Films Journal, Issue 50, November 2005
• Pamela Biénzobas, 'Michael Haneke's "The White Ribbon": The Sins of the Father Are to be Laid Upon the Children', Undercurrent, 2009
• Adam Bingham, 'Long night's journey into day Michael Haneke's Le Temps du loup (The Time of the Wolf, 2003)', Kinoeye, Vol 4, Issue 1, Mar 2004
  
• Adam Bingham, 'Life, or something like it: Michael Haneke's Der siebente Kontinent (The Seventh Continent, 1989)', Kinoeye, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Mar 2004
• Adam Bingham, 'Modern Times: Notes Toward a Reading of Michael Haneke's 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance', Senses of Cinema, January 2005
• Bill Blick, 'The Time of the Wolf', Senses of Cinema, January 2005
• Joe Bowman, 'The Year 2001: The Piano Teacher (Michael Haneke)', Film For the Soul, April 28, 2009
  
• Caché - Videoed roundtable discussion of Michael Haneke's film with Roy Grundman, Edward Nersessian, Brigitte Peucker, Brian Price, and Garrett Stewart (1hr25), Philoctetes Center
• Zach Campbell, 'Blog-a-thon: Code Inconnu', Elusive Lucidity, February 12, 2006
  
• Mary Caputi, 'Ambivalence and Displacement in Michael Haneke’s Caché', Centre for Cultural Studies Research Conference Journal 2007
• John Champagne, 'Undoing Oedipus: Feminism and Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 36, April 2002
• Matthew Clayfield, 'Every Sequence an Unfinished Senten', Esoteric Rabbit Blog, February 13, 2006 [link currently not working]
  
• Dennis Cozzalio, 'Code Unknown and Crash: Collisions, Connections and Catharsis', Sergio Leone & The Infield Fly Rule, February 13, 2006
  
• Rob Davis and Robert Parks, 'Podcast Discussion: The Films of Michael Haneke', Errata, April 27, 2008
• Dipanjan, 'Haneke's Optimism' Dipanjan's Random Muses, February 13, 2006
  
• Maria van Dijk, 'Alienation & Perversion: Michael Haneke's The Piano Teacher', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 36, April 2002
• Peter Eisenman, 'Interview with Haneke for Icon', Iconeye
• Christine Evans, 'Cache', UBCinephile, Volume 2, March 2006
• Richard Falcon, 'Code Unknown', Sight and Sound, May 2001
• Hamish Ford, 'Hidden: A film for our times', RealTimeArts, 75, Oct-Nov 2006
• Mattias Frey, 'Supermodernity, Capital, and Narcissus: The French Connection to Michael Haneke’s Benny’s Video', Cinetext: Film & Philosophy, September 27, 2002
• Mattias Frey, 'Michael Haneke', Senses of Cinema, August 2003
• Andrew Grant/Film Brain, 'A Crumpled Piece of Paper: Scattered & Inconsequential Musings on Code Unknown', Like Anna Karina's Sweater, February 13, 2006
  
• Asbjørn Grønstad, 'Downcast Eyes: Michael Haneke and the Cinema of Intrusion', Nordicom Review 29 (2008) 1, pp. 133-144
• Roy Grundmann, 'Auteur de force: Michael Haneke's "cinema of glaciation"', Cineaste, March 22, 2007
• Michael Guillén, 'Code Unknown', The Evening Class, February 13, 2006
  
• Steffen Hantke, 'Postwar German Cinema and the Horror Film: Thoughts on Historical Continuity and Genre Consolidation', in Caligari's Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945, Edited by Steffen Hantke (Scarecrow Press, 2006)
• Eric Henderson, 'Code Unknown', When Canses Were Classeled, February 13, 2006
  
• Lee Hill, 'How Do You Think It Feels', Vertigo Magazine, No 16, March 2008
• Aaron Hillis, 'Code Well Known, Or, How to Build a Better Blog-a-thon', Cinephiliac, Fevruary 13, 2006
  
• Andrew James Horton, 'Locked Out! Michael Haneke's Code inconnu: Récit incomplet de divers voyages', Central Europe review, Vol 3, No 19, May 2001
• Andrew J Horton, 'De-icing the Emotions: Michael Haneke's retrospective in London', Central Europe Review, Vol 0, No 5, October 1998
• David Hudson, 'The Auteurs Daily: The White Ribbon, How German is it?', The Auteurs Notebook, August 28, 2009
• Darren Hughes,'Code Unknown', Long Pauses, February 13, 2006
  
• Daniel Hui, 'Fun and Games: On Michael Haneke's 2007 Remake of His 1997 Funny Games', Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 61, August 2008
• Nina Hutchison, ' Between Action and Repression: The Piano Teacher', Senses of Cinema, April 2003
• Jan Jagodzinski, 'Michael Haneke: The Spectatorship of Self-refleXivity; Between Lacan and Deleuze', 'The Scope of Interdisciplinarity' Conferece, Center for Integrated Studies, November 2008
• Ian Johnston, 'Lost World: Michael Haneke's Time of the Wolf Reconsidered', Brights Lights Film Journal, Issue 56, May 2007
• Chris Justice, 'Funny Games', Senses of Cinema, January 2005
• Dominik Kamalzadeh for Die Tageszeitung, 'Interview "Cowardly and comfortable" Michael Haneke's new film "Cache" on France's colonial history investigates the point where private and collective guilt spill over into each other', Signand sight.com, January 2006
• Daniel Kasman, 'Cannes 09: Review of The White Ribbon', The Auteurs Notebook, May 22, 2009
• Tarja Laine, '"What are you looking at and why?" Michael Haneke's Funny Games (1997) with his audience', Kinoeye, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Mar 2004
• Maximilian Le Cain,' Do the Right Thing: the Films of Michael Haneke', Senses of Cinema, May 2003
• David Lowery, 'Following [On Code Unknown], Drifting, February 13, 2006
  
• Kartik Nair, 'Caché and the secret image', Wide Screen, Vol 1, No 1 (2009)
• Newly added: Dan North, 'Funny Games, Funny Games', Spectacular Attractions, October 14, 2009
  
• Darragh O'Donoghue, 'Code inconnu: Récit incomplete de divers voyages', Senses of Cinema, January 2005
• Ara Osterwell, 'Caché ', Film Quarterly, Vol. 59, Issue 4, 2006
• Brigitte Peucker, 'Effects of the real Michael Haneke's Benny's Video (1993)', Kinoeye, Vol. 4 Issue 1, Mar 2004
• Peter Sainsbury, 'Visions, illusions, and delusions', RealTimeArts, 53, Feb-Mar 2003
• A. O. Scott, 'A Nice Middle Class Couple with their own Stalker [on Caché]', New York Times, December 23, 2005
  
• Girish Shambu, 'Cache', girish, January 23, 2006
• Girish Shambu, 'Code Unknown: An Auto-Dialogue', girish, February 13, 2006. and for the remaining contributions to the Code Unknown Blogathon:

Aaron Hillis at Cinephiliac;Darren Hughes at Long Pauses; David Lowery at Drifting; Dennis Cozzalio at Sergio Leone & The Infield Fly Rule; .Dipanjan at Random Muses; Eric Henderson at When Canses Were Classeled; Filmbrain [Andrew Grant] at Like Anna Karina's Sweater; Matthew Clayfield at Esoteric Rabbit; Michael Guillen at The Evening Class; and Zach Campbell at Elusive Lucidity.

• Christopher Sharrett, 'The Seventh Continent', Senses of Cinema, February 2005
• Christopher Sharrett, 'The World that is Known: Michael Haneke Interviewed', Kino Eye vol. 4, no. 1, 8 March 2004
• Christopher Sharrett, 'The horror of the middle class: Michael Haneke's La Pianiste (The Piano Teacher, 2001)', Kinoeye, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Mar 2004
• Joerg Sternagel, 'From Inside Us: Experiencing the Film Actor in Michael Haneke’s Cache', Film International, Issue 39
• Harry Tuttle, 'Haneke on Hidden', Screenville, October 17, 2005
• Harry Tuttle, 'Three Times 4 Eggs - Funny Games (2)', Screenville, June 18, 2008
  
• Justin Vicari, 'Films of Michael Haneke: Utopia of fear', Jump Cut, No. 48, Winter 2006
• Catherine Wheatley, 'Secrets, Lies, & Videotape', Sight and Sound, February 2006
  
• Catherine Wheatley, Michael Haneke: The Ethic of the Image (London: Bergahn Books, 2008) limited preview on Google Books

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Four by Rosenbaum on Fassbinder

Image from Die Bitteren Tränen der Petra von Kant/The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Rainer Werner Fassbinder, West Germany, 1972)

In case you missed this, Film Studies For Free wanted you to know that, in the last two months, Jonathan Rosenbaum has been episodically publishing at his website a series of four essays that he wrote last year about various Rainer Werner Fassbinder films for Madman, the Australian DVD label. Like everything else at the site, these essays are really worth reading, so below are the direct links, and below them, you can find a short video clip from one of the films, Katzelmacher:

• Mise en Scène as Power Struggle: THE BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT (June 4, 2009)
• MARTHA: Fassbinder’s Uneasy Testament (June 18, 2009)
• Rediscovering ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL (July 29, 2009)
• The Example of KATZELMACHER (August 27 2009)

Werner Herzog Links inc YouTube Fest

Film Studies For Free wanted to let academic fans of Werner Herzog know that (certainly in the UK, but most probably elsewhere, too, if no geoblocking) they can currently watch eight of his films on YouTube in their glorious entirety. This is thanks to the video distributor Starzmedia, one of the companies participating in YouTube's growing efforts to stream full-length films with the support of the movie companies who own the rights. Below, FSFF has embedded the trailers of seven of the Herzog films that are currently available. Click on the titles to visit the YouTube pages for the full-length films, which can be watched freely online in relatively good quality versions (Even YouTube Screens Started Small...). (Click HERE for The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser added later. The Starzmedia channel for Herzog is HERE).

And, if that weren't enough excitement for one FSFF day, beneath the video-trailers, at the foot of this post, are some other choice links to freely available Herzog material online.

Aguirre The Wrath Of God

My Best Fiend

Even Dwarfs Started Small

Fitzcarraldo

Lessons Of Darkness

Woyzeck

Little Dieter Needs To Fly

Scholarly online writing about Herzog:

• Adam Bingham, 'Images from the end of the world: Werner Herzog's La Soufrière', Senses of Cinema, September 2006
• Tom Bissell, 'The Secret Mainstream: Contemplating the Images of Werner Herzog', Harpers Magazine, December 2006
• Buffalo Film Seminars - selected writings about Herzog (and, especially, Aguirre: Wrath of God)
• Garrett Chaffin-Quiray, 'An Adaptation With Fangs: Herzog's Nosferatu,' Kinoeye, Vol. 2, Issue 20, December 2002
• Alkan Chipperfield, 'Murmurs from a Shadowless Land: Fragmentary Reflections on the Cinema of Werner Herzog', Senses of Cinema, June 2001
• David Church, 'Werner Herzog', Senses of Cinema, June 2006
• Roger Dawkins, 'Thoughts of Deleuze, Spinoza and the Cinema (The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser)', Contretemps, 3 July 200
• Michael Koller, 'The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner', Senses of Cinema, February 2002
• Joe Muszynski, 'A Legacy of Quality: Werner Herzog's Nosferatu and the New German Cinema'
• Benjamin Noys, 'Antiphusis: Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man', Film-Philosophy, 11.3, November 2006
• Ingo Petzke, 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God', Senses of Cinema, February 2002
• Cynthia Rockwell, 'Werner Herzog and the Documentary Film', e-Thesis, Boston University 1994
• Antonia Shanahan, 'My Best Fiend', Senses of Cinema, February 2002

• Herzog's Official Website is HERE
• Ray Pride gathered a load of great Herzog paraphernalia/paratextuality a couple of years back at Movie City Pride (videos/articles/interviews) and you can access it HERE (link courtesy of GreenCine Daily, April 4 2007). Link added April 21
  
• And you can listen to a great interview with Herzog HERE, by Jonathan Demme, courtesy of Pinewood Dialogues