Mastodawn

Jonas Mekas built a co-op so underground films could survive without the system. Ted Hope is building FilmStack for the same reason. Same impulse, sixty years apart. Here's the thread. https://joetripician.substack.com/p/the-underground-and-the-non-dependent
#NonDeFilm #IndieFilm #FilmHistory #CinemaStudies #UndergroundCinema #FilmFed

Petr Nuska Mar 16

#AcademicJob

Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Film Studies (Performing Arts)

📍Université Grenoble Alpes, France

Teaching across BA and MA programmes in Performing Arts with a focus on film studies, combining theoretical and practical training (filmmaking, editing, sound, screenwriting).

https://academicpositions.com/ad/universite-grenoble-alpes/2026/senior-lecturer-filmmaking-practices/245852
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu

#FilmStudies #PerformingArts #CinemaStudies #HigherEducation #VisualCulture

Senior Lecturer - Filmmaking Practices - Academic Positions

Teach film studies & filmmaking workshops (screenwriting, editing, sound) in BA/MA Performing Arts; supervise Master’s theses; develop industry partnerships;...

Pete Jones Mar 6

New post on the Kinomatics blog all about Boxing Day cinemagoing in Australia: https://kinomatics.com/projects/australian-cinema/putting-the-box-office-in-boxing-day/

We look through the last 10 years of box office data to see how well the festive period is holding up as a key date in the Australian cinema calendar. The short version: Boxing Day was more important than ever during the pandemic, but its recovery hasn't really materialised.

This post is the first in a series of data-driven pieces we'll be doing on the Australian film industry.

Please boost if you think people in your network would be interested in this - I'll need extra help getting seen now I'm on my own little server!

#cinemastudies #mediaindustries #mediastudies #filmindustry #dataviz

jp Nov 15

A look at how the 1920 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde reshaped Stevenson through Wildean decadence, silent-era psychology, and a touch of early cinematic chaos. A century later, its strange DNA still echoes through every misbehaving Victorian monster on screen.
#JekyllAndHyde #SilentFilm #FilmHistory #LiteraryAdaptation #ClassicCinema #JohnBarrymore #GothicFiction #DorianGray #CinemaStudies #VintageHorror
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/11/14/a-decadent-detour-the-1920-jekyll-and-hyde-and-its-strange-moral-inheritance/

A Decadent Detour: The 1920 Jekyll and Hyde and Its Strange Moral Inheritance

Even more than a century ago, filmmakers couldn’t resist inserting a romantic interest into a tale that never had it nor needed it. There are arguably two in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920): Dr. Hen…

jp Nov 4

Day of Wrath (2006) wants to defend Jewish endurance but ends up inventing the world’s least self-aware conspiracy theory: a Spain where everyone’s secretly Jewish and the Inquisition was their idea. A pious mess of hypocrisy, history, and candlelit melodrama.
#FilmCriticism #MovieReview #DayOfWrath #AdrianRudomin #ChristopherLambert #HistoricalCinema #Inquisition #CryptoJudaism #CulturalCritique #CinemaStudies #JewishHistory #FilmAnalysis #EuroCinema #DiesIrae
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/11/04/day-of-wrath-with-friends-like-these-jew-needs-enemies/

Day of Wrath: With Friends Like These, Jew Needs Enemies?

Day of Wrath (2006) is pro-Semitic in the most backhanded way possible — the cinematic equivalent of someone saying, “Them kikes are alright with me, I tell you what.” The opening intertitles claim…

jp Oct 28

One-Eyed Jacks (1961) is as thematically uneven as its director-star Marlon Brando’s range was wide. Alternately blunt and subtle, the film’s irregular approach achieves a precarious balance in a notable sequence that features a replica of the Mona Lisa quietly hanging in the background like Poe’s purloined letter.
#MarlonBrando #OneEyedJacks #FilmAnalysis #ClassicCinema #WesternMovies #CinemaStudies #FilmCriticism
https://pablohoneyfish.wordpress.com/2025/10/27/one-eyed-jacks-brando-da-vinci-and-freud/

One-Eyed Jacks: Brando, da Vinci, and Freud

Sheri Chinen Biesen Oct 23

Call For Papers: #CFP #Film

‘Stars and Screen’
#Cinema and #Media #History Virtual #Symposium, May 16, 2026

Proposals Due: February 1, 2026

https://starsandscreen.blogspot.com/2025/10/call-for-papers-stars-and-screen-cinema.html

#CinemaStudies #MediaStudies #FilmStudies #conference #CallForPapers #CinemaHistory #MediaHistory #FilmHistory

Call For Papers: ‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium, May 16, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS ‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium May 16, 2026 The ‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media Hi...

Dr Sheri Chinen Biesen📽️🎷🎬Oct 22

Call For Papers: #CFP #Film ‘Stars and Screen’ #Cinema and #Media #History Virtual #Symposium, May 16, 2026 Proposals Due: February 1, 2026 starsandscreen.blogspot.com/2025/10/call... #CinemaStudies #MediaStudies #FilmStudies #conference #CallForPapers #CinemaHistory #MediaHistory #FilmHistory

Call For Papers: ‘Stars and Sc...

Call For Papers: ‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium, May 16, 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS ‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media History Virtual Symposium May 16, 2026 The ‘Stars and Screen’ Cinema and Media Hi...

jp Aug 10, 2025

Tell Me How I Die trades genuine suspense for formulaic fatalism, ignoring real-world precarity and diversity issues. A cheap thrill for iCarly fans, but a missed chance for deeper horror.
#HorrorCritique #FilmAnalysis #TellMeHowIDie #CinemaStudies #TemporalConsciousness #DiversityInFilm
https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2022/11/10/tell-me-how-i-die/

Deadpan Futures: The Fatalistic Farce of Tell Me How I Die

Right off the bat, Tell Me How I Die (2016) has two problems: its title and premise, which recall I Know Who Killed Me and Final Destination. I haven’t even watched it, and I already have bad memor…

90% of Everything is Crap

jp Aug 9, 2025

Unpacking Madrid, 1987: where naked bodies expose power, not passion; aging creatives confront emptiness; and sex is less climax than chore.
#Madrid1987 #DavidTrueba #MinimalistCinema #AntiErotic #FilmAnalysis #CinemaStudies #AgingCreatives #SexOnScreen #ArtAndExistence
https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2022/11/10/madrid-1987/

Anti-Eroticism as Cinematic Strategy: The Failed Seduction in Madrid, 1987

Madrid, 1987 (2011) is deliberately anti-erotic despite the leads spending most of the runtime naked. Miguel (José Sacristán), an aging columnist, schemes to seduce Ángela (María Valverde), a beaut…

90% of Everything is Crap