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Parallel Memory, Class Commentary, and Queer Desire in Duino (2024). By Lexi Collinsworth
Watching Duino (2024) felt like stepping into a mirror and seeing parts of myself I hadn’t recognized before. The quiet tenderness of its storytelling, the rawness of its emotional hidden layer, hit close to home in a way I didn’t … Continue reading
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From Page to Stage: The Story Behind the Curtain. Review by Estefania Rosas De La Maza
Blockbuster films, such as the Harry Potter (2001-2011) franchise, The Iron Giant (1999), and The Shawshank Redemption (1994), have left an indelible mark on society, with their distinct storytelling and memorable characters becoming household, if not global, cultural references. Though … Continue reading
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Celebrating Artistic Heritage and Innovation on the World Film Festival Circuit: Egyptian American Film Festival in NYC
The vibrant atmosphere of New York City recently hosted a prestigious gathering for film enthusiasts—the Egyptian American Film Festival. This year’s edition highlighted an experimental filmmaker whose work not only won accolades at festivals, but attempted to capture how love … Continue reading
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Beyond the Screen: Empathy, Memory, and Film-Souvenir. By Gillian Fast and Kai Paschall
Since Jean Pierre-Meunier’s coining of the term film-souvenir in 1969, the concept has undergone several redefinitions by subsequent film theorists. Past its initial purpose of classifying modes of filmic identification, film-souvenir has become a tool for self-evaluation in film experiences. We recount personal experiences with film during our childhoods, highlighting the confusion and fascination inherent in witnessing storytelling beyond our present understandings. Using the empathetic lens of film-souvenir, we reevaluate these experiences as growing pains of a developing consciousness. Continue reading
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Our 2024 Masoud Yazdani Award Judges
Judging is already underway for the 2024 Masoud Yazdani Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Film Scholarship. Articles under consideration are from these fine higher education institutions: And it is our pleasure to celebrate this year’s judging panel: Hannah Davenport is … Continue reading
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2024 Chelsea Film Festival: A Digest. By Ben Holland
My experience at the twelfth annual Chelsea Film Festival regrettably began, not on opening night, but on the following afternoon. My lack of proper black-tie attire prevented me from attending the opening festivities; and my frugality, coupled with my observation … Continue reading
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12th Annual Chelsea Film Festival Announces Its 2024 Award Winners
The 12th Annual Edition of Chelsea Film Festival announces its list of winners listed below by award category. It introduced both American and international films to the public.
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Open Call for Papers 17.1
Film Matters announces an open call for papers from current undergraduates, authors who have been invited to revise and resubmit previous submissions (including authors who did not make it past our prescreening for a previous call), and recently graduated undergraduates for consideration … Continue reading
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Sophia Rubino, Author of FM 15.1 (2024) Article “The Lesser Examined Coming of Age: Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice (1971)”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Sophia Rubino: My article combines two different analytical frameworks, object-relations psychoanalysis and phenomenology, to bring together the unconscious happenings of the mind and how they … Continue reading
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Qingheng Yu, Author of FM 15.1 (2024) Article “In Plight and Reformation: Transnationalism and ‘Chinese-ness’ in the 1930s and Recent East Chinese Films”
Film Matters: Please tell us about your article that is being published in Film Matters. Qingheng Yu: This article discusses the interesting relationship between two Chinese films, The Goddess (1934) and The Flowers of War (2011), produced at different times … Continue reading
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