Philadelphia area is in going through the lucky fortunes of three important cinema events. The moment is significant for both cinephiles and film scholars.

For the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, 60 filmmakers were asked to represent their perceptions of “their state of mind of the moment as inspired by the motion picture theatre” (Getty).

Meta Mazaj and I published a piece in Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier edited by Diane Carson and William Costanzo. The topic: “New Approaches to Teaching World Cinema Since teaching world cinema is our concern as much

Spreading the word- UPenn Cinema Studies Conference!!

Philadelphia area is in going through the lucky fortunes of three important cinema events. The moment is significant for cinephiles and film scholars. Three separate and otherwise unrelated events are offering a telling lesson in reading the trajectory of transformation in cinema itself, from the gifts of its incipiency to the maps of its future.

In her monumental exhibit at Tate Modern last year, Tacita Dean used celluloid frames as tableau on which to write a solid defense of analog cinema.

Here is a very interesting (and useful) interview with the curator, Maike Mia Höhne on the merits of the short film form.

K. M. Madhusudhanan’s Bioscope,” DearCinema, 8 May 2009. “The Afterlife of War: The 15th Sarajevo Film Festival,” Senses of Cinema, #53, 2010. Rotterdam Film Festival Diary, DearCinema, February 2010. Rotterdam 2010 Diary: In Conversation with Umesh and Girish Kulkarni Rotterdam 2010 Diary: Kutty Srank Rotterdam 2010 Diary: Tigar Awards and Long Takes! Rotterdam 2010 Diary: Indian Shorts Rotterdam 2010 Diary: The Competition Vihir at Rotterdam Fest: A Bright Future for Marathi-Indian cinema Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, April 2010.  DearCinema. IFFLA ’10 Dairy: Fatso Review IFFLA ’10 Diary: Cooking with Stella

Excellent interview of Sam Wasson’s by Maureen Dowd The demise of Romantic Comedy, Hollywood Style! A Brilliant writer and she is on our side! Doesn’t all this depend on what you mean by “romantic comedy?” Plain, dreamy, heterosexual romances of the dominant classes?

The Guardian’s film site continues to be one of the best places to visit. For this week, see the Cyber Cinema column: Virtual Valentines “Kate  Stable’s compendium of the best romantic short films on the web.”