Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia (Introduction) Daniel Fairfax June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia The cinema has always, it seems, been tightly connected with feelings of nostalgia, such that it is not hard to imagine a film-goer in the early 20th ...
Speaking of the Dead Tony McKibbin June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia Cinema certainly has many films that are happy to fall under the nostalgic, and even has plenty of devices to convey it. The use of songs from the per...
Living forever in The Sweet Hereafter: film spectatorship and personal memory César Albarrán-Torres June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia People often ask me what my favourite movie is. For a cinephile, a simple answer verges on the impossible. Ozu’s Tôkyô monogatari (Tokyo Story, Yasuji...
Formative Portals: Nostalgia for a Slow Burn Cinephilia Hamish Ford June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia I fully admit to having trouble with nostalgia – in life, but especially on film. So searing is the “real” version, I find, it has to be at least part...
Where Is She Going?: Travelling in the films of Eric Rohmer Tamara Tracz June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia Towards the end of Conte d’hiver (A Winter’s Tale, Eric Rohmer, 1992), the protagonist Felicie goes on a series of journeys. Felicie spends a large pa...
Puya and Jerry Lewis Nafis Shafizadeh June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia Puya navigated the Los Angeles traffic like a seasoned pro, without the help of an app. Its streets, traffic lights, accidents, stalled cars, make-or-...
She knows, I feel: a lifelong windswept vortex in the Hebrides Eloise Ross June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia Dreams Father: “Have you ever been there?” Joan: “Often! In my dreams.” We’ve all been to places in our dreams. If they are positive dreams, with r...
Dancing Daze and the Case of the Missing Campion Alexandra Heller-Nicholas June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia The great misnomer that “everything is online” revealed to me once again how flawed an assumption it is about a year ago when I was thinking through m...
Thinking about Celine and Jesse: Travelling through time with The Before Trilogy Joanna Di Mattia June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia * The last time I saw France, I caught a train alone from Paris to Lyon. I ate a ham and cheese baguette, drank a bottle of Orangina, and flicked abs...
Art in Order: The Anatomy of a Film List David Heslin June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia Of all of the inanimate paraphernalia in my life, the thing that I treasure more than any other is effectively weightless. It is, in one sense, a geom...
Jean-Pierre Léaud’s Left Hand André Habib June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia In 2009, the Ontario Cinémathèque in Toronto presented a cycle on the nouvelle vague, and screened Masculin-Féminin (Masculine-Feminine, Jean-Luc Goda...
The Archive of Detritus Daniel Fairfax June 2018 Stardust Memories: Cinephilia and Nostalgia If asked about the film that has most affected me, then I want to answer with Godard’s Weekend (1967), Straub/Huillet’s Othon (1969), Bresson’s Pickpo...
