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As Gilles Deleuze put it: “If you are a prisoner of the dream of the other, you are damned,” or, closer to Deleuze’s words, “you are screwed.” And it is surely the feeling that pervades one of Jerry Lewis’s mos...

Lewis often structures his films around a therapeutic theme: a character needs to be cured of some affliction or has a problem – at least partly internal – that needs to be solved. The therapeutic theme is prev...

Hitchcockian Comedy and Jewish Kabuki: Jerry Lewis’ The Big Mouth (1967) One way to think about The Big Mouth (1967) is to see it as Jerry Lewis’ parody – or better, his loose remake – of Alfred Hitchcock’s No...

A Cinematic Hapax Legomenon: One More Time (1970) In linguistics the term hapax legomenon (Greek for “something said once”) is used to denote a word that only makes a solitary appearance in the written record ...

With his turn to directing in 1960, Jerry Lewis became one of the rare filmmakers, and today the only one, to make courageous and effective films in Hollywood. This phenomenon is not without its predecessors, i...

The Day the Clown Cried: Jerry Lewis’ Invisible and Magnificent Film on the Holocaust Among the vast cohort of invisible films, it is one of the most famous. It is also – on account of its subject, the holocau...

Jerry Lewis’ Hardly Working is situated at the end of a long, uncomfortable hiatus. It was made in Florida, released first in Europe, then much later in the United States. While American critics, for the most p...

“Au revoir, Dummy!”: A Smorgasbord of Suffering It seems fitting that Jerry’s Lewis’ final film as director, Smorgasbord (1983, released on home video under the title Cracking Up), should begin with a prolonge...

Entries in part 1: Francisco Algarín Navarro Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Rowena Santos Aquino Miriam Bale Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett Raphaël Bassan Conor Bateman Gustavo Beck Sean Bell Y...

France has seen its share of revolutions: time and again the established order is shaken up by a group of young warriors and a new regime is established. The most famous French revolution in 1792 ended the mona...

Entries in part 1: Antti Alanen Francisco Algarín Navarro Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Martyn Bamber Lynden Barber Michael Bartlett Nicolas Bartlett Conor Bateman Gustavo Beck Sean Bell Pa...

Entries in part 4: Josh Mabe Miguel Marías Duncan McLean David Melville Adrian Mendizabal Nina Menkes Peter Meredith Mads Mikkelson David Miller Olaf Möller Brent Morrow Oona Mosna Jorge Mour...

The Wolf of Wall Street (Martin Scorsese, 2013) is a repulsive affair. A hybrid of Wall Street (Oliver Stone, 1987) and American Pie (Chris and Paul Weitz, 1999) it comes short of the former as well as the latt...

Animafest’s 24th iteration in Zagreb, Croatia brought two innovations. The Animafest Scanner Symposium and the third outdoor screening at the Zagreb Museum of Contemporary Art (MSU), both noted by Daniel Šuljić...

Lucas Hammer Lee Hill Wai Ho Alexander Horwath Peter Hourigan Cerise Howard Brian Hu Christoph Huber David Hudson Darren Hughes Tara Judah Dominik Kamalzadeh Daniel Kasman Christopher Kearney...

There are festivals that are objectively deemed to be ‘major’, and then there are festivals that have a special place in our individual hearts. The Viennale certainly occupies this latter position for me, but I...

Udine's Far East Film Festival (FEFF) is Europe's only festival focused on East Asian popular cinema. It is also one of the most pleasant and relaxed to attend. Winter has finally gone and you can sit outside b...

Long recognised as the pioneer of the “Kuleshov effect”, teacher of future cinematic talents such as Sergei Eisenstein (who attended Kuleshov’s Film Workshop for three months during 1922-1923), Vsevolod Pud...

Rainer Werner Fassbinder epitomises the figure of the true auteur. Mythologised as the enfant terrible of the New German Cinema, the legend surrounding Fassbinder – his inhuman prolificness, his tempestuous per...

American films of the 1940s were far different from their predecessors of the 1920s and 1930s. Brash upstart comics from radio and vaudeville who found their forte in rat-a-tat verbal routines replaced the crea...

Another Opening, Another Show In Joe Dante’s satirical Small Soldiers (1998), a range of high-tech action figures is marketed under the slogan “Everything Else Is Just a Toy.” Perhaps this year’s Melbourne I...

Numerous contributors from across the globe offer their selections and thoughts on their movie-going experiences in 2009. Readers should find it a fascinating overview of cinema from a multitude of countries and cultures.

Taking the three films Made in USA, La Chinoise and Tout va bien as a focus, Drew Morton looks at how Jean-Luc Godard (and Jean-Pierre Gorin in the latter case) engaged with the art of the comic strip.

Late 1960, Northern Greece: the Thessaloniki Film Festival is launched, and my father, aged 27, emigrates to Australia. Late 2009: the Thessaloniki festival celebrates its 50th edition, and I re-locate from Aus...

John Gianvito Antony I. Ginnane Stephen Goddard Chiranjit Goswami Kharálampos Goyós Benjamin Halligan Lee Hill Peter Hourigan Brian Hu Christoph Huber Pasquale Iannone Raine...

Ioannis Mookas Bill Mousoulis James Naremore James L. Neibaur Darragh O’Donoghue John Orr Jit Phokaew Bérénice Reynaud Marcos Ribas de Faria Peter Rist James Rose Dan Sallit...

The Bellboy (1960 USA 71 mins) Prod Co: Jerry Lewis Pictures/Paramount Prod, Dir, Scr: Jerry Lewis Phot: Haskell B. Boggs Ed: Stanley E. Johnson Art Dir: Henry Bumstead, Hal Pereira Mus: Walter Scharf ...

Editors’ Note Welcome to the annual Senses of Cinema World Poll. Readers should find it a fascinating overview of cinema from a multitude of countries and cultures. As some readers will seek and search entr...

Of Human Bondage (1934 USA 88 mins) Prod Co: RKO Prod: Pandro S. Berman Dir: John Cromwell Scr: Lester Cohen from the novel by W. Somerset Maugham Phot: Henry W. Gerrard Ed: William Morgan Art Dir: Carro...

Editors’ Note As readers may seek and search entries, rather than read from beginning to end, full titles, director credits and years of release have been included with each reference. Several authors have ...

A further instalment (see Issue 37) on the career of this fabled American screenwriter. Elaine Lennon examines in detail Towne’s contribution to this key film of the post-classical Hollywood era.

The original publication of Jim Kitses’ Horizons West in 1969 revealed the heavy impact of auteurism on the development of genre criticism. Thanks to the French New Wave, André Bazin and other writers affiliate...

Porky Pig's Feat (1943 USA 7 mins) Source: NFVLS Prod Co: Warner Bros. Prod: Leon Schlesinger Dir: Frank Tashlin Story: Melvin Millar Anim: Phil Monroe Mus Dir: Carl W. Stalling Voice: Mel Blanc Cast:...

An insightful reappraisal of the æsthetics of the great Hollywood director.

Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema: On the Necessity of Film Canons (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University, 2004), takes a canonical view of cinema, asserting the importance of canons or critically ...

b. May 8, 1913, San Diego, California, USA d. May 4, 1984, Detroit, Michigan, USA Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources It Can Happen Here! The World of Bob Clampett An unparalleled wackines...