LOLA: Issue 4 on "Walks"; Tourneur, Hitchcock, De Palma, Pacino and much more

Screen shot from Carlito's Way (Brian De Palma, 1993). Read Adrian Martin's essay on this film in the new issue of LOLA .

Film Studies For Free is thrilled to hear that a new rolling issue of LOLA has launched. Issue 4 treats the very cinematic topic of 'Walks' and contains some items (Victor Bruno on lighting effects in Out of the Past, a fine translation of an Alain Bergala essay on Vertigo and Obsession, and several further excellent pieces on De Palma) that will very much repay a speedy stroll over there to check them out.

Over the coming weeks, LOLA will go on to present further articles on Kira Muratova, Frank Tashlin, the Cinema of Compassion, CinemaScope, The Grandmaster, and much more! Those enticing contents will slowly be added to the already delightful ones linked to below.

• Glittering Flares: Breaking the Darkness in Out of the Past Victor Bruno

• To the Passion Cristina Álvarez López and Adrian Martin
• Time Denied: An Apotheosis of the Imaginary Alain Bergala
• A Walk Through Carlito's Way Adrian Martin
• Responsive Eyes and Crossing Lines: Forty Years of Looking and Reading Helen Grace

• Notes on Contributors

Holy LOLA! Issue 3 on MASKS Online

FSFF's montage of frame grabs from Les yeux sans visage / Eyes Without a Face (Georges Franju, 1960) and Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012). Read Part One of LOLA's collective hailing of the latter film

Film Studies For Free is delighted to bring you the always lovely news that not only has a new issue of Adrian Martin and Girish Shambu's LOLA been published -- on Masks -- it has already been extended, as per the new rolling publication style of this wonderful online film journal.

There is one final roll-out for this issue coming soon. This will include texts on Jerry Lewis, Rivette and Carpenter compared, Sitges Film Festival, and the conclusion of 'Hail Holy Motors'. FSFF will add links to the below list of contents once these are online.

LOLA, Issue 3 (December 2012): Masks

• Hail Holy Motors Part One A Spontaneous LOLA collective 
• A Pilgrimage to the Peloponnese: Gregory Markopoulos, Eniaios and the Temenos Erika Balsom 
• Is It Weird? Or, Actualising Disallowed Cinema Philip Brophy  
• She Thinks She Looks Dana Linssen  
• Webs of Destiny and Bits of String: Edgar G. Ulmer Luc Moullet  
• Transient and Intrinsically Valuable in Their Impermanence: Television's Changing Aesthetic Norms Tom O'Regan  
• The Macao Gesture Cristina Álvarez López  
• Investigation of a Stolen Life: I giorni contati Yvette Bíró  
• Road Trip: Toronto International Film Festival 2012 Girish Shambu

Notes on Contributors

New online film journal LOLA launches with an issue on "Histories" !!

Framegrab from Ohayo/Good Morning (Yasujiro Ozu, 1959), an image of the 'in-between' as analysed by Andrew Klevan in the inaugural issue of LOLA.

A big day! Film Studies For Free is delighted to relay the news that Girish Shambu has just published at his blog: LOLA, a new online film journal edited by Adrian Martin and Shambu, has just launched.

Below, FSFF also reproduces the wonderful table of contents which include some very hotly anticipated items, among many other must-read essays... So that's what FSFF is heading off to do now: it must read them!

For once, the links below don't take you straight to the item, but, instead, to the entry at girish's where you can find the full links as well as a brief summary of each article.

Congratulations, and many thanks, Adrian and Girish. Let all film scholars and cinephiles bless the birth of LOLA and all who sail in her!

• Joe McElhaney, "Contemporary Cinema?"
• William D. Routt, "Innuendo 1.5"
• Andrew Klevan, "Expressing the In-Between"
• Luc Moullet, "Ah Yes! Griffith was a Marxist!"
• Richard Porton, "WR: Mysteries of the Organism: Anarchist Realism and Critical Quandaries"
• Shigehiko Hasumi, "Fiction and the 'Unrepresentable': All Movies are but Variants on the Silent Film"
• Sylvia Lawson, "Out of the Mid-Century: History, Memory and Cinema"
• Stephen Goddard, "'So, Did You See Me?': Testimony, Memory and Re-Making Film History"
• Darren Tofts, "In My Time of Dying: The Premature Death of a Film Classic"
• Adrian Martin, "Dinosaurs, Babies and the Sound of Music"
• Justine Grace, "The Streets: Breaking out of the Black Box/White Cube in Rotterdam"
• Nicole Brenez, "F.J. Ossang: The Grand Insurrectionary Style"
• James Guida, "Stuck in the Mud: The Visions of Lucrecia Martel"
• David Phelps, "Think But This ... 36 vues du Pic St-Loup"
• Elena Gorfinkel, "At the End of Cinema, This Thing Called Film"