“Those Who Wait”: The Misfits and Late Style
“Those Who Wait” is the title of an essay, first published in 1922, by Siegfried Kracauer.[1] In this essay, Kracauer employs the image of waiting to describe a mass of…
Ithaka, or the Open Voyage: Jonas Mekas’ Lost Lost Lost and Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania
I ‘Emigration does not only involve leaving behind, crossing water, living amongst strangers’, writes John Berger, ‘but, also, undoing the very meaning of the world and - at its most…
Nocturnal Kinship
Uploaded 1 December 2001 | Modified 11 January 2002 I. The Projectionist's Window There were years when I went to the cinema almost every day and maybe even twice a…
A Strange Sun: Cinema and Theatre in John Cassavetes’ The Killing of a Chinese Bookie and Opening Night
Uploaded 1 December 2001 [T]heatre for Cassavetes restores that vital link between the spoken word, the script and physical actions that are forever rearranged in a surprising way, ready to…
Before Something and After Something Else: Film Studies in the Age of Media Studies
When I first looked at the title for the symposium, my immediate reaction was: there’s a word missing! The title should be: “The Future of Film Studies in the Age…
He’s Not There: Robert Frank’s Me and My Brother
The world of which I am a part includes Julius Orlovsky. Julius is a catatonic, a silent man; he is released from a state institution in the care of his…
Our Place in the World
1 A little while ago, I was asked by the marketing manager of the University of Minnesota Press to write about The Misfits (USA 1961). The request coincided with the…
A Trip to the Moon
The truth of our placement, when film works as art, is a continuous sense of drawing nearer to a place we seek, with some last vital task or piece of…