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

Frame grab image of Jerry Lewis as 'Warren Nefron' in Smorgasbord aka Cracking Up (Jerry Lewis, 1983). Read Steven Shaviro's new article on this film

Smorgasbord (retitled Cracking Up by the distributor) is Jerry Lewis's last self-directed feature film. It first opened in France in 1983; it never received a proper American release. (In the US, it was immediately relegated to cable television -- which is where I saw it for the first time). And Smorgasbord still isn't very well known today -- even among Lewis aficionados. (It is, for instance, the only one of Lewis's self-directed films not to appear in the index to Enfant Terrible, an academic essay collection edited by Murray Pomerance in 2002, which otherwise covers Lewis' film career quite comprehensively). Yet I think that Smorgasbord is one of Jerry Lewis's greatest films; in what follows, I will try to explain why. [Steven Shaviro, 'Smorgasbord', La Furia Umana, 12, 2012; hyperlinks added by FSFF]

Film Studies For Free just heard about the latest issue of the pentalingual film journal La Furia Umana. There are lots of brilliant articles in English, and other marvellous work, too, in other languages that will be entertainingly translated by Google, if you so require.

The particular highlight, this time, is a truly brilliant and wide-ranging dossier on the work of Jerry Lewis, a human fury of an actor if ever there was one... But FSFF also had plenty of thoughts usefully and skilfully provoked by Kim Nicolini writing on the Post-Feminist Possibilities in Lars Von Trier's Melancholia. 

And there's a lot more to explore and learn from besides the above. Just feast your polyglot eyes on the below...

nota editoriale

rapporto confidenziale

• Toni D'Angela / Jerry Lewis o l'impossibile. Il corpo, la voce e le “macchine”
• Carlos Losilla / Jerry le fou
• B. Kite / The Jerriad: A Clown Painting
• Zach Campbell / A Jerry Problem, or, That Uncomfortable Feeling
• Murray Pomerance / A Sensational Face
• Denis Lévy / Les grimaces de Jerry
• Alessandro Cappabianca / Jerry Lewis
• José María Latorre / Jerry Lewis, botones y mensajero
• Sarah Ohana / L'apparition comme effet comique dans le cinéma de Jerry Lewis
• Violeta Kovasics / Donde vive la imaginación
• Peter Nellhaus / Jerry Lewis Actor and Auteur
• David Phelps / The pisher dada menschs fodder
• R. Emmet Sweeney / Colgate Comedy Hour, September 18, 1955
• Enrico Camporesi / Frank Tashlin e Jerry Lewis: artist and model?
• Sudarshan Ramani / The King of Comedy: A Lament for Jerry Lewis
• Felipe Medeiros / The Bellboy
• Bruno Andrade / Mocinho encrenqueiro
• Marco Grosoli / The Errand Boy
• Óscar Brox / The Patsy
• João Palhares / Three On a Couch
• Adrien Clerc / Les dérèglements du visage dans Which Way to the Front?
• de Jerry Lewis
• John Kern / Why the Clown Died ©, A Critical Essay on Jerry Lewis’ the Day the Clown Cried
• Gina Telaroli / Hardly Working
• Steven Shaviro / Smorgasbord

prima linea

• Patrizia Fantozzi / Faust (Alexander Sokurov)
• Marco Grosoli / Le Havre (Aki Kaurismaki)
• Kévin Cappelli / Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols)
• Jaime Pena / Nana (Valerie Massadian)
• Toni D'Angela / The Girl with the Dragon Tatoo (David Fincher)

histoire(s) du cinéma

• Luc Moullet / Le Spleen de Rockefeller
• Joanna Espinosa / Cinéma marginal
• Lorenzo Pellizzari / Uomini con la macchina da presa (II)
• Lilly Papagianni / Sarah Driver: Splendor in the Dark

l'occhio che uccide

• Ken Jacobs / From Stupefaction to Just Plain Stupid
• L. de La Hire / Pictures at Ruscha – Godard Exhibition. Noise and “Western”, “Silenzio”, and Odysseus, 1963
• Virgilio Mortari /Jean Epstein o del cinema come strumento
• Carlos Losilla / Intervenciones #2: actualidad de Serge Daney

flaming creatures

• Nicole Brenez / Quelques souvenirs et une image de Marcel Mazé
• Marcel Mazé / Le Festival International de Jeune Cinéma de Hyères. 1965-1983
• Doris Peternel / L'image réflexivé chez Peter Tscherkassky

the whole town's talking

• Kim Nicolini / Freedom in Oblivion: Post-Feminist Possibilities in Lars Von Trier's Melancholia

western fragmenta

• Mónica M. Marinero / El indio como horizonte: The Last of the Comanches y Meek's Cutoff
• Santiago and Andrés Rubín de Celis / I film western di Robert Parrish: Looking for a New Life

the new world

• Violeta Kovacics / Un día a oscuras