Updated November 19, 2011 Frame grab from Roma, città aperta/Rome, Open City ( Roberto Rossellini , 1945) Projected on the war torn landsca...

Richard Dyer talks about his research project at the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosoph y (IKK...

BFI Researcher's Tales: Sir Christopher Frayling on Spaghetti Westerns  (Frayling is author of Spaghetti Westerns: Cowboys and Europeans...

Still image from the final shot of L'Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)   Luxuriating in the view over the Sicilian coast, the Mt...

Last updated June 24, 2010 Teshome Gabriel, 1939-2010 Peter Brunette, 1943-2010 Film Studies has lost two of its giants. On Monday, Professo...

Image from I pugni in tasca/Fists in pocket ( Marco Bellocchio , Italy, 1965) . See Deborah Young's short essay on this film here . He...

Still from Tearoom ( William E Jones , 1962/2007) A very busy Film Studies For Free has just got round to reading yet another of Intellec...

Image from The Godfather ( Francis Ford Coppola , 1972), a film studied in Philip Drake's PhD thesis on Hollywood performance It's...