Robert Keser’s Filmography
Robert Keser’s film reviews, cinema articles, critiques, film histories
Robert Keser’s Filmography
Robert Keser’s film reviews, cinema articles, critiques, film histories
Robert Keser is Senior Lecturer in Cinema Studies at the Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts in Aqaba, Jordan. He also created the film program at the Fine Arts department of National-Louis University in Chicago.
He is associate editor of Bright Lights Film Journal, and has written for the Pesaro Film Festival (Italy), the Jeonju Film Festival (South Korea), the Las Palmas International Film Festival (Spain), and the Melbourne Cinémathèque (Australia). More of his film writing can be found at Senses of Cinema and Slant magazine.
Most recently, he contributed studies of Robert Siodmak, Fritz Lang, and Peter Lorre to “En tránsito: Berlín-París-Hollywood" (ed., Carlos Losilla, T & B Editores, Spain, 2009)
Also, see his entries on Army of Shadows, Becky Sharp, Ben-Hur (1925), Black Narcissus, Blonde Venus, Box Office Poison, The Cheat, The Crowd, Eisenstein in Hollywood, Fire at the Cinémathèque Française, The First Cannes Film Festival, From Here to Eternity, Death in Venice, L'Enfant, I'm No Angel, It's a Wonderful Life, Kolberg, The Kuleshov Effect, Maborosi, The Manchurian Candidate (1962), Man With the Golden Arm, Midnight Cowboy, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, One Way Passage, The Paramount Divestiture Decree, The Purple Rose of Cairo, The Scarlet Empress, Strike, Trouble in Paradise, Vampyr, The War Game, and Zelig in "The Little Black Book: Movies" (Chris Fujiwara, ed.), London: Cassell Illustrated, 2007.
"The Little Black Book: Movies" is published in the USA as "Defining Moments in Movies"
NEW; "The End Of St. Petersburg"
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2008/cteq/end-st-petersburg/
NEW; "Tickets to the Dark Side"
43rd Chicago International Film Festival
(9 Reviews)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/59/59chifest.html
STUDIES OF INDIVIDUAL FILMS:
The Bowery (1933)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/39/bowery.htm
Catch Me If You Can (2003)
http://tinyurl.com/qkqcr
Cinerama Adventure (2003)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/42/cinerama.htm
Clara's Heart (1988)
http://www.thefilmjournal.com/issue11/clara.html
Cruel Story of Youth (1960)
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2007/cteq/naked-youth/
Der Verleone/The Lost One (1951) http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2007/cteq/verlorene/
Edvard Munch (1974)
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2006/cteq/edvard_munch/
The Epic That Never Was (1965)
http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/05/35/epic_that_never_was.html
The Exile (1947)
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/06/39/exile.html
Forbidden (1932)
http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/05/37/forbidden.html
Her Wild Oat (1927)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/58/58herwildoat.html
La Habanera (1937), Titanic (1942),
and Münchhausen (1943)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/46/nazi.htm
Lucrezia Borgia (1935)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/33/lucreziaborgia.html
Man of Cinema: Pierre Rissient (2007)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/58/58manofcinema.html
Mandingo (1975)
http://www.thefilmjournal.com/issue13/mandingo.html
Police (1985)
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2006/cteq/police/
Princess Raccoon (2005)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/49/princess.htm
Schloss Vogelöd (1922)
http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/03/28/schloss_vogelod.html
The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie (2004)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/49/sponge.htm
Westfront 1918 (1931)
http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/cteq/04/32/westfront_1918.html
What Price Glory? (1926)
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2007/cteq/what-price-glory/
Woman Men Yearn For (1929)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/44/marlene.htm
Vera (2003)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/43/vera.htm
FILM FESTIVAL REPORTS:
"Chicago, je t'aime"
42nd Chicago International Film Festival
(thirteen reviews)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/54/ciff.htm
"Secrets of the European Union"
Chicago's 10th Annual EU Film Festival
(sixteen reviews)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/56/eufest.htm
"I Am a Film Addict"
41st Chicago International Film Festival
(ten reviews)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/50/chifest.htm
"Hands Across the Atlantic"
9th Annual European Union Film Festival
(fifteen reviews)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/52/eufest.htm
"In the Realm of the Real"
3rd Chicago International Documentary
Film Festival
(six reviews)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/48/docfest.htm
"O Bruder, Where Art Thou?"
8th Annual European Union Film Festival
(ten reviews)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/48/eufest.htm
"Theda Bara's Eyes, Part 2"
40th Chicago International Film Festival
(seven reviews)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/47/chifest2.htm
"Theda Bara's Eyes, Part 1"
40th Chicago International Film Festival
(seven reviews)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/46/chifest.htm
"Together Again in the Dark"
39th Chicago International Film Festival
(fourteen reviews)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/42/chifest2003.htm
"The Scandals of 2002"
38th Chicago International Film Festival
(ten reviews)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/38/chiff20021.htm
CAREER STUDIES OF DIRECTORS:
"Dancing With Werewolves":
John Sayles in Roger Corman's Hollywood
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/41/sayles.htm
"Climbing Mt. Suzuki": Seijun Suzuki
http://www.24fpsmagazine.com/Suzuki1.html
Great Directors: Fred Zinnemann
http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/directors/04/zinnemann.html
Great Directors: Joseph H. Lewis
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2006/great-directors/lewis_joseph/
REVIEWS OF FILM BOOKS :
"The Dream Life" and "The Magic Hour"
by J. Hoberman
http://archive.sensesofcinema.com/contents/books/04/33/dream_life_magic_hour.html
"The Man Who Invented Rock Hudson"
by Robert Hofler
and "Tab Hunter Confidential"
by Tab Hunter and Eddie Muller
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/51/dreamboat.htm
"Hollywood Modernism"
by Saverio Giovacchini
http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/film/journal/bookrev/books-may-04.htm
"Black Narcissus" by Sarah Street
Journal of Popular Film and Television (TBA)
FILM AND DVD REVIEWS
Catch a Fire
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=2558
Color Me Kubrick
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=2847
Eisenstein
http://www.thefilmjournal.com/issue3/eisenstein.html
Freedom Writers
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=2730
Ghosts of Cite Soleil
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=3014
The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=3252
Hollywoodland (2006)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/blog/2006/09/thank-you-for-smirking.html
Iron Island
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/blog/2006/06/iron-island.html
Lady in the Water
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/blog/2006/07/underwater-story.html
Mad Hot Ballroom
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/49/madhot.htm
Moments Choisis des histoire(s)
du cinema
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/52/moments.htm
Not On the Lips
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/48/lips.htm
The Science of Sleep (2006)
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/blog/2006/09/aimez-vous-bernal.html
Stranger Than Fiction
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=2624
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=3395
Tarnation
http://www.brightlightsfilm.com/46/tarnation.htm
Things We Lost in the Fire
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=3290
World Trade Center
http://brightlightsfilm.blogspot.com/2006/08/world-trade-center.html
FILM AND DVD REVIEWS NOT ONLINE
20 Million Miles to Earth
Auto Focus
Bowling for Columbine
Bride of Chucky
Les Destinees
The Eddy Duchin Story
Eight Legged Freaks
Frida
The Laramie Project
Modesty Blaise
Road to Perdition
Robin and Marian
Tokyo Olympiad
A Yank in the RAF
FILM COURSES
The Red Sea Institute of Cinematic Arts (Aqaba):
The Elements of Cinema
The Future is Asia
Survey of World Cinema 1895-1960
National-Louis University (Chicago):
How to See a Movie
Minority Images in Popular Film
The American Family in Film
Business Ethics in Popular Film
Freedom of Speech in Film
Images of the Educator in Popular Film
Psychology in Popular Film
Public Health Issues in Film (in development)
Facets Multimedia (Chicago):
Forgotten Films of 1933
Noir Sunrise
Commie and Anti-Commie Noir
Making Marlene Dietrich
BEST OF THE YEAR;
Best of 2004
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/05/34/world_poll2.html
Best of 2005
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/06/38/world_poll2.html
Best of 2006
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/contents/07/42/2006-world-poll-2.html
MEMBER:
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
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film & politics
Film & Philosophy