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


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