1929: The New Babylon (Grigori Kozinstev and Leonid Trauberg) Michael Cramer December 2017 100 Years of Soviet Cinema “We’ll Come Back to Paris!”: The New Babylon Novyy Vavilon (The New Babylon, 1929) is the fifth feature film produced by the FEKS (“Factory of the Eccentric Actor”) group, founded in 1922 by Grigori Kozintsev...
Smorgasbord (1983) Michael Cramer July 2016 Deconstructing Jerry: Lewis as Director “Au revoir, Dummy!”: A Smorgasbord of Suffering It seems fitting that Jerry’s Lewis’ final film as director, Smorgasbord (1983, released on home video under the title Cracking Up), should begin with a prolonge...
“…what I was seeking in my history of cinema was to be less alone”: Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television by Jean-Luc Godard (trans. and ed. Timothy Barnard) Michael Cramer June 2015 Book Reviews Caboose Books’ edition of Jean-Luc Godard’s Introduction to a True History of Cinema and Television, translated and edited by Timothy Barnard, collects the lectures that Godard delivered between April and Octob...
