Rouge film theory magazine

November 22, 2004 2:59 PM

Rouge. For people who like a little theory with their cinema. Four volumes so far.
posted by dobbs (15 comments total)

Great stuff, dobbs. Thanks!
posted by louigi at 3:35 PM on November 22, 2004

I'm a former student of this guy. And what a nice fellow he is, too.

Thanks, dobbs!
posted by Wolof at 3:44 PM on November 22, 2004

Wow. Great find!
posted by languagehat at 3:47 PM on November 22, 2004

This is also a decent little cinema rag, if not quite in the same class as Rouge.
posted by Wolof at 3:52 PM on November 22, 2004

Wow, this might be a bit brainy for my sensibilities. When I look at a movie rag and see a story about John Hughes I'm expecting to see Molly Ringwald's name in the first paragraph or two.
posted by HifiToaster at 3:59 PM on November 22, 2004

The enuniciative dialogic emancipated through the enactment of these cinematic thresholds is inherent within the post-modern milieu established within an inherent puissance of proto-filmic desire.
posted by buddhanarchist at 5:26 PM on November 22, 2004

Holy crap, Wolof - you studied with Bellour? Very cool. I teach NORTH BY NORTHWEST in my intro to film class in a couple weeks, and I just made up t-shirts for me and my TAs with the plane/cornfield diagram from "The Obvious and the Code."

(I'm a grad student in film, and my advisor studied with him, too. She has stories...)

I have two or three pieces on Senses of Cinema. They're good people.
posted by Dr. Wu at 5:28 PM on November 22, 2004

On a completely superficial note, that's a beautifully designed webpage.

Although thanks to the cheap wine and it's nickname among my wino friends, I tend to constantly read "rogue" instead of "rouge," so I was expecting something much more exciting (like in that swashbuckling sense, not the academic one), content-wise.
posted by ruby.aftermath at 8:06 PM on November 22, 2004

my advisor studied with him, too

Ssh! We're everywhere.
posted by Wolof at 8:31 PM on November 22, 2004

This is from a former English major and veteran of three film classes. Stuff like this frustrates the heck out of me, I want to think it is pretentious navel-gazing bullshit. I wanna say, yeah but what's the friggin' story? Give me a good John Ford film please. But I can't help but admire stuff like the Towel Around the Neck section of the Ozu's Angry Women article. I love the picking out of little themes and symbols from films, novels, etc., but I still like a good story. I once wrote a paper on the symbolism and meaning of fences in Disney's Lady and the Tramp.

Oh yeah, and also what buddhanarchist said.
posted by marxchivist at 8:42 PM on November 22, 2004

Like nothing's been written about The Searchers.
posted by kenko at 9:27 PM on November 22, 2004

that's awesome.
the second issue is an annotated filmography of raoul ruiz. ruiz rocks.
now i need to go track down at least 3 of his films that I didn't even know about before.
posted by juv3nal at 11:34 PM on November 22, 2004

ruiz rocks.

Except for Shattered Image, one of the most ridiculous movies ever made. I saw the premier at the Toronto film fest and the audience was rolling in the aisles in laughter. It wasn't a comedy.
posted by dobbs at 11:53 PM on November 22, 2004

always outstanding, dobbs
there's the excellent short essay by Jonathan Rosenbaum about Antonioni's digital meditation on Michelangelo. and the Paradine story is ridiculously good. thanks again d
posted by matteo at 12:15 AM on November 23, 2004

Except for Shattered Image,

Fair enough. I'd purposely avoided that one having heard something similar.
posted by juv3nal at 2:41 AM on November 23, 2004