What we’ve been reading – June 19th through June 20th:

• girish: Adieu Philippine: Mise-en-scène de la jeunesse
  The Cinematheque Ontario recently played a rare New Wave film, Jacques Rozier's Adieu Philippine. Girish is on-hand to tell us about it and point out its emphasis on the generational divide that gives the New Wave its very name.
• Film Studies For Free: Going the distance with Claude Chabrol
  Flickhead (http://flickhead.blogspot.com/) is hosting a Claude Chabrol blogathon from June 21-30st, and in preparation the ever-well-informed Catherine Grant has collected a bunch of scholarly links about the New Wave director.
• Narrative. Narrative. Narrative. That must be exhausting, says Paul Schrader.
  Storytelling began as ceremony and evolved into ritual. It was commercialised in the middle ages, became big business in the 19th century and an international industry in the 20th. Today it is the ubiquitous wallpaper of the postmodern era.