# film studies (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 2 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover film studies. Page: Feed: --- ## [Oil Pastel Horses and Mixing Colours](https://www.portablecity.net/oil-pastel-horses-and-mixing-colours/) _2026-08-05 · Shel Kahn · the portable city_ After my adventures in soft pastel and gouache this year, I’ve been feeling the urge to go back to oil pastels, especially with what I know now about different paper and texture and how it changes the soft pastels. this painting is a test run of some of the things that I learned about soft \[…\] ## [Webmention Repost Test](https://www.portablecity.net/webmention-repost-test/) _2026-08-02 · Shel Kahn · the portable city_ Trying to get these set up on this blog nicely – I’ll have to make a few weird posts to get this working, I think, so my apologies to everyone on my RSS who might get some noise in their readers today!Likes Azhdarchid now supports Webmentions by Bruno Dias.Azhdarchid now supports WebmentionsSurely my presence is \[…\] ## [Webmentioning with a bookmark…](https://www.portablecity.net/webmentioning-with-a-bookmark/) _2026-08-02 · Shel Kahn · the portable city_ Testing them all, woooo This one’s a bookmark! And here’s where I write about the bookmark specifically! And here’s more info I can add that won’t show up inside the webmention, I think? ## [Webmention Reply Testing](https://www.portablecity.net/webmention-reply-testing/) _2026-08-02 · Shel Kahn · the portable city_ Getting fancy with these! Reply testing! This one I want to know exactly how much text I can send around, because I want to be able to think about exactly what part of my reply should show up on someone else’s website, y’know? So I am going to be verbose in here as a test \[…\] ## [Webmention Testing Continues](https://www.portablecity.net/webmention-testing-continues/) _2026-08-02 · Shel Kahn · the portable city_ doing the ol’ self-mention to see how my site plays with these: Liking my own webmentions post, which I like for good reasons, which I have learned go here inside the mention! And then continuing my post outside of the mention! ## [Four New Non-Fiction Books](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/four-new-non-fiction-books) _2026-08-02 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ Carlos Castaneda, The Frenchmen, Didion & Babitz, The Velvet Underground ## [Sketching, Lifedrawing and Studies from Early Summer](https://www.portablecity.net/sketching-lifedrawing-and-studies-from-early-summer/) _2026-07-31 · Shel Kahn · the portable city_ I’ve been making stuff and it’s been pretty varied! Hard to figure out how to talk about it all except as a big ol’ artdump, so, here! Have some art! ## [Learning about webmentions!](https://www.portablecity.net/learning-about-webmentions/) _2026-07-30 · Shel Kahn · the portable city_ Trying to get these set up on this blog nicely – I’ll have to make a few weird posts to get this working, I think, so my apologies to everyone on my RSS who might get some noise in their readers today! Shoutout to Bruno and also surasshu and Natalie and everyone else in the \[…\] ## [Three Scenes of the 1970s](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/three-scenes-of-the-1970s) _2026-07-21 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ A suite of moviegoing reminiscences from 2017 ## [Sparkling Creek](https://www.portablecity.net/sparkling-creek/) _2026-07-12 · Shel Kahn · the portable city_ ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/gqsGIUHjfyYh) _2026-07-12 · **Sponsored**_ Connect your repo and deploy instantly — Railway handles config, scaling, and monitoring. ## [metallic bee](https://www.portablecity.net/metallic-bee/) _2026-07-11 · Shel Kahn · the portable city_ ## [Trials of the Stargazers, Eidolon Folio for Swords Without Master](https://www.portablecity.net/trials-of-the-stargazers-eidolon-folio-for-swords-without-master/) _2026-06-21 · Shel Kahn · the portable city_ Well I mentioned earlier that I was also painting a whole folio for Swords Without Master, a wildly ambitious thing to do in addition to art directing, but I did indeed take it on and in the end: I finished it! ## [Defining Moments in Movies (Part 2 of 4)](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/defining-moments-in-movies-part-2) _2026-06-15 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ Further entries from a 2007 film encyclopedia ## [Defining Moments in Movies (Part 1 of 4)](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/defining-moments-in-movies-part-1) _2026-05-28 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ Entries from a 2007 Coffee-Table Encyclopedia ## [105 Essential Australian Films](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/105-essential-australian-films) _2026-05-03 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ (in response to a recent Sydney Morning Herald/Age poll) ## [Four Glimpses of Contemporary Portuguese Cinema](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/four-glimpses-of-contemporary-portuguese) _2026-04-02 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ Program notes from my curated selection of 2016 ## [100 THINKING MACHINE Video Essays!](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/100-thinking-machine-video-essays) _2026-03-09 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ A celebration & look-back in FILMKRANT magazine ## [40 Films You Must See](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/40-films-you-must-see) _2026-02-14 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ A magazine feature from 1999 ## [30 (RELATIVELY) RECENT BOOKS I HEARTILY RECOMMEND (Part 2)](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/30-relatively-recent-books-i-heartily) _2026-01-30 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ From Streisand to Foucault, and from Boxcar Bertha to Abd al-Qádir … it’s all here! ## [30 (RELATIVELY) RECENT BOOKS THAT I HEARTILY RECOMMEND (Part 1)](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/30-relatively-recent-books-that-i) _2026-01-10 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ Covering film, memoir, surrealism, politics, drugs, sex, philosophy, theory ... ## [Make any domain metal (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/1rSRMLUADp9Y) _2026-01-10 · **Sponsored**_ Turn any domain into a blacked-out metal landing page with an email waitlist ## [The Fickle Life of a Freelancer](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/the-fickle-life-of-a-freelancer) _2026-01-01 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ (Magazine Section) ## [ILLUSTRATED VIDEO LECTURE (80 minutes): “How Films Transform Space and Place”](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/illustrated-video-lecture-80-minutes) _2025-11-29 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ Audiovisual essays included! ## [A Reflection on an Introduction to Film Studies](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/a-reflection-on-an-introduction-to) _2025-10-21 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ This week at my website Film Critic (www.adrianmartinfilmcritic.com), I have launched a new feature: a ‘virtual’ reconstruction of a lecture course I gave, Introduction to Film Studies, to 1st year university students between 1982 and 1985. ## [Return](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/return) _2025-09-25 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ (On the meaning of this word in Twin Peaks: The Return) ## [A cheaper ticket to my Fritz Lang course!](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/a-cheaper-ticket-to-my-fritz-lang) _2025-09-11 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ The 1st of 5 weeks of my FRITZ LANG course at CINEJOURNEYS has passed, but – at a cheaper rate! ## [Introduction to CITY OF PIRATES (Ruiz, 1983)](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/introduction-to-city-of-pirates-ruiz) _2025-09-08 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ On 4 September 2025, the ICA in London screened Raúl Ruiz’s CITY OF PIRATES (1983) to a packed house, as part of a Serge Daney-related season curated by Arta Barzanji & Gerard-Jan Claes. ## [Beautiful Dreamer: The Delights of Alan Rudolph](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/beautiful-dreamer-the-delights-of) _2025-08-16 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ (plus a reminder of my first online film course starting in September!) ## [Four Days of French Cinema](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/four-days-of-french-cinema) _2025-08-03 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ Notes on a run of films I’ve been watching lately ## [IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/important-announcement) _2025-06-23 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ At long last, I am offering online film courses! ## [Real SIMs for AI Agents (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/9lNMNKWkHrwz) _2025-06-23 · **Sponsored**_ Pass 2FA and verifications with real carrier numbers via our API. ## [Illustrated Video 48-minute Lecture for Paying Subscribers: “Body Hopping” (2019)](https://adrian243.substack.com/p/illustrated-video-48-minute-lecture) _2024-12-14 · adrian · Adrian Martin Recommends_ I don’t get asked much anymore to give keynote lectures, and I sort-of miss it.