Last updated April 19, 2010
Electric Dreams? Above and below, images from Be Kind Rewind (Michel Gondry, 2008)
Film Studies For Free presents un petit hommage -- en images, hypertexte, et vidéos --to one of its favourite filmmakers, Michel Gondry, French maestro of the music-video form, and also responsible, as director, for the audiovisual brilliance of the following films: Human Nature (2001); Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004); La Science des rêves/The Science of Sleep (2006); Be Kind Rewind (2008); and The Green Hornet (2010).
There are some truly wonderful scholarly resources linked to below: merci bien, as ever, to their authors, editors and publishers for making them freely accessible online.
- Dwayne Avery, The Future is behind you: the Reclamation of Place in Be Kind Rewind, Movement 1.1: the futures of cinema, 2009
- Jim Batcho, Overlapping Levels of the Diegesis in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Offscreen Journal, Vol. 11, Nos. 8-9, Aug/Sept 2007
- New Julia Driver, Memory, Desire, and Value in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, in Christopher Grau (ed), Philosophers on Film: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Routledge, 2009)
- New Michel Gondry, Foreword, in Christopher Grau (ed), Philosophers on Film: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Routledge, 2009)
- New Christopher Grau, Introduction to Philosophers on Film: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Routledge, 2009)
- New Christopher Grau, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the morality of memory, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 64 (1), Winter 2006
- Carolyn Jess-Cooke, Narrative and Mediatized Memory in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Scope, Issue 8, June 2007
- Brandon M. Hancock, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Journal of Religion and Film, Vol. 9, No. 1 April 2005
- Erin Hill-Parks, From Film to Life: The Construction of Identity in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and I “Heart” Huckabees, From Camera Lens To Critical Lens A Collection Of Best Essays On Film Adaptation, edited by Rebecca Housel (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006)
- Charlie Kaufman, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - screenplay, 2003
- John Finlay Kerr, ‘Rereading’ Be Kind Rewind (USA 2008): How film history can be remapped through the social memories of popular culture, Screening the Past, Issue 24, 2009
- Mike Lim, Review of Garrett Stewart, Framed Time: Toward a Postfilmic Cinema. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2007, Screening the Past, Issue 23, 2008
- Colm OShea, Out of His Head: Metaphysical Escape Attempts in the Screenplays of Charlie Kaufman , Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 63, February 2009
- Heidi Peeters , The semiotics of music videos: it must be written in the stars, Image [and] Narrative, Issue 8, May 2004
- A Raz, and M Paasivirta, The Science and Fiction of Memory Removal, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol 50(42), 2005
- Richard Rushton, Cinema After Deleuze After 9/11, Postmodern Culture, Volume 19, No. 2, 2009
- Fredericka Shulman, The Objects of Memory: Collecting Eternal Sunshine, Philament, Issue 5, 2005
- Jason Sperb, Be Kind Rewind / or, an incomplete essay on Off-Modern American Cinephilia, Jamais Vu, December 13, 2009
- Gunnar Strøm, The Two Golden Ages of Animated Music Video, Animation Studies, Vol.2, 2007
- Dayton Taylor and Hector Macleod, Digital Air Techniques (2008)
- Scott Thrill, "How My Brain Works": An Interview with Michel Gondry, Bright Lights Film Journal, Issue 53, August 2006
- José van Dijck, Memory Matters in the Digital Age, Configurations, Volume 12, Number 3, Fall 2004
- Thomas E. Wartenberg, Film as Argument, Film Studies, Issue 8, Summer 2006
The original music video of Gary Jules and Michael Andrews cover version of Tears for Fears song Mad World, directed by Michel Gondry. This song features in the soundtrack of Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
