About Bob Keser

Bob Keser is NLU's film maven, offering courses for credit through the Fine Arts department. Some examples of Bob's film articles are listed below. Of special interest is Dancing With Werewolves, a film history article about John Sayles' apprenticeship with Roger Corman, that was commissioned by this year's Pesaro Film Festival and translated into the Italian in "John Sayles e il cinema indipendente USA") . Up/Down With Retro looks at how history is used in Down WIth Love, Ocean's Eleven, and Catch Me If You Can.

Film Scholarship

• Climbing Mount Suzuki (2004)
• Vera (2004)
• Chicago International Film Festival 2003  Oasis, Distant, A Talking Picture, A Thousand Miles, The Triplets of Belleville, Father and Son, Sexual Dependency, Time of the Wolf (Le Temps du Loup), Crimson Gold, Strayed (Les Egarés), Goodbye Dragon Inn, Benilde or the Virgin Mother
• Cinerama Adventure
• F.W.Murnau's Schloss Vogelöd(1921): TBA
• Raoul Walsh's The Bowery (1933)
• Abel Gance's Lucrezia Borgia (1935)
• Eisenstein
• Mizoguchi (bio)
• Kurosawa's Red Beard (1965)
• Ichikawa's Tokyo Olympiad (1965)
• Chicago International Film Festival 2002 My Mother's Smile, Russian Ark, City Of God, My Sister Maria, El Bonaerense, Madame Sata, Springtime In A Small Town, Divine Intervention, The Man Without A Past, Crime Of Father Amaro
• Chicago International Film Festival 2001 Amélie, Warm Water Under A Red Bridge, 'R Xmas, La Cienaga, The Devil's Backbone, Millennium Mambo, What Time Is It There?, The Orphan Of Anyang, ABC Africa, The Mad Songs Of Fernanda Hussein, The Pornographer, The Human Comedy
• John Sayles and Roger Corman
• Spielberg's Catch Me If You Can
• Up/Down With Retro

Reviews

• Bikini Bottom Babylon: The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie
• The Cross and the Ukulele: Princess Racoon
• Mad Hot Ballroom
• Big Fish
• Bad Santa
• School of Rock
• Lost In Translation
• American Splendor
• Far From Heaven
• Les Destinées
• The Laramie Project
• Frida
• Bowling For Columbine
• Auto Focus
• Bride Of Chucky

Film Courses

• National-Louis University: The Art Of The Film
• Facets Multimedia (Summer 2002): Forgotten Films Of 1933
• Facets Multimedia (Fall 2002): Noir Sunrise
• Facets Multimedia (Winter 2003): Making Marlene Dietrich

Film Festivals

• National-Louis University: The New-To-Chicago Film Festival
• National-Louis University: Tardes en el Zócalo