Venice 2011. Epic Festival Finale
Daniel KasmanMy final film at the 2011 Venice film festival is appropriately conclusive: Lav Diaz’ 6-hour Century of Birthing.
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Venice 2011. Financial Panthers
Daniel KasmanJohnnie To’s Life without Principle, his second film of 2011, and second dealing with the current financial crisis, premieres at Venice.
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Venice 2011. Mass of Hitlers, Crowds of Faith
Daniel KasmanA double feature of an experimental Hitler montage, Conference, and Romuald Karmakar’s documentary The Flock of the Lord.
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Venice 2011. Feel the Temptation
Daniel KasmanAleksandr Sokurov finishes his tetralogy of power with a magnificent, grotesque adaptation of Goethe’s Faust.
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Venice 2011. Gestures from the End of the World
Daniel KasmanAbel Ferrara’s 4:44 Last Day on Earth is a small, apocalyptic but love-filled ode to self-doubt, New York City and the female body.
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Venice 2011. Typhoon Fury
Daniel KasmanSono Sion’s Himizu, his second film of 2011, is set just after Japan’s devastating natural catastrophe.
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Venice 2011. Cavemen/Mussolini/Moblon
Daniel KasmanAugusto Tretti’s bluntly hilarious economic-political satire Il potere roars through Venice.
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Venice 2011. Fantasy Service
Daniel KasmanAnn Hui’s moving melodrama A Simple Life is about an aging maid in Hong Kong being looked after by her employer’s son (Andy Lau).
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Venice 2011. From the Streets to the Bedroom
Daniel KasmanA major re-discovery from Venice in the form of a four hour long experimental documentary, Grifi and Sarchielli’s Anna (1972-1975).
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Venice 2011. Those Who Burn Within
Daniel KasmanPhilippe Garrel’s new film, in competition at Venice, miscasts its two leads but features a turn by a French actress that cannot be missed.
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Venice 2011. Performance Studies
Daniel KasmanGiorgos Lanthimos’ followup to Dogtooth suffers from the same problems as his breakthrough.
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Venice 2011. Subconscious Battles
Daniel KasmanDavid Cronenberg’s A Dangerous Method tackles Jung, Freud and psychosexual frontiers with a supreme, stately restraint.