Daniel Kasman

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  14 Feb 08

  Berlinale 2008: Quote of the day

  Daniel Kasman

  If you were cold...if you were hot! But you are lukewarm, and I spit you out! -Klaus Kinski in his notorious one man show, Jesus Christ Saviour (Goyer, Germany), either in character as Jesus speaking

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  14 Feb 08

  Berlinale 2008: "My Winnipeg" (Maddin, Canada)

  Daniel Kasman

  Above: Ann Savage as Guy Maddin's mother in the bizarre Winnipeg television production, "Ledgeman". I may be getting a bit frustrated with Guy Maddin’s more blatantly autobiographical progression away

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  13 Feb 08

  Berlinale 2008: "Green Porno" (Rossellini, USA)

  Daniel Kasman

  I love the idea of Isabella Rossellini’s Green Porno, its form and style so thoughtfully determined by the desire to create a film that is not just legible but tailored to the specifications of the small

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  12 Feb 08

  Berlinale 2008: "Le Premier venu" (Doillon, France)

  Daniel Kasman

  Above: Costa (Gérald Thomassin) gazes off into the distance and sees mystery. Jacques Doillon arrests a strange, almost uncanny kind of intimacy from his new film, the almost-masterpiece Le Premier

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  12 Feb 08

  Berlinale 2008: "Regarde-moi" (Estrougo, France)

  Daniel Kasman

  Audrey Estrougo’s directorial debut Regarde-moi is reminiscent of another tale of teenager love that uses its setting of the French housing projects to much greater insight, Abdel Kechiche’s 2004 Games

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  12 Feb 08

  Berlinale 2008: "Secret Behind the Walls" (Wakamatsu, Japan)

  Daniel Kasman

  Every festival should follow the lead of Berlinale and make a habit out of screening retrospective works of long established directors who are there to show their new films. I, for example, was not familiar

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  10 Feb 08

  Berlinale 2008: "There Will Be Blood" (Anderson, USA)

  Daniel Kasman

  Above: a regular family business: Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day Lewis), with son H.W. (Dillon Freasier). For one, let’s not think that There Will Be Blood is a departure for Paul Thomas Anderson, who

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  10 Feb 08

  Berlinale 2008: "Invisible City" (Tan, Singapore)

  Daniel Kasman

  The same reason it is easy to pinpoint the interest in Tan Pin Pin's Invisible City is in fact the same reason the documentary fails: the video, for its unfortunately short running time, seems like a

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  10 Feb 08

  Berlinale 2008: "Black Ice" (Kotwica, Finland)

  Daniel Kasman

  Above: Outi Mäenpää looks with worry at the young woman sleeping with her husband, played by Ria Kataja. Sometimes it is only the actor who can escape the clutches of a resounding bad—or in this case

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  10 Feb 08

  Berlinale 2008: "Night Before Eyes" (Bertele, Germany)

  Daniel Kasman

  So much of so-called criticism boils down to good or bad judgment calls. This is not to say that personal opinion, or even the endorsement or dismissal of films is uncritical, but rather a statement probably

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  05 Feb 08

  Now in theaters: "The Silence Before Bach" (Portabella, Spain)

  Daniel Kasman

  I could not possibly think of a more apt title for Pere Portabella’s new film The Silence Before Bach. As idiosyncratic and inspired in its own approach to the music of Johann Sebastian Bach as was Jean

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  04 Feb 08

  Now in theaters: "Cloverfield" (Reeves, USA)

  Daniel Kasman

  Above: Marlena (Lizzy Caplan) stuck between the military and the monster. What a frustrating mess of possibilities and failed opportunities Cloverfield is! It is a monster-attacks-city movie at heart