Video of the day. Raya Martin's "Ars colonia" (2011)
Daniel KasmanWatch the amazing short by the talented Filipino auteur created for the International Film Festival Rotterdam.
Rotterdam 2011
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The Golden Donkey Rotterdam 2011
The Ferroni BrigadeAfter much debate the Ferronis finally cast a glance at this year’s IFFR and dish out comments and prizes.
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The Light Within: An Interview with José María de Orbe
Daniel KasmanAn interview with José María de Orbe.
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A favorite from Rotterdam 2011: House of Shadows (José María de Orbe's "Aita")
Daniel KasmanAitá (José Maria de Orbe, Spain) develops sublimely what is undoubtedly an old pictorial idea: the study of light as inextricable from the study of death. De Orbe’s modest semi-doc fixes its steady
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Direct Address. IFFR 2011: Gianfranco Rosi's "El Sicario Room 164" and Ben Russell's "Trypps #7 (Badlands)"
Max GoldbergFacing the camera in two films.
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Movie Posters of the Week: The best of Rotterdam 2011
Adrian CurryCollecting my favorite posters from this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam, one thing struck me: that I hadn’t actually managed to see any of the films these posters were advertising. With
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IFFR 2011. The Way of the Silents (King Hu's "Legend of the Mountain")
Daniel KasmanAbove: Sylvia Chang as Cloud, a woman or a ghost? King Hu’s Legend of the Mountain (1979) is an anomaly in the Water Tiger Inn wuxia series at Rotterdam in that it is no wuxia at all; in fact, the
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IFFR 2011. Shorts Short Thoughts
Daniel KasmanLuc Moullet in Toujours moins (France), a short film suspiciously formed of footage of automated terminals (ATMs, ticket dispensers, turnstiles, etc.) over three decades (perhaps culled from the director
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IFFR 2011. Villaronga, 2nd Stage Hitchcockians, Occult Spielberg
Daniel KasmanShort notes on the impressive and unexpected retrospective of Spanish-Catalan auteur Agustí Villaronga: His debut Tras en cristal (1987) reveals the filmmaker belonging to the post-Hitchcock group
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IFFR 2011. Soviets in the Dunes (The Red Western "The Thirteen")
Daniel KasmanMeet me between silent cinema and sound, and between the Soviets and the Americans in this crypto-remake of John Ford’s The Lost Patrol.
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IFFR 2011. A Politics of Fog (The 1966 Red Western "No One Wanted to Die")
Daniel KasmanJarringly, yet somehow like a somnambulist, half awake, reality a haze, politics in cinema can stab deepest when it is most blunted and blurred at the edges. Uncertainty can be as powerful as the heavy
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Rotterdam 2011. Awards + Roundup
David HudsonThe International Film Festival Rotterdam's Tiger Awards go to three feature debuts this year and the jury's issued statements for each of them.Sergio Caballero's Finisterrae (trailer above): "The