Hong Kong Wasteland: An Interview with Soi Cheang
The Ferroni BrigadeA retrospective in Vienna gives us to the chance to talk to the last (so far) addition to Hong Kong cinema’s key genre auteurs.
Viennale
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Daily Briefing. Film Comment Poll: Best of 2011
David HudsonAlso: The Louis Delluc Prize, books and adaptations, and celebrating Studio Ghibli.
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Viennale 2011. Survival Method
Daniel KasmanVienna honors the in-progress career of Hong Kong genre filmmaker and poet of desperation, Soi Cheang.
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Viennale 2011. Homesick
Daniel KasmanTwo odes to American landscapes: Akerman’s New York in News from Home, Lee Anne Schmitt’s vanished frontier in California Company Town.
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Viennale 2011. Choreography
Daniel KasmanMore rewards at Vienna’s essential Akerman retrospective: a “pitch” for a musical, a late Demy, and a surprising recent drama.
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Viennale 2011. Space Re-Figured
Daniel KasmanOur first dispatch from the Vienna Film Festival: a cinematic plane ride, single-take feature, and two masterpieces from the Akerman retro.
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Daily Briefing. Viennale Lineup, Bill Krohn on Cahiers
David HudsonAlso: Iranian actress Marzieh Vafamehr sentenced to 90 lashes and one year in jail.
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Video of the Day (2). David Lynch's Viennale 2011 Trailer: "The 3 Rs"
Daniel KasmanDavid Lynch’s new short film is the trailer for Viennale 2011.
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Viennale 3: JOHN RYAN'S EXPRESS
Neil YoungAbove: Larry Cohen on the set of It's Alive (1973). Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.—Euripides From Euripides to Larry Cohen may seem like a considerable jump, but the more
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Viennale 2: ALPHA MALE / OMEGA FEMALE
Neil YoungIn one of those serendipitous quirks of scheduling that festival-going sometimes throws up, I saw what are currently my favourite male and females performances among 2010's new films in consecutive screenings
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Viennale 1: LIFE'S HALT
Neil YoungAbove: Ricardo Iscar's Dance to the Spirits. "When I become death, death is the seed from which I grow."—William S Burroughs, Ah Pook Is Here. Not to be morbid or anything, but the shadow of mortality
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Cuba in LA, Mizoguchi in London + a bit more
David Hudson"Released in that mythical year of 1968, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's Memories of Underdevelopment is, like its main character, both part of and apart from its time," writes Michael Joshua Rowin in the LA