The Forgotten: A Little Stranger
David CairnsNOW YOU SEE IT I love the fact that Britain's two women directors in the 1950s were called Toye and Box. I also love the fact that Britain had two women behind the camera while American could only manage
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11 from the Berlinale: days 4-6, from top to bottom
Kevin LeeAbove: Maren Abe's Everyone Else. Everyone Else (dir. Maren Ade) – Five years ago the Berlinale unveiled one of the most uplifting relationship films of the decade, Before Sunset; this year’
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Berlinale 2009: Young adults in crisis: "Slow Summer" and "Beeswax"
Daniel KasmanAbove: a relaxed but aggrevated vision of young adults in 2009... Relaxation infuses the filmmaking of both John Cook's Slow Summer and Andrew Bujalski's Beeswax; only, the first was made by the Canadian
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Breadlines and Champagne! "Man's Castle" (Borzage, 1933)
Ryland Walker KnightFilm Forum's Breadlines and Champagne! series started Friday, February 6th, with 35-cents tickets (25-cents for members) for screenings of the Mae West vehicle, I'm No Angel. A funny little thing about
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Berlin sleep-debt snatches : 4—Monday
Neil Young4.0: PREAMBLE So, after four days and nine attempts, I finally discovered a new film that I can more than luke-warm enthusiastic about. Near misses have included The Exploding Girl from Wednesday, Burrowing
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More Berlinale atmosphere
efeImages © Fabrizio Maltese / fabriziomaltese.com
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Tuesday Morning Foreign Region DVD Report: "Desire" (Borzage, 1936)
Glenn KennyThis post is for the Self-Styled Siren. Although even the most ardent of auteurists understands that it's finally impossible to pinpoint just which revered collaborator is responsible for just what
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Berlinale 2009: "Lunch Break", so much time and so little space
Daniel KasmanSharon Lockhart pushes her camera on a dolly down a factory hallway during eleven minutes of the workers' lunch break, and creates a kind of cinematic magic we all wish we could conjure in real life
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Ten from the Berlinale: days 1-3, from top to bottom
Kevin LeeAbove: A highlight of the 2009 Berlinale, So Yong Kim's Treeless Mountain. Treeless Mountain (dir. So Yong Kim) - This premiered at Toronto last September, but so far I’ve yet to see a better
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Berlinale 2009: "Araya", the conflict between beauty and purpose
Daniel KasmanWith not much making a great impression thus far at the Berlinale, Margot Benacerraf's lovely documentary Araya comes as a breath of fresh air from 1959. Reminiscent of Agnès Varda's debut
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Berlinale 2009: "In the Electric Mist", lost and found in the swampland
Daniel KasmanAbove: Tommy Lee Jones tracing paths through the swamps of history in Bertrand Tavernier's In the Electric Mist. Like a bullet deflected, Bertrand Tavernier's In the Electric Mist lands close to target
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Berlin sleep-debt snatches : 3—Friday/Saturday
Neil YoungRainy midnight at the lost and found - a.k.a. a 6th floor room of the Etap hotel, just along the amazing ruin that was the Anhalter Bahnhof, about 5-8 minutes' walk from the Berlinale