4.0: 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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This 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
Sharon 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
Above: 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
With 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
Above: 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
Rainy 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
Waking up halfway through Ermanno Olmi's Terra Madre, one will find a most mysterious kind of documentary emerging. The anonymous first half—unimaginative footage of the Terra Madre conference
Over my cornflakes, I peruse the Berliner Zeitung - specifically its story marking the passing of the individual who came into the world as Eric Lee Purkhiser (or, according to BZ, "Pruiksher") on 21st
Above: Clive Owen in Tom Tykwer's The International. One down, who knows how many to go before I depart a week on Sunday. Actually, this isn't going to be a "cram-em-in", six-film-a-day festival for
Above: Abraham H. Foxman, National Director of The Anti-Defamation League, in Hashmatsa. Friends may know that documentary makes me uneasy—well, any form that frequently pretends to be unmediated