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by Mike Archibald
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LA REGION CENTRALE: Okay, the first time seeing this was a bit of a slog- or rather, it became a slog. My wonderful teacher Peter Rist insists on showing this every time he teaches “Moving Camera Aesthetic” at Concordia, my alma mater. At the time of my first viewing I was just inching my way into iterative, long-take cinema. That’s a broad category, I guess, but it’s serviceable enough if you use it carefully and with a grain of salt. What I mean is stuff like Tsai, Haneke, Hou, Jia, Costa and, going further back, Tarkovsky, Angelopolous and Antonioni….filmmakers who take you...


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