TIFF 2013. Correspondences #9
Daniel KasmanOur final festival correspondence from Toronto sees different visions of utopia, including one by Edgar Reitz (Heimat).
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TIFF 2013. Correspondences #7
Daniel KasmanOur TIFF 2013 correspondence continues with thoughts on new films by Wang Bing and Jean-Marie Straub.
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TIFF 2013. Correspondences #5
Daniel KasmanMore from TIFF: Albert Serra’s Casanova meets Dracula picture, and experimental shorts in the Wavelengths program.
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TIFF 2013. Correspondences #3
Daniel KasmanOur TIFF missives continue with thoughts on films by Catherine Breillat, Jafar Panahi, and Frederick Wiseman.
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TIFF 2013. Correspondences #1
Daniel KasmanOur second two-critic dialogue kicks off at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival with a letter before the festival begins.
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Notebook Reviews: Johnnie To's "Drug War"
Daniel KasmanThe HK director’s foray into Mainland China combines exhilarating formalism with politicized images.
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Records of Material Objects in Cinema #14
Daniel KasmanStealin’ whiskey in Allan Dwan’s Montana Belle (1948/1952).
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Notebook Reviews: Darezhan Omirbaev's "Student"
Daniel KasmanThe Kazakh master’s 2012 Cannes entry finally sees its U.S. theatrical release.
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Cannes 2013. Crime & Existence: Lav Diaz's "North, the End of History" & A Conversation with Lav Diaz
Daniel KasmanDaringly programmed at Cannes for the first time, Lav Diaz’s Un Certain Regard epic is a major highlight.
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Cannes 2013. The Gloaming: Claire Denis' "Bastards"
Daniel KasmanClaire Denis’ first digital film is a cryptically elliptical, profoundly somber melodrama of exploitation, loneliness, anger and family.
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Cannes 2013. The Past, Present Tense: Claude Lanzmann's "The Last of the Unjust"
Daniel KasmanFrom footage of the first interview originally shot for but unused in Shoah, Lanzmann fashions a new film set at once in 1975 & 2012.
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Cannes 2013. Borderland Comedy: Serge Bozon's "Tip Top"
Daniel KasmanSerge Bozon’s follow-up to La France six years later is a modestly scaled what’s-it, a deadpan burlesque pseudo-detective film.