Tag: cinema
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BOMB Magazine (http://bombmagazine.org/article/10019/matthew-barney-and-gaspar-no)
Matthew Barney: I’ve got another question for you. Why do you think so many brutally violent films are being made in France? Gaspar Noe: In France? Just because they are, or were, easier to finance here, I guess. MB: Is that all? GN: The French are not softer or harder than any other country. There’s…
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Review: Don’t Look Now (dir Nicholas Roeg)
[Cross-posted from Kamera, and written in 2001] Perhaps the most succinctly insightful critical response to the work of Nicolas Roeg might be Michael Clark’s portrait of the British director in the National Portrait Gallery in London. Entitled “al-jebr”, this Arabic word means “the bringing together of broken parts”. There are certain keywords that recur in…
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Review: Fucking Åmål (dir Lukas Moodysson)
[Cross-posted from Kamera, and written a long long time ago.] Fucking Åmål, retitled Show Me Love for more sensitive markets such as the USA and the UK, is Swedish poet and novelist Lukas Moodysson’s debut feature, and already the biggest Swedish film of all time. The film follows Agnes (Rebecca Liljeberg) who, even after 18 months in…
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Review: Cinema Paradiso (dir Giuseppe Tornatore)
[Cross-posted from Kamera, and written in 1999/2000.] Showing in its original version rather than the longer “director’s” cut (widely held to be a more balanced and complex film), the tenth anniversary re-release of this 1989 winner of the Palme D’Or at Cannes, and the Best Foreign Language Film at both the Oscars and the Golden Globes, offers…
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Review: Y tu mamá también (dir Alfonso Cuaron, 2001)
[Cross-posted from Kamera, and written in 2001] Not overly sophisticated (thank God), indeed somewhat crude at points (excellent), and rather like a mixture between The Sure Thing, Beavis and Butthead and Shadowlands (just kidding), Y tu mamá también is extremely good-natured, thoughtful and enjoyable – far more so than the witless trailer (which makes it out to be a teen gross-out comedy)…
Sameer Padania 