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10 August 2010
The Robber (Premiere in Paris)
by Abla KandalaftToday’s pick from the Paris Cinema film festival is Benjamin Heisenberg’s The Robber, winner of the Student Jury prize. Continue Reading »
OR you do not bite your tongue you do unbite your tongue you do release your teeth seemingly you do return your tongue seemingly your tongue do rest. You do reverse the signal. You do examine the impulse. You do use your eyes. You do use your ears. You do breathe. You do breathe in substances and hear in silences and see in shades. You do let all this happen. All this do happen without you. (…) Continue Reading »
4 August 2010
Mundane History (Premiere in Paris)
by Abla KandalaftThis is the first of a few reviews of some of the films presented at the ParisCinema film festival in July 2010.
Mundane History (Jao Nok Krajok)
and Q & A with director Anocha Suwichakornpong Continue Reading »
XXY weaves together three landscapes: the fluidity of the ocean, the violence of the scientist’s laboratory and the arid determinacy of life on dry land. Fifteen year old Alex, who so far has been subsumed by neither a male nor female gendered identity, is marooned on the shore. For writer/director Lucia Puenzo this is where things are forced into a fixed shape.
XXY (in my opinion grossly (…) Continue Reading »
DAY 29 TO DAY 42
a slapped arse e.g.
a headless chicken e.g.
an ostrich e.g.
The Industrial Revolution
Reality Television
Technological Singularity
Nothing in here is real so why would I risk putting myself
‘on the sofa’
directly I entered the house
directly I made my entrance:
no movement
no response
no entertainment
no expression
no opinion
no position.
When (…) Continue Reading »
Chris Morris’s jihad comedy Four Lions depicts five inept Muslim ’suicide bombers’ and has been praised as a delightful expose of the ’moral idiocy’ of such an act. Here I discuss the forthcoming sequel. Continue Reading »
My expectations weren’t particularly high when I went to see the Clash of the Titans. And I must say I was looking forward to it, perhaps moved by some masochistic feeling that compels me to go see films that are going to provoke my inner academic (knowing a few things about Greek mythology). And yet I’m always up for a laugh.
The movie in all its blockbuster glory fulfils what it sets out (…) Continue Reading »
DAY 15 TO DAY 28
A FAERY TALE WITH TALKING FURNITURE!
A FAERY TALE WITH WHISPERING WOOD!
A FAERY TALE WITH CAPTURE AND INTRIGUE!
they use PUPPETS in therapy don’t they
please do not repeat the same phrase nine times
please do not repeat the same phrase nine times
please do not repeat the same phrase nine times
please do not repeat the same phrase nine times
please do not (…) Continue Reading »
DAY TWO TO DAY 14
THINGS ARE REALLY
Everyone who watches can help it.
Everyone who watches can help everything they do
Everyone who watches is o
O WHATCHA MEAN HALF A WIG
this is a life dream and it makes me angry
I overheard (someone on the bus) love her friend
but not who he is
not really.
What do you mean he is how do you know. What do they say (they say, they say) about (…) Continue Reading »
Ringu was released in Japan in 1999 and was an instant hit. It became the highest grossing horror film in Japan at 15.9 billion yen ($137.7 million). Its reception in the UK was much more muted when it was released in a handful of art house local cinemas and then on Channel four in 2002. A few months later remakes where on the way in the US and in Korea as, mainly through word of mouth, its (…) Continue Reading »