Monthly Archives: January 2012

Sundance Film Festival 12: Posters

Posted on January 28, 2012 by
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Sundance Film Festival 12: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry

Posted on January 28, 2012 by

There was no shortage of love for AWW at the Sundance premiere of this film; everyone in line with me had a particular story about how they met him, his work, his activism. His presence was strongly felt, and that … Continue reading →

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Sundance Film Festival 12: Detropia

Posted on January 26, 2012 by

Detropia is the best film I saw at Sundance. Formally, it is clear, beautifully-composed and edited; inventive in its use of color (I think painterly is the word I want to use); and, ingeniously scored by the Detroit Opera and … Continue reading →

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SFF 12: The Spectrum of Love in ‘The Orator’ and ‘Mosquita y Mari’

Posted on January 24, 2012 by
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Aurora Guerrero’s Mosquita y Mari and Tusi Tamasese’s The Orator are both community-specific in mise-en-scene and in the languages of love they portray. The first, in the largely Hispanic Los Angeles city of Huntington Park, and the latter, on the … Continue reading →

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Sundance Film Festival 12: Payback

Posted on January 24, 2012 by

This film by the eminent Canadian documentarian Jennifer Baichwal illustrates what a successful transfer from book to screen can be like, particularly in documentary form. The producer, Ravida Din, like many of the audience present, is an admirer of Atwood’s … Continue reading →

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Sundance Film Festival 12: Corpo Celeste

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

Rohrwacher’s sympathetic but clear-eyed treatment of Southern Italian Catholicism is one of the most wonderful and truthful films I have seen in a long time. It has the feel of a narrative film and the boldness of a documentary: her … Continue reading →

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Sundance Film Festival 12: Old Guard, New Guard

Posted on January 23, 2012 by
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This morning’s Cinema Cafe film panel (circuitously) tackled the issue of intellectual property and piracy in the aftermath of the SOPA-PIPA debate and within the context of protecting the interests of the independent film community. David Carr of the New … Continue reading →

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Now Playing: Sundance Film Festival 12

Posted on January 23, 2012 by
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It has snowed so much since the start of the festival that apparently some filmmakers, stranded, were not able to come to their own premieres. This has not diminished the excitement of the festival, however, with parties and screenings and … Continue reading →

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Bourgeois Infidelity: The Grass is Greener (1960)

Posted on January 22, 2012 by

This strange but charming film concerns a deliberately unfaithful wife and her equally forgiving husband. I suspect that the film may have been quite controversial for the time, notably because of its blithe treatment of infidelity in the bourgeois class. … Continue reading →

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Prada F/W 2012: In Praise of the Seasoned Actor

Posted on January 16, 2012 by

Starting at 8:34, above, we have in procession Tim Roth, Willem Defoe, Adrien Brody, and Gary Oldman, walking the cavernous industrial space at Miuccia Prada’s Milan show. Adrien Brody, with his gloomy handsomeness and tall frame, is perfect for that … Continue reading →

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