Some movies push beyond perceived moral boundaries for the sake of being purely transgressive. "Farewell to Hollywood," documentarian Henry Corra's collaborative project with Regina Nicholson -- who died of cancer last year at the age of 19 -- has a blurrier agenda. Corra, whose previous credits include "The Disappearance of McKinley Nolan," began a peculiar relationship with Nicholson after meeting her at a film festival and learning of her interest in completing a feature before her death. The mission is noble, but the final, scrappy product contains an ethical dubiousness that slips between Nicolson's apparent intentions and those of the much older man with whom she spent her dying days. Is it a provocation from beyond the grave or a misconceived paean from the surviving director? Alternately confounding, upsetting and riddled with grief at every turn, "Farewell to Hollywood" is certainly the most paradoxical moviegoing experience I've endured this year.
- 11/23/2013
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Selection includes competition titles, a focus on Southeast Asia and a ‘Top 10’ compiled by director Rithy Panh.
The selection for the 26th Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) has been unveiled and includes 288 titles – selected from more than 3,000 submissions – of which 100 will receive their world premiere during the festival (Nov 20 – Dec 1).
There will be a strand dedicated to documentaries from Southeast Asia titled Emerging Voices from Southeast Asia.
This year’s Idfa Top 10 is compiled by Cambodian director Rithy Panh, and a retrospective of his work will be screening at the festival.
Panh, whose doc The Missing Picture won the Un Certain Regard strand at Cannes in May, has selected:
Alone
Wang Bing (Hong Kong/France, 2012)Don’t Look Back
D.A. Pennebaker (USA, 1967)Farrebique - The Four Seasons
Georges Rouquier (France, 1946)The Football Incident
Joris Ivens/Marceline Loridan-Ivens (France, 1976)I Am Cuba
Mikheil Kalatozishvili (Cuba/Russia, 1964)In Vanda’s Room
Pedro Costa (Portugal, 2000)A Man Vanishes...
The selection for the 26th Idfa (International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam) has been unveiled and includes 288 titles – selected from more than 3,000 submissions – of which 100 will receive their world premiere during the festival (Nov 20 – Dec 1).
There will be a strand dedicated to documentaries from Southeast Asia titled Emerging Voices from Southeast Asia.
This year’s Idfa Top 10 is compiled by Cambodian director Rithy Panh, and a retrospective of his work will be screening at the festival.
Panh, whose doc The Missing Picture won the Un Certain Regard strand at Cannes in May, has selected:
Alone
Wang Bing (Hong Kong/France, 2012)Don’t Look Back
D.A. Pennebaker (USA, 1967)Farrebique - The Four Seasons
Georges Rouquier (France, 1946)The Football Incident
Joris Ivens/Marceline Loridan-Ivens (France, 1976)I Am Cuba
Mikheil Kalatozishvili (Cuba/Russia, 1964)In Vanda’s Room
Pedro Costa (Portugal, 2000)A Man Vanishes...
- 10/11/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
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