With Issue 71, Senses of Cinema revamps its site to offer, as administrator Stuart Richards puts it, "an enhanced navigational experience and a responsive design." And it's looking good. New book reviews editor Daniel Fairfax is all over this new issue. He interviews Sergio Caballero (Finisterrae, La Distancia), writes about Jean-Pierre Léaud's performance in Jacques Rivette's Out 1 (1971), files a report on Cannes 2014, and reviews Michael Witt's new book, Jean-Luc Godard: Cinema Historian, a study of Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-1998). Also in today's roundup: Jonathan Rosenbaum on the working class in American cinema, Michael Pattison on Oscar Micheaux, Peter Bogdanovich on Orson Welles and more. » - David Hudson...
- 7/14/2014
- Fandor: Keyframe
With Issue 71, Senses of Cinema revamps its site to offer, as administrator Stuart Richards puts it, "an enhanced navigational experience and a responsive design." And it's looking good. New book reviews editor Daniel Fairfax is all over this new issue. He interviews Sergio Caballero (Finisterrae, La Distancia), writes about Jean-Pierre Léaud's performance in Jacques Rivette's Out 1 (1971), files a report on Cannes 2014, and reviews Michael Witt's new book, Jean-Luc Godard: Cinema Historian, a study of Histoire(s) du cinéma (1988-1998). Also in today's roundup: Jonathan Rosenbaum on the working class in American cinema, Michael Pattison on Oscar Micheaux, Peter Bogdanovich on Orson Welles and more. » - David Hudson...
- 7/14/2014
- Keyframe
I'd never heard of Sergio Caballero but the trailer for the Spaniard's new movie titled The Distance (La Distancia) certainly got my attention. Not surprising considering that a short search unearthed news that Caballero is a celebrated artist having taken home the Golden Lion at Rotterdam in 2011. His second full length feature sounds just as odd as his debut Finisterrae, but a little more accessible. Maybe.
Here's how the festival programmers describe it:
A performance artist is being held in a deserted Siberian power station following the unexpected death of his oligarch patron. Dryly comic surrealism (with an attractive soundtrack and three telepathic dwarves).
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Here's how the festival programmers describe it:
A performance artist is being held in a deserted Siberian power station following the unexpected death of his oligarch patron. Dryly comic surrealism (with an attractive soundtrack and three telepathic dwarves).
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- 1/21/2014
- QuietEarth.us
Scott Weinberg has tallied the votes from 20 Movies.com contributors and come up with a top 20. #1: Nicolas Winding Refn's Drive.
"Refn's pulp fantasia — with the iconic Ryan Gosling sporting a cheesy scorpion jacket, a toothpick and a lack of dialogue unrivaled since Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns — reminded me just how much I love movies," writes Sean Burns. "Refn's boldly artificial flourishes, graphic violence and swoony romanticism conjured an alternate universe I adored basking in, over and over. Throw in Albert Brooks as the villain, and I don't want to admit how many times I went back to see it again."
Also in the Philadelphia Weekly, Matt Prigge, whose #2 is Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret, on his #1, House of Tolerance: "Like Margaret, Bertrand Bonello's dreamy look at a tony, turn-of-the-century Parisian brothel was initially hated, with some at Cannes calling it the fest's worst. It fared better at Toronto,...
"Refn's pulp fantasia — with the iconic Ryan Gosling sporting a cheesy scorpion jacket, a toothpick and a lack of dialogue unrivaled since Clint Eastwood's spaghetti westerns — reminded me just how much I love movies," writes Sean Burns. "Refn's boldly artificial flourishes, graphic violence and swoony romanticism conjured an alternate universe I adored basking in, over and over. Throw in Albert Brooks as the villain, and I don't want to admit how many times I went back to see it again."
Also in the Philadelphia Weekly, Matt Prigge, whose #2 is Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret, on his #1, House of Tolerance: "Like Margaret, Bertrand Bonello's dreamy look at a tony, turn-of-the-century Parisian brothel was initially hated, with some at Cannes calling it the fest's worst. It fared better at Toronto,...
- 12/29/2011
- MUBI
The Rio International Film Festival - one of the largest and most influential in South America - has long had a strong genre film presence through their Midnight Movies sidebar but they're jumping into the genre pool in a big, big way by adding two additional Midnight programs to boost coverage significantly. What will audiences in Rio be seeing? Here's the complete list! Normal 0 false false false En-ca X-none X-none MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-qformat:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:11.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"; mso-ascii-font-family:Calibri; mso-ascii-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-fareast; mso-hansi-font-family:Calibri; mso-hansi-theme-font:minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;} Midnight Movies: Attack the Block (dir. Joe Cornish, UK, 2011) Finisterrae (dir. Sergio Caballero, Spain, 2010) Guilty of...
- 9/23/2011
- Screen Anarchy
“Finisterrae” the film debut of the director of the electronic music festival “Sónar”, Sergio Caballero, was awarded with the top prize at the International Rotterdam Film Festival. The film, produced by the prolific and off-beat Luis Miñarro whose name is attached to award-winning films such as “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” and “La Mosquitera”. Interpreted by the unknown actors Pau Nubiola, Pavel Lukiyanoy, Santi Serra and Yuri Mykhaylychenko, this tells the story of two ghosts that fed up with travelling througt the shadowlands decide to make the “way of Santiago” till the end of the world called “Finisterrae” to once there begin a short life of earthly existence between the living. The experimental film was approached by filming and obtaining images first, and then creating the script afterwards, before finally adding the dialogues which remind us to another Spanish produced film by Luis Miñarro, “Aita” by José Maria de Orbe,...
- 2/14/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
Updated through 2/7.
The International Film Festival Rotterdam's Tiger Awards go to three feature debuts this year and the jury's issued statements for each of them.
Sergio Caballero's Finisterrae (trailer above): "The outsider in this competition. Searching for the boundaries in this festival, for the edgy, the off-beat. Best animal performances in a film. The ghost of this competition."
Sivaroj Kongsakul's Eternity: "With a great sense of cinematic duration, this film builds its own universe, finding its own pacing, so consistently, to tell its particular story. A film that seems on the surface to be about death but which is really about love, a beautiful and delicate love story."
Park Jung-Bum's The Journals of Musan: "A strongly constructed narrative. A survivor's story. Throughout the film the character, immersed in an ethical disorientation, keeps a constant demeanor. A mature debut film for a new director. This social drama provides us...
The International Film Festival Rotterdam's Tiger Awards go to three feature debuts this year and the jury's issued statements for each of them.
Sergio Caballero's Finisterrae (trailer above): "The outsider in this competition. Searching for the boundaries in this festival, for the edgy, the off-beat. Best animal performances in a film. The ghost of this competition."
Sivaroj Kongsakul's Eternity: "With a great sense of cinematic duration, this film builds its own universe, finding its own pacing, so consistently, to tell its particular story. A film that seems on the surface to be about death but which is really about love, a beautiful and delicate love story."
Park Jung-Bum's The Journals of Musan: "A strongly constructed narrative. A survivor's story. Throughout the film the character, immersed in an ethical disorientation, keeps a constant demeanor. A mature debut film for a new director. This social drama provides us...
- 2/7/2011
- MUBI
The 40th International Film Festival Rotterdam unveiled the winners of this year's Tiger Awards today. The three winning features - Park Jung-Bum's "The Journals of Muscan," Sergio Caballero's "Finisterrae," and Sivaroj Kongsakul's "Eternity" - all mark feature film debuts for the directors, who were each awarded a € 15,000 prize. In addition, the Return of the Tiger Award, which is "intended as a gesture of appreciation towards those filmmakers who ...
- 2/4/2011
- Indiewire
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