tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648426783032403612.post6993781665833372892..comments2023-12-26T10:31:29.655-08:00Comments on 1st Thursday: A Guide to TIFF: Contemporary World Cinema (2007)Darrenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11456377117711062375noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648426783032403612.post-67421234967767319342023-04-26T21:19:28.599-07:002023-04-26T21:19:28.599-07:00Amazing work I am a big fan of your work.Amazing work I am a big fan of your work.Terror Strikeshttps://www.terrorstrikes.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648426783032403612.post-41900077962962459062007-08-26T11:07:00.000-07:002007-08-26T11:07:00.000-07:00Surprised that Run Fatboy Run made it onto the TIF...Surprised that <B><I>Run Fatboy Run</I></B> made it onto the TIFF "Contemporary World Cinema" line-up, Todd Brown at <A HREF="http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/more-pegg-more-moran-more-fat-boy/" REL="nofollow"><I>Twitch</I> </A> nonetheless offers up good will, the official website, trailer, and TIFF program capsule.Michael Guillenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464792353062386579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648426783032403612.post-41117780373806583992007-08-21T16:42:00.000-07:002007-08-21T16:42:00.000-07:00Like myself, Todd Brown is catching pre-Toronto sc...Like myself, Todd Brown is catching pre-Toronto screenings. Here's his <A HREF="http://twitchfilm.net/site/view/tiff-report-jar-city-review#extended" REL="nofollow"><I>Twitch</I></A> review of <I><B>Jar City</B></I>.Michael Guillenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464792353062386579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648426783032403612.post-30288290241581619672007-08-21T11:28:00.000-07:002007-08-21T11:28:00.000-07:00Caught The Counterfeiters yesterday. Just when yo...Caught <I><B>The Counterfeiters</B></I> yesterday. Just when you think there is no further history to know about the Nazi concentration camps, here comes this study on the ethics of survival. Survivors guilt is a topic difficult to relate to, and yet well-done here.Michael Guillenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464792353062386579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648426783032403612.post-66681352539844381732007-08-15T21:52:00.000-07:002007-08-15T21:52:00.000-07:00FYI, my review of The Mourning Forest. I'm glad I...FYI, my review of <A HREF="http://melbfilmblog.blogspot.com/2007/07/miff-day-4.html" REL="nofollow">The Mourning Forest</A>. I'm glad I saw this at the start of the Melbourne International Film Festival. It's a quiet film, and as I saw a number of contemplative films over the festival, I started getting bored with them after a while. My advice, see this early if you're seeing several arty films.Paul Martinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10965628567103267009noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648426783032403612.post-57750516012733892582007-07-16T08:52:00.000-07:002007-07-16T08:52:00.000-07:00Clearly this site is going to become indispensible...Clearly this site is going to become indispensible in helping me graph out what to see. Already, I'm equally excited about <B><I>Munyurangabo</I></B>, not only because of Kohler's rave review but because the subject has been of continuing interest to me. I've written up a couple of entries at <I>The Evening Class</I>; one <A HREF="http://theeveningclass.blogspot.com/2006/03/imagining-realrwandan-genocide-on-film.html" REL="nofollow">a general intro on the films to date</A> (at that time), a <A HREF="http://theeveningclass.blogspot.com/2006/03/imagining-realthe-rwandan-massacre-on.html" REL="nofollow">follow-up focus</A> on <B><I>Shooting Dogs</I></B>, and a <A HREF="http://theeveningclass.blogspot.com/2006/04/imagining-realpaul-rusesab_114589707686488561.html" REL="nofollow">transcription of a lecture</A> given by Paul Rusesabagina (subject of <B><I>Hotel Rwanda</I></B>). So you can imagine how excited I am to see this project. Thanks for alerting me to same!Michael Guillenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15464792353062386579noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648426783032403612.post-5037209888083677222007-07-12T06:04:00.000-07:002007-07-12T06:04:00.000-07:00Dan Sallitt left this comment over on another post...Dan Sallitt left this comment over on <A HREF="http://1stthursday.blogspot.com/2007/07/additions-to-gala-and-special.html" REL="nofollow">another post</A>:<BR/><BR/>I saw <STRONG>In Memory of Me</STRONG> at the Walter Reade in NYC. I didn't enjoy it much, though lots of people did. I quote myself: "In Memory of Me was very much in Bresson's shadow - it felt like A Man Escaped with hints of Escape from Alcatraz! - but I didn't enjoy it. It's a classic case of a filmmaker unwilling to go to the interior place that his material demands, and so inadvertently turning his movie into a plodding pseudo-noir about monks spying on each other and not learning anything interesting...."Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11456377117711062375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648426783032403612.post-78879015847672709762007-07-06T07:09:00.000-07:002007-07-06T07:09:00.000-07:00The Return is another of those films I should prob...<STRONG>The Return</STRONG> is another of those films I should probably catch up with before September. With all of the comparisons to Tarkovsky, I'm not sure why I've put off seeing it. Reviews of <STRONG>The Banishment</STRONG> have been mixed, but I'm still curious about it.Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11456377117711062375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648426783032403612.post-37206671847666087462007-07-05T19:22:00.000-07:002007-07-05T19:22:00.000-07:00Alas, I won't be there this year. But I'm very ea...Alas, I won't be there this year. But I'm very eager to see Zviaguintsev's latest.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648426783032403612.post-53907420732844170932007-07-04T06:42:00.000-07:002007-07-04T06:42:00.000-07:00My knee started jerking when I saw that an America...My knee started jerking when I saw that an American-made film about Rwanda had been programmed in CWC, but Robert Koehler's raver in <A HREF="http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=cannes2007&jump=review&reviewid=VE1117933771&cs=1" REL="nofollow">Variety</A> had bumped <STRONG>Munyurangabo</STRONG> onto my must-see list:<BR/><BR/>"Like a bolt out of the blue, Korean American filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung achieves an astonishing and thoroughly masterful debut with "Munyurangabo," which is -- by several light years -- the finest and truest film yet on the moral and emotional repercussions of the 15-year-old genocide that wracked Rwanda. Pic's supremely confident, simple storytelling and relaxed, slightly impressionist visual style follow a conflict that emerges between two friends as one makes a long-delayed homecoming. This is, flat-out, the discovery of this year's Un Certain Regard batch. . . . Free of any mannerism or displays of bravura, the filmmaking is strongly informed with a sense of poetry, cinematic sophistication and a desire to allow scenes to play out fully, but no longer than they must."Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11456377117711062375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2648426783032403612.post-58537927643333077402007-07-04T06:25:00.000-07:002007-07-04T06:25:00.000-07:00In the summer issue of Cinema Scope Mark Peranson ...In the summer issue of <EM>Cinema Scope</EM> Mark Peranson interviews Lee Chang-dong about <STRONG>Secret Sunshine</STRONG>. The interview isn't available online, but it's piqued my interest in the film.<BR/><BR/>Lee: "In the movie I wanted to talk about the things that are visible to the eye. So things like religion, faith, God, they are not visible to the eye, so I did not want to pretend that I could even talk about them. But I did want people to think about these things, though only by showing things that exist."Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11456377117711062375noreply@blogger.com