When I was growing up I kept a memory box for keepsakes. Being sentimental and shy meant each trip outside warranted souvenirs.
Betty and Marie
Marie Trintignant retains a few performative constants as the ground shifts below her feet as the title character in Claude Chabrol’s Betty (1992): a stare that vacillates between the suggestively dim and the piercing, an insatiable whiskey habit, rampant chain smoking, a visage that appears as if it’ll crack into surrender at any given moment, and a Chanel suit as uniform.
Blu Review: ‘How You Live Your Story – Selected works by Kevin Jerome Everson’ (Second Run)
by MLP Last fall, Second Run released a 2-disc blu-ray set featuring 8.6 hours of work by American artist-filmmaker Kevin Jerome Everson, titled ‘How You Live Your Story’. […]
On Catching Glimpses…
Welcome to the future. We ride on the last of many train cars, which is the present, traveling forward through the past, or the future. In our daily life the past may as well be the future.
Essay: There’s no democracy of hands but there are many hands in a democracy: ‘City Hall’ (2020) and ‘Her Socialist Smile’ (2020)
To look at the design and flaws of American politics and democracy, Wiseman chooses an entire city and its system as his focal point. Gianvito, on the other hand, chooses a single individual, whose life nevertheless encapsulated a tumultuous early 20th century.
Listening After 5 Years
Around the end of 2015, Alex Tripp had the idea to start keeping track of the music he’d heard.
Who’s Afraid of Ideology? – on ‘The Year Before the War’ (2021, dir. Dāvis Sīmanis)
Dāvis Sīmanis’ The Year Before the War, which premiered in the Big Screen Competition section of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in February, has all the potential to be one of the great festival hits of the year.
UDVFF: Special Screening #2 – ‘Driftwood’
We will be live-streaming our second special UDVFF program next Friday, February 12th at 8pm Berlin Time (Central European Time).
Review: ‘Preparations to be Together for an Unknown Period of Time’ (2020, dir. Lili Horvát)
Judging by its title, Hungary’s submission for the Oscars may sound mechanical and stiff, but director Lili Horvát’s second feature is anything but.