Filmwell Favorite Scenes of 2009 – Part Four
Splats of mud in Munyurangabo, the unexpected drift of the lens in Revanche, the train passages in 35 Shots of Rum, the ecstatic beginning of The Headless Woman, the en plein air end of Summer Hours. This year of cinema was rife with memorable shots and sequences from so many different contexts and technologies. I like the way these scene lists cinephiles often put together revel in what ultimately makes cinema tick: well-composed glimpses of stuff that for whatever reason survive... Read More
Lake Tahoe (Eimbcke, 2008 – SLIFF 2009)
Jeffrey Overstreet has already talked about this film at Filmwell. But it is screening at the St. Louis International Film Festival this year, and deserves as much attention as it can get. There are a few reasons why the minimalism of Lake Tahoe stands out among the large annual festival crop of similarly pared down films. The first is that Eimbcke’s approach to filmmaking seems organically related to his set, the washed out right angles and open spaces of this dead-pan Yucatan... Read More
Munyurangabo / Lake Tahoe Screenings
Both of Jeffrey Overstreet’s recent Film Movement finds (Munyurangabo and Lake Tahoe) have limited theatrical/festival release this next month. Read More
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