Back in January of 2009, I came across a trailer for a low-budget indie sci-fi/fantasy film called Ink. I was immediately intrigued by the trailer’s Gilliam/Jeunet/Gaiman vibe, but it wasn’t until last week that I finally got to see the film. I’ll be posting my full review of Ink here at Filmwell soon — Spoiler […]
Part 3: Unknowing, or Perceiving the Invisible NT. I have always found it bewildering how one’s words and actions can be misinterpreted by others (and by oneself? – now there’s a question to ponder), no matter how clear and transparent one has attempted to be. Our discussion on agnosticism is a case in point. […]
From Fiddler On The Roof and Schindler’s List to Operation Thunderbolt and The Governess, Jordan Hiller’s perspective on films with particular interest to the Jewish community.
A poem about having hope for now, not “an appetite for this or that concocted future.”
Terrence Malick may be notorious for taking decades to complete a film, but he seems to be becoming more prolific of late. He will reportedly follow The Tree Of Life, due out later this year, with an untitled love story starring Christian Bale, Javier Bardem, Rachel McAdams and Olga Kurylenko. Sight and Sound, April 2010
excerpted from “Passive Aggressive” editorial by Nick James, Sight & Sound, April 2010 Part of the critical orthodoxy I have complained about has been the dominance of Slow Cinema, that “varied strain of austere minimalist cinema that has thrived internationally over the past ten years”, as Jonathan Romney put it. “What’s at stake,” he wrote, […]
Part 2: From Knowledge to Non-Belief, or Becoming More of An Atheist NT. Let me remind you what you said earlier: ‘God’ is a possible reality… The lack of such evidence for deity is self-evident. Nor is there any self-evident or incontestable proof against the existence of deity. Therefore, unless there is some kind […]
A few years back, much fuss – mostly deserved – was made over The Lives Of Others (“Das Leben der Anderen” 2006), and everybody saw it. (Perhaps because of the irresistable Austrian-ness of the tyro director’s handle — Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck. Yes, I think that’s why.) The only pity was that the mob response […]
I recently showed Laurent Cantet’s The Class to a couple of French-language instructors at Seattle Pacific University. Both have experience teaching in the French high school system, and one of them has sons who grew up in French education. They had some interesting observations on the film, which are published at the site for Seattle […]