I’ve been making 16mm durational urban landscape voiceover films, slowly but surely, since the late ‘90s. My short film Blue Diary premiered at the Berlinale in 1998. My two features, The Joy of Life (2005) and The Royal Road (2015) both premiered in the prestigious New Frontiers section at the Sundance Film Festival and have been as wildly successful as experimental films can be. Which is to say, they remain fairly obscure. My small but enthusiastic fan-base frequently asks me for recommendations of films that are similar to my own in terms of incorporating durational landscapes and voiceover and a meditative pace. While it is certainly one of the smallest subgenres in the realm of filmmaking, here are a handful of excellent landscape cinema examples by the practitioners I know best. I confess that my expertise here is limited and hope that the learned Mubi community will chime in with additions in the comments field below.
- 10/11/2016
- MUBI
Alberdi, Grude, Lozinski and Koguashvili set to compete in main competition.
The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) has unveiled the line-up for its 29th edition, which is set to take place Nov 16-27.
The 15-title competition line-up includes Chilean director Maite Alberdi’s The Grown Ups, about four adults living with Down’s syndrome.
It follows her award-winning Tea Time about five septuagenarians who have been meeting for tea and cake once a month for 60 years.
Other contenders include Mogadishu Soldier by prolific Norwegian documentary producer and director Torstein Grude; respected Polish documentarian Pawel Lozinski’s exploration of a mother and daughter’s relationship You Have No Idea How Much I Love You, and Gogita’s New Life by Georgian director Levan Koguashvili, which follows a recently-released prisoner’s search for a wife.
Koguashvili is best known internationally for his fiction feature Blind Dates.
A total of 297 films will screen at the festival, 102 of which will...
The International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (Idfa) has unveiled the line-up for its 29th edition, which is set to take place Nov 16-27.
The 15-title competition line-up includes Chilean director Maite Alberdi’s The Grown Ups, about four adults living with Down’s syndrome.
It follows her award-winning Tea Time about five septuagenarians who have been meeting for tea and cake once a month for 60 years.
Other contenders include Mogadishu Soldier by prolific Norwegian documentary producer and director Torstein Grude; respected Polish documentarian Pawel Lozinski’s exploration of a mother and daughter’s relationship You Have No Idea How Much I Love You, and Gogita’s New Life by Georgian director Levan Koguashvili, which follows a recently-released prisoner’s search for a wife.
Koguashvili is best known internationally for his fiction feature Blind Dates.
A total of 297 films will screen at the festival, 102 of which will...
- 10/10/2016
- ScreenDaily
From the East Coast to the West, this week there are tons of opportunities to make yourself known everywhere! Check out four hot casting notices below, including paid gigs on screen and on stage. “Terezin”Santa Barbara Productions is now casting leading roles in the historical drama “Terezin.” The play follows two Jewish children as they navigate through a concentration camp together. Rehearsals begin this summer, and the piece will be presented in three parts in Los Angeles before heading to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Submissions are being accepted nationwide for the paid gig. Untitled TV Show PILOTActors, comedians, and improv performers wanted! Dorado Entertainment is casting talent for multiple projects based out of New York City, including a TV pilot. The paid gig rehearses mid-May in Brooklyn, New York. Burger King Social Media SHOOTCode and Theory is casting models for an upcoming photo shoot for Burger King’s social media platform.
- 4/18/2016
- backstage.com
Since any New York cinephile has a nearly suffocating wealth of theatrical options, we figured it’d be best to compile some of the more worthwhile repertory showings into one handy list. Displayed below are a few of the city’s most reliable theaters and links to screenings of their weekend offerings — films you’re not likely to see in a theater again anytime soon, and many of which are, also, on 35mm. If you have a chance to attend any of these, we’re of the mind that it’s time extremely well-spent.
Metrograph
“Welcome to Metrograph: A-z” brings George A. Romero‘s greatest zombie picture, Day of the Dead, on Friday. Saturday includes Abbas Kiarostami‘s Close-Up, Robert Bresson‘s The Devil, Probably (also playing on Sunday), and Coming Apart; Sunday, see the Maggie Cheung-led Comrades: Almost a Love Story.
“Three Wiseman” offers two Wisemans: High School and Titicut Follies.
Metrograph
“Welcome to Metrograph: A-z” brings George A. Romero‘s greatest zombie picture, Day of the Dead, on Friday. Saturday includes Abbas Kiarostami‘s Close-Up, Robert Bresson‘s The Devil, Probably (also playing on Sunday), and Coming Apart; Sunday, see the Maggie Cheung-led Comrades: Almost a Love Story.
“Three Wiseman” offers two Wisemans: High School and Titicut Follies.
- 4/1/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
Every week we dive into the cream of the crop when it comes to home releases, including Blu-ray and DVDs, as well as recommended deals of the week. Check out our rundown below and return every Tuesday for the best (or most interesting) films one can take home. Note that if you’re looking to support the site, every purchase you make through the links below helps us and is greatly appreciated.
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
Bicycle Thieves (Vittorio De Sica)
Hailed around the world as one of the greatest movies ever made, the Academy Award–winning Bicycle Thieves, directed by Vittorio De Sica, defined an era in cinema. In poverty-stricken postwar Rome, a man is on his first day of a new job that offers hope of salvation for his desperate family when his bicycle, which he needs for work, is stolen. With his young son in tow, he sets off to track down the thief.
- 3/29/2016
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
Few filmmakers have seen a spike in attention over these past six months quite like Chantal Akerman, albeit for the worst of reasons. Following her passing in October, now widely believed to have been by her own hand, the Belgian icon’s cinema is more widely than ever recognized for the genius of its many approaches to form. And so while we’re reflecting so heavily for, yes, the worst of reasons, now might also be the best time for an in-depth documentary about what she gave us.
I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman seeks to do just that, with director Marianne Lambert (Akerman’s former unit production manager) following the filmmaker during the making of No Home Movie while stringing together a discussion of the many films in her oeuvre and the numerous places they span — Paris, Brussels, Israel, and New York among them. The...
I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman seeks to do just that, with director Marianne Lambert (Akerman’s former unit production manager) following the filmmaker during the making of No Home Movie while stringing together a discussion of the many films in her oeuvre and the numerous places they span — Paris, Brussels, Israel, and New York among them. The...
- 3/22/2016
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
As Qumra kicks off its second edition with 33 new projects selected (see the full list here), here are updates from several projects selected for the inaugural edition in 2015.Degrade, Arab and Tarzan Abunasser’s story of 12 women in a Gaza hair salon, was selected for C
As Qumra kicks off its second edition with 33 new projects selected (see the full list here), here are updates from several projects selected for the inaugural edition in 2015.
Degrade, Arab and Tarzan Abunasser’s story of 12 women in a Gaza hair salon, was selected for Cannes’ Critics Week soon after its presentation in Qumra, and went on to screen at other festivals including Toronto, London and Dubai. Elle Driver handles sales.
Mountain (pictured), João Salaviza’s Portugal-set coming-of-age story, was a world premiere in Venice Critics’ Week and went on to screen in San Sebastian and Rotterdam.
Frenzy, Emin Alper’s drama about two brothers in upheaval in Istanbul, had its world...
As Qumra kicks off its second edition with 33 new projects selected (see the full list here), here are updates from several projects selected for the inaugural edition in 2015.
Degrade, Arab and Tarzan Abunasser’s story of 12 women in a Gaza hair salon, was selected for Cannes’ Critics Week soon after its presentation in Qumra, and went on to screen at other festivals including Toronto, London and Dubai. Elle Driver handles sales.
Mountain (pictured), João Salaviza’s Portugal-set coming-of-age story, was a world premiere in Venice Critics’ Week and went on to screen in San Sebastian and Rotterdam.
Frenzy, Emin Alper’s drama about two brothers in upheaval in Istanbul, had its world...
- 3/5/2016
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
The alarm clock cries in my bedside table. 8am. Right, here we go. Grab clothes for yet another day, don’t forget the body soap, the moisturizer and the black mascara and off I go to start my daily ritual lively practiced inside my tiny toilet. Repetitive motions are evoked…teeth are washed, hair is brushed, boot laces are entwined around my unreliable feet, eggs are scrambled in the tormented pan, coffee is brewed, lights are shut, doors are locked, and a cigarette is delightedly lit—all as if I was skimming through the prologue of a novel I have lazily read too many times before. My feet move to the rhythm of the rain incessantly falling on the grey pavement and my bones fear the unpredictability of what may come in the following hours, but I never stop. I never do. (…) The ritual has somehow turned into tradition and...
- 12/31/2015
- by Susana Bessa
- MUBI
Wc
Nxt is the best wrestling show under the WWE umbrella right now, and it’s not even close.
Raw may be the flagship, but its roster is depleted by injury and overexposed by redundant booking. SmackDown is figuratively a rerun of Raw with crowd reactions pumped in to trick viewers at home into thinking it’s a lively show. Nxt, even with most of its biggest stars having left for the main roster, continues to turn out good-to-great shows by sticking to the basics: exciting wrestling and coherent storytelling.
The adage says one shouldn’t try to fix what isn’t broken, but that’s never been WWE’s strong suit. The yellow brand has changed a lot in 2015, and as it becomes a more prominent part of WWE’s output, even more changes will be in store. What follows are 16 predictions that will happen in (and to) WWE developmental in the next year.
Nxt is the best wrestling show under the WWE umbrella right now, and it’s not even close.
Raw may be the flagship, but its roster is depleted by injury and overexposed by redundant booking. SmackDown is figuratively a rerun of Raw with crowd reactions pumped in to trick viewers at home into thinking it’s a lively show. Nxt, even with most of its biggest stars having left for the main roster, continues to turn out good-to-great shows by sticking to the basics: exciting wrestling and coherent storytelling.
The adage says one shouldn’t try to fix what isn’t broken, but that’s never been WWE’s strong suit. The yellow brand has changed a lot in 2015, and as it becomes a more prominent part of WWE’s output, even more changes will be in store. What follows are 16 predictions that will happen in (and to) WWE developmental in the next year.
- 12/7/2015
- by Matt O'Connell
- Obsessed with Film
In The Mirror (1971/2007). Photo by Sarah Cuono.1.Several of Chantal Akerman’s installation works are remediations of previous films. In the Mirror (1971/2007) consists of a scene from an early film (1971’s L’enfant aime – ou je joue a etre une femme mariee) in which a young woman stands naked in front of a mirror, examining her body feature by feature. The slab of grainy footage is the first thing one sees, entering the dark space of Ambika P3 gallery in London, currently hosting Now, a large exhibition of Akerman’s installation work. Below and to the right, sounds leak from the other exhibits and the question becomes–more or less instantly–at what point does one move away from the image that In the Mirror so candidly offers up? This question is never a problem in the cinema. Indeed, Akerman’s particular cinema is at its most effective when her...
- 12/3/2015
- by Tom Stevenson
- MUBI
Rushes collects news, articles, images, videos and more for a weekly roundup of essential items from the world of film.Guy's CollagesThe Criterion Collection is highlighting the collage work by The Forbidden Room co-director Guy Maddin.Richard Linklater's SXSW Opening Night FilmVery exciting news for fans of Richard Linklater (sure to be a much larger number after the wide success of Boyhood): his next feature, Everybody Wants Some, will be the Opening Night Film of the 2016 South by Southwest Film Festival.Berlinale's RetrospectiveSpeaking of festival lineups, the Berlin International Film Festival has announced its first major programming strand for 2016: their retrospective will be dedicated to German cinema in 1966.Rosenbaum's Ten Best Movies of the 90sIt feels like every week Jonathan Rosenbaum (the latest guest, by the way, on the podcast The Cinephiliacs) has republished a fabulous piece of criticism on his website. Most recently, it's his essential...
- 11/18/2015
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Reel-Important People is a monthly column that highlights those individuals in or related to the movies that have left us in recent weeks. Below you'll find names big and small and from all areas of the industry, though each was significant to the movies in his or her own way. Chantal Akerman (1950-2015) - Belgian Filmmaker. She made one of the most famous feminist films of all time, Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (see below). Her other notable works include The Meetings of Anna, News From Home, Hotel Monterey, On Tour with Pina Bausch, A Couch in New York, From the East, From the Other Side and her latest documentary, No Home Movie, about her late mother. She committed suicide on October 5...
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- 11/3/2015
- by Christopher Campbell
- Movies.com
Danny Dyer thought his house was haunted. The 'EastEnders' star recently packed up and moved into a new home with his family because he was convinced his 19-year-old daughter Dani's bedroom was targeted by ghosts. Writing in his autobiography 'The World According To Danny Dyer: Life Lessons From The East End,' which he penned when he was at his old address, he said: ''I swear to God my house is haunted - even though it's a new build. I don't know if it's built on something weird or what but I'm sure there's a ghost in Dani's bedroom.'' He added: ''There...
- 11/1/2015
- Virgin Media - TV
From Catherine Grant comes word that Libération is reporting that Chantal Akerman has passed away at the age of 65. Akerman, who made an indelible mark on cinema with Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), followed up with such significant works as News from Home (1977), Golden Eighties (1986), From the East (1983) and La Captive (2000). Her most recent film, No Home Movie, premiered in Locarno and will screen tomorrow and Thursday at the New York Film Festival. We're collecting tributes and remembrances. » - David Hudson...
- 10/6/2015
- Keyframe
From Catherine Grant comes word that Libération is reporting that Chantal Akerman has passed away at the age of 65. Akerman, who made an indelible mark on cinema with Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), followed up with such significant works as News from Home (1977), Golden Eighties (1986), From the East (1983) and La Captive (2000). Her most recent film, No Home Movie, premiered in Locarno and will screen tomorrow and Thursday at the New York Film Festival. We're collecting tributes and remembrances. » - David Hudson...
- 10/6/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
WWE.com
Chris Jericho’s surprise return at last night’s Night Of Champions PPV as the mystery partner to Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns, isn’t expected to be a one-off appearance. According to Bryan Alvarez on today’s Wrestling Observer Live show, Jericho is expected to be a regular on WWE programming all the way through to WrestleMania 32, including working January’s Royal Rumble PPV.
It’s expected that Y2J will be present on WWE Raw tonight and that he could pick-up the story from where it was left off on Sunday’s show with the tension between Jericho, Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose brewing over after losing to the Wyatt family in a six man tag. The long term plan for the feud is for Jericho to turn fully-fledged heel.
Jericho had been working the live events circuit periodically for WWE in 2015 and was also on...
Chris Jericho’s surprise return at last night’s Night Of Champions PPV as the mystery partner to Dean Ambrose and Roman Reigns, isn’t expected to be a one-off appearance. According to Bryan Alvarez on today’s Wrestling Observer Live show, Jericho is expected to be a regular on WWE programming all the way through to WrestleMania 32, including working January’s Royal Rumble PPV.
It’s expected that Y2J will be present on WWE Raw tonight and that he could pick-up the story from where it was left off on Sunday’s show with the tension between Jericho, Roman Reigns and Dean Ambrose brewing over after losing to the Wyatt family in a six man tag. The long term plan for the feud is for Jericho to turn fully-fledged heel.
Jericho had been working the live events circuit periodically for WWE in 2015 and was also on...
- 9/21/2015
- by Matt Holmes
- Obsessed with Film
The inner turmoil of Chantal Akerman's new documentary, which premiered in the International Competition of the Locarno Film Festival, is clear from its paradoxical title. Brazenly called No Home Movie, it consisting almost entirely of footage of the great Belgian director's elderly mother in her home in Brussels. In this strict confinement, No Home Movie is shot digitally in a far more loose and imprecise technique than Akerman's film-films, but is still composed around the director's characteristic structural motifs of closed and open doors, windows, and other constricting frames within frames. With few external excursions (mysterious intercessions of footage of the Israeli desert, as well as Chantal, while traveling in anonymous hotel rooms, Skyping her mother), No Home Movie is a taut but patient observation of the emptying stillness of a home inhabited by someone getting older and sicker."Your camera, every time," her mother cluckingly, affectionately nags, when...
- 8/27/2015
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
While Chantal Akerman's early works—Le chambre, Hotel Monterey, News from Home, Je tu il elle, and Les rendez-vous d'Anna—have been chronologically grouped based on her sojourn in New York City during the 1970s and, consequently, her exposure to the structuralist aesthetic of artists like Michael Snow and Hollis Frampton (and the local experimental film community that revolved around Jonas Mekas's filmmakers cooperative), her adoption of the fixed camera in these films, nevertheless, suggests an approach that intuitively runs counter to the idea of a static shot, paradoxically conveying a sense of impermanence, restlessness, and mutability within the stasis.
In Le chambre (1972), Akerman subverts the inherent limitations posed by a stationary camera position by rotating the camera 360-degrees within the fixed axis of the tripod to create an unbroken panoramic shot of her studio apartment, before reversing direction and alternately sweeping an arc formed by the vertex...
In Le chambre (1972), Akerman subverts the inherent limitations posed by a stationary camera position by rotating the camera 360-degrees within the fixed axis of the tripod to create an unbroken panoramic shot of her studio apartment, before reversing direction and alternately sweeping an arc formed by the vertex...
- 2/8/2010
- MUBI
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