When Jane Fonda opened that envelope and called Bong Joon-ho and his team to the stage, we really should have known. The Oscars were not supposed to get it right, it was too perfect. From a moment like that there was nowhere to go but down, way down.
The rest of 2020 turned out to be quite a historic dumpster fire. As much as you think you’ve gotten used to it by now, the bleak news updates, the sight of cities on lockdown or trainfuls of masked passengers still strike me as dizzyingly surreal sometimes. Like waking up inside an elaborate Terry Gilliam production.
As with most other cultural sites, cinemas were first in line to be shuttered for being non-essential. From an epidemiological perspective it’s hard to argue against this. In every other regard, however, film proved even more essential in a pandemic. How else do you see the world beyond the confinement,...
The rest of 2020 turned out to be quite a historic dumpster fire. As much as you think you’ve gotten used to it by now, the bleak news updates, the sight of cities on lockdown or trainfuls of masked passengers still strike me as dizzyingly surreal sometimes. Like waking up inside an elaborate Terry Gilliam production.
As with most other cultural sites, cinemas were first in line to be shuttered for being non-essential. From an epidemiological perspective it’s hard to argue against this. In every other regard, however, film proved even more essential in a pandemic. How else do you see the world beyond the confinement,...
- 1/3/2021
- by Zhuo-Ning Su
- The Film Stage
European entries A Storm Was Coming, For the Time Being and The Trouble with Nature also departed triumphant from the fifth incarnation of the Galician festival. Back for a fifth year, the Novos Cinemas Pontevedra International Film Festival (15–20 December) rose to the challenges of 2020 with a hybrid format, combining screenings at the Teatro Principal de Pontevdra and on the streaming platform Filmin. This year’s programme shone a special spotlight on filmmaker Luis López Carrasco (The Year of Discovery), with the honour of opening the proceedings granted to Lois Patiño’s Lúa Vermella. Six days packed with screenings, activities and discussions concluded with this year’s closing film, My Mexican Bretzel by Nuria Giménez Lorang. The Official Jury, comprising filmmakers and programme directors Pela del Álamo, Elena Duque and Nuria Giménez herself, ultimately bestowed the Novos Cinemas Award for Best Film in the Official Selection to There Will Be No More.
- 12/22/2020
- Cineuropa - The Best of European Cinema
Challenging the personal-impersonal dichotomy of found footage, with an added spin on the notion of one’s own family heritage and what to do with it, Nuria Giménez crafts a bizarrely fascinating hybrid of fiction and documentary dealing with the addition (stories built on top of other stories) and subtraction of language. My Mexican Bretzel repurposes footage shot by Giménez’ grandfather as a tale of 20th-century grand loftiness and deception, taking it in new, entirely fictitious directions which create a dialogue and a conflict with the perceived reality of the material.
The Spanish director is premiering the film, whose title she prefers not to explain, internationally at the Rotterdam Film Festival, in the Bright Future Competition.…...
The Spanish director is premiering the film, whose title she prefers not to explain, internationally at the Rotterdam Film Festival, in the Bright Future Competition.…...
- 2/17/2020
- by Tommaso Tocci
- IONCINEMA.com
Asian features, female directors dominate prize winners.
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has announced the winners of its 49th edition, with Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s The Cloud In Her Room winning the Tiger Award and accompanying €40,000 prize.
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The Tiger jury, comprised of Hany Abu-Assad, Emilie Bujès, Kogonada, Sacha Polak and Hafiz Rancajale, praised the film for how it “gracefully portrays a certain global generation paralysed by modern alienation and capitalism.”
The film tells the story of a woman who returns to her hometown for Chinese New Year and embarks on a relationship with...
International Film Festival Rotterdam (Iffr) has announced the winners of its 49th edition, with Zheng Lu Xinyuan’s The Cloud In Her Room winning the Tiger Award and accompanying €40,000 prize.
Scroll down for full list of winners
The Tiger jury, comprised of Hany Abu-Assad, Emilie Bujès, Kogonada, Sacha Polak and Hafiz Rancajale, praised the film for how it “gracefully portrays a certain global generation paralysed by modern alienation and capitalism.”
The film tells the story of a woman who returns to her hometown for Chinese New Year and embarks on a relationship with...
- 1/31/2020
- by 1100453¦Michael Rosser¦9¦
- ScreenDaily
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