Robert-1984

Kramer is arguably one of the most over looked film artists from the U.S. In this film he comes back from his self exile to document the East coast. He moves along route one and presents us with the myriad communities, cultures and sub-cultures that he meets. The result is a four hour document attesting the richness of the U.S landscape.

Kramer's position towards the U.S political system is critical and his personal history places him within the critical anarchist left, and this film and its presentation of the depth and richness of the people who live on the land, shows us how much potential there is in society when you look beyond the forces that have come to dominate its public sphere. A definite "must watch"!

The Player is such a wonderful satire to comfort the viewer against the evils of this world, in how it portrays the naiveté of the different Hollywood milieu and makes fun of them. Altman's signature work with large ensemble is at best here as the film presents a variety of characters, turning us into voyeur staring at their actions.

This is a wonderful film. To me it was all about growing old in a world that's growing old even faster - "We will not be taken to Mars" says one of the characters. Aging, being left behind ,misunderstood by family and by society. A funny, dirty and complex film.

Asharif's work with "video time" - moving forward, backward, entangles the digital into a community of exiles. This film spans from Los Angeles to Italy to Palestine but it really is more about time, histories and the dissolution of community than about the geography of the places that are being filmed. Each location is the story of that location and each scene a poetic hint to a connection that was lost.

Wang Bing's film redefine what documentaries are all about. His long and thorough examination of people's stories and people's lives offers a unique new approach to the bond cinema should be forming with the viewer. Dead Souls is a film about lacking, about keeping memory alive against all odds. Highly recommended.

It's interesting to think about how groundbreaking this film is. How it sets the ground to the later work by David Lynch, who takes the spiritual energy of the style of this film and of other Altman works but then distorts it into a more conservative view of the world.

I don't mean to sound cheesy, but this short film by Lior Shamriz really has that melancholy that's in how the end of love feels like the yellow leaves of autumn's announcing the arrival of the silent coldness of winter. The actors' faces say so much - you don't need to hear their voices. It's an almost neo-expressionistic film, taking place in the Kreuzberg neighborhood and in the Eastern parts of Berlin, and it reminded me the depth and poetic sadness of works like Murnau's Last Laugh.

This film is punk, and angry, and is not willing to be nice - not to the white expats or to the brown immigrants. It is full with criticism to Berlin and to Israel but it is also hilarious ! Interestingly it also documented a Berlin that doesn't exist anymore really. The "poor but dirty" Berlin. No wonder it didn't find its way within the state-funded German film industrial complex. This film is real anarchy! Not the usual remake or re-writing of fake branding rebellions. Definitely not for everyone. Definitely for me though.

What a surprising triumph! This film is such a delicate examination of private lives, every day happening, presented in a quite and nonchalant way. Highly recommended.

This film is a poignant play with bodies, landscape, identity. The actors are beautiful and the music is hypnotizing. They are constructed with bitter irony around themes of immigration and personal alienation. A truly poetic work.

This is a seminal work by Akerman that re-examines the relationship between camera and voice - the documented and the personal, expressing the spirit of mid 1970s New York.

The theater piece about the fall of Jerusalem is very poetic and streams of strange energy. The images are beautiful, personal, poignant, bring a mixture of perspective that was so much part of the spirit of the era when it was made.

This is definitely not a film for everyone and surely it is meant for people who like the more experimental, essayistic ironic approach to the medium. It's naughty and funny and sad in how it depicts the alienation of the hero from his surroundings but also from his dreamed-of culture. His "Japan" is not really Japan. It's mixed with other places, and it is shallow, like someone who is trying to draw a face he sees from the other side of a valley.