Books & Articles Book Review: Das Innen im Außen – Bernhard Hetzenauer (2013) January 8, 2015 by Nadin Mai 1 Comment Bernhard Hentzenauer's book on Béla Tarr, Das Innen im Aussen: Béla Tarr, Jacques Lacan und der Blick, makes me glad that I'm a German native,... Read More
Interviews Interview with Lav Diaz (Extracts, Part III) August 22, 2014 by Nadin Mai No Comments This is the third and last installment of my interview with Lav Diaz. Parts I and II can be found here and here. I have... Read More
Films Research The different slowness in Evolution of a Filipino Family July 28, 2014 by Nadin Mai No Comments After my initial thoughts on Lav Diaz's Evolution of a Filipino Family (2004), I am now in the position to say a bit more about it,... Read More
Research For a new cinema June 30, 2014 by Nadin Mai No Comments In one way of another, you may have heard of Alain Robbe-Grillet's now rather famous book For a New Novel, which was published in its... Read More
Films Stray Dogs – Tsai Ming-liang (2013) June 23, 2014 by Nadin Mai 4 Comments I have seen all of Tsai's films, apart from Rebels of the Neon God, which still sits comfortably on my watch list. The sad thing... Read More
Books & Articles Slow Movies, Countering the Cinema of Action – Ira Jaffe (2014) June 12, 2014 by Nadin Mai 4 Comments I reviewed Song Hwee Lim's book on Slow Cinema and the films of Tsai Ming-liang earlier, and called Lim's book the first appropriate book on... Read More
Films Milky Way – Benedek Fliegauf (2007) June 10, 2014 by Nadin Mai No Comments Ahh, what a lovely slow film after weeks of drought! I still have a long list of slow films, but I somehow lack the time... Read More
Books & Articles Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness – Song Hwee Lim (2014) June 3, 2014 by Nadin Mai 4 Comments In 2003, Michel Ciment coined the term "a cinema of slowness." A year later, Jonathan Romney coined the now popular term "Slow Cinema." It's quite... Read More
Books & Articles Review: Béla Tarr, The Time After – Jacques Rancière May 23, 2014 by Nadin Mai 4 Comments A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed András Bálint Kovács' book The Cinema of Béla Tarr (2013), which turned out to be a disappointment. Jacques... Read More
Research Mourning Cinema May 16, 2014 by Nadin Mai 3 Comments For parts of my work on Lav Diaz's Melancholia, I read Richard Armstrong's Mourning Films (2012). It wasn't quite as helpful as I thought for... Read More