Season of the Devil – Lav Diaz (2018)
Those of you who have been with me for a couple of years already know that I have been a huge Lav Diaz fan. Melancholia,...
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Tag: black-and-white
A Yangtze Landscape – Xu Xin (2017)
February 21, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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There are films, which I’m grateful for. Grateful for being able to watch them, grateful for being able to write about them. Grateful for being...
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Le vrai film est ailleurs – Mark John Ostrowski (2018)
November 5, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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A curious title, a provocative message from director John Mark Ostrowski, whose work I came across for the first time during my work on tao...
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The Dog – Lam Can-zhao (2015)
August 31, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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There are films that one struggles to forget. They stay with you either because they are terrible, or simply really good. Others stay with you...
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Pripyat – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (1999)
August 9, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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A woman is walking through a dead landscape. Nature has taken over what Man has built. It’s wilderness we see. “These wild apples grew after...
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The Woman Who Left – Lav Diaz (2016)
March 2, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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Hooray! I have finally managed to see Lav Diaz’s The Woman Who Left, which won the Venice International Film Festival about two years ago. I’m always...
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Tremor – Annik Leroy (2017)
August 16, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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It was in the French national paper Libération that I first came across the work of Annik Leroy. I added a note to myself and thought...
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Ananke (Claudio Romano Nöhring, 2016)
May 28, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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!!! This film is now available on tao films VoD !!! A man and a woman walk slowly through the woods. The camera follows their...
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Sixty Spanish Cigarettes – Mark John Ostrowski (2015, repost)
April 20, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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!!! This film is now available on tao films !!! There is something sublimely beautiful about Mark John Ostrowski’s film Sixty Spanish Cigarettes (2015). Fifteen...
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Postcards from the Verge – Sebastian Mez (2017)
April 12, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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My, my, my…another strong arthouse film this year. And another one which is too good to be written about, if I’m honest. There are films which...
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