Organic Cinema – Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (2017)
Slow Cinema polarises. Even though it is no longer as prominent as when Jonathan Romney published his Sight & Sound article in 2010, the debate...
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Tag: book review
Book review: Chantal Akerman, Passer la nuit – Corinne Rondeau (2017)
November 20, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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A small book at the bottom of a shelf that is overwhelmed with books on the big names of Hollywood; films, directors, actresses. There, somewhere...
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New books on Pedro Costa & Béla Tarr
August 12, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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The initial wave of I-want-to-be-the-first has subsided, and after quite a few not very good books on Slow Cinema or on slow-film directors, we're slowly...
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The films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation – Andrew Horton (1997)
September 9, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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When I was still in primary school, at the sweet age of nine, and had no idea that I would become a slow fanatic one...
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Slow Movies, Countering the Cinema of Action – Ira Jaffe (2014)
June 12, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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Tsai Ming-liang and a Cinema of Slowness – Song Hwee Lim (2014)
June 3, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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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...
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