Naked under the moon – Lav Diaz (1999)
Before some of you mention it, Naked Under The Moon (1999) is not a classical Lav Diaz slow film and it appears strange to add...
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Cemetery of Splendour – Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2015)
September 6, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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I need to make a general observation about Apichatpong Weerasethakul first before I go into detail about his new (and wonderful) film Cemetery of Splendour (2015),...
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The Royal Road – Jenni Olson (2014)
August 30, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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How I had missed this fight inside my head of what is slow and what isn't. Jenni Olson's deeply personal, moving and engaging film The Royal...
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The slow long-take?
August 4, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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If you have been following this blog from the beginning, you may have noticed that I regularly return to the issue of the long-take and...
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Transatlantique – Félix Dufour-Laperrière (2014)
July 16, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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I love slow films for the very good reason that they stay with you, whether they're films about happy chaps (which is hardly ever the...
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Lav Diaz retrospective at Cinematek, Brussels
June 17, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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If you either can’t get enough of Lav Diaz’s films or want to get to know his kind of cinema or are simply desperate to...
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(E)Motion in slow films
June 12, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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A couple of days I ago, I came across a new article by Ira Jaffe, who wrote the, to me, unconvincing book Slow Movies (2014). In Slow...
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Interview with Suranga Katugampala (2015)
May 21, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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A couple weeks ago, I posted a few comments about a short film I was sent through my Facebook page. Son of the lovely capitalism by...
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No No Sleep – Tsai Ming-liang (2015)
May 17, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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Semi-retired filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang continues to impress with his Walker series, of which the seventh instalment has popped up on YouTube. It is astonishing that even...
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Jauja – Lisandro Alonso (2014)
May 8, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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When Lisandro Alonso presented his new film Jauja at one of the big festivals last year (I can't remember whether it was Rotterdam or another festival),...
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