Breaking: Lav Diaz film available for streaming on Mubi
A brief blog post to say that Lav Diaz’s Locarno winning film From What Is Before (2014) is now available for streaming on MUBI (globally) for...
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Tag: Film
Son of the lovely capitalism – Suranga Katugampala (2015)
April 13, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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What a lovely surprise I received in my Facebook inbox last week! Suranga Katugampala provided me with a short film of his, which acts as...
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Death Time
April 2, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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Oh yes, a cheery title for this blog post. I apologise. But this only comes because of an email I received from one of my...
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The Ditch – Wang Bing (2010)
March 18, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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Wang Bing's films have been high on my watch list for quite some time. West of the Tracks, a nine-hour documentary, is still waiting for me....
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André Bazin 2.0
March 6, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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This post may be a bit of a rumble rather than a coherent line of thought. But I want to jot down a couple of...
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Default Setting: Bored
February 16, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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Just last week I read Jakob Boer's interesting paper "As Slow As Possible: An Enquiry Into the Redeeming Power of Boredom for Slow Film Viewers"...
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Manakamana – Stephanie Spray, Pacho Velez (2013)
February 5, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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If you're looking for a very zen film, then I believe that you cannot find many films that are as zen as Stephanie Spray and...
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Book Review: Das Innen im Außen – Bernhard Hetzenauer (2013)
January 8, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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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,...
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Merry Xmas
December 23, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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I wish you all a Merry Xmas and a joyful period of festive days. Remember to take everything slow. Use the festive days for some...
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Prologue to the Great Desaparecido – Lav Diaz (2013)
October 23, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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It's rare that Lav Diaz creates a short film. His contribution to a film omnibus for the Venice Film Festival last year was, I think,...
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