Year in Review 2020
A few years ago, I started to write a little summary of what the year in Slow Cinema was like. I liked to look back...
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Tag: Lisandro Alonso
Lisandro Alonso – Adrien-Gabriel Bouché (2020)
April 20, 2020
by Nadin Mai
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It's been six years that Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso released a film. In 2014, he released Jauja, which, when I saw it, I considered as...
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Slow Cinema, ed by Tiago de Luca and Nuno Barradas Jorge (2015)
January 4, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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I'm not sure where to start with this one. Not considering the content for a minute, the new and very first edited collection on Slow...
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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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(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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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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The different slowness in Evolution of a Filipino Family
July 28, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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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,...
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Slow – Sascha Seifert (2013)
April 13, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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A film about snails - perhaps the most appropriate slow film you can imagine. Though I still think that a film about sloths, those beloved...
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Slow Cinema in the News (February 2014)
February 26, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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This blog goes from strength to strength thanks to my readers. The views are now beyond the 10k benchmark, and I have readers from all...
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Happy Slow Year 2014
January 2, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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Here it is, the New Year. I hope you all had a lovely Hogmanay and New Year’s day in your respective countries around the world....
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