Present. Past. – The Cinema of Lav Diaz
Yesterday, I presented a brief overview of the cinema of Filipino director Lav Diaz as part of a webinar on arthouse cinema, organised by the...
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Tag: Melancholia
2019 – The Year in Review
December 10, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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Another year comes to an end and perhaps you’re as tired of “end of year” lists as I am. Every December (and increasingly every November),...
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Season of the Devil – Lav Diaz (2018)
August 23, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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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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Til madness do us part – Wang Bing (2013)
March 8, 2019
by Nadin Mai
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It was difficult to find time for writing another review. I have been asked to write an essay on Wang Bing for Thessaloniki International Film...
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The Sacrifice – Andrei Tarkovsky (1986)
March 19, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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“Humanity is on the wrong road.” Andrei Tarkovsky’s ultimate film, The Sacrifice, released in the year of the director’s death, is perhaps one of his bleakest...
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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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The aesthetics of absence and duration in the post-trauma cinema of Lav Diaz
January 19, 2016
by Nadin Mai
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Now that the PhD has been awarded, I’m happy to make my thesis, the first coherent study of the films of Lav Diaz, available for...
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Slow Cinema, trauma and therapy
October 22, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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I set up this blog in the autumn of 2012, at the start of my doctoral research. It’s funny just how much the original subject...
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Naked under the moon – Lav Diaz (1999)
September 16, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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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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Dates for Lav Diaz retrospective in Brussels
August 25, 2015
by Nadin Mai
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The schedule has finally been published and I’m happy to list the dates of the Cinematek’s Lav Diaz retrospective here, starting in mid-September and lasting...
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