The year after Dayton – Nikolaus Geyrhalter (1997)
Since summer last year, I have slowly but surely made my way through the filmography of Austrian director Nikolaus Geyrhalter, who I have started to...
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Tag: trauma
Dead Souls – Wang Bing (2018)
December 6, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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It seems as though Chinese director Wang Bing gets better and better. Each film improves on the previous one, and with this I don't mean...
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Shoah – Claude Lanzmann (1985)
July 10, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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It is clear to me that Claude Lanzmann's Shoah (1985) would never make it into a Slow Cinema list. Perhaps, it shouldn't be. Perhaps, it should...
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Andrei Rublev – Andrei Tarkovsky (1966)
June 4, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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It's been weird lately. First, I struggled to find the time to watch films. I was immersed in books, really good ones, and I didn't...
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Arresting trauma – Martti Helde’s In The Crosswinds (2014)
April 27, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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"On the night of 14 June 1941, more than 40,000 innocent people were deported from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The aim of this secret operation...
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Austerlitz’s time
January 11, 2018
by Nadin Mai
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What is Austerlitz's time, and where do I get this from? Well, I didn't expect my wanting to write a blog post about Jacques Austerlitz...
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Year 2017 in review
December 27, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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I'm not someone who likes lists, all sorts of The best films..., The worst films... etc I never saw a point of social media getting obsessed with...
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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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No Home Movie – Chantal Akerman (2015)
October 2, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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My journey through Chantal Akerman's filmography continues. It is haunting to do this with the knowledge that she committed suicide almost to the day two...
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