A Yangtze Landscape – Xu Xin (2017)
There are films, which I'm grateful for. Grateful for being able to watch them, grateful for being able to write about them. Grateful for being...
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Tag: violence
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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Vanità – Kevin Pontuti (2017)
October 17, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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A bare room. The walls are seemingly made of cold stone. The lighting is low, the darkness overpowers the image, which director Kevin Pontuti has...
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Bitter Money – Wang Bing (2016)
June 14, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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I don't know whether it's only my perception of it or whether there is indeed a real surge of interest in the films of Wang...
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Postcards from the Verge – Sebastian Mez (2017)
April 12, 2017
by Nadin Mai
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My, my, my...another strong arthouse film this year. And another one which is too good to be written about, if I'm honest. There are films which...
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Interview with Lav Diaz (Extracts, Part II)
August 20, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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This is the second part of my rather long interview with Lav Diaz, conducted at the Locarno Film Festival. You can find the first part...
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Absence and Presence in Lav Diaz’s Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (Paper)
May 7, 2014
by Nadin Mai
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Absence and Presence in Lav Diaz’s Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012) 9 April 2014, Research Seminar, University of Stirling Introduction In summer 2012, I sat in...
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