Dear Danny,
I'm glad you speak of the small things that stand out, separate from the overall quality of a film. In a festival drowning with content, sometimes it's hard to remember the particular details that struck us, especially in the late-going where we find ourselves now. In Werner Herzog's Queen of the Desert, a film otherwise lacking the filmmaker's eccentric touches, a short sequence involving a vulture is the best in the entire picture. Known for his penchant for filming animals, and moreover, filming them with a strange, alien gaze, Herzog brilliantly stages a romantic scene between Nicole Kidman and James Franco. The couple are climbing a winding stairway to the top of a tower (which Franco's character describes as being a place where the dead are brought), and waiting for these whimsical lovers is an intimidating vulture chewing on hot, rotting flesh. The abrupt cut from their...
I'm glad you speak of the small things that stand out, separate from the overall quality of a film. In a festival drowning with content, sometimes it's hard to remember the particular details that struck us, especially in the late-going where we find ourselves now. In Werner Herzog's Queen of the Desert, a film otherwise lacking the filmmaker's eccentric touches, a short sequence involving a vulture is the best in the entire picture. Known for his penchant for filming animals, and moreover, filming them with a strange, alien gaze, Herzog brilliantly stages a romantic scene between Nicole Kidman and James Franco. The couple are climbing a winding stairway to the top of a tower (which Franco's character describes as being a place where the dead are brought), and waiting for these whimsical lovers is an intimidating vulture chewing on hot, rotting flesh. The abrupt cut from their...
- 2/14/2015
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
Last week we saw the lineup for the main program of the Berlinale Forum; today, the festival's announced the works to be presented in the tenth edition of Forum Expanded. Je proclame la destruction by Arthur Tuoto consists of two shots from Robert Bresson’s film Le diable probablement (1977) repeated in an endless loop. Martin Ebner’s installation Ein helles Kino challenges the cinematographic setting, while Leila Albayaty steals her very own film images in her film Face B. The program also features new work by Michael Snow, Ken Jacobs, João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata and more. » - David Hudson...
- 1/20/2015
- Fandor: Keyframe
Last week we saw the lineup for the main program of the Berlinale Forum; today, the festival's announced the works to be presented in the tenth edition of Forum Expanded. Je proclame la destruction by Arthur Tuoto consists of two shots from Robert Bresson’s film Le diable probablement (1977) repeated in an endless loop. Martin Ebner’s installation Ein helles Kino challenges the cinematographic setting, while Leila Albayaty steals her very own film images in her film Face B. The program also features new work by Michael Snow, Ken Jacobs, João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata and more. » - David Hudson...
- 1/20/2015
- Keyframe
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