For my final report from AFI FEST 2011 I tackle Béla Tarr’s life-changing The Turin Horse. It’s so powerful and all-consuming I couldn’t muster any enthusiasm to write about ALPS or The Loneliest Planet, two other films from my last day of the festival.
AFI 2011 Dispatch #3 covers A Separation (masterpiece), The Color Wheel (obnoxious/fascinating) and Green (sinister).
AFI FEST 2011 Dispatch #2 is now up at The House Next Door. The punishing savagery of Faust and Snowtown are my topics of interest.
Here’s Dispatch #1 from AFI FEST 2011 for The House Next Door, including my thoughts on This Is Not a Film, a masterpiece of the highest order.
My first reviews from AFI FEST 2011 will start going up tomorrow, but here’s my Intro piece that went up last week. I touch on the exciting nature of festivals and the steaming turd that is Eastwood’s J. Edgar.
Due to my extensive non-writing work schedule and too many concurring assignments, I was only able to attend four films at the year’s San Diego Asian Film Festival. Still, between Johnnie To and Wai Ka-Fai’s swoon-worthy Don’t Go Breaking My Heart and Hou Hsiao-hsien’s massively essential A City of Sadness, it was time well spent. I wrote up each screening over at The House Next Door.
This picture proves the existence of Cinema Hell. My first entry for Keith Uhlich and The House Next Door‘s great “Summer of…” series is the impressively not-so-great Howard the Duck. Duck soup anyone? Review.
In two days, I’ll be departing LAX for a long plane flight to Nice, France, then a short shuttle ride to Cannes. It goes without saying that I’m excited about the experience of attending the biggest film festival in the world, and I hope you all will follow my in-depth coverage over at The House Next Door, Slant Magazine’s most excellent blog. I will also be tweeting short blurbs from my @MatchCuts Twitter account. Bon Voyage everyone! Thanks for reading!
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