Monthly Archives: August 2012

My Imaginary Sight & Sound Ballot

Written by . Posted on August 19, 2012. Filed under Lists. No comments.

Were I to have participated in this year’s poll, my list would have looked something like this:

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L’atalante, Dir. Jean Vigo, 1934

Every Man For Himself and God Against All, Dir. Werner Herzog, 1974

French Cancan, Dir. Jean Renoir, 1955

Heat, Dir. Michael Mann, 1995

Late Spring, Dir. Yasujiro Ozu, 1949

Notorious, Dir. Alfred Hitchcock, 1946

Playtime, Dir. Jacques Tati, 1967

Princess Mononoke, Dir. Hayao Miyazaki, 1997

Syndromes & a Century, Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006

Taxi Driver, Dir. Martin Scorsese, 1976

The 65th Locarno Film Festival

Written by . Posted on August 11, 2012. Filed under Festivals, Lists. Tagged . No comments.

My coverage of the festival, for various outlets:

For Cinema Scope:
Megaphone Cinema: Ten Films From Locarno

For Filmmaker Magazine
Locarno Critics Notebook #1
Locarno Critics Notebook #2
Locarno Critics Notebook #3
Five Questions with Apichatpong Weerasethakul

For Film Society of Lincoln Center
My River Runs to Thee: New Films from Apichatpong
Locarno’s Northern Lights

For Criticwire
Telling the Story of Cinema
Milkyway Magic: The Creative Genius of Johnnie To and Soi Cheang

For Pardo Live
Léos Carax and the Island of Cinema
The Old and the New in Leviathan and Museum Hours
Pardo of the Heart

My ten favourite screenings at the festival, with no distinction made between differences in length or year-of-release, or even if I’ve previously seen the film:

1. Mauvais sang, Dir. Léos Carax, France

2. Holy Motors, Dir. Léos Carax, France/Germany

3. Angel Face, Dir. Otto Preminger, USA

4. Leviathan, Dir. Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor, UK/USA/France

5. Impolex, Dir. Alex Ross Perry, USA

6. Memories Look at Me, Dir. Fang Song, China

7. When Night Falls, Dir. Ying Liang, South Korea/China

8. Mekong Hotel, Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand/UK

9. No, Dir. Pablo Larraín, Chile

10. Museum Hours, Dir. Jem Cohen, Austria/USA

Special Mention: Tectonics, Dir. Peter Bo Rappmund, USA