Archive for July, 2006
This debut feature from Andrew Bujalski is an unusual festival film in that it did the rounds four years ago. But with Larry Clark’s newbie, Wassup Rockers, being cancelled, the audience that chose to stay and risk their ticket money on an unheralded American indie flick were given a satisfying if unspectacular treat. The film […]
Cinema began as a purely visual medium. The shock and fright that the Lumière brothers caused in their virgin audience came about because seeing the world through the lens of a camera is like seeing for the first time—witness Dziga Vertov’s 1929 paean to the new medium, Man With a Movie Camera, and you get […]
In the popular and academic consciousness, Jean-Luc Godard is the personification of the Nouvelle Vague. With Godard as the supreme auteur, other French filmmakers like François Truffaut have often been forced into his penumbra. Yet, how many filmgoers have actually seen a Godard film aside from the ubiquitous A Bout de Souffle? And where does […]
Having enjoyed two sensational nights in Faralya, we were reluctant to miss “mamma’s dinner” the next night, but another adventure called. We left our packs at George House and with nothing more than board shorts, towels, sleeping bags and the sound of Sander singing “How Deep is Your Love” we boarded a dolmus bound […]
After a week with John on that special hunk of Mediterranean rock known as Symi, i bid my short, hairy father adieu and crossed a border that is undemanding in distance but perilous in political terms — the waters between Greece and Turkey.
But before i regale you with startling stories featuring fezzed, monobrowed men flattening […]