Wild Reeds/Les Roseaux sauvages. André Téchiné, 1994. **** It Happened One Night. Frank Capra, 1934. **** Recount. Jay Roach, 2008. **** The Long Good Friday. John Mackenzie, 1980. **** Ikiru. Akira Kurosawa, 1952. **** Hamlet 2. Andrew Fleming, 2008. *** Autumn/Automne. Ra’up McGee, 2004. *** Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. Jon Hurwitz and [...]
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"A fast, complex, exhilarating roadster ride through history and time.... Kino is an intoxicating Euro-brew, written with enormous skill and dedication." — Frederick Barthelme
"Jürgen Fauth's deft mashup of genre and historical period is both a full-throttle literary thriller of ideas and a contemplative examination of film and fascism. Kino is a debut of great intellectual force."– Teddy Wayne
"A surprising alternative history. Kino brings the golden age of German cinema to light with loving, sometimes gritty, detail and great precision." – Neal Pollack, author of Jewball.
"A delirious melange of conspiracy, magic, sex, history, bad behavior, and cinema, Kino is a stellar entertainment, and Jürgen Fauth is a writer of rare, sinister imagination." – Owen King, author of Reenactment
"A light-hearted romp that leads straight into darkness and back through the shadows on the wall."– Ben Loory, author of Stories for Nighttime and Some for the Day
"Movie nuts arise! A happy and felicitous debut."– Terese Svoboda
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The Week in Moving Pictures
Posted by Jürgen on September 1, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/09/01/the-week-in-moving-pictures/
Go Go Tales
Ray Ruby (Willem Dafoe with slicked back hair and a lucky leisure suit) runs a New York strip club where girls wearing g-strings and glitter gyrate to Grace Jones, but beneath the sleazy exterior beats the heart of a romantic. Ray Ruby’s got a dream: he wants his club to be a place where every [...]
Posted by Jürgen on September 27, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/09/27/go-go-tales/
Paris, je t’aime
…and moi non plus. If there’s a kind of movie I hate to review more than any other, it’s the one that sounds too good to be true. Like a jilted lover obsessively reliving every painful moment, it requires rehashing your embarrassing anticipation and then laying out every deflating pinprick of disappointment. Besides, readers really [...]
Posted by Jürgen on April 26, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/04/26/paris-je-taime/
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