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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
Death on the Beach
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/04/05/death-on-the-beach/
Venus
This vehicle for aging Peter O’Toole dances around places Lolita and Harold & Maude boldly went decades ago. Jodie Whittaker plays the sassy, underage object of an aging actor’s affections, and after a few dirty jokes and a drinking binge, there isn’t anywhere to go for Hanif Kureishi’s strangely timid screenplay. And so we wait [...]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/06/25/venus/
Death At a Funeral
Marcy is taking over reviewing duties for this one, so I’ll make it short: Frank Oz’s morbid farce is the funniest movie I’ve seen this year so far. We’ll have the review up on World/Independent Film before the June 29 opening. Death At a Funeral. Frank Oz, 2007. **** The trailer ruins a few surprises [...]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/06/12/death-at-a-funeral/
Kissed
Forget Six Feet Under: Molly Parker plays a necrophiliac embalmer in Lynne Stopkewich’s 1996 debut. She begins her career as a peculiar little girl who likes to bury birds and roadkill, and grows into a woman who likes her men cold. When Matt (Peter Outerbridge) falls hopelessly in love with her, the story is taken [...]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/06/01/kissed/
One Megapixel
[tags]razr, photos, flickr, jurgen, astoria, nyc, ira, rats, death, food, corona, samantha morton, dusty domino, ingmar bergan, film forum[/tags]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/01/17/one-megapixel/
Ho Ho Ho Hat
Weihnachtify any flickr photo. [tags]photos, christmas, flickr, geeky, bird, baby, death, santa[/tags]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/12/15/ho-ho-ho-hat/
Tulpendiebe
Pan’s Labyrinth – Director’s Commentary
Plenty of DVD commentaries are happy to dispense self-aggrandizing anecdotes or reveal information that permanently damages the viewing experience (I’m looking at you, Peter Jackson.) Instead, Guillermo del Toro talks about storytelling concerns, structure, framing, staging, color choices, sound design, edits, references and symbolism — in other words, the where and why of creative decisions [...]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/07/31/pans-labyrinth-directors-commentary/