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 [...]
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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
All posts tagged farce
Death At a Funeral
Posted by Jürgen on June 12, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/06/12/death-at-a-funeral/
Molière
“One day, they won’t say ‘speak French to me,’ they will say: speak to me in the language of Molière!” Says Molière, played by an exuberant Romain Duris, waving his tankard before he falls of the tavern table, much to the amusement of the assembled Parisians. But we all know it’s true. And once a [...]
Posted by Jürgen on June 8, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/06/08/moliere/
Agnes and His Brothers
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Posted by Jürgen on June 6, 2006
http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/06/06/agnes-and-his-brothers/
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