If Jim Jarmusch can get away with No Limits, No Control, perhaps you might enjoy my exquisitely dull Flip videos. Hey, it’s all about “pure experience.” If you like, follow & friend me on Vimeo, YouTube, or Flickr for more. I’m expecting more exciting subject matter soon. (More posts tagged muckfilm.) Paupack Park Tribeca Film [...]
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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 movies
Boring Short Films
Posted by Jürgen on May 7, 2009
http://jurgenfauth.com/2009/05/07/boring-short-films/
NYFF08: Che Guevara and Debussy to a Disco Beat
As the 46th New York Film Festival slouches towards its final weekend — one more movie, one more party, and Catherine Deneuve in the flesh – it’s time for a little roundup. I’ve mainly posted capsules to Worldfilm, with the exception of Che, which is on track for my favorite of the year and required something [...]
Posted by Jürgen on October 9, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/10/09/nyff08-che-guevara-and-debussy-to-a-disco-beat/
The Week in Moving Pictures
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 [...]
Posted by Jürgen on September 1, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/09/01/the-week-in-moving-pictures/
Star Wars: The Clone Wars
It’s no secret that I love Star Wars — and not just “the old ones” but all six movies: their mythic scope, their conceptual and visual inventiveness, the cheesy characters and blunt dialogue, the structural complexity, the joy they take in speed and color. Star Wars: The Clone Wars, the all-new animated Star Wars adventure, [...]
Posted by Jürgen on August 11, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/08/11/star-wars-the-clone-wars/
The Dark Knight
Christopher Nolan and Maggie Gyllenhaal just aren’t enough of an indie connection to cover this on Worldfilm, so I’ll just say this here: godawful. Two hours and twenty minutes, a gazillion dollars, a sterling cast, and an eight story IMAX screen weren’t enough for this movie to tickle a single thrill out of me. Instead, [...]
Posted by Jürgen on July 16, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/07/16/the-dark-knight/
America The Cherry Blossoms Are Falling
Yesterday, I escaped the puerile, disgusting, and (worst of all) staggeringly unfunny Poultrygeist to enjoy a banana in Central Park. Today, unrelenting construction noise on our block makes me wish I could seek refuge at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden, where the cherries are in full bloom. They’ve delighted us in the past — but alas, [...]
Posted by Jürgen on April 23, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/04/23/america-the-cherry-blossoms-are-falling/
Konsum: Stalling Woodpecker Edition
None of the movies I saw this week thrilled as much as the conclusion to the first part of T. H. White’s The Once and Future King. After 200 pages of young Wart’s education, we finally get to the part about the sword in the stone. It’s Merlyn’s final lesson, presented in a hallucinatory passage [...]
Posted by Jürgen on March 16, 2008
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/03/16/konsum-stalling-woodpecker-edition/
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Free Willy
It’s not that I can’t tell a killer whale from a serial rapist — it’s simply that the dumbest puns sometimes amuse most, especially when they offer mild relief for otherwise unbearibly grim tales of doomed love and ill-fated desires. Benten‘s fourth DVD release Der Freie Wille (The Free Will) streeted last week (yes, it’s [...]
http://jurgenfauth.com/2008/06/30/free-willy/