An Indie comedy from New Zealand that reeks of the Sundance workshop where it was conceived by writer/director Taika Cohen — which is to say it features a road trip, a quirky dysfunctional family, and a couple of awkward lovers who dress up in silly costumes. Eagle vs. Shark tastes an awful lot like Napoleon [...]
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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 romance
Once
This sweet, lo-fi musical romance about a Dublin busker and an immigrant single mother who meet in the streets and record a demo tape together is a real charmer. Glen Hansard plays the nameless “guy” who belts out songs on a battered guitar and pines for his long-gone girlfriend; Marketa Irglova is the “girl” who [...]
Posted by Jürgen on May 1, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/05/01/once/
Wild Camp
What this movie is lacking in the credibility department it more than makes up with the casting: we’ll watch anything with Isild Le Besco, and to see her in an amour fou with Denis Lavant (The Lovers on the Bridge) is a peculiar spectacle. I’ve spent many summers on European campgrounds just like the one [...]
Posted by Jürgen on April 4, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/04/04/wild-camp/
Syndromes and a Century
The films of Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul occupy a fertile space between narrative and art object, where simple interactions accumulate and gain weight in a web of meaning that is held together as much by space and mood as it is by character and story. Like Tropical Malady, his new film consists of two parts, [...]
Posted by Jürgen on March 20, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/03/20/syndromes-and-a-century/
Away From Her
Sarah Polley’s first feature, an adaptation of an Alice Munro short story about a couple dealing with Alzheimer’s, is getting a lot of praise on the festival circuit, and she was appropriately celebrated at the premiere for MoMA’s Canadian Front program last night. Julie Christie plays a woman in her sixties who finds herself putting [...]
Posted by Jürgen on March 15, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/03/15/away-from-her/
Fingersmith
Marcy’s been raving about this Victorian crime/love story for months, and after finishing Against the Day, I finally got around to it. Fingersmith is a period mystery that begins with a tip of the hat to Oliver Twist but quickly finds its own ground: Susan Trinder, an orphaned London thief, is sent to a remote [...]
Posted by Jürgen on March 13, 2007
http://jurgenfauth.com/2007/03/13/fingersmith/
The Illusionist
“Make me disappear!” Ed Norton plays a stage magician in love, Paul Giamatti tries to learn his tricks, and Jessica Biel is about to get married to the wrong guy! Pretty pictures, good acting, predictable story. The Illusionist. Neil Burger, 2006. ** Official Site The Illusionist at Rotten Tomatoes [tags]film, 2 stars, magic, ed norton, [...]
Posted by Jürgen on November 26, 2006
http://jurgenfauth.com/2006/11/26/the-illusionist/
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