http://en.blogs.dissidenz.com Watch it the way YOU want! DVDs, downloads and more. Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:06:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en At first, we wonder what's got into 24 year old Antonio Campos, director (as well as scriptwriter and editor) of this brilliant first film with its images of video gags and trashy porn bathed in the darkness of Scope, quirky framing, still shots of feet, etc. This focus on the ... http://en.blogs.dissidenz.com/2008/10/04/sex-lies-and-many-videos/ L'Atalante (1933) by Jean Vigo "It seems so out of control, every frame is beautifully framed but almost everything happening is so shambly and messy and floppy, and falling down, and Michel Simon and his very bad tattoos jiggling on his fat. Everything is shot from above, inside the Atalante, to ... http://en.blogs.dissidenz.com/2008/10/04/guy-maddin-director/ You come from Winnipeg. What does that city mean for you, for your inspiration and all your work for nearly 15 years ? Winnipeg means "Muddy waters", because it is built on two rivers, which are very muddy, you can’t even see your hand when you stick it in it. For ... http://en.blogs.dissidenz.com/2008/10/04/interview-with-guy-maddin/ If you have never seen any Guy Maddin film and are a film addict looking for new cinematographic experiences, or else if you are just open-minded enough to pass over dominant schemes, take your chance! Prepare – or rather do not prepare –, rush to see Guy Maddin's latest film: ... http://en.blogs.dissidenz.com/2008/09/26/brand-upon-the-brain/ Playtime (1967) by Jacques Tati. "Playtime is a very complex film with very different patterns and a groundbreaking narrative, using the progressive disappearance of the character of Mr Hulot. This character, whom we have known since Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot, loses his central role a bit more with each new ... http://en.blogs.dissidenz.com/2008/09/26/jose-luis-guerin-director/ In a stroke of well-orchestrated timing, given that September happens to be when school goes back, this month sees the DVD and theater release of La loi du collège (School Law), by Mariana Otero (in stores on the 16th) and the Golden Palm at the last Cannes Film Festival, Entre ... http://en.blogs.dissidenz.com/2008/09/18/back-to-school/ The Ice Storm (1997) by Ang Lee. "It's a film by Ang Lee, by far his best film I think. It's about how parents behave like children. It's fantastic, it’'s just so true and it doesn't shy away from anything. They remade the movie after that, American Beauty -to me a ... http://en.blogs.dissidenz.com/2008/09/18/baltasar-kormakur-director/ You started as an actor, you directed theatre productions, how did you start to direct films and how did those prior experiences nourish your work as a director? I felt all the time that I was going to make a film, I played in a lot of them and I ... http://en.blogs.dissidenz.com/2008/09/18/interview-with-baltasar-kormakur/ A man's corpse is found in his apartment. "A typically Icelandic, messy and uninteresting crime where the evidence is not even concealed" observes one of the investigators. A yellowed photo of a tomb found under a desk drawer leads the investigation to events that took place 40 years before. Jar ... http://en.blogs.dissidenz.com/2008/09/12/jar-city-by-baltasar-kormakur/ Tales of Ugetsu (1953) by Kenji Mizoguchi. "I like universality, and a movie like this one, anybody, from anywhere, can see it and through it feel extraordinary emotions by its stories, so simple and moving, stories that concerns our inner souls and our nightmares, this beautifull dream that transforms, and this ... http://en.blogs.dissidenz.com/2008/09/12/wasis-diop-musician/