Category: AV Festivals
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AV Festival: Slow Cinema Weekend, Part 2 – Three Films by Fred Kelemen
This is the second in a series of five editorials on the AV Festival’s Slow…
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AV Festival: Slow Cinema Weekend, Part 1 – Panel Discussion
This is the first in a series of five editorials on the AV Festival’s Slow…
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AV Festival: Honour of the Knights (Quixotic)
Not a great deal happens in Honor de cavallería, Albert Serra‘s 2006 adaptation of Miguel…
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AV Festival: Colossal Youth
Shot on DV using only natural light assisted by reflective surfaces, 2006’s Colossal Youth (Juventude…
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AV Festival: The Turin Horse
Graced with the best opening scene of a film in recent memory, The Turin Horse…
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AV Festival: Hors Satan
Even before he brandishes a shotgun and kills a man, there’s something very unsettling about…
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AV Festival: Once upon a Time in Anatolia
A further move away from the more autobiographical concerns of earlier works, Nuri Bilge Ceylan‘s…
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AV Festival: Five
In explaining his 2003 minimalist experimentation, Five, Iranian filmmaker Abbas Kiarostami posits that “we should…
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AV Festival: Aurora
This review contains spoilers A long film about killing, Aurora (2010) is Romanian writer-director Cristi…
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AV Festival: Russian Ark
If, as Sergei Eisenstein put it, “montage is the nerve of cinema” – the master-tool,…