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i don't really "get" bruno dumont, although i thought hors satan was fairly interesting.

Yeah, Play is a must-see. Amazingly composed shots, almost all of them, so unlike pretty much everything else in Scandinavian film. Probably my favorite Scandinavian film of the decade, I think. Would be pretty interested in hearing what people outside of Europe gets out of it's politics, though, it's... complicated.

My conservative friend went up to NYC to catch all of those, but he had seen PLAY before and said it was essentially about how Sweden needs to stop immigration.

should i go see leviathan today or tomorrow?

(the russian movie, not the harvard sensory ethnography one)

Of course -- so you can tell us later whether it's worth watching.

I did not like Force Majeure

(after the first 45 minutes, at least)

I didn't either. The Loneliest Planet did it better.

exhibition was really interesting; my first hogg film. all three up on netflix.
such a woman-centric and private story

Hogg's collective is presenting a screening of Akermann D'Est tomorrow.

https://www.ica.org.uk/whats-on/nos-amours-chantal-akerman-16-dest

Harun Farocki season @ Goethe in Feb:

http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en13760253v.htm

Two programmes of Straub-Huillet in March:

http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/ver/en13760246v.htm

Lots of nice things on at the Glasgow Film Festival this year:

http://www.glasgowfilm.org/festival/whats_on

They're offering five tickets for £32.50, not a bad deal. I've gone for:

-Jodorowsky's Dune (otherwise unavailable to view in the UK)
-A Pigeon Sat on a Branch
-Li'l Quiquin
-Jauja
-From What is Before (new Diaz, 5h38m)

Thanks for the heads-up, picked up the brochure for this and forgot about it.

Stephen Cone's Black Box is out on a bunch of platforms this week and is really good. Grad students spook themselves adapting something like a V.C. Andrews novel. Not a horror movie at all.

i should see that, if for no other reason than to support independent chicago filmmaking

I didn't either. The Loneliest Planet did it better.

― Vulvacura (Eric H.), Monday, January 19, 2015 10:39 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i thought that film walked a thin line between hauntingly terse and pretentious, but ultimately i liked it

Best of luck with From What Is Before. Saw it tonight, it is good, but very long indeed.

I didn't either. The Loneliest Planet did it better.

― Vulvacura (Eric H.),

if you mean "shots of Gael Bernal"