maborosi

1998 film by Kore-eda Hirokazu, who also directed Nobody Knows which I loved. This film was also too beautiful. It was about loss and moving on. Who says you need close-ups to convey emotions?

performance

a film by donald cammell and nicolas roeg starring the cutest rocknroll legend mick jagger. it was really fun, especially the scenes where the tough and violent gangster, who rents a room in a faded rock star's house to hide, trips on mushroom and is completely de-masculinized. mick jagger and anita pallanberg were definitely acting themselves.

goodbye south, goodbye

Hou Hsiao-hsien dissapoints this time. is there a plot? why is this film even made? couldn't even watch the first hour.

suddenly

diego lerman's first film from 2002. nice story, but develops too slowly, and also why black and white? i sometimes feel like young hipster directors make serious technical decision with the sole purpose of making the film look cool.

days of glory

great film, would make anyone hate the imperialist fascist france. watching the film with knowledge of algerian genocide and banlieu uprisings of last couple years makes it much more infuriating.

poison friends

2006 film from emmanuel bourdieu about graduate literature students at sorbonne. very fun to watch since my experience overlaps in certain ways. once again the film reminds us; envy and lies are bad.

the aura

2005 film from fabian bielinsky, which i couldn't watch even though i tried for two consecutive days. very slow and stylized although the plot is intriguing. so i can say that i still don't know how it all ends because i don't have the patience.

separate lies

2005 film from Julian Fellowes, very nice unconventional love story (that's what aleph said, which was how i also felt.) which also integrated class differences in a very subtle way.

iran: a cinematographic revolution

this was a very good documentary on the history of iranian cinema (along with the history of revolution) which became an international phenomenon since the 70s. two interesting things:
1- abbas kiorostami was not in the interviews.
2- iranian cinema and culture before the revolution was really similar to the turkish.

overall i can't say that iranian cinema is one of my favorite national cinemas, i find that child, everyday reality, old man, nature themes a bit boring and repetitive.

the belly of an architect

again a crazy peter greenaway and as always mixing of the different media like sculpture, architecture and photography. it's about the last days of an arrogant yet procastrinating architect who loses everything he has in italy.