The Wind Blows Where It Will directed by Portland, Oregon, based director Kunal Mehra is rigidly constructed film, running slightly over three-hours, which demands the viewer’s attention. Holding fastidiously to a Bressonian austereness and its own wrought-out languidness TWBWIW, in the end, reaches a deep and resonant poignancy.
It’s a remarkably simple story. Philippe, [...]
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Review: The Wind Blows Where It Will
Posted in Reviews on May 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Paraguayan Hammock (2006)
Posted in Reviews on March 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Paraguayan Hammock (2006)
The sun rises slowly on a shot of two trees, the ground covered in leaves. A dog barks incessantly somewhere in the distance. After a while an elderly couple wanders out from the woods behind. The woman constructs a hammock and they sit (see picture above, this is the shot in which much [...]
Kid Icarus: A review of Billy The Kid
Posted in Reviews on December 15, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Billy the Kid (2007)
DV Documentary
Dir: Jennifer Venditti
DP: Donald Cumming
Billy the Kid—on limited run at the IFC Theater in Manhattan—has been garnering accolades & awards for months. Shuffling through reviews the classic buzzwords fly out: “haunting,” “utterly original,” “important,” a “heightened metaphor for the universally torturous condition that is adolescence.”” But it is glaringly obvious [...]
The New Canon. A New direction?
Posted in Reviews on September 24, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
A recent Sunday afternoon I walked north up 21st street in Long Island City, Queens; three candy caned-striped smoke stacks standing tall above the industrial landscape immediately reminded me of the late Antonioni and his masterpiece Red Desert.
Large shadows blanketed 44th Road cast from the non-descript monstrosities flanking either side. What happened inside these buildings, [...]
