Black Swan is en-pointe
Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan is a Class-A attack on the senses. Take the opening: a dazzling camera that bobs and weaves, throws a flurry of punches to the body before darting out and sticking...
Category: Arts & Literature
The Best Songs of 2010 – Two Attempts At a List
It's difficult to write a “best of” list nowadays. It seems like every newspaper, magazine, website and blog has their own list of tunes of the year, all sagely repeating roughly the same list....
A Non-Political Israeli Film?-Interview With The Paz Brothers
Since its first screening in Tel Aviv, “Phobidilia” was screened in Berlin, Cannes, Toronto, Istanbul, Singapore and Los Angeles.In Israel, Ofer Schecter, who played the role of an agoraphobic...
“The American” at the 2010 London Film Festival
Rudely awakened from his Swedish love nest, cold-blooded American Jack executes three people. The striking landscape he inhabits is too exposed, too clear from the clutter of civilisation to...
London Film Festival 2010: “William S. Burroughs: A Man Within”
“Love! What is it? Most natural painkiller there is.” The last written words of William S. Burroughs tell us everything and nothing about the Harvard educated King of the Beats. How would he...
London Film Festival 2010: “Never Let Me Go” shines
Welcome to Hailsham boarding school. Beautifully secluded in the English countryside, Hailsham embodies all that is best in traditional British values: fair play, justice and a stiff upper lip....
London Film Festival 2010: “Fire in Babylon” is gorgeous
Viv Richards, the peerless genius of West Indian batsmen, fixes the camera with his steely glare. The very same one he used when joining combat with the best bowlers in the world before hammering...
Rinus Van de Velde on being “friends” with Vladimir Mayakovsky
Artist Rinus Van de Velde works and lives in Antwerp, and his last exhibition was in Seoul, at Korea's International Art Fair. At first glance, Van de Velde’s works looked to me like old photos,...
“Certified Copy” at the 48th New York Film Festival
Every once in awhile a movie comes along that rekindles the passion we cine-maniacs had when we first fell in love with art films. This year, The 48th New York Film Festival (running from September...
Editor’s Diary: Bunin’s legend of the fall
Nobel laureate Ivan Bunin once wrote a brilliant story that is the very definition of "shot." In it, a nobleman riding alone sometime in autumn is nearly run down by a drunk peasant on his horse. The...