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Go Go Tales
By Robert Koehler
So deep–and I mean deep–was the impression left by Abel Ferrara’s fabulous, ecstatic Go Go Tales and Asia Argento in particular, that I would suggest that Cannes introduce a new prize in honor of Asia’s oral hyperactivity, which effectively took over the festival for a few days running. I would [...]

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Silent Light
By Robert Koehler
The Palmares were handed out Sunday night, in what was alternately a
respectable and nutty show (with Charlotte Rampling, Carole Bouquet
and Jane Fonda keeping things classy, and The Diving Bell and the
Butterfly director Julian Schnabel blabbering on like a fool). The
results could have been worse, and were in some categories striking
and even brave. [...]

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The Mourning Forest
By Robert Koehler
First, a bit of housekeeping…..The challenges–and near-impossibilities (technical, logistical, and otherwise)–of regularly
posting from Cannes have proven nearly insurmountable during the
first year that we’re attempting this. I hope that the following
postings will help fill in the gap of time since the previous post.
Given that I was reporting on Cannes for the Christian [...]

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I’ve been holed up sick this past week, and just in time, Cinema Scope and Variety critic Robert Koehler–whose excellent posts from BAFICI 2007 we’re still referring to–will begin filing occasional posts from this year’s Cannes Film Festival. –Doug
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4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
By Robert Koehler
The 60th anniversary of Cannes was [...]

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DaniËle Huillet passed away last year and although her filmmaking partner Jean-Marie Straub announced he won’t continue making films, their legacy lives on through not-fast-enough New Yorker DVD releases (last year’s The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach and this June’s Moses and Aaron) and implicitly through the work of contemporary filmmakers like Pedro Costa [...]

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Though they’ve been around since the mid-’80s, Studio 4°C is emerging as a pretty exciting Japanese animation house. Their 2004 genre-bending adventure Mind Game has already achieved cult status here, and Tekkon Kinkreet (screened Sunday at the VC film festival) could easily do the same: a lavish urban fantasy based on the acclaimed Black [...]

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One of the cultural institutions here in Los Angeles that screens movies on a regular basis is the Goethe-Institut, and currently is not an exception, with its Starring Berlin series featuring the capitol in 40 films, from Paul Leni’s Backstairs (1921) to Detlev Buck’s Tough Enough (2006). The series continues throughout the year.
I’ve known [...]

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