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By Robert Koehler
The Turin Horse begins with a micro-fiction by Laszlo Krasznahorkai, reminiscent of both Donald Barthelme’s short fictions placing historical figures in fictitious situations and W.S. Merwin’s prose-poems which combine many different values, but frequently stress two: radical brevity and openness. Krasznahorkai wrote “The Turin Horse” micro-fiction in the early ’80s, and his friends [...]

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The Residents
By Robert Koehler
The Berlinale is stumbling, bumbling along through its final days, and here’s what can definitively said: Even with more than enough films that don’t belong in a major lineup, the competition isn’t completely bad, and Forum is–with a few exceptions–a bust. While not quite a reversal of fortunes, the relative rise of [...]

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The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
By Robert Koehler
Some small items, as it gets colder and colder in Berlin….
Barring a miraculous upset at the last moment, expect the first significant prize out of the Berlinale from the International Film Critics Federation (FIPRESCI) to go to Bela Tarr’s extraordinary, Beckettian competition film, The Turin Horse. More [...]

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By Robert Koehler
Good, the first controversy at the Berlin film festival. Why “good”? Controversies keep you warmed up, which you need to do in Berlin, where the snow fell today for the first time since Thursday’s opening with the Coens’ wonderful and genuine Charles Portis adaptation True Grit.
But to the real stuff: Don’t believe the [...]

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Longtime Film Journey readers know the UCLA Film & Television Archive is one of my usual beats, so I’m especially pleased to announce that they have recently hired me as their new web editor. We’re upgrading the reach and quality of their current website and will relaunch in the coming days. The Archive [...]

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