Damon Smith
Less is more in the sophomore feature by Cannes Camera d’or winner Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest), a filmmaker attentive, like his fellow under-40 countrymen Cristi Puiu and Cristian Mungiu, to the ironies of bureaucracy in post-totalitarian Romania.
Eric Hynes visits Central Park with Camera D'or-winning director Corneliu Porumboiu (Police, Adjective), who talks about labyrinths of space and time, and what's so funny about nothing happening.
No living filmmaker works more assiduously or successfully in such a concretely chronographic register, harnessing the sublime power of uncut duration to maximize the dramatic impact and metaphysical aura of filmed reality.
Reverse Shot's Damon Smith talks with award-winning British director Sally Potter (Orlando, Yes) about her new made-for-mobile film Rage.
Richard Linklater (School of Rock, Slacker) talks to host Eric Hynes about Orson Welles, idealism v. cynicism, and his grade school production of "Julius Caesar."
Acclaimed filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar (Talk to Her, All About My Mother) talks with host Eric Hynes about his love for words, close-ups, Ingmar Bergman, and endings.
Host Eric Hynes wanders the halls with director Cedric Klapisch (L'Auberge espagnole, Paris) at the French Cultural Embassy in New York, chatting about Juliette Binoche, city life, and the art of cliché.
"In our documentaries, we focused on moments in history that we had known as kids or that preceded us with the workers’ movement, but essentially we always focused on individual trajectories, individual portraits. And maybe that’s the link with our fiction work."
Music videos are the last place I would expect to find the French genius honing her craft. Yet there she was in 2006, shooting not one, but two . . .
Part time capsule, part chronicle of a transatlantic journey to Mother Africa, Soul Power captures the spirit of optimism and celebratory, homeward-bound impulse of notable black and Latin musicians through the backstage banter and energetic performances of its most legendary participants.
Scripted by literary-world darlings Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida, and sure to be dear to the hearts of easy-to-please reviewers in thrall to any middling drama bearing the Sam Mendes imprimatur, Away We Go is a defiantly bourgeois, unapologetically conventional indie road movie fueled by preciousness.