Neil Young's Film Lounge

Rotterdam 2006 index page

roundups and articles

# Neil Young's day-by-day "live" reports are archived HERE
# Sober overview (written for Tribune magazine) is HERE
# 'Asian/extreme' article (for Impact magazine) is HERE
# Review-style 'text' on Madeinusa (written for Fipresci website) is HERE
# Interview with YING Liang, writer-director of Taking Father Home, is HERE

official site

review pages
(five films on each page, p1 to p8)     

p1   Analife   -   Cocaine Angel   (posted Feb 8th)
p2   The Dog Pound   -   Filmman   (posted Feb 9th)
p3   The Gaze   -   Heart, Beating in the Dark   (posted Feb 11th)
p4   Homecoming   -   Interkosmos   (posted Feb 12th)
p5   Klimt   -   The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September   (posted Feb 14th)
p6   The Lost Hum   -   Old Joy   (posted Feb 15th)
p7   Princess Raccoon   -   A Summer Day   (posted Feb 26th)
p8   Taking Father Home   -   Yaji and Kita, the Midnight Pilgrims    (posted Mar 1st)
p9   shorts and awards   (posted Mar 2nd)

Analife
Black Bull (Toro Negro)
^ The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
Bubble
Cocaine Angel
The Dog Pound (La perrera)
Dogs [1998]
Early in the Morning (Un matin bonne heure)
Figner, the End of a Silent Century
Filmman (Le Filmeur)
The Gaze
Glue (Glue – historia adolescente en medio de la nada)
* The Great Yokai War
Green Mind, Metal Bats
Heart, Beating in the Dark [2005 version]
* Homecoming (Masters of Horror – Homecoming)
I Don't Care If Tomorrow Never Comes (Ca m'est egal si demain n'arrive pas)
^ Inner Circle Line
* Insiang [1976]
Interkosmos
Klimt [producer's cut]
Land of the Blind
The Legend of Time (La leyenda del tiempo)
The Living and the Dead
^ The Lonely Hearts Club Band in September [1982]
The Lost Hum
* Madeinusa
Northern Light
Ode to Joy
Old Joy
^ Princess Raccoon
^ 17th October, 1961 (Nuit noir, 17 Octobre 1961)
Ski Jumping Pairs (Ski Jumping Pairs – Road to Torino Olympigs 2006)
Song of Songs
* A Summer Day (Un jour d'ete)
* Taking Father Home
The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada (Three Burials)
Walking on the Wild Side
^ What Is It Worth?
Yaji and Kita, the Midnight Pilgrims

(nb: titles given in this list are the English-language versions; if the film was also widely referred to by its original title during the festival, this appears in brackets afterwards)

^ : walkouts     * : highlights (top half-dozen)

Jigsaw Lounge Rotterdam 2006 Top Ten

1 Taking Father Home    [8/10]
          YING Liang, China (2005)

2 Homecoming    [8/10 TV]
          Joe DANTE, USA (2005)
3 Insiang    [8/10]
          Lino BROCKA, Philippines (1976)
4 Madeinusa    [7/10]
          Claudia LLOSA, Spain/Peru (2005)
5 The Great Yokai War    [7/10]
          MIIKE Takashi, Japan (2005)
6 A Summer Day    [7/10]
          Franck GUERIN, France (2006)
7 Bubble    [7/10]
          Steven SODERBERGH, USA (2005)
8 Glue    [7/10] 
          Alexis DOS SANTOS, Argentina (2006)
9 The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada    [7/10]
          Tommy Lee JONES, USA/Fr (2005)
10 Interkosmos    [7/10]
          Jim FINN, USA (2006)

shown at IFFR 2006 but already seen and reviewed on Jigsaw Lounge

9/10 : Who is Bozo Texino?
8/10 : Good Night, and Good Luck; Working Man's Death
7/10 : Gravehopping; Hidden; 13/Tzameti; Brokeback Mountain;
          Black Brush; Me and You and Everyone We Know;
          The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael

II
A Short Film About the Indio Nacional
Look Both Ways
9 Dragons
Grain in Ear
Seven Invisible Men
Full or Empty
William Eggleston's Stranded in Canton

Jay Weissberg (Variety)
FIPRESCI Jury reports
Daniel Steinhart / Adam Nayman / Pawel Felis (FIPRESCI jury "trainees")
Matthew Tempest (The Guardian online)
Zone 5300 (in Dutch only, but the drawings are groote)
Gabe Klinger (for Elusive Lucidity website) 

photo gallery (each image links to a review-page)