VIENNALE 2010 : index-page (added two dispatches for ‘The Daily Notebook’ and four reviews for ‘The Hollywood Reporter’)
KABOOM
For ‘The Hollywood Reporter’
DANCE TO THE SPIRITS.
9 LIVES.
SEESAW.
WILD GRASS.
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For ‘The Daily Notebook’
1 : LIFE’S HALT
2 : ALPHA MALE / OMEGA FEMALE
3 : JOHN RYAN’S EXPRESS
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For Tribune’ magazine
Part one (Larry Cohen retrospective: It’s Alive and Bone – A Bad Day In Beverly Hills)
Part two (Kaboom; Wild Grass; Dance to the Spirits, etc)
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a rough Viennale ’10 top 10
1. Endeavour (Day)* (Johann Lurf, 2010, short) : ***** out of 5 {or 13 out of 13}
2. Bone – A Bad Day in Beverly Hills [aka Bone] (Larry Cohen, 1972) 9/10 {24 out of 28}
3. In the Shadows (Thomas Arslan, 2010) 8/10 {22/28}
4. Kaboom (Gregg Araki, 2010) 8/10 {21/28}
5. The Sun Shines Bright (John Ford, 1953) 7/10 {20/28}
6. It’s Alive (Larry Cohen, 1974) 7/10 {19/28}
7. The Butcher (Claude Chabrol, 1970) 7/10 {19/28}
8. Snow [aka Neige] (Berto & Roger, 1981) 7/10 {19/28}
9. Wild Grass (YANG Lina, 2010) 7/10 {19/28}
10. Dance to the Spirits (Ricardo Iscar, 2010) 7/10 {19/28}
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then: Endeavour (Lurf 2010 short : ***; or 9/13); 9 Lives (Speth 2010 : 7/10; or 18/28); The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (Cohen 1977 : 7/10; or 18/28).
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* (i.e. the first half of Endeavour, a two-part short)
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eight notable performances
1. John Ryan in It’s Alive (1974)
2. MURAKAMI Maki in Seesaw (2010)
3. Mišel Matičević in In the Shadows (2010)
4. Andrew Duggan in Bone – A Bad Day in Beverly Hills (1972)
5. Yaphet Kotto in Bone – A Bad Day in Beverly Hills (1972)
6. Jen Casad in Double Tide (2009)
7. Juno Temple in Kaboom (2010)
8. Eve March in The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
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full list of features seen
~ An American Journey (Séclier 2009) 6/10 {16/28}
Black Caesar (Cohen 1973) 6/10 {17}
Bone – A Bad Day In Beverly Hills aka Bone aka Dial Rat for Terror (Cohen 1972) 9/10 {24}
The Butcher aka Le Boucher (Chabrol 1970) 7/10 {19}
~ Clash (Diokno 2009) 5/10 {14}
Curling (Côté 2010) N/R
Dance to the Spirits (Iscar 2010) 7/10 {19}
= Double Tide (Lockhart 2009) 6/10 {17}
~ Eros in Ketten (Wien 1930) N/R
The Forgotten Space (Burch & Sekula) 6/10 {16}
Headshots (Tooley 2010) W/O
The Impossible – Pages of Fury (George 2009) W/O
= In the Shadows (Arslan 2010) 8/10 {22}
It’s Alive (Cohen 1974) 7/10 {19}
Kaboom (Araki 2010) 8/10 {21}
Leslie, My Name Is Evil (Harkema 2009) 6/10 {16}
Meek’s Cutoff – Oregon 1845 aka Meek’s Cutoff (Reichardt 2010) 4/10 {11}
New Wave aka Nouvelle Vague (Godard 1990) W/O
9 Lives (Speth 2010) 7/10 {18}
The Oath (Poitras 2010) 6/10 {17}
Passione (Turturro 2010 [c]2009) N/R
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover (Cohen 1977) 7/10 {18}
Road To Nowhere (Hellman 2010) W/O
Road to Ythaca (Parente, Pretti, Diógenes, Pretti 2010) W/O
Robinson In Ruins (Keiller 2010) 6/10 {17}
Seesaw (Kanyama 2010) 6/10 {17}
Silent Souls (Fedorchenko 2010) 6/10 {17}
Snow aka Neige (Berto & Roger 1981) 7/10 {19}
Summer of Goliath (Pereda 2010) W/O
The Sun Shines Bright (Ford 1953) 7/10 {20}
= Uncle Boonmee, Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong 2010) 7+/10 {20+}
Wild Grass (Yang 2010) 7/10 {19}
Winter House (Castro 2010) W/O
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POSTSCRIPT
[features and shorts seen after the festival, via DVDs obtained from film-makers at the festival]
Coming Attractions (Tscherkassky 2010 short) ***/5 {or 8/13)
…. segment Cinema of Distraction: ****/5 {or 11/13}
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getaways
1. Contactos (Viota 1970)
2. Follow Me (Hammel 2010)
3. Guest (Guerin 2010)
4. Merry-Go-Round (Rivette 1983)
5. William S. Burroughs – A Man Within (Leyser 2010)
then : Festival (Rousseau 2010); Caterpillar (Wakamatsu 2010); A Return to Salem’s Lot (Cohen 1987); Last Train Home (Fan 2009); Marwencol (Malmberg 2010); The Red Room (Thome 2010), fragments (Bruch & Condin 2010).