TagJoshua Oppenheimer

My 2014 or 24 films by 24fpsverite

The official selection of the 24 films that marked the cinematic year of 2014.

The Act of Killing (2012)

Joshua Oppenheimer creates a multilayered documentary that explores the Indonesian massacres by blending fiction with reality, the present with the past and surrealism with true horror.

Documentary, Politics, Venice 2014

The Look of Silence – Venice 71

Joshua Oppenheimer's second strikingly profound and captivating documentary looks straight into the horror of Indonesia’s hidden past.

REVIEWS

Jauja (2014)

Jodorowsky meets Tarkovsky with a touch of Beckettian minimalism in Lisandro Alonso's hypnotic meta-Western that leads Viggo Mortensen into a never-ending journey to a surreal existential void.

Ixcanul Volcano – Berlinale 65

A low key coming-of-age drama that stands between the local Mayan traditions and their bleak impoverished lives. Debut feature film by Jayro Bustamante.

La Maldad (Evilness) – Berlinale 65 Forum

Mexico's most troubled political period is blended with traces of poetry and Carlos Reygadas' essence, when betrayal surpasses love in Joshua Gil's debut feature film.

Italian Gangsters – Venice 72 Orizzonti

Renato De Maria creates an unconventional and extremely minimalistic dramatized documentary that explores the most violent thirty-year criminal period of post-war Italy.

A Blast – Sarajevo 20

Syllas Tzoumerkas' sophomore feature is a powerful sociopolitical drama that juxtaposes the cynicism of the troubled Greek society while the middle-class decays internally.

TagJoshua Oppenheimer

My 2014 or 24 films by 24fpsverite

The Act of Killing (2012)

The Look of Silence – Venice 71

Jauja (2014)

Ixcanul Volcano – Berlinale 65

La Maldad (Evilness) – Berlinale 65 Forum

Italian Gangsters – Venice 72 Orizzonti

A Blast – Sarajevo 20

Soft and Hard (1986)

I don’t like the word success

Grandrieux on his films

Ingmar Bergman in Iceland

Bertolucci – Dreams from the Other Side