TagIndonesia

Documentary, Politics

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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

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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

Tôkyô Sensô Sengo Hiwa (The Man Who Left His Will on Film, 1970)

Nagisha Ôshima is performing a requiem for Japanese New Wave and he is covering everything, from the sociopolitical changes till his own alienation that he feels as an artist.

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.

Magdanas Lurja (Magdana’s Donkey, 1955)

The debut film by Tengiz Abuladze and Rezo Chkheidze is a rural period neorealistic drama set in 19th century Georgia.

Tharlo – Venice 72 Orizzonti

Pema Tseden depicts through a visually immaculate and lyrical slow burning film, how rough is to search for your own inner hidden identity.

The President – Venice 71 Orizzonti

An allegorical political satire by Mohsen Makhmalbaf, that despite the initial absurdity becomes predictable and didactic in a simplistic way.

QUOTES

Ingmar Bergman on existence

This feeling of not existing, not existence, made me very happy because it was a feel of relief.

Godard on Italian Cinema

How did Italian cinema become so great if no one - Rossellini, Visconti, Antonioni, Fellini - recorded sound with image?

Bertolucci – Dreams from the Other Side

If it was right to dream in '68 it's even more right to go on dreaming today.

Jacques Rivette: Should filmmakers see movies?

The fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.

Herz Frank on documentarists

The first rule of a documentary filmmaker is: Have the patience to observe life!