TagJoshua Gil

Berlin 2015, Specials

Berlinale – Festival of Evilness

Some personal thoughts on how Berlinale has become a festival of evilness.

Berlin 2015, Drama, Experimental

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.

REVIEWS

Valerie a Týden Divů (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, 1970)

A disturbing surreal erotic horror coming-of-age fairytale of political allegory by Jaromil Jireš marks the end of Czechoslovak New Wave.

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.

Gorod Zero (Zero City, 1988)

Kafkaesque absurdity meets Soviet reality during the years of the extremely bureaucratic Perestroika in this deadpan comedy by Karen Shakhnazarov.

Deniz Gamze Ergüven creates a "joyful" feministic fairytale that explores if teen rebelliousness and sexual awareness can survive in conservative Anatolia. Heart of Sarajevo for Best Feature Film at the 21st Sarajevo Film Festival.

Skammen (Shame, 1968)

Ingmar Bergman, in one of his lesser known masterpieces, de-dramatizes a war by transferring all its tragedy to Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow and inevitably to his audience too.

TagJoshua Gil

Berlinale – Festival of Evilness

La Maldad (Evilness) – Berlinale 65 Forum

Valerie a Týden Divů (Valerie and Her Week of Wonders, 1970)

Italian Gangsters – Venice 72 Orizzonti

Gorod Zero (Zero City, 1988)

Mustang – Sarajevo 21

Skammen (Shame, 1968)

The Meaning of Cinema by Andrei Tarkovsky

Ingmar Bergman’s Dreams

The ideas of David Lynch

Pasolini e gli italiani

Godard on Italian Cinema