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YOU CAN RING THOSE BLOODY BELLS – COUNTRY DANCE AKA BROTHERLY LOVE (1970)

By Claudia Siefen

It was in 1961 when Bristol-born scriptwriter and director John Lee Thompson achieved international fame with The Guns of Navarone, exemplifying his visual style and his use of suspenseful narrative. The film brought him to the attention of Hollywood, as he was nominated for an Academy Award, finally leading Thompson to his first Hollywood production, Cape Fear, which got its release one year later.

2017.10.30

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VALDIVIA INTERNACIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2017: THE WINNERS

By Mónica Delgado & Aldo Padilla

FICValdivia has just ended, and here at Desistfilm, we offer you an extensive review of the winners of one of the best Latin American Film Festivals around. This year, we were witness of a variety of quality international and Chilean productions, films that had been touring different film festivals and other new ones recently released specially for Valdivia. This, alongside an excellent experimental showcase and a series of magnificent restorations, gave FICValdivia the status of an outstanding film festival, arguably the best of Latin America right now.

2017.10.22

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A RUSSIAN GAZE ON THE SOUTHERN CITYSCAPE: TATIANA DANILIYANTS AND HER CIVIC/URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY APPROACH

By Giuliano Vivaldi

Amongst Russian documentary filmmakers there is arguably only one, Tatyana Daniliyants, who restores a vivid, lucid and healthily bright anthropological glance on the city. Not the city of Moscow (although a very early, and very rarely shown, film of hers ‘U’ did feature that city) but ‘southern cities’.

2017.09.25

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LOCARNO 2017: 9 DOIGTS BY F.J. OSSANG

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

Always punk, always noir, F.J. Ossang’s post-apocalypse has no survivors. Everyone’s a victim of other people’s bullets, of their own bullets, of the condemnation of their past. 9 Doigts makes a perfect “black triptych of the apocalypse” with Treasure of the Bitch Islands (1990) and Dharma Guns (2010), both masterpieces of industrial atmospheres, where nuclear waste is a representation of the tragic ambitions of men.

2017.08.07

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OLHAR DE CINEMA 2017. HEMA HEMA: SING ME A SONG WHILE I WAIT AND SOLDIER

By Mónica Delgado

Khyentse Norbu Rimpoche’s Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait is a surprising visual experience, in its eclecticism and evocation of neon as a preamble of a color environment extracted from the ancestral traditions of Bhutan and in its bet to develop a liminal space where anything can happen.

2017.06.19

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OLHAR DE CINEMA: THE LIGHTHOUSE ISLAND AND SKAKE UP BRAZIL

By Mónica Delgado

This sixth edition of Olhar de Cinema has seen a diversity of Brazilian premieres. Among them, a couple of short films we’re covering here, since they offer different constructions in cinema and help to measure the temperature of the new bets made by new and young filmmakers.

2017.06.15

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OLHAR DE CINEMA 2017: KING (REY) & RIFLE

Niles Atallah’s King (Rey) and David Pretto’s Rifle, shown as special projections on Olhar de Cinema Film Fest, are discussed here by Desistfilm’s Mónica Delgado and Aldo Padilla.

2017.06.12

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OLHAR DE CINEMA 2017: STILL THE EARTH MOVES & SCRIBBLES, DOODLES AND OTHER MONSTERS

Mónica Delgado offers us a view on Pablo Chavarría Gutiérrez’ Still the earth moves and João Castelo Branco & Elisabeth Moreschi’s Scribbles, Doodles and Other Monsters, on this edition of Olhar du Cinema Film Festival.

2017.06.12

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OLHAR DE CINEMA 2017: A QUIET DREAM BY LU ZHANG

By Mónica Delgado In Brazil, the 6th edition of Olhar de Cinema (Curitiba International Film Festival) has started. This is a space that maintains its

2017.06.09

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(S8) MOSTRA DE CINEMA PERIFÉRICO 2017: AN OVERVIEW

Each year, the [S8] Mostra de Cinema Periférico, celebrated en A Coruña, remains as an unbeatable space to affirm the brilliance of several personalities in experimental cinema, an also, a space to proclaim the validity of a way to make cinema from the resistance. This year, the festival not only showcases the work of Aldo Tambellini, filmmaker linked to the New York’s counter culture scene of the 1960’s, and Helga Fanderl, a master of Super 8, but also explores the work of the historic Joseph Cornell and the Americans Luther Price (a first in Spain) and Steve Polta.

2017.06.08