This year's guest artistic director is Agnes Varda. The films she's selected to screen during the fest are right up my alley.
Agnes Varda on her selection of THE MARRIAGE OF MARIA BRAUN:
Hannah Schygulla offers an memorable performance. She is wounded, strong, fragile, beautiful. Fassbinder makes us follow her sinuous path. We are caught in the stream of her destiny. Some scenes in the film are printed in my memory: Maria is half-lost among a crowd at a train station, asking about Herman Braun. We know that they were married for only a day-and-a-half. Maria is in love with an American, a big, black, strong, beautiful man. He is naked in the room when Herman returns. A unique version of ‘the returning soldier’ story, gone wrong! Later, Maria becomes the mistress of a rich industrialist, and we feel the way she rebuilds herself from the ruins of the war to a comfortable situation is an allegory of post-war Germany.
Japanese movies:
THE WIND ALSO RISES
Most likely Hayao Miyazaki's last movie. R.I.P. in advance, guy.
Unless he pulls a Steve Jobs and works all the way to his deathbed, there won't be any more Ghibli movies helmed by Miyazaki. Poop.
R100
PASS:
THE SELFISH GIANT
MY DOG KILLER
THE PAST
Korean movies:
OUR SUNHI
PIETA (2012)
by Kim Ki Duk
a+ would watch again
MOEBIUS (2013)
by Kim Ki Duk
a+ would watch again
MOEBIUS (2013)
by Kim Ki Duk
prolific motherfucker
W/ U:
THE LAST EMPEROR (3D)
W/O U:
LONE SURVIVOR
JUVENILE OFFENDER
IN BLOOM
WILD HORSES (19 min)
DECLARATION OF WAR (7 min)
SYNDROMEDA (25 min)
W/ O W/O U:
JUVENILE OFFENDER
CLEO FROM 5 TO 7!
CHILD'S POSE
Shorts program:
BUTTER LAMP (15 min)
SOCIAL BUTTERFLY (15 min)
DECLARATION OF WAR (7 min)
THE EVENT (4 min)
TOKYO GIANTS (20 min)
CATHERINE (13 min)
Jenny Slate's Significant Other directs most of her work. Cutie X Cutie.
