Tag: documentary
Autoluminescent
Saturday, November 5th, 2011 Film Reviews, Other Writing,“I was a nightmare, but I’m not gonna go there again..” sings Rowland S. Howard in the plaintive song that gives this documentary its title. We never quite see the nightmarish side, but Howard was a long-term heroine user and few addicts are known for their charm and savoir faire. He was an addict ergo […]
Page One: Inside the New York Times
Saturday, October 8th, 2011 Film Reviews,Think of the New York Times and Tom Wolfe’s acqueous description in The Painted Word comes quickly to mind: “that great public bath, that vat, that spa, that regional physiotherapy tank, that White Sulphur Springs, that Marienbad, that Ganges, that River Jordan for a million souls”.. a daily ritual immersion in news and commentary – […]
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Saturday, October 1st, 2011 Film Reviews,Whatever one thinks of Werner Herzog, it has to be admitted that he has a grandiloquent way with titles. Even Dwarves Started Small (1970) is hard to beat. In Australia in 1984, he made the peculiar – and pretty dreadful – film, Where the Green Ants Dream. His 1992 documentary on the oil fires burning […]
Pina
Wednesday, August 31st, 2011 Film Reviews,Wuppertal in Germany’s North-Rhine area is chiefly known for two things: the Pina Bausch Tanztheater, and its suspended monorail, the Schwebebahn. In Pina, his ground-breaking foray into the field of 3D documentary, Wim Wenders gives us a generous helping of both these attractions. It is a premise of Pina that dance, or bodily movement, is […]