Box office returns would suggest that if you are reading this you’ve already seen Inception, Christopher Nolan’s latest summer-blockbuster-meets-high-art release that tells the tale of Cobb, the dream pirate, and his team of sleepytime co-conspirators. While Inception passes itself off as a psychological thriller, it is also a new kind of apocalypse movie, [...]
Brock Enright: Good Times Will Never Be the Same / Christianne Hedtke / NY Export: Opus Jazz / Wild Combination
June 29, 2010 0Absolute zero is defined as the temperature at which thermodynamic systems cease molecular function as we know it—a state of matter that is virtually impossible to achieve in our universe. Scientists have never actually reached it, but as they’ve gotten close they’ve discovered that as temperatures approach absolute zero, matter takes on mindbending properties [...]
Along with his directorial debut, What Is It?, Crispin Hellion Glover is presenting It Is Fine. Everything Is Fine! at the IFC Center in NYC. The second of the It Trilogy (perhaps to generate hype for the eagerly-anticipated It Is Mine), It Is Fine. Everything Is Fine! is a heartwarming tale of a wheelchair-bound [...]
As the festival continues, I have been watching so many movies I don’t have the time or the energy to update on every single one. And, as it is not BananaWho’s stance to bash emerging filmmakers, I will only be giving you the highlights.
Just Like Us
I have been waiting for a movie exactly like [...]
NY Export: Opus Jazz premieres on PBS March 24th, 2010. That’s tonight!
The Congolese Okapi and the ballerina are two of the rarest, most elegant living creatures to remain among earth’s biodiversity, and yet only the ballerina has successfully captured its own majesty and relevance on film. “The first film conceived, created, produced, [...]
Visit A Gringo in Buenos Aires to see my guest post on BsAs cinema!
-Christianne Hedtke
The death of a parent, the unspoken-of death of a child and the soon-to-be-avenged murder of a spouse stand uncontested in the lexicon of film deaths. All three offer clean, efficient endearment to a character but keep that tang of gossip about them. There is nothing to confuse an audience in the misguided struggle of [...]
Here’s another silent short from the archives: 2005’s Rabbit by Run Wrake, an illustrator and animator who works out of London. Rabbit is, in BananaWho’s opinion, Wrake’s most successful short film out of a body of very interesting work, but you, Dear Reader, are welcome to choose your own favorite here.
Sadly, the critically-condemned [...]
Here in America, we take Francois Truffaut’s title for granted, but “The 400 Blows” translated more accurately approximates the English phrase, “Raising Hell.” With this translation in mind, watch Fish Tank, the sophomore feature film from writer/director Andrea Arnold. Hers is a contemporary (read: feminine) homage to The 400 Blows that follows adolescent [...]
In a recent interview with Tin House magazine, the seasoned French novelist Amélie Nothomb shared her view that, “the biggest discovery in life is time.” While at its simplest, Scott Cooper’s Crazy Heart is a story about getting sober, it is also about a man awakening to the discovery of time.
Jeff Bridges is Bad [...]