Posts by Pascal A

Yeah, apparently You is a well-known pop singer, so I guess it's like Cher. I liked Nobody Knows a lot, but not to the extent of After Life or Maborosi (although I did like it more than Distance). I agree that it's a draining...

I recently caught Nina's Tragedies at the New York Jewish Film Festival, and it's being released by Wellspring in March to at least New York. It has a morbidly funny intertwined narrative that's incredibly well done. Highly recommended.

Tribeca is running a little earlier this year, 4/21 to 5/1. You may want to keep an eye out on their TFF website for updates.

I go by what I saw between 1/1-12/31/04 so I'm not still second guessing for months after the end of the year or holding out mentioning films until they get wider distribution. Anyway, here's my list: 01. The Story of Marie and...

Michael, I'm an Almodóvar fan from way back and having seen all of his films, Bad Education is definitely one of his darkest, with Matador being the only other film that comes close. All of the characters are equally sympathetic as...

Here are my lumped rankings from the New York Film Festival: Must See Bad Education (Pedro Almodóvar) – Almodóvar's most structurally complex film to date, not as perfectly sustained throughout as All About My Mother, but better...

My personal experience with respect to Chantal Akerman's films (except for News from Home which I immediately connected with for personal reasons) has always been that I leave the film neither impressed nor unimpressed, but that, in the...

Quote: Brent, I saw a print of Tokyo Story a couple of years ago that was much worse than the DVD. The original negative no longer exists. But there was a better restoration ongoing at Tokyo University however, at the last...

Okay, just got back from the New York Video Festival, and while most of the programs were short film compilations (usually experimental, but some accessible works as well), I did catch three features. War at a Distance (Harun...

Quote: The Mother and the Whore Pseudo-intellectual twit convinces his live in lover to have a ménage a trio & gets more than he bargained for. French New Wave films are prone to wallow in pretension and this one is no...