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OLHAR DE CINEMA 2015 (01): SIGNS OF CINEPHILIA
Kommunisten By Roger Koza The great Gilberto Pérez talked about the Straubs’ films in his magnificent book, The Material Ghost: “Every book, every film, every object that comes down to us from the...
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OLHAR DE CINEMA 2015 (03): THE POWER OF KEEN OBSERVATIONS: FOUR UNORTHODOX...
Battles By Roger Koza Don’t forget this name: Isabelle Tollenaere. His debut, Battles, is an ostensible political film based on keen observations. Battles opens with a philosophical quote: “When the...
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OLHAR DE CINEMA 2015 (04): FICTION AND FREEDOM
Favula By Roger Koza Favula is one of the most beautiful and singular movies of the last years. Who could have filmed something like this not having studied cinema nor in the Moon or in Jupiter?...
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OLHAR DE CINEMA 2015 (05): WAYS OF LIFE
Stinking Heaven By Roger Koza Set in the early 90s, this extraordinary collective portrait -whose subjectivity refers to certain past community experiences in a decadent key- is a modest prodigy of...
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OKTOBER 2015 (03): FILMFEST HAMBURG: FEW WORDS OR A FIRST APPROACH TO A...
By Roger Koza What should we say in few words on Samuray-S, by Raúl Perrone? This film will make history. A filmmaker who lives in a humble Argentinean city conceived a film, divided in three chapters,...
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MES FICUNAM 2016 (25): AND THE WINNERS ARE… ONE FLOOR BELOW AND KAILI BLUES
One Floor Below By Roger Koza Unlike in Marti, dupa Craciun, what is being explored in One Floor Below / Un etaj mai jos is the commitment to truth, and not adultery. The plot is as simple as a...
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MES FICUNAM 2016 (28) / SHORT REVIEWS (19): L’AQUARIUM ET LA NATION / THE...
By Roger Koza L’aquarium et la nation, Jean-Marie Straub, Suiza-Francia, 2015 Straub insists to mitigate triviality, which is always near cinema, although never near this filmmaker that now shoots,...
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THE LAST FILM: FEW WORDS ON LIKE SOMEONE IN LOVE
Like Someone in Love By Roger Koza After some time spent experimenting (Five, 10 on Ten, Shirin), Abbas Kiarostami seems to have found a new way; leaving behind the Iranian villages and children of his...
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SHORT REVIEWS (20): GLOBAL TRIP
*** Masterpiece ***A Must See **Worth Seeing * Has a Reedimg Facet ° Worthless By Roger Koza The Iron Ministry, J. P. Sniadecki, China-EE.UU., 2014 (***) Any film about present China is also a...
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SHORT REVIEWS (21): THE INVISIBLE REMAINDER
*** Masterpiece ***A Must See **Worth Seeing * Has a Reedimg Facet ° Worthless By Roger Koza Byl Mesjaz Maj / It Was the Month of May, Marlen Khutsiev, Ex-URSS, 1970 (****) A preamble of horror in 7...
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SHORT REVIEWS (22): POPULAR TALES
*** Masterpiece ***A Must See **Worth Seeing * Has a Reedimg Facet ° Worthless By Roger Koza Aquel querido mês de agosto / Our Belowed Month of August, Portugal-Francia, 2008 (****) Aquele querido...
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SHORT REVIEWS (23): COLLECTIVE MYTHS
*** Masterpiece ***A Must See **Worth Seeing * Has a Reedimg Facet ° Worthless Ausma / Dawn, Latvia-Estonia-Poland, 2015 (***) By Roger Koza The message lies on the poetics; and the true plot is...
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SHORT REVIEWS (24): MEMORIES AND PLACES
*** Masterpiece ***A Must See **Worth Seeing * Has a Reedimg Facet ° Worthless Beskonechnost/ Infinitas, Rusia, 1992 (****) By Roger Koza Heaven is infinite, but this doesn’t mean it can offer any...
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SHORT REVIEWS (25): DISPLACEMENTS AND IDENTITY
*** Masterpiece ***A Must See **Worth Seeing * Has a Reedimg Facet ° Worthless Pod Elektricheskimi oblakami / Under Electric Clouds, Russia-Ukraine-Poland, 2015 (***) By Roger Koza A couple of...
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SHORT REVIEWS (26): OUR MEN
*** Masterpiece ***A Must See **Worth Seeing * Has a Reedimg Facet ° Worthless Chevalier, Greece, 2015 (**) By Roger Koza Chevalier opens with a panoramic shot of a coast in which two men can be...
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