Where I live is very important to me . . . even if it’s a hole in the wall, it’s my hole in the wall.” — one of the residents of the Century Plaza Eric Lahey, the production assistant on Gus Van Sant’s Elephant (2003) whose artwork was used, spent more than six months at […]
Daily Archives: February 18, 2008
From Mexico, but in Plautdietsch, not Spanish, because it deals with Mennonites, Stellet licht is as mysterious as either cosmos or humanity. Its title refers to dawn, but also to cinema, and writer-director Carlos Reygadas draws upon Dreyer, Bergman (note the clock), Tarkovsky (note the wet), Tarr, others. Recalling Sokurov’s Spiritual Voices (1996), the opening […]
Dennis Grunes 