Below you will find our favorite films of the 68th Berlin International Film Festival, as well as an index of our coverage.AwardsTOP Pickstop 10(1) Transit (Christian Petzold)(2) Infinite Football (Corneliu Porumboiu)(3) An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo)(4) The Waldheim Waltz (Ruth Beckermann)(5) Season of the Devil (Lav Diaz)(6) In the Realm of Perfection (Julian Faraut)(7) Classical Period (Ted Fendt)(8) Notes on an Appearance (Ricky D'Ambrose)(9) Inland Sea (Kazuhiro Soda) & Unsane (Steven Soderbergh)(Contributors: Annabel Ivy Brady-Brown, Giovanni Marchini Camia, Celluloid Liberation Front, Adam Cook, David Hudson, Jordan Cronk, Daniel Kasman, Olaf Möller, Michael Pattison, Richard Porton, Christopher Small, Barbara Wurm)Daniel Kasman(1) Season of the Devil (2) The Waldheim Waltz (3) Grass (4) Jamila (5) Foreboding (6) Transit (7) An Elephant Sitting Still (8) Infinite Football (9) In the Realm of Perfection (10) Inland SeaADAM Cook(1) Infinite Football (2) The Tree (3) Season of the Devil (4) Transit (5) Grass (6) In the Realm of Perfection (7) Optimism (8) Isle of Dogs (9) The Waldheim Waltz (10) L.
- 3/6/2018
- MUBI
I have long had an affection for moving pictures of people sitting. More so even than depictions of walking, I’m quite sure that it is an axiom of the cinema. Naturally, as with all cinematic phenomena, it is a holdover from other, purer art forms. In photography and painting too, sitting is also an axiom, practically a genre in itself. On the stage a sedentary character is often the crux of a scene emotionally, an audience surrogate who listens to the other characters as we do the performance. Sitting has been overlooked by historians of the cinema no doubt because it lacks the stylishness of a stride. I would contend that, to pluck an example from the air, the sequence in Howard Hawks’ Rio Bravo in which the main characters sit and sing two hammy songs back to back is every bit the equal of Rosalind Russell’s celebrated gait in His Girl Friday.
- 2/20/2018
- MUBI
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