Samuel Maoz made Lebanon to make sense of his own experiences as a soldier in the Lebanese war of the 1980s. Montana Wojczuk assesses the film and addresses the various gestation period for clear narratives that deal with traumatic events in history.
Category Archives: In Sight
Lebanon by Samuel Maoz
September 21, 2010 – 3:00 pm
PODCAST: Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger
June 28, 2010 – 4:50 pm
Montana Wojczuk interviews Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington about their film, RESTREPO, which won the 2010 Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Documentary. RESTREPO documents Junger and Hetherington’s experience as journalists in the Korengal Valley in Afghanistan, at the American military outpost of the same name, deep in Taliban-controlled territory. [...]
An Interview with Bahman Ghobadi
April 21, 2010 – 3:29 pm
No One Knows About Persian Cats, is a story about a struggling Iranian band whose members become unwitting political activists. He talks to Montana Wojczuk about the music scene and the difficulties of shooting a film in Tehran.
Podcast with Harmony Korine at the NYFF
December 4, 2009 – 5:11 pm
There was a mood surrounding Harmony Korine’s new film Trash Humpers that started long before the lights went down. The mostly 20-30 something audience wore their best casual cool—flannels and leather jackets on the women and men with stylish hats and ironic facial hair. In that way fashion comes ’round on itself it felt oddly very much like 1995. People kept saying how happy they were to see each other, it had been so long, and I’ve heard so much about you. I got the feeling a lot of Korine’s friends had turned out. At times it felt more like a house party than a movie premiere.
Premiering Today at Film Forum: Lucretia Martel’s The Headless Woman
August 19, 2009 – 4:57 pm
Filmmaker Lucretia Martel has often been compared to David Lynch, but where Lynch’s films give off the rank smell of a decaying swamp (with who knows what sunk to the bottom), Martel’s new film reminds me of the arid beauty of a bone left in the sun.
Prepare to Meet Thy Odd: Punk, Folk, and Jem Cohen
July 16, 2009 – 6:45 pm
Something about the combination of watching a miner’s son wail and a skinny kid writhing to his own beat was absolutely heartbreaking.
Stay the Same, Never Change: Mumblecore Cinema and The Essay Film
June 2, 2009 – 2:37 pm
For the past several years I’ve been studiously avoiding mumblecore cinema, not because it’s low-budget or uses amateur actors, in other words not because I’m a blow-things-up junkie, but because it bored me.
Interview With Wendy and Lucy Author Jon Raymond
May 12, 2009 – 4:56 pm
Jon Raymond is the author of two books, the dark adventure tale Half Life and a truly incandescent short story collection, Livability.
GenArt Film Festival: Picture Me, A Model’s Diary
April 5, 2009 – 1:55 pm
This Monday, April 6th the film Picture Me: A Model’s Diary premieres at the GenArt Film Festival. I sat down with directors Ole Schell and Sara Ziff to ask them about the process of making the film. Picture Me started out with hundreds of hours of home movie-type footage the filmmakers took backstage, at home [...]
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Film Comment Selects: Tales from the Golden Age
By Montana Wojczuk