Tag Archives: Montana Wojczuk

Lebanon by Samuel Maoz


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.

PODCAST: Tim Hetherington and Sebastian Junger


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. [...]

Film Comment Selects: Tales from the Golden Age

Still from TALES FROM THE GOLDEN AGE, 2009, Amintiri din epoca de aur Cristian Mungiu, Ioana Uricaru, Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu & Constantin Popescu. Courtesy Film Comment Selects/Film Society of Lincoln Center. In Cristian Mungiu’s film Tales from the Golden Age, opening on Saturday as part of Lincoln Center’s Film Comment series, these legends often revolve, pardon the pun, around David and Goliath stories—brief moments where an overworked, hungry populace gets the better of a totalitarian government.

Podcast with Harmony Korine at the NYFF

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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

Marsa Onetto in THE HEADLESS WOMAN,  directed by Lucrecia Martel. Photo credit: Strand Releasing.
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.

Jem Cohen

Our intrepid film correspondent Montana Wojczuk caught up with Jem Cohen for this Podcast. They had a broad ranging discussion covering topics from 8-mm film, to Jeff Koons.

Prepare to Meet Thy Odd: Punk, Folk, and Jem Cohen

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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

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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

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Jon Raymond is the author of two books, the dark adventure tale Half Life and a truly incandescent short story collection, Livability.

Sundance Filmmakers Talk: Interview with Cary Fukunaga, Writer/Director of Sin Nombre

When I first saw Sin Nombre it was premiering at the Sundance Film festival.  There was a palpable sense of expectation in the air, and the 1000+ seat theatre was packed.  I hadn’t read anything about the film but already I got the feeling that something special was about to happen.