Tag: Director: Alonso

  • Lisandro Alonso: Who’s John Ford?

    Lisandro Alonso: Who’s John Ford?

    Originally published at Senses of Cinema.

  • TIFF ’08 Wrap-Up

    TIFF ’08 Wrap-Up

    Here’s a quick breakdown of what I saw, more or less in order of preference. I’m never sure how to handle the Wavelengths shorts, so I’ve included several of them that I thought were especially strong and arbitrarily omitted others. Wavelengths was, without question, the highlight of TIFF for me this year.

  • Los Muertos (2004)

    Los Muertos (2004)

    What fascinates me about Los Muertos is that it explores the connection between form and content by taking all of the tropes of “transcendental cinema” and staining them, by narrative means, with dread and violence. It reminds me of Brian Eno’s answer (apocryphal, perhaps) when he was asked if he was the father of New Age music: “No, my music has evil in it.”