♦ Introduction
This blog is a place for all contributors of Nisimazine to continue to write, photograph, make video and discuss cinema together after the workshops. An extension of the magazine, this is a free space to keep sharing new insights and experiences through reviews, essays, quotes, interviews and festival reports. You can join any conversation by posting comments. So…, let’s go !
Tuesday 27 April 2010
By Romain Pichon-Sintes (France),
27 April 2010
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Cannes 2010
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Chit-chat croissants and vague rumours at the Critic’s Week breakfast. The storm’s festival is coming and nothing really happens until then. Just sit and hear the thunder.
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Friday 16 April 2010
By Maria Dicieanu (Romania),
16 April 2010
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Cannes 2010
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The month of May in cinephile language means one thing and one thing only: “the festival of Cannes”. Whether all roads still lead to Rome or not, it’s a matter for the Mythbusters to investigate, but we are completely sure that in the last month of spring, film-makers and actors all over the world travel (some using mind-power only) to the exquisite resort in the South of France that hosts one of the most important film festivals of the world: Cannes.
It doesn’t really matter if you’re a (…)
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By Anna Sajewicz (Russia),
16 April 2010
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Free section
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Korotkoe zamykanie (Short circuit) Five short films. Five love stories. Five young Russian directors. Among them Ivan Vyrypaev and his story. A young Polish girl comes to Moscow. She’s hanging around the city during Victory Day, she’s observing people, taking pictures, relaxing. She meets a guy, young Russian boy. They don’t understand each other cause the girl doesn’t speak Russian. But they are talking. The point is not to UNDESRTAND but to FEEL, to SENSE. The Russian guy says – the time of (…)
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Monday 12 April 2010
By Bruno Carmelo (Brazil),
12 April 2010
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Mas y Mas
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“You stupid critic, you have no idea what you are talking about, why don’t you give up writing and try to make films to see how it works, little son of a …”.
Indeed, I haven’t made any film. I don’t even consider myself a film critic either, just someone with a film blog as millions of others out there. However, that did not stop me from receiving about four insults a day after writing some criticism about a brazilian film. It took me a while to find out that these comments came from (…)
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By Donal Foreman (Ireland),
12 April 2010
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Mas y Mas
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My beginnings in cinema were thoughtless, impulsive and tactile. I started making films with my friends at age 11, initially as an arbitrary way to pass the time but soon developing into an unbeatable creative and social space for us to play in. Writing about film came a few years later, as a way to make sense of this activity that had already become so central to my life, seeking its powers and potential beyond the visceral excitement of the process that had hooked me in the first place. (…)
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By Eftihia Stefanidi (Greece),
12 April 2010
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Mas y Mas
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In an attempt to undermine the role of the critic, a painter friend of mine said that “critics are only dependent on artists providing material as ‘food for thought’, therefore with no works of art, criticism cannot exist.” Steering clear of such a nihilist supposition, one can wonder how film history would have developed, if observations and reflections on cinematic encounters were not as doggedly written. Unquestionably, there is rigorous, mediocre, and bad criticism: intelligent criticism is (…)
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By Mario Kozina (Croatia),
12 April 2010
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Mas y Mas
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Imagine a typical middle-European cafe in the beginning of the sixties: murmur of the voices, rattle of glasses and coffee cups, heavy layers of smoke and a group of people gathered around the same table, discussing something more passionately than any other guest. They were regulars at the cafe, and other guests had even got used to their passionate polemics that in some situations bordered on the verge of physical confrontation. "The polemic tone of these conversations sometimes began to (…)
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Wednesday 7 April 2010
By Maximilien van Aertryck (Germany/France),
7 April 2010
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Cannes 2010
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While we are still betting on rumors about the sacred selection, this year’s poster dropped a few days ago, and it surprised many is the least we can say. Now, nobody really wants to endorse the book cover judge, but let’s blame that on journalistic duty:
Juliette Binoche is light painting the word Cannes in a cranky position, exhibiting an even stranger mimic; "did you take the picture yet Brigitte? My arm kinda hurts", is what she said moments after (rumors, rumors…).
The world of (…)
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By Andreea Dobre (Romania),
7 April 2010
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Cannes 2010
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Let the drums roll and the hands clap, for Cinema has announced its new Goddess!
Last week, Le Festival de Cannes released its 63rd official poster. Starring in Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Trois Couleurs: Bleu, Michael Haneke’s Code Inconnu and Caché or Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Le voyage du ballon rouge, Juliette Binoche became one of the most magnetic symbols of high-class Francophone film. It’s now time for her to personify the 7th art in a gracious and powerful image, completed with grafic design by (…)
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Tuesday 6 April 2010
By Maartje Alders (The Netherlands),
6 April 2010
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Cannes 2010
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Now we start to have a faint recollection there was once a life without padded coats in our Paris office and try to remember in which closet we stuffed our bathing suits last fall, we our proud to announce the selection of a new Nisimazine Team for Cannes 2010!
Here they are:
Journalists: Olivier Croughs (Belgium), Laurie Zaffarana (Belgium), Maximilien van Aertryck (Belgium), Romain Pichon-Sintes (France), Geoffrey Crété (France), Erzsébet Plájás (Romania), Andreea Dobre (Romania), Alex (…)
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