articles by Aily Nash
The Shifting Landscape of Criticism
Berlinale Talent Press, February 11, 2012
The Shifting Landscape of Criticism How does one define a critic these days? Until recently one could have argued that a film critic is someone who makes a living by publishing his thoughts on films. Yet these days, the publishing of one's thoughts is as possible for the layman as checki ...
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Modesty Bites
Berlinale Talent Press, May 05, 2010
Modesty Bites The bus as a platform for social change: living with discrimination in present-day Israel. What initially comes to mind when watching Anat Yuta Zuria's Berlinale Forum contribution BLACK BUS (Israel) is Rosa Parks and the civil right's movement, yet we are reminded that eve ...
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A Different Kind of Dogma
Berlinale Talent Press, February 16, 2010
A Different Kind of Dogma No matter how bad it gets, there's still hope in this latest effort from Dogma 95 co-founder Thomas Vinterberg that premiered at the Berlinale Competition. Every tragic thing that could possibly happen, happens in Thomas Vinterberg's Berlinale Competi ...
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It’s Alchemy
Berlinale Talent Press, February 16, 2010
It's Alchemy Estonian Nukufilms animator Mait Laas talks about creating new worlds from scratch at the Berlinale Talent Campus panel "Pencils, Puppets and Pixels". How and why did you get involved in animation? In Estonia I studied art, drama, and skills of choreography. I had ...
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Glimpses of Insight
Berlinale Talent Press, February 17, 2010
Glimpses of Insight "Directing Actors": a speech by Johanna ter Steege on the work of the performer and its relationship with the director. The Q&A after Johanna ter Steege's speech started off with a jolt as the first question was delivered as a stern criticism that seeme ...
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Letters and Tablecloths Speak
Berlinale Talent Press, February 18, 2010
Letters and Tablecloths Speak Focus on the Berlinale Retrospektive for Aki Kaurismäki's THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL, introduced by Jasmila Žbanić. Jasmila Žbanić (director of ON THE PATH in this year's Berlinale Competition) chose and introduced THE MATCH FACTORY GIRL as her select ...
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The Human Aspect
Berlinale Talent Press, November 25, 2010
The Human Aspect Mexican filmmaker David Pablos talks about his time at the Berlinale Talent Campus and his new film ONE FRONTIER, ALL FRONTIERS David Pablos, a Mexican filmmaker, now working on his MFA at Columbia University through a Fulbright Scholarship, participated in th ...
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