At sea #15

Manhunter - Michael Mann, 1986, 35mm

At sea #14

Jerichow - Christian Petzold, 2008, 35mm

Soft Fictions

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Chick Strand: Soft Fictions, a short and essential season at Tate Modern, 13-15 November, all 16mm. Curated by George Clark.

Realism(s) #59

South of Market - Janet Delaney, 1978-1986

The Dragon is the Frame

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Mary Helena Clark's excellent, mysterious, elusive The Dragon is the Frame (2014) has been streaming (in HD) on Vimeo for a little while, for free. Related: GAY GAZE – R.I.P. the great Mark Aguhar.

Realism(s) #58

Vivir para Vivir - Laida Lertxundi, 2015, 16mm

'All that was left was rubble'

Birds flying over destroyed homes in Khalidiya district, Homs - Sergey Ponomarev, 15/06/2014

Hou in London

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Next month at BFI Southbank: a complete Hou Hsiao-hsien retrospective. Highlights that are otherwise completely unavailable on watchable video copies: Edward Yang's Taipei Story, Daughter of the Nile, The Puppetmaster. Also: Flowers of Shanghai (in a new 35mm print that I've been warned is not quite optimal), Good Men, Good Women, Millennium Mambo, Café Lumière, etc.

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Also worth noting: Horse Money screens in London, Manchester and across from the UK from 18th September, thanks to Second Run. Elsewhere: a Lav Diaz retrospective in Brussels, and AND in Grizedale Forest.