Monthly Archives: February, 2012

Blood Complicated

The Cinema Guild folks have picked up the prestigious 2011 winner of the IDFA's Best Feature-Length Documentary Award. A portrait that will likely leave makes waves on the upcoming festival circuit (not unlike the IDFA's previous winners in Last Train Home, Burma VJ, Stranded) Seung-jun Yi’s “Planet of Snail" will receive several local U.S festival showings (e.g. Hot Docs, Silverdocs) this Spring and Summer before receiving its theatrical run.

Given the repetition of their three features, and the recurring criticism that individual bits work better than any coherent whole does, there would be little protest if Abel, Gordon, and Romy switched to exclusively dabble in the short film format. There isn't the same kind of spotlight as there is on features, but then I'm not sure these guys need one shone on them anyway.

"There’s certainly a market for teenage heroes, but Beattie’s flaccid adaptation feels like a bloated exercise in time wasting (but, rest assured, TWTWB 2 and 3 are already in the works)."

If you love the smell of adolescence in the morning….