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December 30, 2005
Foundas finds foreign film foundering
in LA Weekly, Scott Foundas chooses the best movies that didn't play Los Angeles in 2005: Robert LePage's The Far Side of the Moon; Claire Denis' The Intruder; Marco Bellochio's My Mother's Smile; Adam Curtis' The Power of Nightmares: the Rise of the Politics of Fear and his The Century of the Self; and Theo Angelopoulos' epic The Weeping Meadow.
"The set pieces in The Weeping Meadow—including the flooding of an entire village Angelopoulos had constructed from scratch for the filming—are remarkable, but above all, the movie feels like a summary of everything Angelopoulos has done, and a renewal. As Eliot said, “In my beginning is my end.” And vice versa."
Posted by pride at December 30, 2005 01:24 PM
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