Abendland is a 2011 documentary film by Nikolaus Geyrhalter . The documentary, which has only scenes at night, explores European obsession with technology and security. It was released in Austria and Germany in 2011 and in the United States in 2012.
6-408: Manohla Dargis of The New York Times called Abendland a "visually precise and politically amorphous" portrait of an imagined community : "The overall impression is a vision of Europe as a mosaic, as an artful amalgam of perfectly framed, seemingly disconnected moments during a long shared night, give or take a time zone change or two." Nick Pinkerton, reviewing for The Village Voice , describes
12-409: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to an Austrian film is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Manohla Dargis Manohla June Dargis ( / m ə ˈ n oʊ l ə ˈ d ɑːr ɡ ɪ s / mə- NOH -lə DAR -ghiss ) is an American film critic . She is the chief film critic for The New York Times . She is a five-time finalist for
18-641: The Pulitzer Prize for Criticism . Before being a film critic for The New York Times , Dargis was a chief film critic for the Los Angeles Times , the film editor at the LA Weekly , and a film critic at The Village Voice , where she had two columns on avant-garde cinema ("CounterCurrents" and "Shock Corridor"). Her work has been included in a number of books, including Women and Film: A Sight and Sound Reader and American Movie Critics: An Anthology from
24-775: The Silents Until Now, published by the Library of America . She wrote a monograph on Curtis Hanson 's film L.A. Confidential for the British Film Institute and served as the president and vice-president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association . In 2012, Dargis received the Nelson A. Rockefeller Award from Purchase College ; the award is, according to the college, "presented to individuals who have distinguished themselves through their contributions to
30-772: The arts." She was also a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Criticism in 2013, 2015, 2016, 2018, and 2019. Dargis participated in the 2012 Sight & Sound critics' poll , where she listed her 10 favorite films: For the 2022 edition of the Sight & Sound poll Dargis' ballot included: Dargis grew up in Manhattan 's East Village , demonstrating an early love of film through regular attendance at St. Mark's Cinema and Theatre 80 . She graduated from Hunter College High School and received her BA in literature from State University of New York at Purchase in January 1985. She received
36-408: The documentary, "The film's principal subjects are the eurozone's service and security industries, showing a continent busy saving its citizens from themselves." Pinkerton compared Abendland to the works of other Austrian directors Ulrich Seidl and Michael Glawogger in how they show "under-the-hood images of the global economy’s workings". This article about a scientific documentary film
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