Tag: Review
Festival de Cannes Review: The Ballad of Narayama (1983)
One of the many hidden gems within 1950’s Japanese cinema is 1958’s The Ballad of Narayama, which is a masterpiece with supreme depth and emotions….
Festival de Cannes Review: Parasite (2019)
The festival buzz was at its peak for Parasite, as the latest film from the accomplished director Bong Joon-ho (director of Memories of Murder), and…
Festival de Cannes Review: Red Road (2006)
Red Road won the Jury Award at Cannes in 2006. Directed by Andrea Arnold (Fish Tank, American Honey), this is a tense and paranoid psychological…
Film Review: How to Build a Girl (2019)
Caitlin Moran is a somewhat controversial media figure and is considered a leading voice in (white) feminism via her Times columns and her Twitter feed….
Korean Film: 화녀 / Woman of Fire (1971)
In 2006, I was lucky enough to attend a Kim Ki-young retrospective at Cinémathèque Francaise. The director is probably mostly known for The Housemaid (Hanyo)….
Pablo Larraín’s Ema (2019) comes to MUBI
The somehow sedated delirium of Pablo Larraín‘s cinema exudes a heated energy in his latest directorial effort, Ema. The opening scene of a traffic light…
Review: Last Call (2019)
Very rarely does a film successfully achieve a new cinematic feat in modern-day cinema. Last Call, directed by Gavin Michael Booth, has managed to do…
Review: Poetry (2010)
Some time in 2011, I had the good fortune of being able to travel from California’s Central Valley to San Francisco to see a film…
Memories of Murder (2003) Review
As someone who never used to really dabble in a lot of foreign cinema, the first time I sat down to watch a foreign movie…
Train To Busan: A Quarantine First Take
I love zombie movies. My dad showed me Night of the Living Dead when I was like ten, and he went on at length about…
1957 In Film: Throne of Blood
Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood is a graphic retelling of Shakespeare’s Macbeth as told in feudal Japan. Although the film does not carry with it any of…
1957 in Film: I Am Waiting
Japanese cinema from the 1950s remains one of the strongest periods in film ever. With masters in cinema such as Yasujirō Ozu, Keisuke Kinoshita, and,…
Review: System Crasher
Child actress, now eleven years old, Helena Zengel, has made the natural progression to sensation look like a breeze. Within seconds of watching her play…
1957 in Film: A King in New York
In the middle of the McCarthy communist-hunt, Charlie Chaplin ended up being exiled from the United States due to his open criticisms of the government…
