Kaneko’s Commissary
Bowing in Busan’s New Currents competition, Japanese filmmaker Go Furukawa’s feature-length debut, ‘Kaneko’s Commissary’, offers a delicate, humane and relentlessly life-affirming tale about an ex-con.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Oct 3, 2024 | Busan 2024, Festivals |
Bowing in Busan’s New Currents competition, Japanese filmmaker Go Furukawa’s feature-length debut, ‘Kaneko’s Commissary’, offers a delicate, humane and relentlessly life-affirming tale about an ex-con.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Oct 2, 2024 | Festivals, Busan 2024 |
Park Chan-wook produces and pens Kim Sang-man’s ‘Uprising’, a visually and politically-stirring period-drama-meets-action-thriller set during the Japanese invasion of Korea at the end of the 16th century.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Sep 25, 2024 | Cine Verdict, Festivals, San Sebastian 2024 |
Usando los impactantes paisajes del lugar, su compleja historia e intrigante aislamiento, el director José Luis Torres Leiva lentamente desenreda las emociones largamente reprimidas de una citadina angustiada a través de inspiradores encuentros con un grupo de locales en Cuando las nubes cubren las sombras de José Luis Torres Leiva.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Sep 2, 2024 | Venice 2024, Featured, Festivals |
A retired military sniper tries to atone for his murderous past in ‘Phantosmia’, Philippine auteur Lav Diaz’s poetic, reflective, modest yet visually captivating study of guilt and redemption.
Read MorePosted by Clarence Tsui | Aug 16, 2024 | Festivals, Locarno 2024 |
Radu Jude teases the profound out of the profane with a manic, comical collage of material drawn from TV commercials produced in Romania after the collapse of its Communist regime in 1989.
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