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In a festival full of eyebrow-raising loglines, SLANTED pushes the envelope furthest. I spoke with its debut writer-director Amy Wang about the tonal and racial shifts her film undergoes #SXSW2025 screenanarchy.com/2025/03/sxsw...

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In France, you can buy an economy size bag of sugar-coated Smurfs in the supermarket. Until now, I never had a reason to contemplate the philosophical question of what I would do if I had a whole bag of Smurfs.

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not sure I should be doing this, too demanding, tricky, and slippery...but anyway: Documentary ethics, informed consent, and journalism vs documentary: The Black Box Diaries “case” asian-docs.com/2025/03/10/d...

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"People think that [Hong Sangsoo is] always doing the same movie, but he’s constantly changing. Of course, not in a psychotic way. It’s not that now he’ll do the complete opposite. There’s a sort of working program, thinking and rethinking." Matías Piñeiro talks with @blakethinks.bsky.social:

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Dems look like they're bidding on fascism at a silent auction

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In my favourite interview to date, I spoke with Lily Franky about his career at large and COTTONTAIL www.easternkicks.com/features/lil...

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It's interesting that two of the harshest critiques of Itō Shiori's approach in her Black Box Diaries come from two female documentary filmmakers, Mikami Chie and Yang Yonghi... I really should write a post indexing all the articles written on the subject...

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MEDIA CAT ACTIVATE

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First Best Director Oscar winner to own a Blu-ray commentary by @theendofcinema.bsky.social and myself

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Another addition to the National Film Archive of Japan website is the upload of 873 flyers and programs from Japanese movie theaters between 1905 and 1936. Theater programs are a long and rich part of Japanese cinema history. nfajfilmheritage.jp

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Watch the brand-new theatrical trailer for Matías Piñeiro's YOU BURN ME on @thefilmstage.bsky.social. The film opens Fri 3/7 at @anthologyfilm.bsky.social in NYC, followed by LA and Chicago. A @cinemaguild.com release. thefilmstage.com/exclusive-tr...

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PSA that NICKEL BOYS is now streaming on Prime in the UK

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A film I went on about a fair bit when it came out, which I think is really special but which nobody bloody watched because you're all idiots (/it got a tiny cinema release) has landed on BBC iPlayer. Watch GODLAND! Phone off, full attention please. Thank me later

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What happens when you translate a cinematic vow of chastity to the most maximalist form of theatre? I explored the Royal Opera House production of FESTEN for @lwlies.com lwlies.com/articles/fes...

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SLOW WEST director John Maclean is finally back with TORNADO! Kôki, Tim Roth and Jack Lowden deliver strong performances in a thriller that I wish lived up to the promise of its terrific first act. My @indiewire.com.web.brid.gy review from the Glasgow Film Festival www.indiewire.com/criticism/mo...

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For @screenanarchy.bsky.social, I spoke with actor-turned-director Toshizo Fujiwara about his Berlinale-premiered third feature THE LONGING, learning from the masters, collaborating with his cast, and remembering his youth. I really love this interview. screenanarchy.com/2025/02/berl...

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I'm sure New York friends already know about Subway Cinema's Sundays on Fire, but I think they should turn out for this one specifically. Just saying...

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It’s been 20 years since I last saw Maggie Cheung and I’m glad she’s finally back, even if this sequel seems to have taken a strange turn.

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Mainichi has an English write-up on Shiori Ito's decision to re-edit "Black Box Diaries". The documentary's use of unauthorized footage has been the main barrier to a domestic cinema release. mainichi.jp/english/arti...

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advice to young writers: - begin the first sentence of every paragraph with, "So basically the whole deal is, is that [...]" - begin subsequent sentences with, "And plus, [...]" - end every paragraph with, "So that basically wraps it up as far as all that goes." - 4 blank lines between paragraphs

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In a sparky "yes, and" of a chat, I spoke with GRAND THEFT HAMLET directors Sam Crane and Pinny Grylls about their inventive in-game doc, promenade performance in virtual spaces, and MUBI's dynamic curation GTH drops this Friday on MUBI screenanarchy.com/2025/02/gran...

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Happy Valentine's to the haves, and to the have-nots. Here's some words from me, for you, about the limerent cinema that I can't get out of my head. Romantic projection: 10 great films about delusional love: screensphere.co.uk/news/10-grea...

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Thrilled to share my wonderful interview with none other than The People's Joker, Vera Drew, in which we caught up a whole two and a half years after that very first screening at TIFF. Shout out to Little White Lies for bringing me in for this one AND Jake Alexander for that perfect header art.

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Once a Roman Porno director, now a director of period romance, Negishi Kichitaro is a fascinating figure. I sat down with him at IFFR, where we discussed the problematic elements in pink cinema, his decade-long hiatus, and Taisho-set screenwriting screenanarchy.com/2025/02/rott...

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I spoke with Lois Patiño for @cineuropa.bsky.social about his IFFR stand-out ARIEL, interpolating Shakespeare's texts, his interest in spectator experience, and this metatextual moment in the Argentine film space cineuropa.org/en/interview...

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Sad to report that Kurodahan appears to be closing up shop. This press has been an incredible resource for the kinds of Japanese stories unlikely to get translated and published elsewhere—especially, but not exclusively, SF and horror. Take a look at their backlist soon! I've just stocked up.

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For @screenslate.bsky.social, I wrote about BYE BYE LOVE, a rediscovered Japanese gem that envisages gender as an open road Plays this week at Metrograph www.screenslate.com/articles/bye...

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David Lynch should come back to life

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One day I hope Discotek or a similar animation boutique will pick up the entirety of SEABERT (BIBIFOC).

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I didn't like BETTER MAN personally, but I do like @simonramshaw.bsky.social's thread about monkeys, movie magic, and the rise of incuriosity

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To celebrate the release of BABYGIRL, I explored the cream of the (riding) crop in S&M cinema for ScreenSphere: screensphere.co.uk/news/film-ne...

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I wrote about Neil Gaiman, and the women accusing him of sexual coercion, assault and abuse. www.vulture.com/article/neil...

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Manga challenge: only read the final volume of a long running series (I'm currently doing this with Tokyo Daigaku Monogatari and it's pretty wild).

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TONIGHT @ 8:00 PM (est) @ twitch.tv/secret_cinematheque I will be playing 5 episodes of classic anime TV shows, with contextual intros that will make you an anime expert who is smarter and more good-looking than anyone you know!

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In a sociopolitical climate increasingly intent on sidelining and disavowing empathy at every turn, it’s comforting to know that we are not immune to movies. My reflections on 2024 in cinema for @thefilmstage.bsky.social thefilmstage.com/blake-simons... :

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As part of my GoCritic! coverage of Animateka, I wrote about the best of the best in the European Young Talents strand: a curious crop of films exploring connection with ourselves and with each other, to profound and reflective ends. For Zippy Frames: www.zippyframes.com/festivals/eu... :

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They're showing a series of Taiwanese and Hong Kong avant-garde shorts from the '60s made by the likes of Chang Chao-tang, Law Kar, and Chiu Kang-chien next Sunday at the Close-Up Cinema in London. Very hard to see stuff that's the precursor to both the Taiwan New Cinema and the Hong Kong New Wave.

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