©Courtesy of GKIDS The coming-of-age film ‘Linda Linda Linda’ has been digitally remastered in 4K to mark its 20th anniversary. GKIDS has secured the U.S. release of the film, which was also shown at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival. In this column, we asked director Nobuhiro Yamashita, who led the project, to reflect on the…
©Courtesy of Warner Brothers Check out more of our YouTube Channel Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo’s program…
@Courtesy of MUBI Which is the best movie ever made about gay romance? In my case, it’s always been a split decision between Happy Together (1997) by Wong Kar-Wai and Brokeback Mountain (2005) by Ang Lee. Well, after yesterday’s press screening, such uncertainty has been expanded to The History of Sound by Oliver Hermanus. Based…
©Fair Oaks Entertainment Navigating real-life loneliness and sense of identity in an increasingly virtual world can be a constant struggle for anyone. That can be especially true for those people who seem to have a perfect life online. Becca, the protagonist in the new drama, Bunnylovr, ponders her self-worth as she contends with personal boundaries….
©Courtesy of Netflix Nobuhiro Hosoki grew up watching American films since he was a kid; he decided to go to the United States thanks to seeing the artistry of Stanley Kubrick’s “A Clockwork Orange.” After graduating from film school, he worked as an assistant director on TV Tokyo’s program called “Morning Satellite” at the New York…
©Courtesy of Activison Paramount Pictures had just sealed a deal with Activision for a major live-action film based on the Call of Duty game franchise. While no director or cast has yet been associated with the project, it has been reported that Paramount nosed out a pitch by Steven Spielberg’s Amblin Entertainment to direct the…
©Courtesy of Netflix In A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE, the day starts like any other — but then everything changes. When a single unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible, and how to respond. That’s the nerve-wracking premise of “A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE,” a new thriller directed by…
©M.H,S/TFP Opening Film of CJFC’s Backstreet Cinema Series 2025 9/6/2025 The Tunnel to Summer, The Exit of Goodbyes(2023) 83 minutes, Japanese w/ Eng. Subtitles. CJFC’s first anime — Japan’s scenic countryside and a high school summer on the big screen. Synopsis : The Urashima Tunnel can grant any wish—at a cost. High schooler Kaoru, haunted…
©Courtesy of GKIDS “Linda Linda” is one of the biggest hits from Japan’s most popular punk bands, the Blue Hearts. Yet, this Japanese high school garage band totally makes it their own, despite their new Korean vocalist’s spotty command of the language. A lot of Americans discovered the real band indirectly through this film when…
©Courtesy of Warner Home Video Showrunner, the AI enterprise backed by Amazon, is using Fable, its artificial-intelligence technology, to reconstruct 43 minutes of lost footage from Orson Welles’s classic film The Magnificent Ambersons. The original footage was lost shortly after the movie’s release in 1942 when RKO Films deleted the material. The footage is considered…
Comedy definitely seems to be making a comeback this year, or at least it’s trying to. Going by the recent The Naked Gun and Covino and Marvin’s Splitsville, people are going back to movie theaters, because they want to laugh. Jay Duplass was at the forefront of indie comedy going back to his 2005 film,…
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