©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival The most endearing family dramas are often those that avert expectations. The unique stories explore themes of identity, belonging and the emotional bonds between parent and child as a tender character study. The new movie, Hot Water, is one such feature, as it grapples with the definition of home during…
©Courtesy of Netflix Her name means love in Japanese, but the pronunciation sounds very similar to “I,” as in the English singular first-person pronoun. Clearly, the title of her new life-story was intended to carry that double meaning. In 2009, Ai Haruna became the first Japanese contender to win the Miss International Queen transgender pageant…
©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival The most confident, compelling films trust acting and craft ability over spectacle. Like its American and Korean counterparts, the new romantic drama, Bedford Park built its foundation on the accumulation of small, human moments. It further succeeds as a result of varying element working in careful balance with each other….
Emily Brontë, along with her sisters Charlotte and Anne, was one of the most significant literary figures of the nineteenth century. Her innovative novel Wuthering Heights had a wide range of adaptations for the screen, since the early days of cinema. The first adaptation of the 1847 publication goes back to 1920 and was directed…
Check out more of Our YouTube Channel Matthew Schuchman : In the early 90s, while at the video store with his friends who wanted to rent Don’t Tell Mom The Babysitter’s Dead, Matthew asked the clerk if they had any copies of Naked Lunch available. A film buff from an early age, he would turn…
@Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival In order to fully appreciate this new movie directed by Kogonada, you must understand that Zi is so far the most personal and likely free project he has realized. After Columbus, After Yang and A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, the director has in fact decided to lose even more from…
©Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival Master directors Jia Zhangke of China and Lav Diaz of the Philippines both believe that films need space and time to breathe. Long, slow takes allow viewers to notice small details, absorb everyday moments, and reflect. Filmmaker Rafael Manuel has taken this philosophy to heart. In his quietly powerful debut…
©Courtesy of the Sundance Film Festival Lithuania knows Russia not as a distant neighbor, but as a shadow in its history — from centuries of conflict to five decades of Soviet occupation (1940–1990). In 1990, the Baltic nation became the first republic to break from the USSR and reclaim its independence. So, when Russia invaded…
“Life finds a way” Dr. Ian Malcolm (a.k.a. Jeff Goldblum) famously said in Jurassic Park. He was talking about sterilized dinosaurs, but it applies to post-apocalyptic dandelions as well. They might be one man’s weeds, or another man’s flowers, but four intrepid seed-bearing pappi will travel the universe in search of a safe place to…
@Courtesy of Sundance Film festival After Sometimes I Think About Dying starring Daisy Ridley, the director Rachel Lambert comes back to the Sundance Film festival with another movie exploring the complexity of human relationships. Carousel tells the story of Noah (Chris Pine), a divorced doctor living in Cleveland, struggling with his job and in particular…
Dancing can have a profoundly inspiring effect on anyone willing to embrace its transformative benefits. That’s certainly the case for the protagonist of Haru, a recent widow who uses the physical movements to come out of mourning, in the new romantic dramedy, Ha-chan, Shake Your Booty! Josef Kubota Wladyka directed and produced, and also co-wrote…
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