ACA CINEMA PROJECT PRESENTS “EMERGING JAPANESE FILMS” @2022 “Yoko” Film Partners.jpeg @2022 “Ripples” Film Partners @2022 “Tea Friends” Film Partners US PREMIERES SET – YOKO (DIRECTOR KAZUYOSHI KUMAKIRI); RIPPLES (DIRECTOR NAOKO OGIGAMI); TEA FRIENDS (DIRECTOR BUNJI SOTOYAMA) SERIES TO RUN TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26 – THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2023, AT LINWOOD DUNN THEATER, HOLLYWOOD Los Angeles,…
Possessing the talent and drive to succeed, but not having the opportunity they need to be seen, is an unfortunate reality for many artists, especially those who are women. Filmmaker Beth Aala is one such artist who dedicatedly takes on many roles in order to get her projects noticed. She passionately chronicles the challenges that…
Sometimes a song works perfectly to encapsulate a moment or an entire movie. Among this year’s Oscar nominees for Best Original Song is the fourteenth mention for Diane Warren, who has yet to win a competitive Oscar, for “Applause,” from a small movie called Tell It Like a Woman that made its premiere at the…
South African filmmaker Oliver Hermanus takes a spin on the 1952 Japanese film Ikiru directed by Akira Kurosawa. The original screenplay by Kazuo Ishiguro — inspired by Leo Tolstoy’s 1886 Russian novella The Death of Ivan Ilyich — finds a modern adaptation with the British drama Living. The film is set in London in the…
The diverse selection of motion pictures of the 2022 New York Asian Film Festival allows audiences to look back on the years we’ve recently traversed. The Japanese film Ribbon is an excellent example, bringing to the screen a whimsically inspiring coming-of-age story about a young art student in the midst of the Covid crisis. What…
Monthly Anime April 15 – July 22, 2022 In-Person Showcase of Classic, Underseen, and Contemporary Anime Ghost in the Shell- April 15 with pre-screening party The Animatrix- May 27 in 35mm The Night is Short, Walk on Girl- June 17 Princess Mononoke- July 22 in 35mm, 25th anniversary presentation Princess Mononoke © © 1997 Studio…
If in 2011, the Western World tributed the realm of Silent Film with the comedy-drama The Artist (that scooped five Academy Awards), in 2019 the Land of the Rising Sun made its homage to that same cinematic era, with Talking the Pictures, directed by Masayuki Suo. The motion picture is currently part of Japan Society’s…
Synopsis : Severe, pale-eyed, handsome, Phil Burbank is brutally beguiling. All of Phil’s romance, power and fragility is trapped in the past and in the land: He can castrate a bull calf with two swift slashes of his knife; he swims naked in the river, smearing his body with mud. He is a cowboy as…
Japan Society Announces Full Lineup for Hybrid Presentation of the 15th Edition of JAPAN CUTS: Festival of New Japanese Film August 20–September 2 at Japan Society North America’s largest festival of contemporary Japanese cinema presents a dynamic slate of 38 films streaming online throughout the U.S. and screening in-theater at Japan Society in…
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