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NYAFF : Operation Undead Entertains with Blood and Existential Drama

Courtesy of © 2024 Infocusasia Co., Ltd. The New York Asian Film Festival 2024 is hosting the World Premiere of Operation Undead, a zombie-movie from Thailand that offers a new and very interesting take on the genre. Set during World War II, the story talks about a group of soldiers dislocated in a beautiful and…

NYAFF : Art Imitates Life in Chong Keat Aun’s ‘Snow in Midsummer’

©Courtesy of New York Asian Film Festival  Snow in Midsummer, a film by Malaysian director Chong Keat Aun, is among the works being screened at the 2024 New York Asian Film Festival. It had earlier premiered at the Venice International Film Festival and won the award for best Chinese-language film in the Young Cinema Competition…

NYAFF / When This is All Over : Exclusive Interview with Kevin Mayuga

Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Film Critic : Luis Pedron Luis Pedron is a Director, Actor, Founder and Film Festival Director of the International Film Festival Manhattan, New York, now in its 13th edition, proudly promoting Filipino, Asian, Scandinavian and European films and presenting them in New York….

Neon Releases Trailer for Sean Baker’s ‘Anora,’ a Palme d’Or Winner at Cannes

©Courtesy of Neon Neon has just released the trailer for Anora, a dramedy about a sex worker and her liaison with the son of a Russian oligarch. Directed by Sean Baker, the bilingual film won the Palme d’Or at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it received an enthusiastic standing ovation that lasted for between…

Japan Cuts : Look Back is Brutally Poignant, But Emotionally Complex

Manga publishing is a ruthlessly numbers-driven business. Success is mostly dependent on sales and reader popularity polls. Nevertheless, it attracts artistic young people, who often keenly sensitive, somewhat neurotic, and even sometimes painfully shy. Those terms certainly describe either Ayumu Fujino or her middle school rival “Kyomoto the Truant.” Several apply to them both. Somehow,…

Kill : Exclusive Video Interview with Actor Lakshya and Writer/Director Nikhil Nagesh Bhat

Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Lakshya : In 2015, Lakshya made his acting debut with television series Warrior High. He went on to play Yuvraj Madhav Shekhawat/Krish in the &TV series Adhuri Kahaani Hamari (2015–2016). After doing an episode in Pyaar Tune Kya Kiya, Lakshya was cast in…

Tribeca: ‘Griffin in Summer’ is a Way Too Classic Coming-of-Age Story

@Courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival Winner of Best Movie and Best Screenplay in the U.S. Narrative Feature section at the Tribeca Film Festival, Griffin in Summer by the first-time director Nicholas Colia is a classic coming-of-age story. It’s way too classic. Set in the nice, clean, suburban small town that has no real name (let…

‘Maria Callas: Letters and Memoirs’ : Interview with Actress/Producer Monica Bellucci

©Courtesy of (SIC)Pictures/ Ibla Films   On June 17th Monica Bellucci was in New York to present at MoMA the documentary Maria Callas: Letters and Memoirs. Directed by Yannis Dimolitsas and Tom Volf, it talks about the international tour of the stage play that Monica Bellucci performed between November 2019 and January 2023, ending at…

Laugh Proud : Exclusive Interview with Director Quentin Lee

Photo by Ines Laimoins – © 2020 Margin Films Check out more of CinemaDaily US’ video interviews on our YouTube channel Edward Moran began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. More recently he contributed film reviews to hosokinema.com and Movie Sleuth….

Open Roads: ‘I Told You So’ A Hypnagogic Dark Comedy

I Told You So (Te l’avevo detto) is Ginevra Elkann’s second feature film, that premiered at the 2023 Toronto Film Festival and was presented at 2023 Rome Film Festival. It is currently part of the line-up of Open Roads: New Italian Cinema, in New York City. The film is set in Rome during an anomalous…