©Brooke Taylor and additional “Girls State” participants in “Girls State,” premiering April 5, 2024 on Apple TV+. Girls State : A look at what American democracy would look like in the hands of teenage girls. Young female leaders from wildly different backgrounds navigate an immersive experiment to build a government from the ground up. Genre: Documentary…
©Office Academy, Product of Yomiuri TV Neon Genesis Evangelion creator and Khara founder Hideaki Anno has signed on to helm a special Space Battleship Yamato 50th anniversary project for Studio Khara, Anime News Network is reporting. The space opera anime’s anniversary project will launch on Oct. 6, 2024, exactly 50 years after Space Battleship Yamato‘s…
For two decades, cinema lovers of the Big Apple found their Mecca in St Mark’s Place, in the treasure trove of rare motion pictures known as Kim’s Video. This rental shop amassed 55,000 titles, but in 2008 with the advent of the digital era people no longer rented videos and the destiny of this venerable…
Japanese filmmakers Hirokazu Kore-eda was a big winner at last night’s Asian Film Awards in Hong Kong. For the second consecutive year, Kore-eda captured the Best Director title, this time for his latest feature, Monster. The prolific director had won the prize a year ago for Broker, a Korean-language film. Discussing his most recent award,…
The latest ACA Cinema Project Series, titled ‘Family Portrait: Japanese Family in Flux,’ concluded last Saturday at the Japan Society. The curated selection featured premieres and revivals, showcasing masterpieces from genre-defining filmmakers like Yasujiro Ozu to Hirokazu Kore-eda. The program’s finale was dedicated to Ryota Nakano, who has risen to prominence with his invigorating and…
The Coen Brothers are a household name, collaborating on darkly funny, violent cinema beginning four decades ago with Blood Simple. Since then, they’ve won Oscars for their Fargo screenplay and for writing, directing, and producing No Country for Old Men. Joel Coen made his first film without his brother in 2021, the black-and-white Shakespearean adaptation…
The Japanese anime producer Koichiro Ito was arrested this week by Wakayama police and charged with soliciting nude images of a 15-year-old girl from Nagano he met online. The alleged incident occurred in September of 2021. According to the Mainichi Shimbun, the 52-year-old Ito admitted he knew the young woman was a minor. “I had…
©Tokyo Vice, Ansel Elgort, Ken Watanabe Tokyo Vice : In 1999, American journalist Jake Adelstein has relocated to Tokyo and must pass a written exam in Japanese to have the chance to join the staff of a major Japanese newspaper. He succeeds in becoming their first foreign-born journalist and starts at the very bottom. Taken…
©Courtesy of Roadside Attractions The Monk And the Gun captures the wonder and disruption as Bhutan becomes one of the world’s youngest democracies. Known throughout the world for its extraordinary beauty and its emphasis on Gross National Happiness, the remote Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan was the last nation to connect to the internet and television….
FIRST LOOK 2024, MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE’S FESTIVAL OF NEW AND INNOVATIVE INTERNATIONAL CINEMA, ANNOUNCES LINEUP The festival’s 13th edition opens with Astrid Rondero and Fernanda Valadez’s Sujo and closes with Bill and Turner Ross’s Gasoline Rainbow, framing a lineup of 46 premieres, including 20 features, representing 21 countries March 13–17, 2024 Astoria, New…
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