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Living : Exclusive Interview with Actress Aimee Lou Wood

Synopsis : LIVING is the story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful. Rating: PG-13 (Smoking|Some Suggestive Material) Genre: Drama Original Language: English Director: Oliver Hermanus Producer: Stephen Woolley, Elizabeth Karlsen Writer: Kazuo…

Monthly Classics at Japan Society: Kihachi Okamoto’s Kill! Still Holds Its Power To Deconstruct Archetypes

Japan Society has recently announced its autumn line-up for Monthly Classics, that includes a 35mm screening of the film written and directed by Kihachi Okamoto: Kill!. This is a satirical chambara — a sub-category of the Japanese period drama known as jidaigeki — that is characterised by duels just like Western and swashbuckler films. The…

Sundance Film Festival Review – ‘Living’ Brings Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Ikiru’ to London

Society functions to a degree because most people don’t know when their lives will end. Having a sense of how much time someone has left in the world can affect their behavior entirely and inspire them to make decisions that are not at all in line with how they typically operate. It can also lead…

The First look of Bill Nighy’s ‘Living’ : It’s an English-Language Adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s Classic, ‘Ikiru.’

Photo by Ross Ferguson “Love Actually”, “About Time” Billy Nighy appear to be the distinguish English gentleman in the first image released from upcoming film “Living,” in which the actor plays a 1950s civil servant struggling with a life-threatening diagnosis. The bowler hat and sharp pinstripe suit was prepared by an Oscar-winning costume designer Sandy…

Netflix’s Monster : An Investigation On The Nature Of The Truth — Film Review

Monster is an American legal drama film directed by Anthony Mandler, from a screenplay by Radha Blank, Cole Wiley and Janece Shaffer; based on the YA novel of the same name by Walter Dean Myers. It had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2018, and is now available on Netflix. Just like…