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Fantasia: The Tenants: Yoon Eun-kyung’s Writing is Remarkably Sharp

©Courtesy of Fantasia International Film Festival  New Yorkers might not even consider this near-future Korean metropolis (a sort of, but not exactly Seoul) a strange and unfamiliar urban dystopia, as director-screenwriter Yoon Eun-kyung intended. Yes, the air quality is awful and it is nearly impossible to find an affordable, livable apartment, thanks a bizarre and…

Fantasia : Sunburnt Unicorn / The Film Never Truly Cohesively Comes Together

@Courtesy of NMA Releasing  Surely, there are easier ways for fathers and sons to repair their relationships, like maybe tossing around a football in the backyard? Regardless, it will take a grave car accident and a subsequent mythical quest for Franklin (known as Frankie) to finally better understand his father in Canadian director-screenwriter Nick Johnson’s…

Fantasia : Kizumonogatari: Koyomi Vamp Review

©Courtesy of Fantasia International Film Festival  At least poor Koyomi Araragi is not a Renfield. As a freshly turned minion, his mistress bestowed full vampire powers on him. Kiss-Shot Acerola-Orion Heart-Under-Blade—truly an anime name, if ever there was one—might even allow him to return to human form, eventually. For now, Araragi must protect her from…

Fantasia: The Code: Interview with Director Eugene Kotlyarenko and Actresses Dasha Nekrasova and Ivy Wolk

©Courtesy of Fantasia International Film Festival Making a compelling pandemic-set movie that pushes the cinematic language in new directions can be a challenge for filmmakers. Writer-director Eugene Kotlyarenko did just that with his new experimental comedy, The Code. The feature blurs different cinematic mediums and balances multiple points of view. The surveillance-driven narrative forgoes celebrating…

Mantra Warrior: The Legend of the Eight Moons, at Fantasia 2024

In the fan-favorite anime film, Ramayana: The Legend of Prince Rama, the simian warrior Hanuman steals the show, because who doesn’t love a big talking monkey? The classic Japanese-Indian co-production directed by Ram Mohan, Koichi Sasaki, and Yugo Sako presents a reasonably faithful adaptation, from an Indian perspective. Over the centuries, the archetypal epic travelled…