San Sebastian Film Festival

Reviews

Japan Society’s Flash Forward Series: Vision, A Herbal MacGuffin Leads To A Transcendental Journey

Japanese film director, Naomi Kawase, delivers a suave homage to the interactive complex of biological and nonbiological worlds on the planet, through her Vision. The French-Japanese drama — starring Juliette Binoche and Masatoshi Nagase, with Takanori Iwata, Minami, Mirai Moriyama in supporting roles — is part of Japan Society’s ACA Cinema Project series Flash Forward:…

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi

December 4, 2021

Reviews

Rifkin’s Festival, Woody Allen’s Homage To The European Masters Of Cinema — Film Review

After the world debut at the San Sebastian Film Festival (where the story is set) in September, the Spanish release in October, and December in the Russian and Dutch ones, Woody Allen’s new comedy, Rifkin’s Festival continues its European release, arriving in Italian cinemas on May 6th. The Italy-Spain co-production created by The Mediapro Studio,…

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi

April 30, 2021

Interviews

‘Flow’ Filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis on His Animated Feature Following the Journey of a Cat (Video Interview)

It’s likely that you’ve never seen an animated feature film quite like Latvian filmmaker Gints Zilbalodis’ Flow, a wordless film that follows the journey of a cat as it first tries to escape a pack of dogs, and then ends up working with a variety of animals to try to survive a massive flood. Having…

Edward Douglas

November 21, 2024

Interviews

Bogart: Life Comes In Flashes : Exclusive Interview with Director Kathryn Ferguson

Bogart: Life Comes In Flashes : The first official feature documentary to explore the remarkable life and career of Hollywood legend Humphrey Bogart. For the first time ever, narrated in Bogart’s own words and using previously unseen archives, letters, and interviews from those closest to him, the film definitively explores the impact of one of…

Nobuhiro Hosoki

November 21, 2024

Pick Up

‘Our Oceans,’ Is A Bewitching Natatory Experience

The five-part Netflix series Our Oceans is executive produced by James Honeyborne, Michelle Obama and Barack Obama, and narrated by the latter. The voice of the 44th President of the United States narrates what life is like in our oceans: Pacific, Indian, Atlantic, Arctic and Southern. Five filmmakers have curated each episode: Rachel Scott, Joe…

Chiara Spagnoli Gabardi

November 21, 2024

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‘Flow’ is the Most Immersive and Transfixing Animated Film of the Year

©Courtesy of Janus Films For some, it will be hard to ignore the Biblical implications of this new animated tale. After all, it follows a rag-tag group of animals, who survive a sudden apocalyptic flood aboard a floating sanctuary. Yet, other viewers will see it as a cautionary environmentally-themed beast fable, somewhat in the tradition…

Joe Bendel

November 20, 2024

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Japan Society’s Flash Forward Series: Vision, A Herbal MacGuffin Leads To A Transcendental Journey

Rifkin’s Festival, Woody Allen’s Homage To The European Masters Of Cinema — Film Review