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Interviews

Toronto International Film Festival : Exclusive Interview with Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa

©2024 “CLOUD” FILM PARTNERS Cloud : The story centers on Ryosuke Yoshii (Masaki Suda), a factory worker in Tokyo who makes extra money reselling goods online under a pseudonym. After a successful stint, he quits his job and relocates to the countryside with his girlfriend, hiring a local young man to help with his reselling…

Nobuhiro Hosoki

September 14, 2024

Reviews

Inu-oh : Review / Director Masaaki Yuasa Makes a Dazzling Medieval Anime Infused with Rock Opera

When it comes to history, historians explain what they know, but there are hundreds of thousands of people other than what is written about in the history books. Director Masaaki Yuasa understands such an idea and it inspires as fantastic a film as “Inu-oh.” Masaaki Yuasa’s “Inu-oh” brings to life an anime based on “The Tale…

Nobuhiro Hosoki

August 14, 2022

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

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‘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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Toronto International Film Festival : Exclusive Interview with Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa

Inu-oh : Review / Director Masaaki Yuasa Makes a Dazzling Medieval Anime Infused with Rock Opera