Oh how I love the SF International Film Festival. What I'll be watching, in alphabetical order (and I'd probably add more if it weren't for a vacation, commuter insanity, and a 9-5 job in the way): - Chiang Hsiu-chiung, Artemisia - Dante ...Read More
Someone asked me the other day why I hadn't written up a 2008 Top Ten list for this blog. I'm not sure, actually. I think it's because I was a little more wary of listing movies I'd only seen once ...Read More
I think it might have been Sofia Coppola – was it in that awkward interview that was part of the DVD? -- where she reveals that Lost in Translation didn't have to be set in Tokyo, and could have been ...Read More
I've only seen a couple of Kiyoshi Kurosawa's horror movies -- namely, the somewhat underwhelming Pulse (Kairo, 2001) and Cure (Kyua, 1997), touted back in the day as emblematic of the J-horror genre (along with Hideo Nakata's The Ring and ...Read More
There's a terrific scene in Brillante Mendoza's new film that involves a goat. It's a goat that wanders in, lost, through a hole in the wall of a filthy theater and ends up, as goats are wont to do, blocking ...Read More
Adela, by the Filipino director Adolfo Alix, Jr., is a quietly dignified but ultimately disappointing slog of a movie. I suspect it's partly because I'm a bit tired of Filipino films set amidst the squalor of garbage dumps -- there, I've ...Read More
I don't think I can actually write a proper review-review, so let me indulge in some comparisons instead. (I won't be spoiling anything for people who haven't read the comic.) Zack Snyder's film will inevitably be a disappointment to fans ...Read More