There was a time when Japanese filmmaker Kijū Yoshida was a cinephile’s mark of exquisite taste. While not entirely obscure, his work has been less-discussed t...
From the late '50s and into the 1970s the Japanese New Wave exhibited an incredible creative outburst that defined and shaped what we consider contemporary Jap...
Manuela Martelli’s debut film opens with a sequence that perfectly captures the tone and themes Chile ‘76 will explore. Carmen (played by Aline Kuppenheim) is ...
After years of working with someone like Werner Herzog, it seems you deserve some rest—especially after films as spectacular as Aguirre: The Wrath of God and F...
When an actor appears in many films of a particular director it becomes a sort of short-hand subject to define either's work. Sometimes it feels as if one infl...
The formally audacious and politically enticing documentary The Year of the Discovery may feel daunting with its 200-minute runtime, but Luis López Carrasco's ...
What started last October as a students’ protest regarding the rise in public transportation rates in Santiago de Chile has now blown up into a nationwide soci...
Japan Cuts festival, which takes place at the Japan Society in New York City, has become a staple in the sea of summer cinematic offerings in terms of counter-programming to the onslaught of weekly blockbusters and tentpoles....
The young chef Masato, played by Japanese actor Takumi Saitô, gets home after a long day at the family-owned ramen restaurant that he works at. First, he tends ...
