The Road to a Masterpiece: The Radical Cinema of Kijū Yoshida
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...
Jaime Grijalba
The Way of Fire and Water: On the Eclectic Brilliance of Shinji Somai
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...
ND/NF Review: Chile ’76 is a Strong Debut Examining Turbulent History with a Narrow Focus
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 ...
Sepa: Nuestro Señor de los milagros Review: A Long-Lost Film from Herzog Collaborator Finds New Life
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...
Five Underseen Toshiro Mifune Films to Watch at Film Forum’s Retrospective
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...
Rotterdam Review: The Year of the Discovery Recovers a Piece of Spanish History with a Formally Audacious Perspective
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 ...
We Didn’t Start the Fire: Chilean Films at Rotterdam Under the Light of the Social Uprising
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...
Five Unmissable Films at Japan Cuts 2019
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....
Review: ‘Ramen Shop’ is a Lightweight, Hunger-Inducing Ode to Culinary Delights
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 ...
