By Sarah Nichols
I won’t bore you with the milkshake. I was asked to write on a film that had changed my life, and while I came here planning to write about Vertigo, I realized that while it had changed my life—perhaps in ways that I cannot even articulate to myself—it had never inspired me to write poetry. There Will Be Blood has.
By John A. Riley The central conceit of this film is that a respectable, middle-aged family man was, in his youth, involved with a revolutionary
Por Mónica Delgado
Jet Leyco, de 24 años, debuta en el largometraje con Ex Press, una suerte de documental con estallidos dramáticos a modo de ensoñaciones y nostalgias sobre la vida y muerte de un tren, casi extraviado o vuelto fantasma en los arrabales de un pueblo en las afueras de Manila, que ha resistido a la pobreza y al olvido del gobierno.
By Blue Un-Sok Kim
The city of Gyeongju holds a special place in the collective psyche of the Korean people. As the former capital of the ancient Korean kingdom of Silla, the city is referred to as a «museum without walls».
By Catherine Jessica Beed
Lee Eun-Joo‘s short is a curious attempt to arrange a dichotomy between the transient beauty of nature in all its abstractions and the artificiality of manufactured objects. As a brief dialogue between the lateral abstract images of wood and foliage and the composition of sound, close-up controlled shots of trees in various states move at a rapid pace against the rise and fall in the musical structure.
By John A. Riley
Hyun-Jun is an actor, specialising in musical theatre. He is given an opportunity to study acting in America, but before venturing abroad, he returns to the small village where he grew up. Once there he re-kindles his acquaintance with his beautiful cousin So-yeon, acquaintance quickly turning to Romantic desire
By Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa
Out of the blue, Kyung -Min calls his old school friend Jong -suk. The two haven’t seen each other since graduation. They go for a drink and begin to talk. Throughout the night their conversation reveals a darker part of their life: a history of violence during their youth.
By Narda Liotine
To say cinema is a matter of movement tout court is something I personally don’t agree with: To experience film format as a big canvas should imply that one is able to explore every single fragment of a reel and contemplate their unique beauty.
By John A. Riley
Watching an East Asian film, the Anglophone, Euro-Americo-centric viewer comes face to face with an at-first pressing dilemma: whether to incorporate everything one sees into familiar, Western paradigms or whether to defer to the infinite mysteries of the Orient
Por Mónica Delgado
Esta coproducción entre Francia y Algeria es un drama sobre los contornos de la Yihad: un disidente comienza un camino de mea culpa, buscando a las víctimas producto de su «guerra santa», ayudarlas y pedirles perdón.
Director: Mónica Delgado Ch.
ISSN 2311-7451
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