World Cinema
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On the occasion of Hong Kong star Leslie Cheung's death, Ho Lin offers some reflections on his cinematic career.
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The Wandering Earth (2019, Dir. Frant Gwo): Humanity’s exodus would proceed in five steps: First, the Earth Engines’ jets would be used to counteract the Earth’s movement, stopping its rotation.…
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Last Letter (2018, Dir. Shunji Iwai): Two decades ago, Asia was turning Japanese, as they say in the old Vapors song. The land of the rising sun was dominating the…
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Capsule reviews of this year’s Academy award nominees in live-action short films: Sing (Hungary, Dir. Kristof Deák): A beatific children’s choir opens “Sing” with the kind of positive message that’s the…
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Cruel Gun Story, aka Kenjū zankoku monogatari (1964, Dir. Takumi Furukawa): You’re 36 years old. Old enough that you should know what your future holds. — Cruel Gun Story At first…
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Suite Amoricaine (2015, Dir. Pascale Breton): I’ve been to university. I studied geography. I wanted to show this because this is a place that allows us to talk about our…
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Trivisa (2016, Dir. Frank Hui, Jevons Au, Vicky Wong): What inspired me was Shakespeare’s Macbeth. And if these three guys hadn’t gone into the restaurant at the same time, it would…
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The Summer of Frozen Fountains (2015, Dir. Vano Burduli): However much we might want to deny it, one of the attractions of foreign cinema is catching the whiff of the exotic. Go ahead…
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Microbe and Gasoline (2015, Dir. Michel Gondry): Michel Gondry’s career has led him through music videos, surreal cult classics (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), and even a stab at Hollywood blockbusters…
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Paths of the Soul (2015, Dir. Zhang Yang): “It’s true, I have no religious beliefs. However, the shooting, as well as the movie, was a process of rediscovering myself and…