Every year, the Australian-based online quarterly, Senses of Cinema, invites writers from all over the globe to submit their selections for the best movies of the year. The top 10 you are probably familiar with at this point, but the following … Continue reading SENSES OF CINEMA: 2022 World Cinema Poll
Once you overcome the one-inch-tall barrier of subtitles, you will be introduced to so many more amazing films. —Bong Joon-ho’s Golden Globe acceptance speech. On May 25, 2019, Bong Joon-ho, the 49-year-old filmmaker from Daegu, South Korea, ascended the stairs … Continue reading Essential Cinema: South Korea
Sex in cinema is a complex thing. Depicting something so private, yet so routine, with taste and titillation at the same time has been a difficult problem for filmmakers, studios, and audiences alike. The Motion Picture Association of America strictly … Continue reading THE HANDMAIDEN (아가씨)
In case you’ve had your head under a rock or simply don’t care how movies are presented, then here is a very brief recap. In the past decade, theaters nationwide have swapped their 35 mm reel-to-reel projectors for digital cinema … Continue reading Film on Film: Pablo Kjølseth on CU’s International Film Series
Stoker is a coming-of-age tale of a young girl’s sexuality wrapped up in a horror movie. Actually, it’s really a young girl’s coming of age story wrapped up in a pastiche of Hitchcock films. Directed by Korean auteur Park Chan-Wook, Stoker is his … Continue reading STOKER
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