"Sleeper, awake! Rise from the dead..." - Ephesians 5:14 Variations on sleeping, arising and the shattering sonambulance time etches on the dreamer-waker. Likely Bi's most concerted iteration of his p...

Millennia pass, history marches on, but the task of tearing down heaven and the gods, wherever this transcendence is mythologised, in order to claim and enfranchise the Earth and its peoples, remains.

I'm tempted to say Mahjong is among the best expressions of what a truly international cinema could look like, particularly as it is originating from East Asian filmmakers (I'm going to go ahead and i...

Distills the sweep and thesis of Tsui's subsequent Once Upon a Time in China series into a single work, tracing the tides of imperialism and flows of capital across the south east Asian metropoles bei...

On tracing the tear made through modern and human life post-Bretton Woods, as financial capital took hold. All that is solid remains but finds its value become specious. Antonioni is clear in having h...

A new film review of Magellan, directed by Lav Diaz, for film review site In Review Online's Cannes 2025 festival coverage.

The beat, rhythm, rhyme, chime of rhizomatic ancestrality as the positive affirmation of new life taken from the view of eternity, and its persistence in, through, across time – forward and back – in ...

On filthy yet beautiful changes in life. One never walks through the same river twice.

Seems fundamental to this that it be something other: language, character, landscape, even weather. The print, in contrast to the extant and more readily DVD copy, gives not a "wuthered" environment, ...

In casting around for a director worthy of the title of “besting working filmmaker,” Hamaguchi Ryusuke would receive few detractors in being selected for such an honor. Over the course of a career tha...

“There is plenty of hope. An infinite amount of hope. But not for us.” - Franz Kafka Brings to life the antagonisms of wealth in the possibilities it affords and exclusions it demands, the pleasure in...

“There is plenty of hope. An infinite amount of hope. But not for us.” - Franz Kafka Brings to life the antagonisms of wealth in the possibilities it affords and exclusions it demands, the pleasure in...

Easy to understand the success of this romantic drama, given its nuanced handling of contemporary social surrounding the place of women in a patriarchal world, bringing forcefully to the imagination t...