Review: Dark Touch
There were so many varying opinions at the screening of Dark Touch I went to. Flixist’s pal Steve over at Unseen Films is ...
Tag: Foreign
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Tribeca Capsule Review: Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?
Here’s an interesting fact: Taiwan is among the most gay-friendly countries in Asia. Gay marriage is not explicitly legal (a bill attempting to ...
First images from Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Prodigious Spivet
I really loved Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s and Marc Caro’s films in high school and college, wearing down my VHS copies of Delicatessen and The ...
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Tribeca Review: What Richard Did
Pull quotes are sometimes picked in order to achieve the greatest possible hyperbolic effect. In the trailer for Lenny Abrahamson’s What Richard Did, ...
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Tribeca Review: Odayaka
After the 2011 earthquake and tsunami in Japan, I wound up streaming NHK all day for a few days to find out what ...
Tribeca Review: Run and Jump
Run and Jump features a bit of semi-stunt casting that got me interested in the movie: the film features Saturday Night Live‘s Will ...
NYC: Old School Kung Fu Fest, April 19-21
If you live in New York and are a fan of old school kung fu movies, you need to head to Anthology Film ...
NYC: House (Hausu) midnight screenings April 5th and 6th
Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Hausu (House) is one of the best cult movies ever made. Strike that. It’s one of the best movies ever made. ...
NYC: Hayao Miyazaki retrospective 4/5-4/7 and 4/12-4/14
We all know Hayao Miyazaki is a master of his craft, and if you live in New York, you’re in for a real ...
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Review: Midnight’s Children
Salman Rushidie’s 1981 novel Midnight’s Children is his most beloved book. It was hailed as the best recipient of the Booker Prize in ...
Trailer: The Complex
It’s hard to believe that Hideo Nakata’s The Ring (Ringu, the Japanese one) came out 15 years ago, kicking off the Japanese horror boom. ...
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Review: Blancanieves
Pablo Berger’s Blancanieves will inevitably draw comparisons to Michel Hazanavicius’s The Artist since both are silent films. (Blancanieves was Spain’s official Oscar entry ...