KVIFF 2023: A Yasuzô Masumura Retrospective | Festivals & Awards
adminWhile the 1960s saw a rise in Japanese noir, many of these films—like the popular Nikkatsu noir and Yakuza films—centered on the criminal underworld as it adapted to modern times.…
KVIFF 2023: We Have Never Been Modern, Restore Point, Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry | Festivals & Awards
While the film also doesn’t remake the wheel for these kinds of narratives, the vision is so otherworldly and Mohylová’s physically attuned performance so immersive, that “Restore Point,” an imaginative,…
KVIFF 2023: White Plastic Sky, Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell, In Camera | Festivals & Awards
Another of the film’s memorable sequences involves the final search by Thien for his brother. In a film brimming with natural, reverent metaphors—the birds, the wind, and rain—and an invocation…