Director: Hong Sang-soo London Korean Film Festival teaser screening review The word ‘strange’ is thrown around a lot in Claire’s Camera, and sure enough, in its effortlessly free-wheeling structure and its peculiar yet recognisable take on human behaviour, […]
Author: David Pountain
Watch Sanguivorous on FilmDoo With the near-wordless Sanguivorous, Japanese filmmaker Naoki Yoshimoto offers an avant-garde take on vampire mythology that puts atmosphere ahead of plot to oneiric and ominous effect. Across a runtime just shy of an hour, a […]
Director: Jamie Jones Societal turmoil blends inseparably with personal struggle in Jamie Jones’ ominous teen drama, set against the tense backdrop of a divided and gentrified East London about to hit boiling point. Taking a […]
“Whatever the director asks me to do, I will do and make him happy. I’m a fool.” That self-deprecating addendum aside, the legendary Brigitte Lin has a career’s worth of examples from across Hong Kong […]
“My motivation for going into the film industry was that I needed a job; I wanted to make some money.” This might not be a statement you’d expect to hear from arguably the finest genre […]
Questions by David Pountain and Łukasz Mańkowski from れferat Filmowy. Japanese writer-director Akiko Ohku shows a rare understanding of the sad and comical inner narratives of a naïve young introvert with her eccentric new post-adolescent coming-of-age rom-com Tremble All […]