Director: Hong Sang-soo London Film Festival review The shadow of scandal hangs over Hong Sang-soo’s slippery and self-deprecating On the Beach at Night Alone, a despondent though characteristically playful variant on the director’s long-established formula […]
Director: Yusaku Matsumoto Raindance Film Festival review The one-word title of Yusaku Matsumoto’s Noise refers not to one thing but to the sum total of many things. It is the ‘noise’ of an era of cynical […]
Director: Jung Byung-gil London Korean Film Festival teaser screening review You’d be hard-pressed to find a more virtuosic fight scene in recent years than the brutal opening of Jung Byung-gil’s The Villainess. An exhilarating and darkly […]
Director: Alexander Kott Watch Test on FilmDoo Alexander Kott’s wordless Test may technically be a period film – inspired by the Soviet Union’s nuclear bomb testing in the Kazakh region of Semipalatinsk in 1949 – but its […]
Directors: Sivaroj Kongsakul, Shijie Tan and Xin Yukun Watch Distance on FilmDoo For the most part, film titles act as a calculated lure, first and foremost to sell a film, and second to vaguely describe it. However, in […]
Watch Distance on FilmDoo Spanning nations and eras to create a melancholic picture of our current times, Asian anthology film Distance casts Taiwanese actor Chen Bolin as three different men whose lonely stories (one in China, one […]
