Watch Before the Fall on FilmDoo From MGM’s Oscar-winning 1940 adaptation to last year’s Lily James-led zombie-fest, Jane Austen’s canonised 1813 novel Pride and Prejudice has long proven malleable source material for an expansive range of big- and small-screen interpretations of […]
This week, we bring you two provocative pictures from Japan, as well as an acclaimed, socially resonant documentary from the US. Lost Paradise in Tokyo (dir. Kazuya Shiraishi, Japan) Mikio and his older brother Saneo, […]
This week we bring you a provocative dark comedy and a gay drama from Japan, an indie gem from China and a modern reimagining of a Jane Austen classic. Lowlife Love (dir. Eiji Uchida, Japan) Tetsuo (Kiyohiko […]
By David Pountain When the young, American Jim Park gets violently thrown out of a Seoul club after breaking up with his boyfriend, the experience sends him on a 24-hour journey of despondent introspection that […]
By David Pountain With the poignant, socially resonant short BobbyAnna, writer-director Jackson Kroopf crafts an intimate tale of nocturnal longing, economic hardship and the dynamics of class and culture. Legacy Bailey and Juliana A. Morgan […]
Tragedy and grief take mesmeric form in Courtney Faye Powell’s richly beguiling short, The Surf Report. When a young black surfer named K goes mysteriously missing, his lover Freddie seeks answers from a local tarot […]
