When you recognise the last bit of magic that winds down the film when the final pairing - the musicians - say, "Let's start tuning" and...

Goodbye Ghibli giant, RIP Isao Takahata. Those multi-purpose tanuki testicles are unforgettable. May your influence live on in the human...

Still writing. #kiarostami #film

A soppy post ahead in occasion of the rare 昙花一现 - with five epiphyllum blooms last night. The night-blooming cereus blooms the brightest...

Okay yes, I know I'm late to the mandatory end-of-year "Films I Watched and Recommend" list. I watched a grand total of 100 films last...

People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Rose by John Torres (Philippines) is one of the most phenomenal films I've seen this year....

RIP Seijun Suzuki. Perhaps Zigeunerweisen (1980) made little sense but it was a thing of beauty and I recall the saddening madness of A...

Facebook tells me we met seven years ago but "a little bird told me" we really met more than that and at the back of an Orchard Road...

RIP Abbas Kiarostami. With every viewing of your films, your love letters to Iran and to Life itself - all of its happenings and miracles...

More than just young love, the expansive subtleties of Yoshifumi Kondō's 1995 film, Whisper of the Heart, makes it quietly overwhelming....