Manakamana (2013)
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
Goodbye Ghibli giant, RIP Isao Takahata. Those multi-purpose tanuki testicles are unforgettable. May your influence live on in the human...
UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Still writing. #kiarostami #film
昙花一现 the epiphyllum
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...
100 films in 2017 - and my top 10
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...
The delightfully unforgiving experience of People Power Bombshell: The Diary of Vietnam Rose by John
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
RIP Seijun Suzuki. Perhaps Zigeunerweisen (1980) made little sense but it was a thing of beauty and I recall the saddening madness of A...
To my favourite director in the whole world
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...
"To continue being alive is also an art. I suppose it's the most sublime art of all."
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: Yoshifumi Kondō's Whisper of the Heart (1995)
More than just young love, the expansive subtleties of Yoshifumi Kondō's 1995 film, Whisper of the Heart, makes it quietly overwhelming....