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Tag: japanese

festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

PLAN 75 plays TIFF 2022

If you gotta go – and let’s be clear, we ALL gotta go – why not go in style?

Posted on September 17, 2022September 17, 2022
blind spot series

Blindsided by LATE SPRING

Ozu looks at a traditional life, and potentially condemns it as an option.

Posted on December 1, 2016December 27, 2016
reviews

KUMIKO THE TREASURE HUNTER

What does it take to evoke the spirit of The Coen Brothers without specifically becoming “Coen-esque”?

Posted on April 12, 2015April 19, 2015
blind spot series

Blindsided by MY NEIGHBOR TOTORO

With a twelve-course meal on-tap for 2015, I decide to start with dessert.

Posted on January 27, 2015June 30, 2015
festivals, reactions, TIFF

OVER YOUR DEAD BODY plays TIFF 2014

A new Mikke film wants to cut into the very nature of betrayal, but this time it feels like his knife is a little blunt.

Posted on September 13, 2014September 15, 2014
reviews

THE WIND RISES

Maestro Miyazaki decides to play one last song, and it’s a tune with tones of home.

Posted on February 23, 2014February 28, 2014
blind spot series

Blindsided by TOKYO STORY

Where Blind Spots are concerned, it feels like I’m ending 2013 where I started.

Posted on December 29, 2013June 30, 2015
festivals, reactions, TIFF

THE WIND RISES plays TIFF 2013

“When the wind rises, you would have to attempt to live.”

Posted on September 15, 2013September 17, 2013
festivals, reactions, TIFF

R100 plays TIFF 2013

As The Bondage Club takes control of one man, Midnight Madness takes control of its audience.

Posted on September 14, 2013September 17, 2013
festivals, podcasts, TIFF

LIKE FATHER LIKE SON plays TIFF 2013

A beautiful Japanese tale is told at TIFF; one that wonders just what it is that ties a family together.

Posted on September 8, 2013September 10, 2013
TIFF, trailers

Down from Above: THE WIND RISES Trailer

One last offering from a master of animation.

Posted on September 3, 2013September 7, 2013
ikiru, kanji watanabe, takashi shimura
blind spot series

Blindsided by IKIRU

We begin a new round of essentials with a bummer.
An sublimely, achingly, beautiful bummer.

Posted on January 29, 2013June 30, 2015

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