Paris-based Reel Suspects has boarded international sales for Cambodian-Japanese psychological horror thriller Tenement ahead of the film’s world premiere at International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR) in the Big Screen competition.
The first feature from Cambodian writer-directors Inrasothythep Neth and Sokyou Chea follows a Japanese-Cambodian manga artist who travels to Cambodia on a quest to find herself after her mother’s death, but instead finds a family she has never known and an old tenement building full of dark secrets.
The genre-bending psychological thriller drama blends supernatural and human psychology with a story about family and identity. The film uses minimal immersive sound,...
The first feature from Cambodian writer-directors Inrasothythep Neth and Sokyou Chea follows a Japanese-Cambodian manga artist who travels to Cambodia on a quest to find herself after her mother’s death, but instead finds a family she has never known and an old tenement building full of dark secrets.
The genre-bending psychological thriller drama blends supernatural and human psychology with a story about family and identity. The film uses minimal immersive sound,...
- 12/18/2023
- by Rebecca Leffler
- ScreenDaily
Up next from Japanese horror filmmaker Takeshi Kushida (Woman of the Photographs) is a film titled My Mother’s Eyes, and Deadline shares a first look photo today (above).
Additionally, Deadline reports that Reel Suspects has boarded sales on My Mother’s Eyes, and the company will “launch the title at the upcoming Mia Market in Rome.”
“The psychological, fantasy horror-thriller revolves around a cello instructor and her gifted daughter who are left with life-changing injuries by a car accident.
“The mother loses her sight while the daughter is paralyzed. But thanks to medical advances, they are able to combine their faculties to share one vision and physical experiences.”
“We have been following Takeshi’s work since Woman of the Photographs in 2020 and we fell in love with his unique filmmaking. His second feature My Mother’s Eyes confirms his talent as a director, mastering the art of combining strong visual and innovative storytelling,...
Additionally, Deadline reports that Reel Suspects has boarded sales on My Mother’s Eyes, and the company will “launch the title at the upcoming Mia Market in Rome.”
“The psychological, fantasy horror-thriller revolves around a cello instructor and her gifted daughter who are left with life-changing injuries by a car accident.
“The mother loses her sight while the daughter is paralyzed. But thanks to medical advances, they are able to combine their faculties to share one vision and physical experiences.”
“We have been following Takeshi’s work since Woman of the Photographs in 2020 and we fell in love with his unique filmmaking. His second feature My Mother’s Eyes confirms his talent as a director, mastering the art of combining strong visual and innovative storytelling,...
- 10/4/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Exclusive: Paris-based genre specialist Reel Suspects has boarded sales on Japanese horror director Takeshi Kushida’s My Mother’s Eyes and will launch the title at the upcoming Mia Market in Rome.
The psychological, fantasy horror-thriller revolves around a cello instructor and her gifted daughter who are left with life-changing injuries by a car accident.
The mother loses her sight while the daughter is paralyzed but thanks to technological, medical advances, they are able to combine their faculties to share one vision and physical experiences.
The film was also produced by Kushida under the banner of Pyramid Film in Tokyo.
My Mother’s Eyes is Kushida’s second feature after international breakout Woman of the Photographs, which played in 40 festivals and was released in seven territories, including the U.S. where it was acquired by Epic Pictures for its speciality horror label Dread.
“We have been following Takeshi work since...
The psychological, fantasy horror-thriller revolves around a cello instructor and her gifted daughter who are left with life-changing injuries by a car accident.
The mother loses her sight while the daughter is paralyzed but thanks to technological, medical advances, they are able to combine their faculties to share one vision and physical experiences.
The film was also produced by Kushida under the banner of Pyramid Film in Tokyo.
My Mother’s Eyes is Kushida’s second feature after international breakout Woman of the Photographs, which played in 40 festivals and was released in seven territories, including the U.S. where it was acquired by Epic Pictures for its speciality horror label Dread.
“We have been following Takeshi work since...
- 10/4/2023
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- Deadline Film + TV
Screamfest Horror Film Festival today announced its first-wave lineup of competitive features and shorts for its 23rd edition.
Running October 10-19 at the Tcl Chinese Theater, Screamfest welcomes horror cinephiles to experience twisted tales and frightening films together on the big screen. Tickets will be on sale soon and can be purchased via the festival website.
Before we dig into the line-up, Bloody Disgusting is excited that Screamfest will be hosting a very special advance screening of Screambox’s upcoming 80s-inspired horror comedy Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls ahead of the film’s theatrical release. Director and star Andrew Bowser, among others, will be in attendance!
‘Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls’ – Screambox Gets Silly With 80s-Inspired Horror-Comedy!
From the press release:
Considered the “Sundance of Horror,” Screamfest is proud to showcase new work from independent filmmakers from across the globe. This past year the festival screened the following films,...
Running October 10-19 at the Tcl Chinese Theater, Screamfest welcomes horror cinephiles to experience twisted tales and frightening films together on the big screen. Tickets will be on sale soon and can be purchased via the festival website.
Before we dig into the line-up, Bloody Disgusting is excited that Screamfest will be hosting a very special advance screening of Screambox’s upcoming 80s-inspired horror comedy Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls ahead of the film’s theatrical release. Director and star Andrew Bowser, among others, will be in attendance!
‘Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls’ – Screambox Gets Silly With 80s-Inspired Horror-Comedy!
From the press release:
Considered the “Sundance of Horror,” Screamfest is proud to showcase new work from independent filmmakers from across the globe. This past year the festival screened the following films,...
- 9/27/2023
- by Brad Miska
- bloody-disgusting.com
The Japanese selection of Skip City International D-Cinema 2023, despite the fact that the diversity in terms of selection was significant, proved, essentially, the obvious. When Japanese filmmakers try to follow the recipes of the festival-favorite local directors the result is films that are either repetitive, or dull, or both, and most of the times much worse than the works of the aforementioned, with the lack of tension in particular bordering on the rather annoying. However, when they let their imagination free, both in terms of context and cinematic techniques, the result is surprisingly good, definitely in terms of the former, but frequently also of the latter. In that fashion, and considering the fact that I did not manage to watch every film, the ones that stood out where “My Mother's Eyes”, “Alien's Daydream”, and “Don't Go”
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- 8/1/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Takeshi Kushida's debut, “Woman of the Photographs” was one of the best films of 2020. Three years later, the director returns with “My Mother's Eyes” , a film that also deals with the concept of ‘seeing', but on a whole different level.
My Mother's Eyes is screening at Skip City International D-Cinema Festival
Hitomi and her daughter Eri are cellists. The two seem to have a rather loving relationship, to the point of codependency on occasion. As the latter, however, seems to become more rebellious, a certain level of tension arises between them. One fateful night, after a magnificent duet at Eri's school concert, they are involved in a major car accident (?), from which they emerge badly injured. Hitomi loses her eyesight and Eri is paralyzed from the neck down. In her desperation, Hitomi stumbles upon a new, still experimental contact lens device invented by Dr. Tomio Miike, which will restore her vision,...
My Mother's Eyes is screening at Skip City International D-Cinema Festival
Hitomi and her daughter Eri are cellists. The two seem to have a rather loving relationship, to the point of codependency on occasion. As the latter, however, seems to become more rebellious, a certain level of tension arises between them. One fateful night, after a magnificent duet at Eri's school concert, they are involved in a major car accident (?), from which they emerge badly injured. Hitomi loses her eyesight and Eri is paralyzed from the neck down. In her desperation, Hitomi stumbles upon a new, still experimental contact lens device invented by Dr. Tomio Miike, which will restore her vision,...
- 7/20/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The festival will open with ‘Confetti’, produced to commemorate two key anniversaries.
Japan’s Skip City International D-Cinema Festival has revealed a raft of world premieres for its 20th edition, including opening film Confetti and a live-action adaptation of manga A Tail’s Tail.
The festival will open on July 15 with the world premiere of Confetti, which was produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Skip City as well as the 90th anniversary of Kawaguchi City, where the event is held. The coming-of-age drama marks the feature debut of director Naoya Fujita, whose film Stay won best Japanese short at...
Japan’s Skip City International D-Cinema Festival has revealed a raft of world premieres for its 20th edition, including opening film Confetti and a live-action adaptation of manga A Tail’s Tail.
The festival will open on July 15 with the world premiere of Confetti, which was produced to commemorate the 20th anniversary of Skip City as well as the 90th anniversary of Kawaguchi City, where the event is held. The coming-of-age drama marks the feature debut of director Naoya Fujita, whose film Stay won best Japanese short at...
- 6/14/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
It’s the first full week of February 2023 and we’re getting another Ten brand new horror movies this week, with the first four of them already put up for grabs at home beginning today.
Here’s all the new horror released on Tuesday, February 7, 2023!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
First up, Screambox Original horror movie Yellow Dragon’s Village is now streaming exclusively on the Bd-powered Screambox, directed by Japanese filmmaker Yugo Sakamato.
The film follows a group of travelers who unwittingly become the prey of a homicidal family. After a flat tire derails their trip, a group of campers stumble upon a secluded village where they encounter a homicidal cult looking for their next sacrifice.
Yellow Dragon’s Village features a stellar young cast including Yuni Akino (My Favorite Girl), Itsuki Fujii (Cosmetic DNA) and Masayuki Inô (Green Bullet).
Written and directed by...
Here’s all the new horror released on Tuesday, February 7, 2023!
For daily reminders about new horror releases, be sure to follow @HorrorCalendar.
First up, Screambox Original horror movie Yellow Dragon’s Village is now streaming exclusively on the Bd-powered Screambox, directed by Japanese filmmaker Yugo Sakamato.
The film follows a group of travelers who unwittingly become the prey of a homicidal family. After a flat tire derails their trip, a group of campers stumble upon a secluded village where they encounter a homicidal cult looking for their next sacrifice.
Yellow Dragon’s Village features a stellar young cast including Yuni Akino (My Favorite Girl), Itsuki Fujii (Cosmetic DNA) and Masayuki Inô (Green Bullet).
Written and directed by...
- 2/7/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Conceptual artist Joan Fontcuberta once said “photography is a tool to negotiate our idea of reality.” He and other artists like him have made it their life’s work to challenge the accuracy of their medium and toy with the viewer’s impression. Someone such as Kai (Hideki Nagai), however, prefers veracity over falsity. The rigid character in Takeshi Kushida’s Woman of the Photographs (Shashin no on’na) has spent his career helping clients not only deceive others but also themselves. It is only when Kai meets an unusual woman does his own perception begin to change.
Woman of the Photographs is a movie its director self-described as “romance horror.” That description might immediately bring up memories of something like Audition, but Kushida’s first feature hasn’t a sinister bone in its entire body. Nevertheless, it is equally perplexing and layered, and sometimes the imagery can be alarming.
Woman of the Photographs is a movie its director self-described as “romance horror.” That description might immediately bring up memories of something like Audition, but Kushida’s first feature hasn’t a sinister bone in its entire body. Nevertheless, it is equally perplexing and layered, and sometimes the imagery can be alarming.
- 2/7/2023
- by Paul Lê
- bloody-disgusting.com
Takeshi Kushida’s debut feature, Dread has picked up the rights to the Japanese horror movie Woman of the Photographs, and they’re bringing the film to VOD on February 7.
Woman of the Photographs also comes to select theaters on February 3.
“The film follows a solitary and skilled digital photographer who begins a twisted romance with a model suffering from body dysmorphia and obsessed with appearing perfect in her photos.”
Hideki Nagai, Itsuki Otaki, Toki Koinuma and Toshiaki Inomata (Drive My Car) star.
“Today, we live in a world where even memories can be falsified by editing photos,” Takeshi Kushida said in a statement this week. “For those of us who live in such an era, I made this film to find out what real happiness is. It could be seen as a romance, comedy, or horror.
The filmmaker adds, “So I hope you enjoy it from your unique point of view.
Woman of the Photographs also comes to select theaters on February 3.
“The film follows a solitary and skilled digital photographer who begins a twisted romance with a model suffering from body dysmorphia and obsessed with appearing perfect in her photos.”
Hideki Nagai, Itsuki Otaki, Toki Koinuma and Toshiaki Inomata (Drive My Car) star.
“Today, we live in a world where even memories can be falsified by editing photos,” Takeshi Kushida said in a statement this week. “For those of us who live in such an era, I made this film to find out what real happiness is. It could be seen as a romance, comedy, or horror.
The filmmaker adds, “So I hope you enjoy it from your unique point of view.
- 1/20/2023
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Dread, the specialty horror label for Epic Pictures, has announced that they acquired the rights for the Japanese dramatic horror flick, Woman of the Photographs. The film is the feature film debut of Takeshi Kushida and toured more than thirty film festivals during its run, picking up a near equal amount of accolades and awards in that time. Dread is going to bring Woman of the Photographs to U.S. cinemas on Friday, February 3rd, and on VOD shortly thereafter, on February 7th. A misogynistic photographer begins a twisted romance with a woman suffering from body dysmorphia. In the official announcement below it is said that Miami New Times made the comaprison Kushida's workd to that of Canadian auteur David Cronenberg. One does not make...
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- 1/17/2023
- Screen Anarchy
Instead of simply writing our wishes to all our readers, for 2021 we decided to ask our friends to do so.
Mattie Do, Joko Anwar, Taku Tsuboi, Indrasis Acharya, Leena Alam, Takeshi Kushida, Bront Palarae, Torico, Isabel Sandoval, Ryo Katayama, Anthony Chen, Roya Sadat, Kazutaka Watanabe, Akio Fujimoto, Min Siu Goh, Scott C. Hillyard, Gerald Chew, Amy Cheng, Ronny Sen, Kenichi Ugana, Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Park Jung Bum, Kim Min-jae, Shogen, Atsushi Funahashi, Jero Yun, Shuna Iijima and Khavn responded to our call. Check out their wishes...
Mattie Do, Joko Anwar, Taku Tsuboi, Indrasis Acharya, Leena Alam, Takeshi Kushida, Bront Palarae, Torico, Isabel Sandoval, Ryo Katayama, Anthony Chen, Roya Sadat, Kazutaka Watanabe, Akio Fujimoto, Min Siu Goh, Scott C. Hillyard, Gerald Chew, Amy Cheng, Ronny Sen, Kenichi Ugana, Mostofa Sarwar Farooki, Park Jung Bum, Kim Min-jae, Shogen, Atsushi Funahashi, Jero Yun, Shuna Iijima and Khavn responded to our call. Check out their wishes...
- 1/5/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The festival will take place as a physical-online hybrid.
Marjane Satrapi’s Marie Curie biopic Radioactive and Gregory Kirchhoff’s Germany comedy Baumbacher Syndrome will bookend the ninth Majorca International Film Festival (Emiff), which will take place both physically and online from October 23-29.
Radioactive debuted at Toronto 2019, and stars Rosamund Pike and Sam Riley. French-Iranian filmmaker Satrapi was previously announced as the recipient of the festival’s Vision award, while she will also be honoured at the centrepiece gala tribute and screening.
Baumbacher Syndrome stars Tobias Moretti, whose credits include Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life, and Elit Iscan,...
Marjane Satrapi’s Marie Curie biopic Radioactive and Gregory Kirchhoff’s Germany comedy Baumbacher Syndrome will bookend the ninth Majorca International Film Festival (Emiff), which will take place both physically and online from October 23-29.
Radioactive debuted at Toronto 2019, and stars Rosamund Pike and Sam Riley. French-Iranian filmmaker Satrapi was previously announced as the recipient of the festival’s Vision award, while she will also be honoured at the centrepiece gala tribute and screening.
Baumbacher Syndrome stars Tobias Moretti, whose credits include Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life, and Elit Iscan,...
- 10/7/2020
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
In this viral times simply having a film festival feels increasingly like a win, but not only has Japan's Skip City International D-Cinema Festival wrapped up their 2020 edition - a digital edition of the digitally created cinema festival - but they have done so with an in person closing ceremony with actual winners. Here are all the details! Winners of Skip City International D-Cinema Festival 2020 announced!! “Hope” dir. Maria Sødahl: Grand Prize “The Pencil” dir. Natalya Nazarova: Best Director & Special Jury Prize For the first time, one film receives two of main prizes by the Jury “Woman of the Photographs” dir. Takeshi Kushida: Skip City Award selected from all Japanese films Launched in 2004 in Kawaguchi City of Saitama Prefecture as a...
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- 10/6/2020
- Screen Anarchy
Anshul Chauhan’s Kontora won best picture in the feature film category of the Japanese Film Competition.
Maria Sodahl’s Hope received the Grand Prize in the International Competition of this year’s Skip City International D-Cinema Festival in Japan, which took place virtually and wrapped on October 4.
The Norway-Sweden co-production, which is based on the director’s own experiences, tells the story of a woman with six children waiting to receive a cancer diagnosis. “I thought the director herself is asking the question of ‘living’ by snuggling up with the protagonist,” said Japanese filmmaker Masa Sawada, who served as jury president.
Maria Sodahl’s Hope received the Grand Prize in the International Competition of this year’s Skip City International D-Cinema Festival in Japan, which took place virtually and wrapped on October 4.
The Norway-Sweden co-production, which is based on the director’s own experiences, tells the story of a woman with six children waiting to receive a cancer diagnosis. “I thought the director herself is asking the question of ‘living’ by snuggling up with the protagonist,” said Japanese filmmaker Masa Sawada, who served as jury president.
- 10/5/2020
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Genre festival to open with ‘Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula’.
South Korean zombie thriller Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula will open UK genre festival FrightFest on October 22 ahead of its UK release by Studiocanal on November 6.
The festival will host 34 features in central London from October 22-25 and has secured seven world premieres and two European premieres.
It will close with the world premiere of US horror Held, directed by Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff, the filmmaking duo behind The Gallows franchise.
Further world premieres include Will Jewell’s Concrete Plans; Leroy Kincaide’s The Last Rite; and Dune Drifter from Marc Price,...
South Korean zombie thriller Train To Busan Presents: Peninsula will open UK genre festival FrightFest on October 22 ahead of its UK release by Studiocanal on November 6.
The festival will host 34 features in central London from October 22-25 and has secured seven world premieres and two European premieres.
It will close with the world premiere of US horror Held, directed by Chris Lofing and Travis Cluff, the filmmaking duo behind The Gallows franchise.
Further world premieres include Will Jewell’s Concrete Plans; Leroy Kincaide’s The Last Rite; and Dune Drifter from Marc Price,...
- 9/17/2020
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
A film about self-image and the desire to be liked which borrows classic cinematic imagery left right and centre in a desperate attempt to win such favour for itself, Takeshi Kushida’s Woman Of The Photographs has many admirable qualities but is difficult to like. For all its elegance, there's a neediness and an inherent dishonesty about it which continually distract from the development of its central ideas.
Hideki Nagai plays Kai, a photographer who, like most in the business today, makes art on the side whilst making his living taking and/or photoshopping sappy portraits of customers keen to meet conventional beauty standards. Privately, he holds these customers in contempt, apparently unaware of the context in which their photographs are being used - that is, of their need to compete in a world where everybody's else's pictures have been edited too. Life is simpler for him. He has inherited his business,...
Hideki Nagai plays Kai, a photographer who, like most in the business today, makes art on the side whilst making his living taking and/or photoshopping sappy portraits of customers keen to meet conventional beauty standards. Privately, he holds these customers in contempt, apparently unaware of the context in which their photographs are being used - that is, of their need to compete in a world where everybody's else's pictures have been edited too. Life is simpler for him. He has inherited his business,...
- 8/28/2020
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Interview with Takeshi Kushida: We can only feel our existence through our relationships with others
Born in 1982. Takeshi Kushida is a member of Pyramid Film in Tokyo. His notable films include: “Flow”(2003) First Prize – Rencontres Audiovisuelles; “Kannon” (2004) Special Mention – Wro Media Art Biennale; “Hide and Seek” (2005) Gold Prize – Bilbao International Short and Documentary Film Festival; “Reincarnation”(2008) Jury Recommended Work – Japan Media Art Festival ; “I Am a Camera” (2013) Jury Prize – Gr Movie Festival ; “The Earth was blusih” (2015) – Grand Prix – United For Peace Film Festival. “Woman of the Photographs“, which premiered at Osaka, is his feature debut.
On the occasion of “Woman of the Photographs” screening at Fantasia, we speak with him about photography and image, praying mantises, relationships in modern Japan, and many other topics.
Why did you decide to shoot a film where photography is the main element?
Because I have been thinking about the relationship between a photography and a woman for ten years. Ten years ago, I was making a poster for a...
On the occasion of “Woman of the Photographs” screening at Fantasia, we speak with him about photography and image, praying mantises, relationships in modern Japan, and many other topics.
Why did you decide to shoot a film where photography is the main element?
Because I have been thinking about the relationship between a photography and a woman for ten years. Ten years ago, I was making a poster for a...
- 8/22/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Films that include photography as one of their main elements tend to succumb to pretentiousness, and it usually takes a very steady directorial hand in order for them to work on levels others than the aesthetic one. Takeshi Kushida, despite the fact that this is his feature debut, seems to know what he is doing and ends up with a movie that is definitely multi-leveled.
“Woman of the Photographs” is screening at Fantasia
Middle-aged photographer Kai is a nerd in all aspects. He is obsessed with photography, and particularly capturing insects, and actually uses his “proper” work, maintaining a photo studio his father left him where he mostly retouches photos his clients bring him, in order to sustain his true passion. He has only one friend, who is also his main client, no girlfriend, and a very carefully-planned everyday routine he does not want disturbed in any way. While on a trip in the forest,...
“Woman of the Photographs” is screening at Fantasia
Middle-aged photographer Kai is a nerd in all aspects. He is obsessed with photography, and particularly capturing insects, and actually uses his “proper” work, maintaining a photo studio his father left him where he mostly retouches photos his clients bring him, in order to sustain his true passion. He has only one friend, who is also his main client, no girlfriend, and a very carefully-planned everyday routine he does not want disturbed in any way. While on a trip in the forest,...
- 8/20/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The Canadian virtual festival will include more than 100 features and 200 shorts.
Canada’s Fantasia Film Festival has announced a third and final wave of feature films, as well as details of its panels, talks, tributes and special events.
This year’s virtual edition of the Montreal-based festival, running from August 20 to September 2, will include more than 100 features and more than 200 shorts.
Among the latest titles added to the line-up are Vincent Paronnaud’s Hunted, getting its world premiere, Jorge Michel Grau’s Perdida, getting its international premiere, and Kiel McNaughton’s Indigenous action-comedy The Legend Of Baron To’A, which will be the closing night film.
Canada’s Fantasia Film Festival has announced a third and final wave of feature films, as well as details of its panels, talks, tributes and special events.
This year’s virtual edition of the Montreal-based festival, running from August 20 to September 2, will include more than 100 features and more than 200 shorts.
Among the latest titles added to the line-up are Vincent Paronnaud’s Hunted, getting its world premiere, Jorge Michel Grau’s Perdida, getting its international premiere, and Kiel McNaughton’s Indigenous action-comedy The Legend Of Baron To’A, which will be the closing night film.
- 8/6/2020
- by 31¦John Hazelton¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
Montreal’s Fantasia International Film Festival, which runs August 20-September 2 and is being held digitally this year due to the pandemic, has unveiled its final lineup.
The fest has also announced that revered genre filmmaker John Carpenter will be the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award and will host an online masterclass as part of its virtual events.
New pics selected include Kiel McNaughton’s Indigenous action-comedy The Legend Of Baron To’a, which closes the fest, the world premiere of Persepolis co-director Vincent Paronnaud’s Hunted, Johnnie To’s Chasing Dream, and Finn Wolfhard’s directorial debut short Night Shifts.
Further events will include talks with Mike Flanagan and Mick Garris, Simon Barrett, and Dennison Ramalho with José Mojica Marins aka Coffin Joe.
As reported previously, this year’s fest will open with Neil Marshall’s horror The Reckoning. The online screenings, which will run via Festival Scope and Shift72’s virtual screening platform,...
The fest has also announced that revered genre filmmaker John Carpenter will be the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award and will host an online masterclass as part of its virtual events.
New pics selected include Kiel McNaughton’s Indigenous action-comedy The Legend Of Baron To’a, which closes the fest, the world premiere of Persepolis co-director Vincent Paronnaud’s Hunted, Johnnie To’s Chasing Dream, and Finn Wolfhard’s directorial debut short Night Shifts.
Further events will include talks with Mike Flanagan and Mick Garris, Simon Barrett, and Dennison Ramalho with José Mojica Marins aka Coffin Joe.
As reported previously, this year’s fest will open with Neil Marshall’s horror The Reckoning. The online screenings, which will run via Festival Scope and Shift72’s virtual screening platform,...
- 8/6/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Sometimes the best fever dreams are the ones that leave you hanging in disbelief, dangling off a precipice as one hand tries to clamber to something firm and familiar. They have the tendency to tease and tease until they explode with kaleidoscopic intensity. Occasionally they spell everything out to you with barely a moment of hesitation and become completely enveloped in their symbolism; their crazed detachment from reality, however, becomes too inviting to be phased by this. Enter the strange microcosm of Takeshi Kushida’s “Woman of the Photographs”, as a mild-mannered voyage of self-projection, self-image, and self-worth becomes unsettlingly unhinged to the point of no return.
“Woman of the Photographs” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Kai (Seinendan Company’s Hideki Nagai as a brilliantly understated blank canvas) is a creature of habit. When he’s not retouching the pictures of insecure women for matchmaking services, he tends to his pet praying mantis,...
“Woman of the Photographs” is screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival
Kai (Seinendan Company’s Hideki Nagai as a brilliantly understated blank canvas) is a creature of habit. When he’s not retouching the pictures of insecure women for matchmaking services, he tends to his pet praying mantis,...
- 3/11/2020
- by James Cansdale-Cook
- AsianMoviePulse
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