[First published on The Playlist, January 3rd, 2016]It was in the dawning days of 2015 that my last Best of the Year list went up, so I can claim tradition and not mere procrastination/laziness as the reason for the tardiness of iteration. And this year, in addition to taking a break from film writing altogether in […]
Read more "My Top 20 Films of 2015"It is a Tuesday afternoon and Takashi Miike is in a blue funk due to not having made a film in over a week.
Read more "Cannes 2015 Review: Takashi Miike’s ‘Yakuza Apocalypse’"Most films are domestic animals: cats or dogs. Some particularly beautiful ones might be horses or dolphins. But amongst the Fidos, the Fluffys and the Flippers, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s “Cemetery of Splendour” is a Northern White Rhino, the most endangered species in the world.
Read more "Cannes 2015 Review: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s ‘Cemetery Of Splendour’"Brooding, dense and consistently magnificent to an almost self-defeating degree, Justin Kurzel’s “Macbeth” is a bloody, muddy, mighty adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s mightiest plays.
Read more "Cannes 2015 Review: Justin Kurzel’s ‘Macbeth’ With Michael Fassbender & Marion Cotillard"Why do we watch movies? No, really, why is it? As close an answer as we’ve ever come to for our own, fairly evident obsession with what we consider the greatest storytelling medium humankind has ever developed, is well, that life is short.
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Jessica Kiang 