Movie review • Yi Yi by Edward Yang : Life, and nothing else.
Sweet and beautiful popular chronicle, without zest of morbidity or tearful pathos, where each shot is received like a wonder and encourages a return to childhood. Undisputed figure of the Taiwanese new wave, alongside Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Edward Yang had the most important success …
Movie review • Funeral parade of roses by Toshio Matsumoto
"I am the wound, the knives that strike, The blows that crush, the head that reels, I am wrenched limbs and grinding wheels, Victim and hangman, as you like!...", quote from the poem Héautontimorouménos by Charles Baudelaire (Greek title meaning "The Self Tormente…
Movie review • Kuroneko : A Spooky revenge by Kaneto Shindô
Film against a backdrop of drama -common to so many Japanese films- and supernatural, the dilapidation of this atypical feature film in no way taints the unique experience it generates in the viewer. Credits are written on images of a dark forest, with unstable and tormented for…
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