Tag: Burning

TIFF 2021: Titane Opens Midnight Madness / Quinzaine Fills Wavelengths & The Gravedigger’s Wife & Compartment No. 6 Among Prestige Items

With only one more Wednesday announcement left in the bank (competition Platform section and the shorts get announced next week) today we saw the...

A Touch of Class: Chang-dong Returns with Masterful Class Clash in ‘Burning’ | Blu-ray Review

One of the biggest slights of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival was towards South Korean auteur’s Lee Chang-dong’s masterful Burning, a sinister adaptation of...

Dylan Kai Dempsey’s Top 10 Theatrical Releases of 2018

Another year of Oscars. Another year of whitewashed, predominantly-male nominations; another year of passionate love/hate from film fans. And another year of small victories!...

The Conversation: The Top 20 Theatrical Releases of 2018

It was a strong year for wicked and weird in cinema---if you knew where to look for it. A strong showing of women directors...

2018 PYIFF Dailies: Unhurried Hong Sang-Soo & Lee Chang-Dong | Day 5

I managed to miss the TIFF screening for Locarno premiered Hotel by the River (our Nicholas Bell has been on a steady pace of covering...

2018 Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Intl. Film Fest: Lav Diaz & Lee Chang-Dong Among Highlights

Selections have been announced for the second edition of the Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Int. Film Festival. The brainchild of former Venice Film...

The Conversation: In the Cannes – 2018: Burning, Donbass & Climax Top the List

In a surprisingly unpredictable and overall enjoyable 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival, the Cate Blanchett led jury awarded Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters the...

2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 9 – Lee Chang-dong’s Burning

The former high-school teacher and an acclaimed novelist makes his movies like he writes his books - Lee Chang-dong's films take their time to...

Live from Cannes: 2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!

Celebrating our seventh year, for the 71st edition of Cannes, we decided to switch things up for our Cannes Critics' Panel. First, we expanded...

The Conversation: Nicholas Bell’s Top 10 Most Anticipated 2018 Cannes Films

Time will surely tell if Cannes 2018 is as truly daring as it thinks its competition line-up is, sporting nine directors (nearly half of...

The Conversation – Cannes Predictions V: Jia Zhangke & Kirill Serebrennikov Lead the Far East

Cannes 2017 had a strong crop of Russian titles on hand, and several 2018 possibilities could be poised for entry in this year’s program....

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2018: #12. Lee Chang-dong’s Burning

Burning About a year prior, South Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong was about to begin production on his sixth feature, Burning before abruptly announcing the project...

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.

Interview: Eivind Landsvik – Low Expectations | 2026 Cannes Film Festival

Exploring themes of mental health, emotional recovery, companionship, and...