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...