Tag: Hirokazu Kore-eda

2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10

We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you...

You BETcha!: Kaouther Ben Hania, Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Alice Rohrwacher, Wang Bing & Glazer Top Contenders for the Palme d’Or

Yesterday the Cannes Film Festival opened with Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry (marking the return of Johnny Depp in the French language no less) but...

Live from Cannes: 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!

Last year Ruben Östlund took home the big daddy of film prizes winning his second Palme d'Or and this year he gets to be...

2023 Cannes: Glazer, Ceylan, Rohrwacher, Haynes & Ramata-Toulaye Sy Competing for the Palme d’Or

A surprise Wim Wenders project (Perfect Days), a rare directorial debut Ramata-Toulaye Sy (Banel et Adama) and a Wang Bing film (Jeunesse) are part...

2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls

It's official folks! The drop date has been confirmed. There'll be a couple of films that trickle in a bit after the announcement is...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #35. Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Kaibutsu

Kaibutsu Broker filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda has been in creative overdrive working on both a series (Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House) and what was an...

Broker | Review

Be My Little Baby: Kore-eda Gets Weepy with Sentimental Adoption Drama Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan’s esteemed purveyor of domestic melancholy, continues with his bid for...

2022 Red Sea Intl. FF: Kamila Andini, July Jung & Soudade Kaadan Among Competition of 15

A major first wave of titles for the upcoming second edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF) have been unveiled...

2022 TIFF: Peter Farrelly, Hong Sang-soo & Tobias Lindholm to World Premiere in Toronto

The fun part about dissecting TIFF's Gala and Special Presentations unveiling are what titles are skipping TIFF, which titles are moving directly from Venice...

2022 Cannes Coverage Wrap-Up: Competition

Armageddon Time - James Gray Boy from Heaven - Tarik Saleh Broker - Hirokazu Kore-eda Frère et sœur - Arnaud Desplechin Close - Lukas...

2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s Broker

A previous Palme d'Or winner (Shoplifters), Broker becomes Hirokazu Kore-Eda's eighth trip to Cannes - this follows Distance (2001), Nobody Knows (2004), Air Doll...

2022 Cannes: Abbasi, Dhont, Reichardt, Mungiu & Claire Denis Among 18 Titles Vying for Palme d’Or

The likes of first-time comp contenders Kelly Reichardt, Ali Abbasi and Lucas Dhont are joining former Palme d'Or winners Ruben Östlund, Kore-eda Hirokazu, the...

2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls

We've looked at the non-competing sections (10 predictions). We've visited (20 predictions) the possible Critics' Week programme. We explored (20 predictions) options for the...

Interview: Hirokazu Kore-eda (Air Doll)

Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to a thematic subject matter he knows well: loneliness and emptiness. This time out, he does so via the...

Air Doll | Review

There is No Substitute: Kore-eda Digs into Our Rubber Soul with Fantasy Flick Reinterpreting the notion of what it is to truly be living and...breathing,...

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #12. Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker

Broker Produced by TBD Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda Written by Hirokazu Kore-eda Starring: Song Kang-Ho, Gang Dong-Won, Bae Doo-Na, IU Cinematographer: Hong Kyung-pyo

Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #26. Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Baby, Box, Broker

Baby, Box, Broker Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda Starring: Song Kang-Ho, Bae Doona, Dong-won Gang Release Date/Prediction: With an early 2021 shoot in the works, we...

The Truth | Review

I Remember Mama: Kore-eda Anoints Deneuve as a Diva in Pleasurable Drama A subtle exercise in the limited reality of both perspective and memory, auteur...

The Conversation: Top 10 Films of the 2019 Toronto Intl. Film Festival

Surprises were few and far between at a relatively reserved 2019 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. Sans a rather intense interest in...

The Conversation: 10 Most Anticipated Films – Venice 2019

There’s much to be excited for in the upcoming 2019 Venice Film Festival, the 76th edition of the world’s oldest major film festival. Of...

The Conversation: 2019 Cannes Film Festival Predictions

For several reasons, the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival was something of a slight progression, if at least for the number of...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #2. The Truth – Hirokazu Kore-eda

The Truth Fresh off his 2018 Palme d’Or winning Shoplifters (review), prolific Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda continues his perennial output with his latest project, The Truth,...