Tag: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
2024 TIFF: Kulumbegashvili, Zilbalodis, Lojkine, Soderbergh, Rankin & Sofia Bohdanowicz in Centrepiece Programme
It's year two for the Toronto Intl. Film Festival's Centrepiece programme - the place where we find films from the film festival circuit as...
2024 San Sebastián: Alberdi, Ozon, Oppenheimer, Costa-Gavras, Leigh & Laura Carreira & Xin Huo Debuts in Comp
Eleven Golden Shell competition films have been announced this morning, joining the previously selected quintet. This year's lineup features a mix of veteran directors,...
2024 Venice Film Festival Predictions: Walter Salles, Athina Rachel Tsangari & Harmony Korine
So here we are. The programming teams headed by Artistic Directors Gaia Furrer (Giornate degli Autori), Beatrice Fiorentino (Settimana Internazionale della Critica) and Alberto...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Audrey Diwan, Abdellatif Kechiche & Jessica Palud Among 11th Hour Film Options?
The films from the Critics’ Week and Directors’ Fortnight sections are now on firm grounds and as we anticipate the unveiling of the Cannes...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – Asif Kapadia, Quentin Dupieux & Kiyoshi Kurosawa Best Bets in Non Comps
The majority of the Cannes Film Festival lineup is set to be revealed on April 11th, however, before we delve into the films that...
Paris Sonata: Kiyoshi Kurosawa Mounting “Serpent’s Path” in the City of Lights
We can expect a new Kiyoshi Kurosawa oeuvre in 2024 as the Japanese filmmaker has set up shop in Paris for his next feature....
Wife of a Spy | Review
Spy Game: Kurosawa Finds Passion & Terror in History’s Gloom
One doesn’t tend to associate period melodrama or espionage with Kiyoshi Kurosawa, a perennial genre...
You BETcha!: Nomadland is the Odds on Favorite for the 2020 Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion
With Cannes offering up a hypothetical edition and the Karlovy Varys and Locarnos conducting some form of film community outreach, the COVID-19 pandemic might...
2020 Venice Film Festival: Michel Franco, Mona Fastvold, Jasmila Zbanic & Konchalovsky in Comp
Mona Fastvold, Emma Dante and Chloé Zhao were tipped for the comp months ago, but today heavyweights such as Jasmila Zbanic, Malgorzata Szumowska (Never...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #78. Untitled Kiyoshi Kurosawa War Drama
Untitled Kiyoshi Kurosawa War Drama Project
Japan’s Kiyoshi Kurosawa lets no moss gather, as he will be following his 2019 Uzbekistan set To the End...
2019 Locarno Film Festival: Fabrice du Welz, Donzelli, Fukada, Ameur-Zaïmeche & Pedro Costa Selected
The first edition of the Locarno Film Festival under Lili Hinstin's leadership will include the world premiere to Fabrice du Welz's Adoration and Valérie...
The Conversation: Last But Not Least for Cannes 2019
With the main competition and the sidebar programs all unveiled, we await news of one or potentially two last-minute titles added to the competition,...
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: #27. To the Ends of the Earth – Kiyoshi Kurosawa
To the Ends of the Earth
Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa shows no signs of slowing, turning to Uzbekistan for his latest feature, To the Ends...
The Conversation: Bring Forth Berlin (Possible Contenders for the Competition)
As has been the Berlinale’s custom of years past, several early competition titles have been confirmed along with the 2019 opener, Lone Scherfig’s The...
The Conversation: Top 5 Most Anticipated 2018 Berlin Intl. Film Festival Offerings
On the surface, the competition lineup for Berlin 2018 seems demurer than the past several years. With the exception of the Wes Anderson opener...
The Conversation: Regarding Un Certain Regard – Top 3 Most Anticipated Picks
Entering its 39th year of existence, parallel sidebar Un Certain Regard once more sports a mixture of intriguing newcomers alongside noted auteurs in the...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell (2017 Edition)
It’s hard to believe, but we’re about five weeks away from the unveiling of the 2017 Cannes Film Festival lineup. After several months of...
Creepy | DVD Review
Documentary label Icarus Films moves into the distribution of narrative features, first up with the unveiling of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Creepy, which premiered as a...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: #36. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Strolling Invader
Strolling Invader
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Writer: Tomohiro Maekawa
2016 was a notable year for Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who premiered his excellent genre thriller Creepy in Berlin and his...
Best of 2016: Nicholas Bell’s Top 20 Theatrical Releases: Picks 20 to 11
To the relief of many, the final, strenuous chapter of the anxiety-inducing and emotionally toxic year 2016 draws to a close this week. As...
Creepy | Review
Social Disease: Kurosawa’s Aptly Titled Thriller Returns to Expressions of a Serial Killer
Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa does double duty this year releasing two extravagant,...
Daguerrotype | 2016 Toronto Int. Film Festival Review
Spirits of the Dead: Kurosawa Continues Ghostly Leitmotifs in First French Language Film
Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa makes a surprise venture into French language cinema...
The Conversation: Cinema Italiano – 2016 Venice Film Festival Predictions
Looking towards the Lido, we’re just over three months away before the fourth quarter Fall Festival circuit kick off, and the final prestigious competition...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell – The 2016 Edition
Tis the season for fevered wish lists and constantly fluctuating prognostications concerning the soon to be revealed 2016 program at the Cannes Film Festival....
The Conversation: Das ist Berlin
The Berlin International Film Festival continued to challenge expectations in its 66th edition, landing another auteur heavy competition line-up, albeit a slightly less sensational...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #80. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s The Woman in the Silver Plate
The Woman in the Silver Plate
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Writers: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Catherine Paille
Japanese master Kiyoshi Kurosawa has been involved with a number of projects over...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #90. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Creepy
Creepy
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Writers: Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Chihiro Ikeda
Japanese auteur Kiyoshi Kurosawa is set to unveil two films in 2016 (the other snagged our #80 slot...
2015 TIFF: Porumboiu, Muntean, Sewitsky & Tsangari Among Contemporary World Cinema Selections
Anne Sewitsky's Sundance preemed Homesick, Cannes preemed Romanian imports from Radu Muntean's One Floor Below and Corneliu Porumboiu's The Treasure along with Athina Rachel...
2015 Cannes Film Fest: Main Comp 1st Timers Include Kurzel, Lanthimos, Donzelli, Villeneuve, Brize, Joachim Trier & Laszlo Nemes
Returnee former Palme d'Or winners and their latest in Nanni Moretti (Mia Madre), Gus Van Sant (Sea Of Trees) are joined by several Main Comp...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2016: Picks 100 to 6
While DC and Marvel might already have a lock on several future release dates past the 2015 campaign with the Coen Bros. circling February...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #56. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Journey to the Shore
Journey to the Shore
Director: Kiyoshi Kurosawa// Writer: Takashi Ujita, Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa is most revered for his genre work, including the fantastically...
Penance | Review
Till I Can Get My Satisfaction: Kurosawa’s Striking Psychosexual Marathon
Past traumas hopelessly infecting the present factor significantly in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s monolithic psychosexual thriller, Penance,...
TIFF’s Phat 2013 Line-up Includes Latest From: Chomet, Egoyan, Holofcener, Glazer, Gordon Green & Reichardt
With dramatic fare such as August: Osage County, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Dallas Buyers Club, 2013's Toronto Int. Film Festival once again...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Real
#22. Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Real
Gist: His first feature since Tokyo Sonata, which won the Un Certain Regard at Cannes, as well as best picture and...
IONCINEPHILE: Tim Sutton’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile (read...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: Picks 200-101
Because, looking forward, 2013 promises to be such a fruitful cornucopia of cinema, we were excited to be able to easily list an additional...
