Tag: Koji Fukada
2025 Cannes Film Festival: Lynne Ramsay & Saeed Roustayi Added to Palme d’Or Competition – Ethan Coen in Midnight
The competition section films vying for the Palme d'Or will finally have moved from the initial selection of nineteen to twenty-one with Thierry Frémaux...
Love Life | Review
Love the One You’re With: Fukada Explores Love and Death as Unhappy Accidents
The instability of romance is the only real given in the intimate...
2022 TIFF: Honoré, Seidl, Pálmason, Mungiu & Gueret+Akoka in the Contemporary World Cinema Program
After front-loading the section with Canadiana last week, we now know the entire make-up of the Contemporary World Cinema Program and there are plenty...
2022 Venice Film Festival: Alice Diop, Poitras, Panahi & Iñárritu Among Front-Runners for the Golden Lion!
With only one title left to be unveiled (for the time being, let's call it the August 30th pre-opener as it will be actually...
2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival: 100 Predictions (Part I) Berger, Wilde, Mendes & Nattiv
As we enthusiastically await the make-up of the major fall film festivals there is one theory that is being advanced: the "Festival of Festivals"...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #69. Koji Fukada’s Love Life
Love Life
Just a couple of weeks back we saw Japan's Koji Fukada name attached to a market project going by the title of Love on...
A Girl Missing | Review
Guilt by Dissociation: Fukada Explores the Burden of Others in Exemplary Melodrama
Director Kôji Fukada presents a melodrama hung on absurdity for his fourth feature,...
The Conversation: Top 10 of 2020 Thus Far …
Our chief film critic Nicholas Bell offers his top ten in a (film) year are unlikely to forget. As per usual, this middle point...
Descriptions added to the 56 Cannes Film Festival Selected Films for the 2020 Edition
Adding more value to their June 3rd unveiling, what went into this selection process and to be frank, some of these short descriptions will...
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: 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...
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: #87. Koji Fukada’s The Man from the Sea
The Man from the Sea
Japan’s Koju Fukada scored his greatest international breakthrough to date when he took home the Jury Prize in Un Certain...
Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2017: Picks 200 to 101
As we unveil our first tier of two hundred notable foreign film projects to be potentially unveiled in 2017, the coming year promises to...
