Tag: Sion Sono
Prisoners of the Ghostland | 2021 Sundance Film Festival Review
Alas, Poor Yorick: Sono’s English Language Debut a Fallow, Gonzo Spectacle
What happens when a cult actor meets a cult filmmaker? Well, sometimes they just...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #41. Prisoners of the Ghostland – Sion Sono
Prisoners of the Ghostland
Despite being a perennial festival presence, some may be wondering what’s happened to Japanese provocateur Sion Sono, who usually has somewhere...
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...
The Whispering Star | 2016 Japan Cuts Film Festival Review
The Human Factor: Sono’s Somber Allusions to the Allegory of the Cave
When one contemplates the continuously expanding filmography of Japanese auteur Sion Sono, hyperbolic...
Tokyo Tribe | Review
Why Don’t You Play in the Streets?: Sono’s Overblown Street War Musical
Many consider Sion Sono to be Takashi Miike’s succeeding enfant terrible, both in...
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...
Tag | 2015 Fantasia Film Festival Review
Female of the Species: Sono’s Pseudo-Allegory Reifies the Male Gaze
Superficially, there’s not too much new on hand in Sion Sono’s Tag, credited as the...
2014 TIFF: Midnight Madness Sticks Mostly To Fest Faves in David Robert Mitchell & Adam Wingard
It looks like Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes might have been more inspired by what he might have seen elsewhere, than what was currently...
Himizu | Review
Suffer the Children: Sono’s Social Dystopia a Melancholy Landscape
It appears that 2014 will be a year that sees a flood of Sion Sono’s back...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Films for 2014: #37. Sion Sono’s Tokyo Tribes
Tokyo Tribes
Director: Sion Sono
Writer: Santa Inoue
Producer: Yoshinori Chiba
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Ryohei Suzuki
While the steadily working Sion Sono’s work ethic may be starting to...
The Catechism Catalysm’s Todd Rohal & Juan of the Dead’s Alejandro Brugués to Blow a Gasket on ABCs of Death Sequel
Already stacked with an eclectic line-up with the likes of Álex de la Iglesia, Rodney Ascher, Erik Matti, Sion Sono and Jerome Sable, producers...
2013’s Midnight Madness Line-up include Venice bound flick from Sono & Juno Mak Plus 7 World Preems (McKee, Roth, Matsumoto)
Announcing nine out of ten titles from its 2013 lineup, TIFF’s Midnight Madness blazes in with a fever pitch, promising to be one of...
The Land of Hope | TIFF 2012 Review
The Japan Syndrome: Sono Puts Human Face to Tsunami Tragedy
The prolific and insanely busy Sion Sono returns with another tale centered on the aftermath...
