Month: May 2012

In a national independent cinema that frequently offers a choice between social commentary and offbeat comedy, Yuya Ishii’s charming drama Sawako Decides (2010) managed to...

Hong’s sex scenes were always awkward and unsexy, from the humor of the foot fetish scene in The Day A Pig Fell Into The Well,...

While Adam is in the middle of his week-long Hong Sangsoo series, now is the best time to let everyone know that The Korean Film...

I was asked today if I liked The Day He Arrives more after seeing it for five days in a row.  And I said, and type...

Perhaps it’s because it’s a Monday and I returned to the work of my day job, but I found myself focusing on the outbursts between...

It’s kind of odd that I’m guest blogging on my own blog, but here goes.  For the third day of Adam Hartzell’s one week series...

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My friend Brian Darr, proprietor of the San Francisco film blog Hell on Frisco Bay and regular (past) essay contributor to the San Francisco Silent Film...

While watching Hong Sangsoo’s The Day He Arrives for the second time on the first day of its exclusive run at the San Francisco Film Society...

Michelle Chen Miao’s moving drama Son of the Stars begins with its protagonist in transit, a state that she will perpetually find herself in, despite...