Last summer, I had the privilege of watching Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest film Monster (2023) — now released in the Netherlands — at Hong Kong Broadway Cinematheque, the hub of arthouse cinema scene in Hong Kong. Although what originally drove me there was not the film itself but my survival instinct to flee away from the […]
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There were three major nostalgic films about the film industry in the past year: “babyface” Damien Chazelle’s Babylon (2022) — his second attempt at remaking Singin’ in the Rain (1952) next to La La Land (2016) with the same skilful directing and editing; Stephen Spielberg’s autobiographical The Fabelmans (2022), which is loosely based on the […]
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Tár is the third feature film written and directed by Todd Field, whose face you might have come across in Woody Allen’s Radio Days (1987) or Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut (1999). Field was a budding jazz musician in his late teenage years but quit it for studying acting in New York. Perhaps this premature […]
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