LX 2048 ★★
LX 2048, the newest film from writer/director Guy Moshe (Bunraku), has unexpected resonance during the COVID-19 pandemic. In the film’sContinue Reading
Author: Eugene Kang
First Cow ★★★½
Underlying many of Kelly Reichardt’s films is the desire to create human dramas that comment obliquely on the environment whereContinue Reading
You Cannot Kill David Arquette ★★★
In 2008, Misha DeFonseca publicly admitted that her memoir about being raised by wolves after her parents were killed byContinue Reading
Generational Trauma in Ju Dou
The Cultural Revolution in China was a sociopolitical movement spearheaded by Mao Tse-tung that aimed to purge all levels ofContinue Reading
Navigating the Cuban Revolution in Memories of Underdevelopment
Other than Vietnam, Cuba may be the country most deeply affected by the Cold War between the United States andContinue Reading
Thanatos in the Czech New Wave: The Cremator
During the 1960’s, cinema witnessed groundbreaking work and talent on what seemed like a weekly basis. The French New WaveContinue Reading
Time to Hunt ★★★
Though South Korea has really come into its own as an economic and cultural superpower to be reckoned with inContinue Reading
The Half of It ★★★
The famous story of Cyrano de Bergerac is about an intelligent and fearsomely talented man who is unable to professContinue Reading
The Subversion of South Korean Society in The Pollen of Flowers
Class struggle is present in almost every society, but it seems that Korean culture is especially obsessed with this theme.Continue Reading
The Painter and the Thief (documentary) ★★★
When Barbora Kysilkova had two of her paintings stolen from the Galleri Nobel in Oslo in 2015, she never expectedContinue Reading
