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
Author: Eugene Kang
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
Spaceship Earth (documentary) ★★★
Biosphere 2 was the first, very public attempt to create a self-sufficient ecosystem in an enclosed space. Taking up onlyContinue Reading
Bacurau ★★★½
Much of Kleber Mendonca Filho’s newest film Bacurau cleaves very close to its genre roots – specifically the Western. BacurauContinue Reading
Hava, Maryam, Ayesha ★★★
Stories from women’s voices are few and far between from Afghanistan and other conservative Muslim countries. Sahraa Karimi is theContinue Reading
Letting Go of the Past in My Sassy Girl
If you were Korean or around Koreans at the turn of the century, My Sassy Girl would have been partContinue Reading
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