For the last few years I’ve been doing a yearly piece trying to forecast the upcoming foreign films we might be talking about at some point. It’s tough work and it tends to be something I put months of thought into, whittling it down to 30 or so films to write about before I’m...
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Tags: Abbas Kiarostami, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Bleak Night, Certified Copy, Criterion, foreign film, Haruki Murakami, hirokazu koreeda's I wish, im sang-soo's the housemaid, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, kino lorber, michel gondry's the we and the i, Norwegian Wood, Pen-ek Ratanaruang, The Forgiveness of Blood, Tran Ahn Hung, Uncle Boonmee, wong kar wai's the grandmaster
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So, we’ve been away from the Roundup for two weeks now and I’ve collected a whopping two stories over that time. Two. Honestly. Nothing about my scouting routine changed, there is just nothing going on lately except nonsense year end lists (except our year end list, which was awesome, of course), which are swiftly...
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Tags: Akira, Ali Morgan, Amity Boat Tours, Andrew Garfield, Back to the Future, Billy Crudup, Billy Crystal, David Fincher, david o. russell, emma stone, Evil Dead Remake, Greg Kinnear, Grindhouse, Haruki Murakami, J. Hoberman, Jaws the Ride, Kathryn Bigelow, Kill Bin Laden, Lily Collins, Mark Boal, Melora Hardin, Michael Sheen, Netflix and StarzPlay, Norwegian Wood, Oscars, Peter King Sucks, Rooney Mara, Shame, Terrence Malick, The Amazing Spider-man, The Artist, The Iron Lady, Thin Ice, Tran Anh Hung, Tree of Life, WGA Awards
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As we roll into the final week of sheer torture before 1Q84, Haruki Murakami’s 944 page tome about shifting reality in 1984 Japan, there is good news on the Norwegian Wood front. After a year of seeing it come out in many festivals and countries around the world and waiting for news about a release...
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Tags: Haruki Murakami, john lennon, Johnny Greenwood, Kenichi Matsuyama, Norwegian Wood, Radiohead, Rinko Kikuchi, The Beatles, Tran Ahn Hung
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The slow demise of the film camera gets top billing this week. As it turns out, ARRI and Panavision stopped producing new film cameras quite a while ago in order to focus on digital. I feel like I’ve had my head in the sand about this, thinking it would never happen despite all available...
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Tags: 3D sucks, American Reunion, Angelica Huston, ARRI Alexa, Attenberg, Best Foreign Language Oscar, Bill Murray, Bong Joon-ho, Elizabeth Olsen, Enzian, Haruki Murakami, Iran Sucks, Jafar Panahi, james cameron, Lost in Austen, Madonna, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Martin Scorsese's Hugo, Marzieh Vafamehr, Norah Ephron, Norwegian Wood, Panavision Phantom, Shane Carruth, The Avengers, The Host, The Royal Tenenbaums, Titanic 3D, Tower Heist, Tran Ahn Hung, W.E., Wes Anderson
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