Jawni Han
The Dreamed Adventure emerged from years of extensive field research and collaborations with the locals, who contributed not only their knowledge and personal histories that shaped the film’s narrative but also their indelible screen presence.
Through its sweeping scope, Possible Love trades the granular analysis of the particulars for a lucid picture of history as a repetitive structure that governs life under capitalism.
Long imagined as both gateway and periphery, Incheon embodies the contradictory promises of post-IMF South Korea. It is a city defined by departures and arrivals.
The majority of A. Rimbaud is confined to the black box theater, dressed with only what is essential to evoke a given setting and mood—a bold aesthetic choice that mirrors a poet’s economy of words.
He never went away, but Two Pianos feels like a triumphant return for Desplechin, a testament to his maturing style and the observable fact that he is still a filmmaker to be reckoned with.
Harnessing the imperfections in the digital cameras’ image-rendering capabilities and rudimentary audio fidelity, Godard confronts the crisis in neoliberalism, the ascendence of digital cinema, and the extinguished dreams of socialism and celluloid from the previous century.
Revolutionary gestures in cinema have to be excavated from the rubble of film history, and an earnest engagement with this deeply flawed film unveils a reservoir of untapped revelations that can be harnessed in our contemporary queer imagination.