New York Asian Film Festival 2021 Part One: ESCAPE FROM MOGADISHU, NINJA GIRL and BARBARIAN INVASION
In her first report from the New York Asian Film Festival, Lee Jutton reviews Escape from Mogadishu, Ninja Girl and Barbarian Invasion.
It’s not a perfect specimen in filmmaking, but My Sassy Girl is an imperfect exercise in romantic storytelling that can’t help but win you over.
A couple discovers a mysterious newborn on their farm. The unexpected prospect of family life brings them much joy, before ultimately destroying them.
The latest film from writer-director Anne Fontaine is a new take on an old legend: that of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
This week, host Jesse Nussman is joined once again by Josh Martin to discuss two recent releases.
With three decades of love, betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately murder, we see what a name means, what it’s worth, and how far a family will go.
In Kids Return, the warmth of Kitano’s brand of brotherhood glows on the palate long after the acidity of his cynicism has subsided.
The Green Knight is an immersive, beautifully photographed if sometimes frustratingly structured fantasy adaptation.
Ryan Andrew Hooper’s The Toll is a Welsh Western that takes its cues from Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven and flips them on their head.
In this episode, your hosts, Blake and Joe, actually stay on topic for once and talk about Johnny Nash’ 1964 album, Composer’s Choice.
Ghost ultimately haunts the viewer with tight dialogue, brave character development, and powerful storytelling.
In The Hidden Life Of Trees, conservationist Peter Wohlleben is a modern-day Lorax as he educates and speaks for the trees.
As a Korean-American man raised in the Louisiana bayou works hard to make a life for his family, he must confront the ghosts of his past and face deportation.
Written and directed by Edson Oda in his directorial debut, Nine Days is as thoughtful as it is beautiful, as heartbreaking as it is jovial.
Jungle Cruise is far from cringe or embarrassment, and sure, it’s never actively terrible. But the bar shouldn’t be set this low.