Blake Simons
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Film viewer, word spewer. Self-reflexive romances, global queer, contemporary Japanese, adaptation Words at @easternKicks @TheFilmStage @MovieMarker and more
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Into the trees: In my deepest interview to date, I spent two rewarding hours speaking with director
@kinoneFilm
about THE ALBINO'S TREES (streaming now on
@SAKKAfilms
), an Eiko Ishibashi-scored film that curiously prefigures Evil Does Not Exist
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One of our most heterosexual filmmakers with one of our most homosexual filmmakers. Inspiring.
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This is quite possibly the worst sentence I've ever seen in a film trailer.
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David Lynch to Take Part in Panel Discussion in Cannes With Donovan, Redman (Exclusive)
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Film and TV get day one patches now
The Duffer Brothers say they finished around 20 VFX shots on
#StrangerThings4
Episode 9 yesterday morning and uploaded them to Netflix’s server.
This means you may not see the fully finalised shots if you binge the series immediately.
(via:
@colliderfrosty
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.
@SimonRamshaw
has quite possibly the best pitch as to why you should be watching Jawan (now on Netflix):
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@capybaroness
I think the film's capacity for hurting the spectator is what makes it so potentially politically powerful
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TIL that Juzo Itami's 'A Taxing Woman' (1987) was adapted into an NES visual novel by Capcom in 1989.
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@capybaroness
The sooner it gets cancelled again, the sooner we get a new Futurama finale episode
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I didn't get much time with
@shiraishikazuya
in Udine, so naturally I used that opportunity to ask about his incredible genre versatility, and why members of SMAP keep ending up in jidaigeki. My interview, published now as his new film BUSHIDO plays
@NYAFF
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That's one way to make my interest nosedive sharply off a cliff.
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@capybaroness
Don't worry, they haven't neutered the aesthetic elements rooted in racist caricature
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So this is pretty major. Hou Hsiao-hsien's A City of Sadness is now avaliable to rent and buy on UK Amazon Video, supposedly in HD. Distributor is listed as Filmax.
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@StevenWallaby
Guy who insists on referring to The Return as 'Twin Peaks: A Limited Event Series'
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Nobuhiko Obayashi's Beijing Watermelon is being restored in 2K and released in select theatres by
@kani_releasing
!
Did we know about this?!
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Hey
@BFI
, an IMAX screening of Challengers would sell out in mere hours y'know. I think you should do one.
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Saw Aftersun, a film of small moments mapped with astounding definition, sensitivity, and truth.
A film about how we break and sometimes can't heal each other, only apply plasters. Performances beyond words, love in what's unspoken.
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'This Truth no longer exists' is like a line from a classic visual novel
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15 year olds are going to watch this film in the dark at 2am, probably from a link a friend sent them on Discord, and lie awake with their worlds changed.
I SAW THE TV GLOW is on digital now.
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Happy Takashi Miike K-drama is now on Disney+/Hulu day to those who celebrate
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This copy of Paprika I downloaded from archivedotorg has commentary from the uploader in the timeline timestamps
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The River (dir. Tsai Ming-liang, 1997)
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PCC doing what BFI inexplicably aren't
Can't sleep, so got another Edward Yang film booked and on sale!
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Beguiled by Lee Sang-il's Wandering, a film of raw power and beauty that refuses to sit comfortably with itself as it uncompromisingly ventures into dark and rarely explored places with admirable nuance. The rarest kind of drama.
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If I ever get the chance to write something lengthy on the genius of Sion Sono's work, this shall be its title:
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@capybaroness
'Carruth remains a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, which he was invited to join in 2020.'
huh.
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Finding out about the Tran Anh Hung film that boasts a cast including Elias Koteas, Lee Byung-hun, and Takuya Kimura(?!) and boasts this boxart:
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I started conducting filmmaker interviews in March of this year and already I've spoken with so many incredible people.
Thank you to everyone who's taken time to speak with me, and the people who've made these interviews possible. I love your films and admire your hearts.
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Best decade
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Floating Clouds on Blu-ray from BFI!
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The semester's over, and that hazy in-between space proved the perfect backdrop to finally see Kiyoshi Kurosawa's BUMPKIN SOUP at the BFI, a beguilingly messy exploration of love versus sex, intellectualisation vs experience. Will need rewatches to process it, but it's fantastic.
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@steelydante
auteurism is drawing parallels in form and style between Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and I Am Autism (2009)
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@FilmsRadiance
are killing it this year with Blu-ray releases of acclaimed 4.5hr-long dramas about men going nuts failing to understand a woman who wants to disappear.
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A film of two halves: the first a startling return to the gendered push and pulls and projections of Tokyo Fist - chamber piece from hell, the second an arresting and affecting coda to Fires on the Plain. Major 'sit down shut up and listen' filmmaking. Really loved this.
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I strongly believe we need more irresponsible filmmakers, especially queer ones. And Emerald Fennell is a filmmaker full of utterly terrible ideas. Occasionally I love her for it.
But the final 15 minutes of Saltburn are mindbogglingly terrible. Far worse than PYW's. Wow.
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Makes you cry when you least expect- when a line, a gesture, an expression gently touches some nerve, triggers some memory
Its tenderness & photographic introspection put me in mind of Varda, its bittersweet needle drops of Dolan. And that final shot.
Paul Mescal for Best Actor
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Feel very grateful to have made my
@TheFilmStage
debut talking with writer-director
@nschamus
about their sensitive and fresh feature debut 'Summer Solstice', my favourite discovery of the year.
Opens at
@IFCCenter
on the 14th - please go out and support this film, it's special.
"I wanted to explore friendships that you’ve had for a long time that maybe no longer fit as comfortably."
#SummerSolstice
dir. Noah Schamus talks w.
@blakethinks
about inviting audiences to reconsider transness on screen, Éric Rohmer, pay equity & more:
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Living in a box: I spoke with
@GakuryuIshii
about his decades-long quest to adapt THE BOX MAN, inner tripping, collaboration, and the influence of the avant-garde
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This sure blew up
Did you know: the 'boy' from Boyhood is nonbinary
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Scrolling cinematographers' pages on Letterboxd is often rewarding
Takashi Miike's new series, Connect, is shot by Kim Ji-yong - DP on Decision to Leave
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Evil Does Not Exist.
Some truly exquisite composition here. Don't worry about the comparatively shorter length - Hamaguchi's tuning of sequence duration is masterful.
Makes a neat spiritual companion to Anno's 'bureaucracy is hell' Shin films. Humanist right down to form.
#LFF
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The shit-eating grin plastered across my face throughout CHALLENGERS, an electrifying audiovisual smorgasbord that switches up speeds till it finds what you like.
Tables become nets, stands become a cuck chair, the music hits and it's on. I vibe with the swings it takes. Love.
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A massive thank you to
@fareastfilm
and the Campus programme leads who (very wisely) do not use Twitter.
A highly rewarding and gratifying week-and-a-half spent with wonderful people I was sad to part from.
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Almost People! A quietly profound (accidental?) allegory for neurodivergence that made a more striking impression than I expected.
Especially taken with the third segment, directed by Takuto Kato in his first-time on a feature project. On the strength of this, he's one to watch.
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!!! JUNK HEAD is coming to UK Cinemas 24th April!
Over the moon about this!
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Japanese film fans - this should be on your romcom radar!
Netflix original coming next week, In Love and Deep Water, written by Yuji Sakamoto (Koreeda's Monster, Crying Out Love in the Center of the World)
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I spoke with
@ChasingAmyDoc
's Sav Rodgers about feeling seen by queer cinema outside of accepted canon, his journey to make a highly personal documentary about that, and where he'd like to see queer cinema take us next:
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Once again thinking about how gorgeous the poster for 'Howl from Beyond the Fog' is
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New Hashiguchi film incoming in July (JP)
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@fromthereel
A Brighter Summer Day packs a four hour commentary, multiple archive programmes, and a filmed Yang theatre piece
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And that was
#BFIFlare
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Saw films that mean a lot to me and interviewed some amazing folks about their wonderful films and this exciting new era of trans cinema we're entering (pieces coming soon).
Best of fest: Summer Solstice, Reas, Chasing Chasing Amy, Sex is Comedy
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Deleted scene from Titane where she's playing Need For Speed
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Can't quite believe that Netflix UK are casually dropping the new Takashi Miike this Saturday
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Past Lives! Was initially concerned I was watching the Your Name-ification of Before Sunset, but this unspools in its second half into something gratifyingly self-reflexive, unapologetically limerent, and emotionally transcendent.
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I hope in Hong Sang-soo's 100th film he faces off against Takashi Miike
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Embarrassing stuff from an industry continually allergic to the notion that art does in fact engage with, contain, and perpetuate politics.
Also the organisers would not permit political statements, huh?
To my great regret, I will not be presenting the Best Storytelling award today as the organisers would not permit political statements. Here's what I would have said, and my message explaining my reasoning for withdrawing.
#ceasefireNOW
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Hadn't realised that Netflix's delightful stop-motion series Rilakkuma & Kaoru is penned by filmmaker Naoko Ogigami (Close-Knit, Rent-a-Cat)
And the follow-up, Rilakkuma's Theme Park Adventure is written in part by Makoto Ueda (Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, Penguin Highway)!
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