35mm print
It's hard not to think about the clip of Roger Ebert from the Sundance Film Festival passionately defending this film when (I'm going to make an assumption here about this bit) a white audience member asked Justin Lin if he was ashamed of making a movie all about people from the Asian-American community that would end up becoming bad influences for generations to come. But I think that people who ask questions of that sort are only doing…
TIFF 2022 #11: Special Presentations (World Premiere)
In the eyes of Steven Spielberg, movies are magic. To say that The Fabelmans is a movie all about the magic of movies is one thing, but Spielberg's recreation of his own childhood memories - from falling in love with the movies, to the way that they serve as a gateway to escaping from the harsh realities that one can be made to endure, or even bring you closer to understanding the world…
If you ever wanted to see what a Hong Kong filmmaker's take on the same sort of nastiness that Hollywood of this period a la Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, this might be the sort of thing you're looking for. It's unrelentingly gross, but it's never not entertaining enough for its meager 78 minute length. But if you also ever wanted to see what a lot of that can look like with some absolutely astonishing fight choreography, then…
In many ways, it feels like this film has become increasingly prescient - especially with regards to how people form a relationship with idols. Which has become super prominent within Japanese and Korean popular culture, and how many people from all around the world continuously view the idols not as other people, but as the stage personalities that they present. It's one among many things that I find to be absolutely astonishing about Perfect Blue, because there's a clear disassociation…
Saw this one in a theater, after having won a draw from TIFF - and I'm really sad that many people are not going to have the same experience that I was ever so lucky to have with Disney's shafting this one on over to Disney+. But I think the one thing worth taking away from having seen Turning Red is that as someone who's grown up watching Pixar films for just about my entire life, it feels nice to…
