By Olivia Popp
Screened in the Un Certain Regards section of 1995 Cannes, Mohsen Makhmalbaf's “Salaam Cinema” was created as a tribute to motion pictures itself, a centennial celebration of the Lumière brothers' first films. It is a fascinating, complex metatheatrical look into the duality of acting and action, film as a medium and industry, and the reframing of human desire and emotion when the boundary between reality and fiction is manipulated. Shot to look and even function like a documentary, the filmmaker illuminates the undercurrents of humanity, and by examining humanity, he illuminates the undercurrents of cinema.
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Makhmalbaf plays a fictional version of himself as “the director,” running a casting call for a new film where thousands of hopeful actors show up. Within its short 75-minute runtime, he pushes a slew of auditionees to their limits under his...
Screened in the Un Certain Regards section of 1995 Cannes, Mohsen Makhmalbaf's “Salaam Cinema” was created as a tribute to motion pictures itself, a centennial celebration of the Lumière brothers' first films. It is a fascinating, complex metatheatrical look into the duality of acting and action, film as a medium and industry, and the reframing of human desire and emotion when the boundary between reality and fiction is manipulated. Shot to look and even function like a documentary, the filmmaker illuminates the undercurrents of humanity, and by examining humanity, he illuminates the undercurrents of cinema.
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Makhmalbaf plays a fictional version of himself as “the director,” running a casting call for a new film where thousands of hopeful actors show up. Within its short 75-minute runtime, he pushes a slew of auditionees to their limits under his...
- 3/10/2023
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
By Olivia Popp
Premiering at the Tokyo International Festival and moving to the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, “The Clone Returns Home” is Kanji Nakajima’s virtually unknown grounded sci-fi turned imaginative meditation on memory, life, and what can’t be captured within humankind’s attempt to control life. With Nakajima’s dreamscape and near-fantastical tale of being human, it’s no wonder that the movie easily attracts comparisons to Tarkovsky’s “Solaris.” The Japanese director brings his 2006 Sundance / Nhk International Filmmaker’s Award screenplay to life in this pensive piece with a small cast and a simple premise.
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After an introduction to the world of the film, in which a space agency is experiencing unexpected and unforeseen deaths among its astronauts, the astronaut Kohei Takahara (Mitsuhiro Oikawa) is given the option to prepare materials so that the agency may create...
Premiering at the Tokyo International Festival and moving to the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, “The Clone Returns Home” is Kanji Nakajima’s virtually unknown grounded sci-fi turned imaginative meditation on memory, life, and what can’t be captured within humankind’s attempt to control life. With Nakajima’s dreamscape and near-fantastical tale of being human, it’s no wonder that the movie easily attracts comparisons to Tarkovsky’s “Solaris.” The Japanese director brings his 2006 Sundance / Nhk International Filmmaker’s Award screenplay to life in this pensive piece with a small cast and a simple premise.
on Amazon by clicking on the image below
After an introduction to the world of the film, in which a space agency is experiencing unexpected and unforeseen deaths among its astronauts, the astronaut Kohei Takahara (Mitsuhiro Oikawa) is given the option to prepare materials so that the agency may create...
- 3/7/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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