"Dear Kenzaburo, I wish for your happiness." Level 33 Ent. has revealed an official US trailer for an indie film titled Cottontail, made by British filmmaker Patrick Dickinson. The film premiered at the 2023 Rome Film Festival last year and it also played at a number of other film festivals, including Istanbul and Sydney. In the quiet, tender film, a widower from Japan travels to England with his estranged son in order to fulfill his late wife's final request. Akiko had a dying wish: for her ashes to be scattered across Lake Windermere in the UK, based on a rosy childhood memory of chasing a Peter Rabbit-esque cottontail. Father and son embark on a cross-cultural journey, taking us from the noise of Tokyo to the vast English countryside. This stars Ryô Nishikido with Ciarán Hinds, Lily Franky, Aoife Hinds, Ae Kimura, Rin Takanashi, & Yuri Tsunematsu. This seems very sweet & heartfelt, looks...
- 6/4/2024
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Everyone of us dreads the moment when we hear the news we may not have the amount of time on earth we thought we had. Even though we will all have to face this day at some point in our lives, it is something we likely keep distant from ourselves and those around us, making it a taboo topic. However, once the knowledge is there, it brings about a change linked to us thinking back on our lives and maybe even regretting some of the events and decisions that turned us into the person we are. In his new feature “Dreaming in Between”, actor and director Ryutaro Ninomiya tells us the story of a man who, after having heard the news he does not have many years left, goes through a period of change. The feature, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival last year, deals with a topic we have seen in many features before,...
- 6/3/2024
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Who does a documentary truly belong to — the people who make it, the people who fund it, or the people it depicts? On the face of it, the answer seems obvious: At a spiritual level, if not always a corporate one, we tend to think of art as the property of the artist. Yet in dusting off a long-languishing nonfiction feature from the 1970s that was taken from its stymied director by his bankrollers and sent to the vault, Andrés Peyrot’s thoughtful, mirror-holding doc “God is a Woman” makes a compelling case for the third option. With the old project terminally abandoned and its helmer no longer alive, it’s the Indigenous Panamanian community filmed in the first place who believe themselves the heirs to footage they’ve patiently waited half a century to see. In empathetic, increasingly poetic ways, Peyrot’s film finally presents it to them.
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- 8/31/2023
- by Guy Lodge
- Variety Film + TV
Above: Original French release poster for Jeanne Dielman, 23, Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. Designer unknown.Jeanne Dielman wins again! Posted on the day that Chantal Akerman’s masterpiece was announced as the surprise come-from-behind winner of Sight and Sound’s decennial Greatest Films of All Time poll, the original poster for the film racked up close to 3,000 likes on my Movie Poster of the Day Instagram (helped perhaps by being paired with this photo of Akerman pensively smoking in front of the same poster back in the day). I have no doubt that any poster for the film posted on that day would have gotten a lot of attention, but I’d like to believe that some of the likes were for the poster itself: unassuming yet elegant (like Jd herself), foregrounding that radically mundane title, and containing nothing surplus to requirements, just Mrs. Dielman at her dining room table, waiting patiently,...
- 4/6/2023
- MUBI
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