Nyaff unveils first wave of features from China, Hong Kong, Japan and beyond.
The New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) has unveiled the first wave of features for its 22nd edition and announced that Japanese actor Ryohei Suzuki will receive the Screen International Rising Star award.
Nyaff will run from July 14-30 at the city’s Film at Lincoln Center, with a programme of more than 60 titles, and Suzuki will be presented with the award recognising emerging talent from East Asia on July 15.
Suzuki has been acting on screen for more than 15 years, with a string of roles in Japanese...
The New York Asian Film Festival (Nyaff) has unveiled the first wave of features for its 22nd edition and announced that Japanese actor Ryohei Suzuki will receive the Screen International Rising Star award.
Nyaff will run from July 14-30 at the city’s Film at Lincoln Center, with a programme of more than 60 titles, and Suzuki will be presented with the award recognising emerging talent from East Asia on July 15.
Suzuki has been acting on screen for more than 15 years, with a string of roles in Japanese...
- 6/15/2023
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
Amazon’s Prime Video has announced a 2023 Spanish production slate which takes in movies and series from directors, writers and above all producers who have set Spain’s box office and global streamer rankings on fire over the last decade.
Talent attached to the three new movies and three series unveiled Tuesday in Madrid at a Prime Video Presents Spain event include “Hildegart,” from the producers of 2022 Berlin Golden Bear winner “Alcarràs,” “Un hipster en la España vacía,” produced by Lazona Films, which made ”Spanish Affair,” the highest grossing Spanish film ever in Spain; and “Apocalipsis Z: El principio del fin,” backed by Nostromo Pictures, behind “Through My Window,” the sixth-most watched non-English movie ever on Netflix.
Another title, docuseries “El Circo de los Muchachos” is co-written by Pepe Coira, co-scribe of “Hierro” and “Rapa,” two of the most popular series to date on Telefonica’s Movistar+.
The news slate...
Talent attached to the three new movies and three series unveiled Tuesday in Madrid at a Prime Video Presents Spain event include “Hildegart,” from the producers of 2022 Berlin Golden Bear winner “Alcarràs,” “Un hipster en la España vacía,” produced by Lazona Films, which made ”Spanish Affair,” the highest grossing Spanish film ever in Spain; and “Apocalipsis Z: El principio del fin,” backed by Nostromo Pictures, behind “Through My Window,” the sixth-most watched non-English movie ever on Netflix.
Another title, docuseries “El Circo de los Muchachos” is co-written by Pepe Coira, co-scribe of “Hierro” and “Rapa,” two of the most popular series to date on Telefonica’s Movistar+.
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- 4/25/2023
- by John Hopewell and Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
What would happen if a director made a film about himself? And how would that film be affected if this director just happened to be a real multi-talented control freak? You don't need to look any further than Takeshis', Takeshi Kitano's (Hana-Bi, Kikujiro no Natsu, Achilles to Kame, Kantoku: Banzai!) ultimate cinematic experience where he finally takes the time to scrutinize his own self. The result is every bit as schizophrenic as you'd expect it to be.Takeshis' is a very difficult film to judge. A lot depends on how familiar you are with the work of Kitano (even outside the realm of cinema). Takeshi Kitano is a complex character, an ever-present force in the Japanese media who does everything from designing games to writing novels,...
- 5/18/2012
- Screen Anarchy
It's been shuffling its tactiturn way through the festival circuit for months, but with an American release finally looming, here's a new trailer for Takeshi Kitano's Outrage.This is happy news, since it's Takeshi's first proper gangster movie in a decade. He drew a line under that stage of his career with Brother, seemingly somewhat equivocal about the head-stomping and eye-gouging that made his name (at least internationally; he's also famous as a TV comedian in Japan). Since then there've been self-reflexive comedies like Takeshis' and the brilliant samurai semi-musical Zatoichi, but not much along the lines of his signature quiet-violent formula, until now...The Us Outrage trailer is amusing for its old-school gravelly voiceover, but it's at least not one of those disingenuous affairs that doesn't actually admit that the film is subtitled. What it does give us is the trademark Takeshi chuckle; refusals of surrender; a...
- 9/16/2011
- EmpireOnline
Best known for his violent arthouse films, Takeshi Kitano is also an accomplished comic, prankster and painter. It's all fuel for his big new show in Paris, he tells Steve Rose
There's plenty of evidence that artists can make decent movies – Steve McQueen, Sam Taylor Wood, Julian Schnabel to name a few – but it rarely works the other way around. Looking at Dennis Hopper's goatee-stroking conceptual works, or Sylvester Stallone's hamfisted attempts at abstract expressionism, you suspect they were misled into overestimating their talents by a coterie of star-struck sycophants. So when it was announced last year that Takeshi Kitano, Japan's foremost film-maker, was holding an art exhibition in Paris, the alarm bells rang. Over the last 15 years, Kitano has turned out a series of spare, violent, existential thrillers, but increasingly his prime concern seems to be his own navel: last month saw the UK release of his 2005 film Takeshis',...
There's plenty of evidence that artists can make decent movies – Steve McQueen, Sam Taylor Wood, Julian Schnabel to name a few – but it rarely works the other way around. Looking at Dennis Hopper's goatee-stroking conceptual works, or Sylvester Stallone's hamfisted attempts at abstract expressionism, you suspect they were misled into overestimating their talents by a coterie of star-struck sycophants. So when it was announced last year that Takeshi Kitano, Japan's foremost film-maker, was holding an art exhibition in Paris, the alarm bells rang. Over the last 15 years, Kitano has turned out a series of spare, violent, existential thrillers, but increasingly his prime concern seems to be his own navel: last month saw the UK release of his 2005 film Takeshis',...
- 3/16/2010
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Film-maker, author, poet, comic, inventor of video games … how does the western observer really come to terms with Takeshi Kitano?
The enterprising filmgoer in Britain may know a handful of Takeshi Kitano's films – Violent Cop (1989); Sonatine (1993); Hana-Bi (1997); Brother (2001); Zatoichi (2003). More or less, the European filmgoer has to assume and accept that Beat Takeshi – as he is known in Japan – is far removed from the classical Japanese film-makers, from Ozu, Mizoguchi, Naruse and Kurosawa. Instead, he is the epitome of the modern Japanese spirit – tough, urban, media-savvy, violent, poker-faced yet oddly sentimental, too. In Beat's world, one encounters the gangsters, the sluts, the lost children, the hangers-on and the debris of an impossibly competitive, unrelenting wasteland in which the tropes of American style, talk and iconographylinger like absurd ghosts.
So you can watch these films and be excited by a great deal: the savage editing; the frequent use of off-screen space...
The enterprising filmgoer in Britain may know a handful of Takeshi Kitano's films – Violent Cop (1989); Sonatine (1993); Hana-Bi (1997); Brother (2001); Zatoichi (2003). More or less, the European filmgoer has to assume and accept that Beat Takeshi – as he is known in Japan – is far removed from the classical Japanese film-makers, from Ozu, Mizoguchi, Naruse and Kurosawa. Instead, he is the epitome of the modern Japanese spirit – tough, urban, media-savvy, violent, poker-faced yet oddly sentimental, too. In Beat's world, one encounters the gangsters, the sluts, the lost children, the hangers-on and the debris of an impossibly competitive, unrelenting wasteland in which the tropes of American style, talk and iconographylinger like absurd ghosts.
So you can watch these films and be excited by a great deal: the savage editing; the frequent use of off-screen space...
- 2/4/2010
- by David Thomson
- The Guardian - Film News
The news that Takeshi Kitano was returning to Yakuza films was met with decent reactions from his many fans around the world. For many of us films like Sonatine, Fireworks and Boiling Point were the films that introduced us to this filmmaker. Then opinions and feelings changed as Kitano underwent a personal genesis of sorts with his latest trilogy of films: Takeshis', Glory to the Filmmaker! and Achilles and the Tortoise. I won't say it is good to have him back because every filmmaker has a right to take whatever personal and professional path they choose. And who knows if this new film would live up to our expectations, from those of us who are devoted fans of his Yakuza films. Brother anyone? Shudder.
I digress. The new film will be titled Outrage and yesterday the first still was released. Now as far as stills go it is nothing to get excited about.
I digress. The new film will be titled Outrage and yesterday the first still was released. Now as far as stills go it is nothing to get excited about.
- 12/2/2009
- Screen Anarchy
- Like a kid in a candy store! is how most cinephiles will feel about Claude Chamberland's Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Oct 13-23) – this gathering of off-beat, scooped-up oddities found from all over the international circuit and from premiere film festivals such as Cannes and Venice is an innovative festival where auteur-driven visionary films are served up as a full-course movie menu. The wolf has been unleashed! Programming director Chamberland unveiling the 34th edition. (pic from official site) It is simply amazing! 38 countries, 197 films, 95 features and 102 shorts constitute the 2005 line up. With 197 works from all over the world (38 countries) to be shown over ten days, the Festival remains true to its mission of promoting quality cinema by today’s finest talents. The program includes 13 world premieres and 54 international and North American premieres and 19 Canadian premieres. The program includes: Capote (Bennett Miller), Hidden (Michael Haneke), The Child (Dardenne brothers
- 10/13/2005
- IONCINEMA.com
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