Funuke: Show Some Love, You Losers! first published by Film4 Summary: Daihachi Yoshida’s directorial debut is a black domestic dramedy in which family frictions seek artistic outlets. Review: The dysfunctional family is a traditional subject for Japanese cinema that perhaps achieved its best known and most refined form in Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story (1953). Daihachi Yoshida’s…
Text of my onstage introduction to Birthday (Saeng-il), which screened at the London Korean Film Festival 2019 On the morning of 16 April, 2014, an 18-year-old, overladen ferry named the MV Sewol was travelling from Incheon to Jeju, when it listed heavily while making a course adjustment and started rapidly taking on water as it…
Interview first published by Film4 Chicago born and bred, John McNaughton broke into the filmmaking world with a well-received if little-seen documentary on his hometown’s gangsters, Dealers in Death (1984) – but it was his next film, the unflinching crime psychodrama Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1990), that would gain McNaughton the most attention….