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fromwww.theguardian.com
10 hours ago

Mint review the most outrageously beautiful TV show since Twin Peaks

Shannon, a 22-year-old, navigates her chaotic family life while yearning for love, leading to a visually stunning yet dark narrative in Mint.
fromVulture
2 days ago

The Masterful Blue Heron Uses Cinema As a Seance

"It's true I spent most of my life being angry at him. The older I get, the more I feel like I never even knew him at all. My image of him now, I know, falls flat compared to reality."
Independent films
Berlin
fromabc7.com
4 days ago

teamLab Borderless in Tokyo is a feast for the eyes

Visitors describe teamLab Borderless in Tokyo as an ever-changing, immersive art experience that transcends traditional boundaries.
Video games
fromFilmmaker Magazine
1 week ago

Let's Play: Genki Kawamura and Jiro Nagae on a New Kind of Video Game Cinema

Genki Kawamura adapts the indie video game into a film, merging artistry with box office potential in a unique horror narrative.
Independent films
fromianVisits
5 days ago

Akira is returning to the big screen in a 4K restoration

Akira's immersive experience is best appreciated on the big screen, highlighting the importance of scale in cinema.
fromThe Verge
1 week ago

The Miniature Wife was an exercise in visual trickery

"There's no case where those things aren't critical, but with a project like this, there is no 'fix it in post' because it just can't work like that. This is a show that has about 3,000 VFX shots, and we were working with up to five different VFX vendors at times."
Women in technology
Television
fromFast Company
1 week ago

The 'Bait' title cards are an analog homage to spycraft, with their own hidden codes

Bait is a dramedy about a British-Pakistani actor grappling with identity and public scrutiny after a leaked audition.
Film
fromArs Technica
2 weeks ago

What Memento reveals about human nature, 25 years later

Christopher Nolan's breakout film Memento explores memory and personal identity through a unique narrative structure.
#exit-8
fromKqed
1 week ago
Independent films

A Tokyo Subway Station Turns Into an Infinite Nightmare in 'Exit 8'

Independent films
fromInverse
1 week ago

How An Eerie New Thriller Revolutionizes The Video Game Movie

The film Exit 8 adapts a video game premise into an emotional narrative about isolation and personal struggle in a liminal space.
Independent films
fromKqed
1 week ago

A Tokyo Subway Station Turns Into an Infinite Nightmare in 'Exit 8'

Exit 8 is a unique film set in a subway hallway, exploring themes of perception and connection through a video game-inspired narrative.
fromdesignyoutrust.com
3 weeks ago

Amazing Vibrant Worlds Blending Miyazaki Vibes With Traditional Gouache Painting

Jean Mallard's signature technique involves applying watercolors almost like oil glazes, layering colors from light to dark in a slow, meticulous process to achieve incredibly vivid colors and smooth gradients.
Paris food
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fromEngadget
3 weeks ago

Watch the trailer for Science Saru's Ghost in the Shell anime series

The upcoming The Ghost in the Shell anime features a nostalgic art style reminiscent of the original manga.
Film
fromWIRED
2 weeks ago

Watching a 7.5-Hour Movie in Theaters Made Me More Hopeful About Our Collective Brain Rot

A seven-and-a-half-hour film screening challenges modern attention spans, highlighting a cultural shift in viewing habits and the struggle for sustained focus.
Television
fromConsequence
3 weeks ago

Stream On This Week: A Fantastic Time Travel Flick, a James Bond Riff, and Some Mindblowing Color Theories

Stream On provides weekly recommendations for films and TV shows across various streaming platforms.
#time-loop
fromInverse
2 weeks ago
Independent films

15 Years Ago, One Underrated Sci-Fi Thriller Set A New Time-Loop Standard

fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago
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All You Need is Kill review time loop anime offers giant alien flower for Groundhog Day with mechs

The new adaptation of Sakurazaka's novel is inferior, lacking engaging characterization and inner spark, making its time-loop premise tedious despite strong visuals.
fromInverse
2 months ago
Film

The Most Audacious Time-Travel Movie You've Never Heard Of Just Got A Huge Upgrade

Timecrimes is a low-budget Spanish time-loop thriller by Nacho Vigalondo that uses resourceful filmmaking to explore a complex temporal paradox and earned strong critical acclaim.
Independent films
fromInverse
2 weeks ago

15 Years Ago, One Underrated Sci-Fi Thriller Set A New Time-Loop Standard

Time-loop stories allow characters to explore alternate destinies, creating a unique narrative experience that blends control with the unpredictability of choices.
Independent films
fromInverse
3 weeks ago

Kiyoshi Kurosawa Just Released An Eerie Psychological Thriller Like No Other

Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Chime explores modern terrors through a ringing sound that incites violence, reflecting societal issues and psychological pressures.
fromLondon On The Inside
1 month ago

Escape Reality with This Blade Runner Double Feature

Kick off with Ridley Scott's 1982 OG Blade Runner: The Final Cut, which stars Harrison Ford as a special agent on a mission to exterminate escaped androids. Ford is joined by Ryan Gosling in the Denis Villeneuve-directed Blade Runner 2049, which is sure to whet your appetite for Dune: Part Three - hitting cinemas this December.
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#anime
fromInverse
1 month ago

25 Years Later, Christopher Nolan's First Great Noir Thriller Remains His Most Essential

Memento provides a Rosetta Stone to decode deeper meaning within his larger-scale efforts, offering a window into the complex paradoxes that add thematic weight to his intricately plotted stories. Nolan's films often jump from a familiar genre archetype. In Memento, Guy Pearce's Leonard Shelby recalls the weary antiheroes of film noir, but his filmography is full of familiar figures ranging from superheroes to great men of history.
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fromVulture
1 month ago

Paul Thomas Anderson Explains Himself (Kind Of)

Paul Thomas Anderson wrote One Battle After Another for his children to explore how his generation left the world for theirs, addressing complex character portrayals and generational themes.
fromInverse
1 month ago

'Undertone' Is Scariest With What It Doesn't Show

The first thing you notice about undertone is how quiet it is; not just in its audio mix, but in how it's shot - primarily steady wide shots that slowly pan across empty rooms, allowing your eyes to frantically scan for something amiss. It's an understated form of filmmaking that allows for the movie's scares to hit all that much harder.
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Arts
fromHyperallergic
2 months ago

Step Into the World of Studio Ghibli's "Ponyo"

The Academy Museum's interactive Studio Ghibli's PONYO exhibition recreates Ponyo's whimsy and wonder through Miyazaki's drawings and child-focused hands-on installations.
#ai-generated-video
Music
fromSFGATE
2 months ago

Wes Anderson's films come to life in San Francisco at rare show

Mark Mothersbaugh's five-decade career shaped pop culture through innovative scores for Devo, television, films, and video games, performed live with orchestra.
History
fromInverse
2 months ago

Uncanny Valley Forge! Here's Why One New AI Movie From A Great Director Looks Bizarre AF

Darren Aronofsky's AI-generated 1776 reenactments feel soulless, visually limited, and historically inaccurate due to current AI cinematic technology.
fromSlate Magazine
1 month ago

Stanley Kubrick's Final Mystery

Eyes Wide Shut was stranger than that: a meditative art film whose much-hyped orgy scene is more creepy than sexy, run by a cabal of rich and powerful men who prey on young women.
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Arts
fromJuxtapoz
1 month ago

Juxtapoz Magazine - Takashi Murakami: Hark Back to Ukiyo-e: Tracing Superflat to Japonisme's Genesis @ Perrotin, Los Angeles

Takashi Murakami presents 24 new paintings tracing ukiyo-e's influence on Impressionism and exploring bijinga's global impact at Perrotin Los Angeles.
#visual-art
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Scarlet review Mamoru Hosoda turns Hamlet into tale of prowling knights and deep nothingness'

Mamoru Hosoda's anime adaptation of Hamlet, Scarlet, features stunning visuals but suffers from incoherent storytelling, arbitrary world-building, and heavy-handed philosophical messaging that undermines its narrative impact.
Television
fromKotaku
1 month ago

A New Evangelion Series Is Coming Written By Nier's Director

A new Neon Genesis Evangelion series was announced for the 30th anniversary, with Yoko Taro writing and Kazuya Tsurumaki and Toru Yatabe directing.
Arts
fromdesignyoutrust.com
2 months ago

A Lone Figure, A Huge Horizon: This Artist Uses Characters For Scale And Nostalgia Like A Film Still

Contemporary artists present diverse creative works across media—ASCII portraits, tattoos, photography, sculpture, digital painting, street murals, and satirical illustrations.
Television
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

What did I just watch?' The TV shows that utterly baffle us but we can't switch off

The Chair Company revels in surreal, unanswerable absurdity, while Industry immerses viewers in impenetrable finance jargon and an exclusive, money-driven culture.
Film
fromInverse
1 month ago

One Forgotten Japanese Sci-Fi Movie Predated A Beloved Anime Adaptation By Decades

Nobuhiko Obayashi's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time was a commercially successful 1983 time travel romance that became one of Japan's highest-earning films and launched lead actress Tomoyo Harada's career.
Independent films
fromwww.mercurynews.com
1 month ago

Pixar filmmakers really gave a dam about making Hoppers' authentic

Pixar's Hoppers prioritizes comedy and entertainment through a collaborative creative process where a teenage activist's consciousness transfers into a robotic beaver fighting to save a pond habitat.
Film
fromInverse
2 months ago

The Weirdest Existential Thriller Of The 2000s Just Got A Huge Upgrade

Birth portrays a widow's unresolved grief and rising doubt when a child claims to be her late husband's reincarnation, unsettling her attempt to move on.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Another World review kaleidoscopic afterlife fairytale with the dark fury of a Greek tragedy

Another World is a visually stunning, violent fairytale animation exploring human destructiveness and the beauty of the human heart.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind was never a love story. It was a warning

Memory-erasure technology fails, exposing the limits of control and moral consequences, framing Eternal Sunshine more as hard science fiction than a simple tender love story.
#science-fiction
#david-lynch
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fromConde Nast Traveler
2 months ago

'Rental Family' Director Hikari Finding Peace on Set Amid the Bustle of Tokyo

A Japanese director's film follows an American actor in Tokyo recruited to play stand-in roles, exploring identity, belonging, and moral dilemmas.
Film
fromOregon ArtsWatch * Arts & Culture News
2 months ago

FilmWatch Weekly: German stunner 'Sound of Falling,' Japanese anime 'Scarlet,' and more * Oregon ArtsWatch

Four generations of girls in one farmhouse reveal recurring female suffering, mortality, and moments of beauty across a century of German history.
Film
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Sham review Takashi Miike revisits infamous murder teacher' trial in unflinching courtroom drama

Takashi Miike's Sham adapts a 2003 Fukuoka child-abuse case into a courtroom drama that ultimately vindicates the accused teacher while employing sensationalist, horror-tinged tropes.
fromABC7 Los Angeles
1 month ago

How the Japanese locations in 'Rental Family' became more characters in the film

"I wanted it to feel how people have been living through, walking through (the city)," she said. "It's a massive city, Tokyo is, so just kind of find the right place for people around the world and have that experience."
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Film
fromItsnicethat
2 months ago

Painting the worlds of Studio Ghibli with art director and background artist, Yoji Takeshige

Studio Ghibli builds atmosphere through painted depictions of light, humidity, and grounded detail while preserving traditional background painting techniques.
Film
fromKqed
3 months ago

'Dead Man's Wire' Is a Retro Thriller That's Pertinent to the Present

Dead Man's Wire channels Dog Day Afternoon's righteous rage and contemporary echoes, propelled by Bill Skarsgård's intense performance and critique of media spectacle and capitalism.
Film
fromInsideHook
2 months ago

Why Is a Bitcoin Biopic Planning to Use Generative AI?

High-profile filmmakers plan a Bitcoin biopic that will use generative AI and markerless performative capture to modify performances, risking audience backlash.
Film
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Darren Aronofsky's AI-Generated Show Contains Garbled Neural Gore, Even Just in the Teaser Trailer

Generative AI is producing derivative, incoherent creative work, provoking widespread backlash and criticism for poor quality, historical inaccuracies, and perceived exploitation in entertainment.
fromEsquire
1 month ago

How A24's Liminal Horror Movie 'Backrooms' Was Born From the Internet

Until recently, "liminal spaces" were only known to architects. But on the Internet, storytellers and amateur filmmakers have morphed these ubiquitous places you pass by on errand runs into caverns of cosmic terror. Now, a new A24 film from 20-year-old filmmaker Kane Parsons is set to kick off the summer and christen it the season of liminal horror.
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fromThe Verge
2 months ago

You need to watch the intensely surreal cult classic Possession

Possession showcases three intensely unhinged performances, especially Isabelle Adjani's exhausting, delirious turn, within a disorienting, Berlin Wall-set tale of marital collapse.
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