(Check out Matt Delman’s movie review of Days and Nights in the Forest, which Janus Films is re-releasing starting at Film Forum in NYC tomorrow, February 27, and in LA at the Laemmle Royal on Friday, March 6. Seen it? Join the […]

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Before Lost In Translation and Enter The Void, the lives of Americans in Tokyo were examined in Fran Rubel Kuzui’s feature debut Tokyo Pop. Co-written by Kuzui and Lynn Grossman, it premiered at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival to vast […]

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Taiwanese master filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien is known for his elegant, intoxicating dramas that conjure a lot of visual poetry, such as Daughter of the Nile, Flowers of Shanghai, Three Times, and the wuxia stunner The Assassin. Now, his underseen dreamlike […]

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The film is composed beautifully, with a couple of especially memorable static, shots that encapsulate the terror of investigating unexplained noises in your house or searching for that all-important file in a dark stock room.

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