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Suspense in 8K: Kiyoshi Kurosawa on Wife of a Spy
Despite his association with horror films, few contemporary filmmakers have covered as much ground as Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who has shifted back and forth across genres countless times in his prolific 30+ year career. Nevertheless, his latest film, Wife of a Spy, marks his first period piece. It takes place in 1940-41, telling the story of Yūsaku Fukuhara (Issey Takahashi) and his attempts to expose his government’s atrocities in Manchuria, as well as that of his wife Satoko (Yû Aoi), torn between her husband and her country. With a script co-written by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Wife of a Spy unsurprisingly features intricate […]
by Forrest Cardamenis on Oct 12, 2021 -
Back to One, Episode 173: Noomi Rapace
Noomi Rapace returns to the podcast (first time: Ep. 43) to talk about her new film, the atmospheric, slow-burn thriller Lamb. Set in Iceland, which Noomi knows well from her childhood, the film’s landscapes feel almost like supporting characters. She talks about using the emotions they brought up in her, and the delicate way she entered grief into the performance. After I share my embarrassing animal parenting story, Noomi matches it, and illustrates why it was not hard at all to make her motherly love for the lamb baby believable. She schools us on the importance of not sticking to […]
by Peter Rinaldi on Oct 12, 2021 -
Fall 2021
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 11, 2021 -
Wang Qiong
Wang Qiong had her first exposure to filmmaking and documentary when, dissatisfied with the courses she was offered as an undergraduate Broadcasting, Television, and Journalism major at Jinggangshan University in China, she decided to use her time volunteering with IFChina Original Studio. Founded in 2008, the nonprofit organization is dedicated to capturing the experiences of Chinese citizens and, fortuitously for Wang, was based in her hometown of Ji’an, Jiangxi Province. Wang immediately embraced its projects related to oral history and memory; when one began that asked participants to interview their mothers about their birth stories, she decided to get personally involved. […]
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 11, 2021 -
Overdraft Protection: Chloë Sevigny Talks to Amalia Ulman About her Feature Debut, El Planeta
Starting in 2012, the saga of mother/daughter scammers Justina and Ana Belén was low-key Spanish news fodder. Their scheme followed a buy-first, pay-never model, using a variety of excuses to dodge their bills. They came to legal attention when they attempted to dodge a hotel bill in Gijón, Spain, by threatening to accuse the proprietor of sexual harassment; a year later, in 2013, they were again arrested in the same city for racking up thousands of euros in unpaid dinners. In 2017, Argentinian-born artist Amalia Ulman received a photo of the Beléns from her mother, Ale, who still lives in […]
by Filmmaker Staff on Oct 11, 2021 -
Karishma Dube
In September, Karishma Dube was developing some projects in Los Angeles. It had been months since she’d been back to New York, where she currently lives, and three years since she’d been back home to New Delhi, where she grew up. After attending boarding school from the age of 10 to 18, she “wanted to be alone for a while and in uncomfortable situations.” She got into a school in Bombay, which was not too far but “far enough” from everyone and everything she knew. Through her sister, the cinematographer Shreya Dev Dube (Cat Sticks, Achcham Madam Naanam Payirppu), she […]
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 11, 2021 -
Frederic Da
Much of Frederic Da’s life has been an extended exercise in film education. His youthful penchant for raiding his uncle’s indie DVD collection led him to pursue cinema studies at NYU (“I wanted to do film production, but my mom, a teacher, wanted me to have a B.A., not a B.F.A.”), where he and his roommate spent their days devouring movie classics. Now 36, the L.A.-based filmmaker has imparted his love of cinema studies to a new generation. For the past several years, Da has taught high school film theory and production classes at New Roads School in Santa Monica. […]
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 11, 2021 -
Suneil Sangziri
In three 16mm shorts that premiered over the past three years, Suneil Sanzgiri uses a broad array of formats to delve into his father’s memories and their inevitably political intersection with Goa’s history. CG renderings of now-gone and never-visited locations, desktop documentary, commissioned drone footage, archival excerpts of classic Indian films, still-resonant news footage of past protests: All are in the mix as Sanzgiri thinks through key thematic preoccupations—diaspora, colonialism, how to understand a homeland from a distance, political activism and genocides—in overlaid, Roboto-font text. In 2019’s At Home But Not at Home, which premiered at the International Film Festival […]
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 11, 2021 -
Nira Burstein
Nira Burstein learned how to make films backwards. Her alma mater, Queens College, did not offer film-related degrees in the early 2000s when she was a student, which unintentionally led her down a less conventional path. She was an editing intern in college, then proceeded to gradually master the technical crafts of shooting, directing and writing. Yet, according to Burstein, her appetite for professional expertise was only forged after a truly world-shattering cinematic first encounter. “In college, I saw the movie Donnie Darko, and I lost my shit,” she laughs over an outdoor iced coffee in the East Village. “What […]
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 11, 2021 -
Rebecca Adorno
Rebecca Adorno has two websites, with only the subtlest of hyperlinks between them. The first is for her editing work—cutting documentaries like Peter Nicks’s Homeroom, Cheryl Dunn’s Moments Like This Never Last and episodes of Jehane Noujaim and Karim Amer’s HBO series, The Vow. The other is for her work as a visual artist whose installations have titles such as The Heat Death of the Universe and On Underwater Background Noise. “By recontextualizing scientific data, technology, and concepts involving physics of sound,” reads her artist statement, “Adorno creates physical representations of intangible phenomena while drawing parallels between aesthetics of beauty […]
by Vadim Rizov on Oct 11, 2021
