Variety.com (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Film News: Marco Mueller feted for support of Asian films -- Venice Film Festival director Marco Mueller was awarded the Japan Foundation's Arts and Culture Prize on Wednesday at a ceremony in Tokyo.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
DVD Video Review: The first six feature films of Takeshi Kitano collected together by Second Sight. John appreciates one of our best modern movie-makers
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
Film News: Last film, 'buy a suit,' to premiere at Tokyo Fest -- Helmer Jun Ichikawa, 59, died after collapsing at lunch on Friday and being rushed to a Tokyo hospital. The cause of death has not yet been announced.
GingaTao! (Free subscription) | 09/18/2008
who, haha, drunken master style, some antihaiku drum solo Takeshi Kitano style someone has to expend energy and someone has to receive it and somewhere cracks a whip otherwise yeh dead son roe your boat home stumbling into haikus and scaring flocks of birds a’flyin’ leda abandoned into zeus
Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
What is art? No, wait, don't answer that...There's no way to field that one. Better questions may be: What does art mean to you? How do you view it in your world? For those who actually create it, what is your process of creating art and why do you do it? Takeshi Kitano has been working his way through questions of that variety for his last three films. The first in the trilogy of
Twitch (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
The concluding chapter of the self relective trilogy that Japanese icon Takeshi Kitano began with Takeshis’ and continued with Glory to the Filmmaker it is hard to imagine Achilles and the Tortoise being more different than the films that came before. While both Takeshis’ and Glory were shot through with manic energy and featured Kitano playing some distorted version of himself Achilles is a far more...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Film News: Eco-drama romance is set in Brazilian jungle -- Rolling off a warm reception in competition at Venice, Paris-based Celluloid Dreams has sold several territories on Marco Bechis' "Birdwatchers."
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
Ahoy, squirts! here. I hate Anton Sirius. I've never gotten to cover Toronto for this site and it's all his fault. Thank God he's damn good at his job or else I'd have to burn him in effigy, but I really do like my shrine I've made of him over the years... I printed out his previous reports and paper-mached them into what I imagine he looks like. It's not obsessive, it's just devoted.Anyway, he's already...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
The selection of films for this year's Venice Film Festival is getting as many negative reviews as some of the actual on-screen fare. "The overall impression here is one ...
Entertainment - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
As the Venice Film Festival reached its halfway point Monday, critics were, for once, unanimous: The lineup has been underwhelming....
Reuters (Free subscription) | 09/02/2008
VENICE (Hollywood Reporter) - As the Venice Film Festival reached its halfway point Monday, critics were, for once, unanimous: The lineup has been underwhelming.
MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
The 2008 Venice film festival has been described as one of the weakest in recent years, and, as it reaches the halfway stage on Monday, needs more hits to light up the main competition.
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
With guests like Brad Pitt and George Clooney, and the latest movies from the Coen brothers, Darren Aronofksy and Hayao Miyazaki, the 65th Venice Film Festival will continue to attract movie lovers to
Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 08/31/2008
Abbas Kiarostami is the winner of the 65th Venice Film Festival’s Glory to the Filmmaker Award, which honors eclectic masters of world cinema. The prize had begun last year with the Japanese director Takeshi Kitano named the first recipient of the award. Kitano handed over the prize this year to Kiarostami in a ceremony in the Lido’s Sala Grande. Kiarostami is in Venice once again with an experimental...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 08/30/2008
"It doesn't seem so long ago that Takeshi Kitano was one of the most revered figures in world cinema," writes Geoffrey Macnab for the Guardian. "Sadly, Kitano has lost his way of late. His recent movies have become increasingly self-indulgent...
