As part of Sound on Sight’s ongoing coverage of the Fantasia Film Festival, North America’s premier genre film blowout, Al and Simon take a quick look at four of the South Korean films they’ve spied over the last week, including director Kim Ki-duk’s trippy Dream, the tense and sadistic crime thriller The Chaser, Woody Allen-inflected [...]
Fantasia, Montreal’s international genre film festival, has expanded its mandate over the years to include a wide variety of films from around the world, with the sole proviso seemingly being that they’re not based on an SNL skit or a Dane Cook routine. There has, however, always been a focus on Asian films, particularly the [...]
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When it comes to madness and mayhem, nobody can deliver it quite like the Japanese, and we’ve recently been exposed to a series of hyperactive Japanese flicks so action-packed (though not, of course, always actually good) that we’ve put together a follow-up to our previous Japanese spotlight. This time, we’re tackling “Machine [...]
Get ready for some Japanese rock, movie talk and Tokyo shock. Episode 3 is now ready to download. Reviews on Cyber-Punk JApanese films and the music artist of the week is a man who has left his prints everywhere in rock and punk music. Of course I am talking about Captain Beefheart.
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