Tag: cinema

January 7, 2017 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. There was a time in the late-1990s when director Shunji Iwai possessed near celebrity status among young movie fans in Japan, the poster boy for a new breed of filmmaker who emerged neither from the moribund studio system, nor the uncompromisingly raw-edged counterculture of the 1980s independent scene, but from the image […]

December 26, 2016 · 0 comments

by Jeremy Clarke. In the middle of Martin Scorsese’s new film Silence, a Japanese is made to dig a pit in the middle of a rainstorm. “How long will he be doing that?” asks Jesuit priest Father Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield) imprisoned nearby. “’Til he’s finished,” comes the reply. The speaker might be describing the film […]

December 21, 2016 · 0 comments

[UPDATED: 18th Jan. 2017. See F.A.Q. section below for details.] One of the most recurring questions we’ve been receiving since Your Name arrived in UK cinemas a month ago was ‘where/when can I pre-order it?’ Well we are delighted to tell you that can pre-order it right now from Amazon.co.uk NOTE: The date listed on […]

December 20, 2016 · 0 comments

by Jeremy Clarke. A new South Korean film tackles the story behind a major event in twentieth-century military history. Europeans and Americans are familiar with 1944’s D-Day landings, in which the Allied forces landed on the French coast to turn the tide of the war in their favour. The much less well-known battle of Incheon […]

December 11, 2016 · 0 comments

By Jasper Sharp. It has been several decades since Martin Scorsese first professed a desire to film Silence (Chinmoku), Shusaku Endo’s Tanizaki Prize-winning 1966 novel about the persecution of “hidden Christians” (kakure kirishitan) in 17th-century Japan. The story follows the Portuguese Jesuit missionary, Padre Rodrigues, after he is dispatched eastwards from Macao, arriving in 1639 […]