Tag: Jeremy Clarke

September 11, 2016 · 0 comments

Jeremy Clarke on a story too crazy to be anything but true… The Lovers And The Despot concerns a South Korean film director and his leading actress, kidnapped by North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il for the purpose of beefing up that country’s film industry – an incredible story that may be familiar from the earlier […]

August 25, 2016 · 0 comments

Jeremy Clarke on Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s supernatural love story Journey to the Shore. Mizuki (Eri Fukatsu) works as a children’s piano teacher, berated by the mother of a student who tells her that her teaching style should be more upbeat. She seems something of a loner and is spending her evening alone having just baked Shiratama […]

August 17, 2016 · 0 comments

Jeremy Clarke finds out what’s really new in the new release. A week before When Marnie Was There arrived in UK cinemas this June, Studio Ghibli’s earlier Only Yesterday came and went with comparatively little attention. Isao Takahata’s 1991 follow-up to Grave of the Fireflies, Only Yesterday came out on DVD in Japan in 2003, […]

July 9, 2016 · 0 comments

By Jeremy Clarke. Sion Sono’s wonderfully insane, four-hour art-house epic Love Exposure (2008) made great waves on its UK release with its heady brew of father-son relationships, Catholicism, sin, teen gangs, martial arts stunts, up-skirt photography, violence, swordplay, castration, porno movie production, religious cults and more. Nothing in his prior directorial career had made quite […]