Art, Cinema, Thought _ Japan, France, China
On Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue, directed by Jia Zhangke. China. 2020.
On Portrait of a Lady on Fire, directed by Céline Sciamma. France. 2019.
On The Woman Who Ran, directed by Hong Sang Soo. South Korea. 2020.
On Love after Love, directed by Ann Hui. China. 2020.
On Septet: The Story of Hong Kong, dirs: Sammo Hung, Ann Hui, Patrick Tam, Yuen Woo-ping, Johnnie To, Ringo Lam, Tsui Hark. Hong Kong. 2020.
On John David Washington and Christopher Nolan’s Tenet
Japan/USA/China, 2020, 84 minutes. Directed and written by Takeshi Fukunaga.
Review of Linda C. Ehrlich’s book The Films of Kore-eda Hirokazu: An Elemental Cinema (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Reviewing Dudley Andrew and Carole Cavanaugh’s study of Sansho Dayu, and Andrew Osmond’s study of Miyazaki Hayao’s Spirited Away (BFI Film Classics)
The Japanese Cinema Book Edited by Hideaki Fujiki and Alastair Phillips BFI, 2020