Cinema Strikes Back - Covering the World of Film | |
| [ View Full Size Image] Original poster for Toshio Masuda’s Red Handkerchief, which played on January 18, at 7:30 as part of The Japan Society and Outcast Cinema’s “NO BORDERS, NO... | |
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| Casus Kiran
AKA:Spy Smasher
Dir. Yilmaz Atadeniz (Turkey 1968)
Rating: 3 out of 4 stars (good)
Capsule Review by: David Austin
Casus Kiran, or Spy Smasher as its source comic was known, is one of... | |
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| As with last year, the Japan Society will be running its “Japan Cuts” festival partially overlapping with and presented by the NYAFF. The dates have been confirmed - “Japan... | |
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| Every film buff in New York City knows that the New York Asian Film Festival is one of the highlights of the year. Over at the Kaiju Shakedown blog, festival co-programmer Grady Hendrix has released... | |
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| “Take your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!” | |
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| Two items today:
First, the DVD Calendar (see here) has been updated, so check it out.
Second, we’re pleased to announce the winners of our Darjeeling Limited giveaway (see here). ... | |
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| AKA: Koruto wa ore no pasupoto
Country and Year:Japan (1967)
Director: Takashi Nomura
Starring: Jo Shishido, Jerry Fujio, Chitose Kobayashi
Review By: David Austin
Rating: 4 out of 4 stars... | |
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| [ View Full Size Image] I am with the majority in thinking that the first half of Death Proof was overly talky. Should have let Kurt Russell do the talking, if there was talking to be done. ... | |
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| Gymkata
Dir. Robert Clouse (USA, 1985)
Rating: 3 out of 4 Stars (good)
Capsule Review by: David Austin
Gymkata holds a place of honor among silly American martial arts films of the 1980s as perhaps... | |
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| [ View Full Size Image] Akira Kobayashi, Toshio Egi and Ruriko Asaoka in Buichi Saito’s Easter Western Plains Wanderer, playing tonight, March 14, at 7:30 as part of The Japan Society and... | |
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