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- A member of the Online Film Critics Society, Christopher Bourne is a senior reporter for Meniscus Magazine. He is a writer and incurable cinephile living in New York City.
![James Benning’s 13 Lakes and its companion piece Ten Skies, both made in 2004, employ the same visual strategy: unbroken 10-minute takes shot with a fixed camera. The effect becomes […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/13-lakes-still-115x115.jpg "Review: James Benning’s “13 Lakes”")
![This film is about one man’s long journey, often across snowy roads and sometimes near death, to enlightenment and self-awareness. However, the English title Portrait of Youth points to what […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Portrait_ofYouth-115x115.jpg "Review: Kwak Ji-kyun’s “Portrait of Youth”")
![What’s looking to be a shoo-in for inclusion on my list of the best films of 2011 is Federico Veiroj’s beautiful, beguiling, and deadpan funny second feature A Useful Life, […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/a-useful-life-poster-115x115.jpg "Review: Federico Veiroj’s “A Useful Life”")
![Not to be confused with the Edith Piaf biopic of the same name, this particular 1994 film with the French title La Vie en Rose is a Korean film set […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/La-Vie-en-Rose-2-115x115.jpg "Review: Kim Hong-joon’s “La Vie en Rose”")
![A major trend in film is the ever increasing prevalence of digital technology. Song Il-gon’s The Magicians (2005), a 95 minute film shot in a single take, is one of the […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Magicians-115x115.jpg "Review: Song Il-gon’s “The Magicians”")
![The title of Toshio Masuda’s 1967 film Like a Shooting Star aptly describes its main character, Goro (Tetsuya Watari), a cooler-than-thou gangster, who burns brightly and is gone just as fast. […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/SHOOTING_4-115x115.jpg "Review: Toshio Masuda’s “Like a Shooting Star”")
![A typically odd film from Park Chul-soo, one of Korea’s most original filmmakers, Kazoku Cinema (1998) satirically takes on the idea of artifice and “reality” being one and the same. The […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Kazoku-Cinema-115x115.jpg "Review: Park Chul-soo’s “Kazoku Cinema”")
![The title of this 2006 film from Malaysian filmmaker James Lee could easily serve as that of a grand romantic epic, or perhaps one of the Korean television dramas extolled […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Before_We_Fall_In_Love_Again_4-115x115.jpg "Review: James Lee’s “Before We Fall in Love Again”")
![Yoshimasa Ishibashi is a video installation artist-turned-sketch comedy director whose best known creation is the 2000 television show “Vermillion Pleasure Night.” This program featured among its wacky sketches “Oh, Mikey!” […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Milocrorze_011-115x115.jpg "\"Milocrorze: A Love Story\" (ミロクローゼ) – 2011 NYAFF/Japan Cuts Festival Review")
![Li Yu’s fourth feature “Buddha Mountain” is, among many other things, a film of generational collision. One side of the divide is represented by Nan Feng (Fan Bingbing), Ding Bo […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/buddha-mountain-115x115.jpg "“Buddha Mountain” (观音山) – 2011 New York Asian Film Festival Review")
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