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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.
![“After all, I’m an asshole.” Such is the self-description of Michel Poiccard (Jean-Paul Belmondo), the central figure of Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 debut feature, which was, at least in part, […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Breathless-Jean-Luc-Godard-115x115.jpg "Review: Jean-Luc Godard’s “Breathless”")
![The disaster movie is a tried-and-true mode of popular cinema, the apotheosis being such 70’s films as The Towering Inferno and The Poseidon Adventure, as well as the all-time box-office […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Haeundae+2-115x115.jpg "Review: Yoon Je-kyun’s “Haeundae”")
![Andrew Bujalski, with only three films so far to his credit, has established himself as a major artist, and was the (reluctant) center of a loose independent film movement, or […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Mutual-Appreciation-115x115.jpg "Review: Andrew Bujalski’s “Mutual Appreciation”")
![An entertaining tribute to the power of radio and music, Lee Joon-ik’s 2006 film Radio Star re-teamed popular actors Park Joong-hoon and Ahn Sung-ki, this being the fourth film they have […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Radio-Star-115x115.jpg "Review: Lee Joon-ik’s “Radio Star”")
![This August 15 marks the 66th anniversary of the end of World War II, which is given different names in the countries involved. In the U.S., it known as […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Murmuring+1-115x115.png "Review: Byun Young-joo, “The Murmuring”")
![Whether you love or hate Ronald Bronstein’s 2007 debut feature, the unclassifiable and astonishing slice of New York miserablism known as Frownland, one thing is irrefutable: there has never been […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Frownland+1-115x115.jpg "Review: Ronald Bronstein’s “Frownland”")
![Kaboom, the latest film by Gregg Araki, is billed as “The Gregg Araki Movie.” This strongly indicates that Kaboom can be seen as a sort of career summing-up, marrying the […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Kaboom-115x115.jpg "Review: Gregg Araki’s “Kaboom”")
![The director, writer and actor Hiroyuki Tanaka, under his nom de cinema Sabu, has created a unique cinematic universe consisting of such types as salarymen, yakuza, punk rockers, samurai ghosts, […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/drive_05-115x115.jpg "“Run, Salaryman, Run!”: A Sabu Retrospective at Japan Society")
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