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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.
![What can I say about Today’s Special, opening in theaters today? Should I start with the good news or the bad news? I guess I’ll start with the positives. This […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Todays-Special-115x115.jpg "Review: David Kaplan’s “Today’s Special”")
![To write poetry is To remember mother’s hands. Joint swollen, Washing the white rice At cold dawn during winter solstice To write poetry is […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/still-115x115.jpg "Lee Chang-dong’s “Poetry” – 2010 New York Film Festival Review")
![Many of the best films of the New York Film Festival can be found in the excellent sidebars to the main program, allowing viewers to explore little-seen corners of film […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/v_monos_co_la_075-115x115.jpg "Fernando de Fuentes’ “Mexican Revolution Trilogy” – 2010 New York Film Festival Review")
![The 15th edition of the Pusan (now Busan) International Film Festival, the largest film festival in Asia, was a transitional year in many senses. First, Kim Dong-ho, the long-time founder […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/13-assassins-115x115.jpg "The best films of the 2010 Pusan International Film Festival")
![The premise of Jeff Mizushima’s debut feature Etienne! at first blush seems almost toxically quirky: Richard (Richard Vallejos), a shy, pudgy introvert, finds out his beloved hamster companion, named Etienne, […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/etienne-richard_vallejosas_richard_02-by_tim_vanderlinden-cEtiennellc+3-115x115.jpg "Review: Jeff Mizushima’s “Etienne!”")
![It is very rare when you can say of a film that you have never seen anything quite like it. Such a film is Hitoshi Matsumoto’s comic and cosmic masterwork, […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/still1-115x115.jpg "Hitoshi Matsumoto’s “Symbol” – New York Asian Film Festival 2010 Review")
![“Dear Doctor,” Miwa Nishikawa’s tale of a country doctor who is not all he appears to be, is invested with Nishikawa’s typical psychological acuity and emotional resonance. It opens with […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/still-115x115.jpg "Miwa Nishikawa’s “Dear Doctor” – NYAFF 2010/Japan Cuts Review")
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