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In what turns out to be Son’s Tottenham farewell tour, Spurs beat Arsenal in Hong Kong
05 August 2025 4:59 AM | No CommentsSon Heung-min leaves Tottenham Hotspur having made 333 appearances for the club over 10 seasons.
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“A Samurai in Time” – 2025 Japan Cuts Film Review
16 July 2025 12:42 PM | No CommentsTime travel is a well-worn trope, but there is a reason that the low-budget “A Samurai in Time” managed to win Best Film honors at the Japan Academy Film Prize.
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Takashi Murakami was everywhere at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
29 June 2025 11:58 AM | No CommentsThe Japanese artist, both in physical presence and in spirit, seamlessly crossed over to the worlds of art, fashion, sports and even food.
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Paris 2024: Gymnastics – U.S. women victorious in “Redemption Tour”
29 June 2025 2:46 AM | No CommentsThere should have been no doubt: the U.S. women were the favorites to win the Olympic gold. And yet there was, stemming from what happened in Tokyo.
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Paris 2024: U.S. women hang on to win eighth straight Olympic basketball gold
23 June 2025 11:54 AM | No CommentsThe U.S. women's team held off France, 67-66, at Bercy Arena.
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Film Archive
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Review: Tsai Ming-liang’s “I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone”
Christopher BournePosted on April 20, 2012 | No CommentsSimilar to Tsai's other features, "I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone" explores the actions of near-mute, lonely souls searching for connection. -
Review: Chris Martinez’s “100”
Christopher BournePosted on April 13, 2012 | No CommentsIn Chris Martinez's debut "100," a woman about to die from cancer follows a series of Post-Its that detail what she wishes to accomplish before she passes. -
Review: Wayne Wang’s “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers”
Christopher BournePosted on April 6, 2012 | No Comments"A Thousand Years of Good Prayers," based on a Yiyun Li short story, is one half of a diptych conceived by Wayne Wang as a return to his indie-film roots. -
![Alejandro Landes’ second film, “Porfirio,” is a very unusual sort of biopic. It is a minimalist, minutely detailed and observational portrait of its title subject that richly mines the sometimes […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/porfirio-still-115x115.jpg "Alejandro Landes’ “Porfirio” – New Directors/New Films 2012 Review")
Alejandro Landes’ “Porfirio” – New Directors/New Films 2012 Review
Christopher BournePosted on March 31, 2012 | No CommentsAlejandro Landes’ second film, “Porfirio,” is a very unusual sort of biopic. It is a minimalist, minutely detailed and observational portrait of its title subject that richly mines the sometimes […] -
![“Now, Forager” was created as a conscious corrective to other food-based films that co-directors Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin felt were overly romantic and inaccurate in culinary terms. Here, they […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/NowForager-still-115x115.jpg "Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin’s “Now, Forager” – New Directors/New Films 2012 Review")
Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin’s “Now, Forager” – New Directors/New Films 2012 Review
Christopher BournePosted on March 31, 2012 | No Comments“Now, Forager” was created as a conscious corrective to other food-based films that co-directors Jason Cortlund and Julia Halperin felt were overly romantic and inaccurate in culinary terms. Here, they […] -
![Lee Chung-ryoul’s documentary Old Partner was a surprise hit in Korea in 2009, expanding through word of mouth from an initial release on seven screens to becoming number one […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Old+Partner-115x115.jpg "Review: Lee Chung-ryoul’s “Old Partner”")
Review: Lee Chung-ryoul’s “Old Partner”
Christopher BournePosted on March 30, 2012 | No CommentsLee Chung-ryoul’s documentary Old Partner was a surprise hit in Korea in 2009, expanding through word of mouth from an initial release on seven screens to becoming number one […] -
Review: Kim Ki-duk’s “Real Fiction”
Christopher BournePosted on March 23, 2012 | No Comments"Real Fiction," shot in 200 minutes using ten 35mm cameras and two DV camcorders, was conceived as an experiment, and it’s not an entirely successful one. -
Review: Lee Joon-ik’s “The Happy Life”
Christopher BournePosted on March 16, 2012 | No CommentsThe title of Lee Joon-ik’s The Happy Life at first seems like a bitterly ironic jape, since the lives we see on display seem to be anything but. Ki-young (Jung Jin-young), […] -
Review: John Carney’s “Once”
Christopher BournePosted on March 9, 2012 | No CommentsA small film in the greatest sense of the word, Once is a musical of a different kind. Appropriately, since the film’s songs are its core, Once is musical in […] -
![One of my favorite recent Japanese films is the complex crime drama/lovers-on-the-run story Villain, screening as part of Japan Society’s film series “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” Below is what I […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/AC_Villain_악인_ST4-115x115.jpg "“Love Will Tear Us Apart” Review: Lee Sang-il’s “Villain”")
“Love Will Tear Us Apart” Review: Lee Sang-il’s “Villain”
Christopher BournePosted on March 8, 2012 | No CommentsOne of my favorite recent Japanese films is the complex crime drama/lovers-on-the-run story Villain, screening as part of Japan Society’s film series “Love Will Tear Us Apart.” Below is what I […]