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Recent Posts
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- M+ host of Guo Pei’s first major fashion exhibition in East Asia
- Photos: G-STAR “Anatomic Denim” F/W 2025 collection & Denim Gorilla
- MLB: Dodgers 7, Reds 0 (Aug. 25, 2025) – Shohei tutors Teoscar?
- MLB: Dodgers 7, Reds 0 (Aug. 25, 2025) – V of BTS throws opening pitch
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- Another gold medal, another world record for Mondo Duplantis
- In what turns out to be Son’s Tottenham farewell tour, Spurs beat Arsenal in Hong Kong
- “A Samurai in Time” – 2025 Japan Cuts Film Review
- Takashi Murakami was everywhere at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025
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Film Archive
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Review: Yang Joo-nam’s “Sweet Dream”
Christopher BournePosted on January 13, 2012 | No CommentsNot only a potent melodrama, but a valuable visual documentary record of Seoul in the 1930’s, "Sweet Dream" is a richly textured gem well worth seeking out. -
![Documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s latest film “Crazy Horse” – an examination of the famed “Crazy Horse” Paris cabaret, which showcases nude dancers performing elaborately choreographed and art-directed routines – can be […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/crazy-horse-115x115.jpg "Frederick Wiseman’s “Crazy Horse” – Documentary Review")
Frederick Wiseman’s “Crazy Horse” – Documentary Review
Christopher BournePosted on January 12, 2012 | No CommentsDocumentarian Frederick Wiseman’s latest film “Crazy Horse” – an examination of the famed “Crazy Horse” Paris cabaret, which showcases nude dancers performing elaborately choreographed and art-directed routines – can be […] -
![Taiwanese experimental and documentary filmmaker Lin Tay-jou’s 2005 film Bardo is a 70-minute triptych about the stages of life death, and rebirth. As Lin himself explains on the film’s website, the […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/Bardo2-115x115.jpg "Review: Lin Tay-jou’s “Bardo”")
Review: Lin Tay-jou’s “Bardo”
Christopher BournePosted on January 6, 2012 | No CommentsTaiwanese experimental and documentary filmmaker Lin Tay-jou’s 2005 film Bardo is a 70-minute triptych about the stages of life death, and rebirth. As Lin himself explains on the film’s website, the […] -
Review: Chen Kuo-fu’s “The Personals”
Christopher BournePosted on December 30, 2011 | No CommentsIn Chen Kuo-fu's lightly comic and ultimately poignant film "The Personals," the city of Taipei is as much a character as the humans in the story. -
Best Films of 2011: United Red Army / Caterpillar
Christopher BournePosted on December 25, 2011 | No CommentsKoji Wakamatsu has most definitely not mellowed in old age. -
![Former South Dakota homesteader turned novelist Oscar Micheaux went into filmmaking almost on a whim, and became one of the most influential pioneers of the early decades of cinema. […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Exile-115x115.jpg "Review: Oscar Micheaux’s “The Exile”")
Review: Oscar Micheaux’s “The Exile”
Christopher BournePosted on December 23, 2011 | No CommentsFormer South Dakota homesteader turned novelist Oscar Micheaux went into filmmaking almost on a whim, and became one of the most influential pioneers of the early decades of cinema. […] -
![A near-classic work of cinematic and cultural alchemy, Munyurangabo is not only the stunning debut of a major talent, but also an expressively beautiful vessel where the voice and experiences […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Review: Lee Isaac Chung’s “Munyurangabo”")
Review: Lee Isaac Chung’s “Munyurangabo”
Christopher BournePosted on December 16, 2011 | No CommentsA near-classic work of cinematic and cultural alchemy, Munyurangabo is not only the stunning debut of a major talent, but also an expressively beautiful vessel where the voice and experiences […] -
Review: Shohei Imamura’s “Stolen Desire”
Christopher BournePosted on December 9, 2011 | No CommentsStolen Desire (1958), Imamura’s first feature film, and the first of three films he released in that year, is his delightful tribute to the “earthy” citizens of the Kawachi […] -
![If a film festival programmer asked “Hostel” director and “Inglourious Basterds” actor Eli Roth to choose a title for the program, he or she would probably expect a horror movie […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/eli-roth-115x115.jpg "Singafest brings out “Hostel” director Eli Roth’s love for Asian films")
Singafest brings out “Hostel” director Eli Roth’s love for Asian films
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on December 7, 2011 | No CommentsIf a film festival programmer asked “Hostel” director and “Inglourious Basterds” actor Eli Roth to choose a title for the program, he or she would probably expect a horror movie […] -
Review: Lee Myung-se’s “Gagman”
Christopher BournePosted on December 2, 2011 | No Comments“We live in an age without masterpieces.” So laments Lee Jong-sae (Ahn Sung-ki), the stand-up comedian and aspiring film director who is the central figure of Gagman (1988), the debut […]