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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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![“Carnage,” the latest from Roman Polanski, which opens this year’s New York Film Festival, may be as slight as its running time (a mere 80 minutes), but it is well […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/still-115x115.jpg "Roman Polanski’s “Carnage” – 2011 New York Film Festival Review")
Roman Polanski’s “Carnage” – 2011 New York Film Festival Review
Christopher BournePosted on September 30, 2011 | No Comments“Carnage,” the latest from Roman Polanski, which opens this year’s New York Film Festival, may be as slight as its running time (a mere 80 minutes), but it is well […] -
Review: Thospol Siriwiwat and Piraphan Laoyont’s “Sick Nurses”
Christopher BournePosted on September 30, 2011 | No CommentsThe Thai horror film "Sick Nurses" is a series of murderous set pieces executed with an impressive flair for luridly-colored visuals and sharp editing. -
Singafest 2011: Interview with “Savasana” director Gerry Curtis
Yuan-Kwan ChanPosted on September 28, 2011 | No CommentsThe 18-minute “Savasana” was directed and written by Gerry Curtis, who left a successful career in sales and marketing behind to pursue filmmaking. -
![After their Cormac McCarthy adaptation No Country for Old Men, and its attendant raft of rapturous critical notices and multiple Oscars, the Coen Brothers returned to high farcical mode with […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Burn-After-Reading-115x115.jpg "Review: Joel and Ethan Coen’s “Burn After Reading”")
Review: Joel and Ethan Coen’s “Burn After Reading”
Christopher BournePosted on September 23, 2011 | No CommentsAfter their Cormac McCarthy adaptation No Country for Old Men, and its attendant raft of rapturous critical notices and multiple Oscars, the Coen Brothers returned to high farcical mode with […] -
![Repast (1951), Mikio Naruse’s first adaptation of the work of celebrated Japanese novelist Fumiko Hayashi, is one of his very finest films, a deceptively simple examination of a troubled marriage, told […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Repast-2-115x115.png "Review: Mikio Naruse’s “Repast”")
Review: Mikio Naruse’s “Repast”
Christopher BournePosted on September 16, 2011 | No CommentsRepast (1951), Mikio Naruse’s first adaptation of the work of celebrated Japanese novelist Fumiko Hayashi, is one of his very finest films, a deceptively simple examination of a troubled marriage, told […] -
![Bruno Dumont’s 2006 film, Flanders, a return to form after his failed US-set experiment, Twentynine Palms, returned Dumont to his familiar milieu of raw sex and violence told with […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/themes/arras/images/thumbnail.png "Review: Bruno Dumont’s “Flanders”")
Review: Bruno Dumont’s “Flanders”
Christopher BournePosted on September 9, 2011 | No CommentsBruno Dumont’s 2006 film, Flanders, a return to form after his failed US-set experiment, Twentynine Palms, returned Dumont to his familiar milieu of raw sex and violence told with […] -
Review: Herman Yau’s “Whispers and Moans”
Christopher BournePosted on September 2, 2011 | No CommentsDespite its title, Herman Yau’s "Whispers and Moans" is an un-romanticized depiction of the lives of several prostitutes who work out of a hostess club. -
![Yelling to the Sky, actress-turned-director Victoria Mahoney’s debut feature, immediately sets up what we’re in for in its very first scene, that of its protagonist Sweetness (Zoe Kravitz) being beaten […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/tumblr_lqisrzFPHD1qlaxkn-115x115.jpg "Review: Victoria Mahoney’s “Yelling to the Sky”")
Review: Victoria Mahoney’s “Yelling to the Sky”
Christopher BournePosted on August 26, 2011 | No CommentsYelling to the Sky, actress-turned-director Victoria Mahoney’s debut feature, immediately sets up what we’re in for in its very first scene, that of its protagonist Sweetness (Zoe Kravitz) being beaten […] -
![The opening moments of Scorsese’s first feature (1967) encapsulate the iconography/obsessions that would inform the rest of his career. Over sharp booming sounds that reverberate like the hand of God, […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Knocking-at-My-Door-115x115.jpg "Review: Martin Scorsese’s “Who’s That Knocking at My Door”")
Review: Martin Scorsese’s “Who’s That Knocking at My Door”
Christopher BournePosted on August 26, 2011 | No CommentsThe opening moments of Scorsese’s first feature (1967) encapsulate the iconography/obsessions that would inform the rest of his career. Over sharp booming sounds that reverberate like the hand of God, […] -
![In an early scene in Secret Sunshine, a pharmacist is attempting to persuade Shin-ae (Jeon Do-yeon), a widowed piano teacher who has come to the town of Miryang with her […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/secret-sunshine-poster-115x115.jpg "Film Review: Lee Chang-dong’s “Secret Sunshine”")
Film Review: Lee Chang-dong’s “Secret Sunshine”
Christopher BournePosted on August 24, 2011 | No CommentsIn an early scene in Secret Sunshine, a pharmacist is attempting to persuade Shin-ae (Jeon Do-yeon), a widowed piano teacher who has come to the town of Miryang with her […]