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The first video in my Asian Directors #NaHongJin is now live
9 June 2026 youtu.be/BtnhxQH9K0E?si=0h6D… via @YouTube
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Back with a new V-Cinema article, this time looking at Shunichi Nagasaki’s “Stranger,” a chilling cat-and-mouse thriller with feminist undertones.
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#YeonSangHo is open to all forms of storytelling: The animator and ‘Train to Busan’ director has recently released web comic ‘The Hell’ koreajoongangdaily.com/lifes…
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Research on #YeonSangHo for the second episode of #AsianDirectors. This is the short from which formed the foundation of #Hellbound #koreanfilm youtube.com/watch?v=6NCcmncM…
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Candy Darling was an openly transgender actress in the early 1970s. Despite the setbacks, she was determined to be a big star, but lymphoma cut her life short at age 29. Lou Reed's song "Take a Walk on the Wild Side" is about her.
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Eiji Okada (#botd) and Emmanuelle Riva with the Hiroshima Hotel staff during the filming of HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR, 1958.
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Jun 12
Women have been saying for years that there is a growing backlash against gender equality, and every time the conversation comes up we’re told we’re imagining it.
Now the United Nations is saying it.
According to a UN report, nearly 1 in 4 countries reported setbacks in women’s rights and gender equality. Hundreds of millions of women and girls are living in conflict zones, violence against women remains widespread, and UN officials are warning about a growing backlash against women’s rights worldwide.
The part that stands out to me isn’t even the statistics. It’s that women have been raising concerns about misogyny, online hostility toward women, violence, and attacks on reproductive rights for years, only to be dismissed as overreacting.
If the UN Secretary-General is warning about the “mainstreaming of misogyny,” maybe it’s time to stop pretending these concerns came out of nowhere.
Do you think women’s rights are genuinely facing setbacks, or do you think organizations like the UN are exaggerating the problem?
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Jun 11
“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity.
“You are not numbers or case files.
“You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV
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El Festival @PucelaFantastic ha anunciado la película coreana Killing Time dentro de su programación. Un film de 2026 dirigido por Jang Jun-yeop. Y la verdad es que tiene muy buena pinta.
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My JT interview with the great Meiko Kaji, on the occasion of a 10-film retro of her work recently screened at the New York Japan Society: japantimes.co.jp/culture/202…
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Jun 11
🚨WE’RE SEATED! Check out the trailer for #TheProsecutorsProposal, new Korean investigative BL premiering June 26.
From the director of ‘Secret Relationships’, it follows the romance between an investigator, son of a murderer, and a prosecutor.
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Netflix is releasing all eight episodes of its new series adaptation of The Human Vapor on July 2, 2026, reimagining the iconic 1960 Toho tokusatsu film originally directed by Godzilla creator Ishirō Honda.
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Jun 11
Exclusive clip from ‘I AM FRANKELDA’, the first-ever stop-motion film made in Mexico.
The film follows a writer who is taken to another realm to help write nightmares to keep monsters alive.
Releasing tomorrow on Netflix.
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Jun 11
THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER, a film by Kiyoshi Kurosawa, coming to theaters July 31st. 🏯🩸
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Our new poster for the 4K restoration of Luchino Visconti's WHITE NIGHTS. Back in theaters July 24th!
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"Only sick people dream of escaping"
The furious debut from Georges Franju (Eyes Without A Face), 'La tête contre les murs' features Jean-Pierre Mocky as a delinquent son forcibly committed to a dehumanising psychiatric hospital.
Out on Blu-ray in UK US/CA this June.
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An incredible honor to sit down with the great Kenji Tanigaki to discuss his mind melting new film, The Furious. You can read it below:
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