KOREAN CINEMA’S GOLDEN DECADE: THE 1960s Series Korean Cinema’s Golden Decade The 1960 Series was featured at the Lincoln Center from 1-17 September. The series ran from September 1–17 and is one of the largest retrospectives ever of 1960s Korean Cinema outside of Korea, including many rarely screened films, several presented on 35mm archival prints.Continue reading “RKS 2023 Retro Films: “The Marines That Never Returned” (KOREA)”
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RKS 2023 Film: “Shadow Island”: A Mixture of Mystery, Horror and Swedish Traitors
The Swedish film “Shadow Island” is a tantalizing combination of mystery and horror tinged with a Swedish traitor or two. Let the NATO jets roaring overhead in the beginning of the movie and radio stories about Sweden joining NATO whet your whistle on the espionage front. At the film’s conclusion you may conclude it isContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Shadow Island”: A Mixture of Mystery, Horror and Swedish Traitors”
RKS 2023 Film: The Inevitability of a Return to Mexico From The United States: A Question of Mañana
The Public Broadcasting System (PBS) of the United States celebrates Latino/x Heritage Month with the documentary “Bulls and Saints” which will be broadcast on September 18th at 10 p.m. ET/9 Central and will be available to stream until December 17, 2023 at pbs.org. and PBS App. Tacho and Cecilia are from a small Mexican villageContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: The Inevitability of a Return to Mexico From The United States: A Question of Mañana”
RKS 2023 Film: Toronto International Film Festival: “The Tundra Within Me”
Lena (Risten Anine Gaup) in furtherance of her painting moves from Oslo to her Sámpi birthplace with Jonas her young son. She’s painting female reindeer herders in an abstract and political way. Lena is not exactly given a warm welcome returning to her ancestral home. In her own view as a former reindeer herder whoContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: Toronto International Film Festival: “The Tundra Within Me””
Toronto International Film Festival: “Seagrass”: A Downward Spiral in A Self Development Retreat
Judith and her husband Steve attend a self development camp off the British Columbia mainland at Gabriola Island. They bring their young daughters Stephanie and Emmy with them as other couples also do. Judith (Ally Maki) is a Japanese Canadian. Her mother recently died and she pathetically, like Pig Pen in Snoopy, clings to herContinue reading “Toronto International Film Festival: “Seagrass”: A Downward Spiral in A Self Development Retreat”
RKS 2023 Film: “Bloom”: Toronto International Film Festival
The Canadian short “Bloom” screens as part of the TIFF Short Cuts Programme. It scores big points in 11 minutes and may have you guessing what it is all about. No Greta Thunberg inflicting didactic misery but rather an almost no dialogue short. Here is my take. Poor Laurel walks home to find her partnerContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Bloom”: Toronto International Film Festival”
RKS 2023 Film: Toronto International Film Festival: “Summer Qamp”
The Canadian documentary “Summer Qamp” delves into a summer camp for LGBTQ youth. Camp fYrefly in Alberta, Canada. Here is a comforting and safe space for the bullied, insecure, confused and unsure seeking to establish their queer identity in this Alberta camp. This is no “Meatballs” and diametrically opposed to the conversion camp in theContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: Toronto International Film Festival: “Summer Qamp””
RKS 2023 Film: “Once Upon a Time in Uganda”: Hollywood, Bollywood and Now Wakaliwood!
A documentary about an African country that very well may put a smile on your face instead of a sigh. The last documentary I watched on Uganda, “Theatre of Violence” was about a civil war and child soldiers. Not exactly cheerful. “Once Upon a Time in Uganda” follows the struggle of Ugandan director Issac NabwanaContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Once Upon a Time in Uganda”: Hollywood, Bollywood and Now Wakaliwood!”
RKS 2023 Film: “King of Killers”: Daddy is a Killer!
Marcus Garan (Alain Moussi) from Chicago is a former hitman for The Company that kills domestically and internationally “bad guys”. A hitman with morals? Garan has a wife and his darling little daughter Kimberly. Unfortunately his wife is set up to be killed in the “crossfire” at a messy hit Garan has accepted as anContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “King of Killers”: Daddy is a Killer!”
RKS 2023 Film: “Iron Butterflies”
On July 17, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH 17 from Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down by a Russian missile killing all 298 persons aboard the Boeing 777. On November 17, 2022 a Dutch court found 3 of the four Russian defendants guilty of 298 counts of murder imposing a lifeContinue reading “RKS 2023 Film: “Iron Butterflies””
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