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Locarno has given the Golden Leopard to Hong Sang-soo‘s Right Now, Wrong Then, Keyframe Daily reports.
The top 10 Asian films, from a survey conducted by Busan International Film Festival:
Tokyo Story, a legendary masterpiece by Ozu Yasujiro made the top of the list. Kurosawa Akira also had two films in the top 10 list that included Rashomon (1950) in 2nd place and Seven Samurai (1954) at 6th place. In the Mood for Love (2000) by Wong Kar Wai came in 3rd, while The Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray came in 4th. In 5th place, A City Of Sadness by Hou Hsiao-hsien and 7th place A Brighter Summer Day by Edward Yang both from Taiwan. Moreover, Spring in a Small Town by Fei Mu and Still Life by Jia Zhangke both placed 8th, and Close-Up by Abbas Kiarostami and The Housemaid by KIM Ki-young, the only Korean film on the top 10 list, came in 10th.
Watch a video essay on reaction shots and the economy of storytelling:
At The Talkhouse, The Mend director John Magary on The Gift:
The Gift, a thriller built around a complicated comeuppance, gets assholes right. I can say this with some authority. I have been, from time to time, a pretty good asshole. From time to time, I have been a pretty great asshole. Happy to needle and deflect, to undercut, to lie when it serves me. I have joked without mercy. I have brushed pity aside in the interest of frictionless self-satisfaction. I think we all do this from time to time, but me, maybe I’m better at it than you?
Watch a new conversation with Alex Garland and the stars of Ex Machina, and listen to our discussion and more here: