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Showing posts with label Chicago winner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chicago winner. Show all posts
Saturday, May 30, 2026

291. Italian film director Paolo Sorrentino's 10th feature film "Grace" (La Grazia) (2025) in Italian, based on his original screenplay: Grace is the beauty of doubt

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  God suggests questions and carefully avoids giving answers.  It is not our task to provide answers. It is not the task of science to provi...
Sunday, December 15, 2024

284. Indian director Payal Kapadia’s 2nd feature film “All We Imagine as Light” (2024) in Malayalam, Hindi, and other Indian languages: An honest, sophisticated perspective of real India, intelligently presented

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  "There is always a feeling that I have to leave." -- an off-screen remark on the cloud of impermanence faced by an Indian immigr...
Monday, March 07, 2022

273. Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s tenth complete feature film, “Memoria” (2021), shot in Colombia, based on his original screenplay: Metaphysics of awakening human memory through sound and sight, rather than words

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    “ A sound like a rumble from the core of the earth ”  —Jessica (Tilda Swinton), a Scotswoman and a scientist, describing the sound that ...
Sunday, January 16, 2022

271. Japanese director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s ninth feature film “Doraibu mai ka” (Drive My Car) (2021), based on his co-scripted screenplay, adapting a fascinating short story written by the celebrated contemporary Japanese writer Haruki Murakami: An unusual script structure comprising a 39-minute prologue, followed by the main tale, and tying it all up with a stunning, minimalist, micro-epilogue

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  Ryusuke Hamaguchi ’s Drive My Car will appeal to different folks for totally different reasons. Those familiar with Haruki Murakami’s wri...
Tuesday, April 06, 2021

262. Spanish film director Oliver Laxe’s film “O Que Arde” (Fire Will Come) (2019), based on the original co-scripted screenplay of Santiago Fillol and the film’s director Laxe: Unusual film with very few spoken lines preferring instead to communicate with visuals of nature and a cocktail of sounds (diegetic, composed music and exceptionally alluring sound mixing)

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      “If they hurt others, it’s because they hurt, too.”--  Benedicta, mother of Amador, responding to Amador’s comment on the root formati...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

260. Côte d’Ivoire’s (Ivory Coast’s) film director Philippe Lacôte’s second feature film “La Nuit des Rois” (Night of the Kings) (2020), based on his original script: A significant prison film underscoring the power of storytelling and magic realism from the African Continent

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    “I don’t make a lot of films...I can only shoot what is essential to me”   --Director  Philippe Lacôte   in an interview to CNN titled ...
Thursday, April 02, 2020

250. Brazilian director Maya Da-Rin’s debut feature film “A Febre” (The Fever) (2019) in Portuguese language: Promising debut, treading the path of filmmaking taken by Portuguese director Pedro Costa

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T wo films made in 2019 mark the resurgence of Brazilian cinema: Dornelles’ and Filho’s joint effort Bacurau (a Cannes...