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5 March 2012 1:17 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »

The Believer's 2012 Film Issue is out and you can sample every essay, interview and list that's in it, though only a handful of texts are online in full. Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, for example, talks with Peter Doig, "a figurative painter whose lush dreamscapes at once evoke his medium's past and suggest the feel of photos and films," who also co-runs the StudioFilmClub in Trinidad: "In an airy old rum factory with a digital projector on one wall, a large screen on another, and a homey bar stocked with coconut water and local Stag beer, he hosts free screenings. Each Thursday night, FilmClub's patrons thrill to independent and art-house films ranging from Killer of Sheep and Klute to — on the night of my first visit a couple years ago — Nagisa Oshima's 1976 classic of sensual obsession, In the Realm of the Senses." You can see more of the flyers Doig's painted for the FilmClub here. »

1 March 2012 7:07 PM, PST | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

In view of its topic, one is tempted to say of Japan Society's new series that it's too bad it didn't arrive a couple of weeks ago, around February 14--then again, I don't think Valentine's Day could have withstood the assault.Mixing repertory classics such as Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses (1976) with the U.S. premiere of Shinya Tsukamoto's latest trip into dark desire, Kotoko, and the world premiere of Koji Wakamatsu's Petrel Hotel Blue, the lineup overwhelms with commitment to its own twisted theme. What's more, as if Japan didn't produce enough memorable examples of romance gone rancid and sex gone sordid, New Yorkers will also be treated to several Korean titles of note during the March 2 - March 18 series run.In »

14 February 2012 8:47 AM, PST | Obsessed with Film | See recent Obsessed with Film news »

To many people Valentines Day is a wonderful reminder of the love which they share with one and other, and the only day of the year in which it’s possible to glowingly gush without seeming like a worryingly overly enthusiastic human teddy bear. However, to many more it’s a day of crass consumerism – in which thousands of pounds are spent on sickly chocolates and flowers – and much worse, a bitter reminder of loneliness and the fact that yes, you’re still sitting around in your pants eating salty snacks and watching bad late-night TV.

For anyone who falls into the latter camp, here are 10 films for your consideration, all of which should give you a warm fuzzy feeling inside about being comfortably alone and far better off for it. Please also spend a moment of your day thinking of those less fortunate, who will spend tonight being forced »

- Stephen Leigh

19 January 2012 12:06 PM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »

Back in November we posted the first trailer for one of two films we'll be seeing from Koji Wakamatsu this year. At the time, we thought the title would be Kaien Hotel Blue; turns out the title will be Petrel Hotel Blue and it'll be seeing its world premiere at New York's Japan Society as part of Love Will Tear Us Apart, "a series of twisted, obsessive, heart-blazing love stories from Japan and Korea."

The series opens on March 2 with the Us premiere of Shinya Tsukamoto's Kotoko, winner of the Orizzonti Jury Award in Venice last fall. Just yesterday, Todd Brown posted the first trailer at Twitch.

The schedule for the films that follow:

March 3. Hirokazu Kore-eda's Air Doll (2009), Lee Yoon-ki's My Dear Enemy (2008), Tsukamoto's Vital (2004) and A Snake of June (2003).

March 4. Hiroki Ryuichi's Vibrator (2003) and M (2006).

March 7. Wakamatsu's Petrel Hotel Blue and Running in Madness, Dying in Love »

19 January 2012 10:47 AM, PST | 24framespersecond.net | See recent 24FramesPerSecond news »

Love kills, at least that’s what New York’s Japan Society tells us - with the announcement of their latest, upcoming film season; Love Will Tear Us Apart, and it set to be a doozie. The press release lists just some of the sights to see. Bad romance, blind love, amour fou! This spring, we screen a series of twisted, obsessive, heart-blazing love stories from Japan and Korea, because, after all, it takes two to tango and at least two to tumble. The 20+ film lineup, mostly from the past decade, includes the U.S. premiere of Shinya Tsukamoto's latest film, Kotoko, and the world premiere of Koji Wakamatsu’s Petrel Hotel Blue, as well as Hirokazu Kore'eda's Air Doll, Nagisa Oshima's arch-classic In the Realm of the Senses, Yukio Ninagawa's Snakes and Earrings, Lee Sang-il's Villain, Lee Chang-dong's Oasis, and Kim Ki-duk's Bad Guy, among other twisted tales. »

8 January 2012 6:57 AM, PST | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »

Has it really been five years since I posted a "Bowie @ 60" entry at GreenCine Daily? Heavens. Here we are again, then. In Friday's Guardian, Alexis Petridis, looking back to that "scarcely-believable ten-year creative streak that begins with 1970's The Man Who Sold the World and ends with the 1980's Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)," wrote that "having achieved more in one phase of his career alone than anyone can hope to in a lifetime — so much that it's literally impossible to imagine what pop music would be like if he hadn't existed — he's entitled to take early redundancy from pop stardom. You can mourn the loss of more music if you want, but in a sense, his absence feels strangely right…. The artist who drew a decisive, iconoclastic dividing line between the 60s and the 70s in the lyrics of 'All the Young Dudes' ('my brother's at home with his Beatles and his Stones… »

6 items from 2012