This minimalist key art for Jia Zhang-Ke's latest documentary on Chinese culture, Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue, has almost a screen-printed look and feel to it. Although it may look to be a prosaic respresntation of the lengthy title of the film, with beige sandy hills giving way to deep azure waves, I do believe it is actually a representation of one of the earlier festival posters of the film from Berlinale 2020, which was a wall of blue mountains. From Dustin Chang's review of the film in these pages, when it played NYFF, "The title of the film is from Yu Hua [one of the literary figures covered in the documentary], as he reminisces about his childhood. The sea is supposed to...
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- 4/30/2021
- Screen Anarchy
You may not have heard the name Luana Muniz before today, but rest assured the transgender sex worker and activist was deemed a powerhosue for transgender communities across her native Brazil, and most noteably, as filmmakers Carolina Monnerat and Theodore Collatos beautifully illustrate in their latest documentary, Queen of Lapa, a veritable beacon in the Rio de Janeiro neighborhood where the effervescent Muniz established a safe hostel for transgender sex workers to not only reside but thrive through medical services, mentorship and mental health care. In his review, Screen Anarchy's own Dustin Chang cites that "Collatos and Monnerat's non-judgmental, fly-on-the-wall approach captures some remarkably intimate moments of their subjects' lives. There is barely any interjections. The filmmakers let their stories come out naturally, as they...
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- 1/22/2020
- Screen Anarchy
"New York, New York, a helluva town!" So declare the lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green, set to music by Leonard Bernstein, in On the Town (1944), and it applies equally well today to the city that will host Japan Cuts, the largest festival of contemporary Japanese cinema in North America. This year, Japan Cuts will get underway on Friday, July 19, showcasing Can't Stop the Dancing (aka Dance With Me) (Dansu Uizu Mii), the U.S. premiere of a comic, road-trip musical by director Yaguchi Shinobu. But that is definitely not all. In fact, the festival will premiere 26 features and 16 shorts across 10 days before concluding on July 28. Dustin Chang and Christopher Bourne, our indefatigable Featured Critics, have barely recovered from...
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- 7/18/2019
- Screen Anarchy
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