Tag: Hirokazu Kore-eda
2023 Cannes Film Festival: Nicholas Bell & Eric Lavallée’s Top 10
We arrived. We watched. We reviewed. We lost a lot of sleep and we battled the ticketing system. Combining our efforts to bring you...
You BETcha!: Kaouther Ben Hania, Ramata-Toulaye Sy, Alice Rohrwacher, Wang Bing & Glazer Top Contenders for the Palme d’Or
Yesterday the Cannes Film Festival opened with Maïwenn’s Jeanne du Barry (marking the return of Johnny Depp in the French language no less) but...
Live from Cannes: 2023 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Last year Ruben Östlund took home the big daddy of film prizes winning his second Palme d'Or and this year he gets to be...
2023 Cannes: Glazer, Ceylan, Rohrwacher, Haynes & Ramata-Toulaye Sy Competing for the Palme d’Or
A surprise Wim Wenders project (Perfect Days), a rare directorial debut Ramata-Toulaye Sy (Banel et Adama) and a Wang Bing film (Jeunesse) are part...
2023 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
It's official folks! The drop date has been confirmed. There'll be a couple of films that trickle in a bit after the announcement is...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #35. Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Kaibutsu
Kaibutsu
Broker filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda has been in creative overdrive working on both a series (Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House) and what was an...
Broker | Review
Be My Little Baby: Kore-eda Gets Weepy with Sentimental Adoption Drama
Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japan’s esteemed purveyor of domestic melancholy, continues with his bid for...
2022 Red Sea Intl. FF: Kamila Andini, July Jung & Soudade Kaadan Among Competition of 15
A major first wave of titles for the upcoming second edition of the Red Sea International Film Festival (Red Sea IFF) have been unveiled...
2022 TIFF: Peter Farrelly, Hong Sang-soo & Tobias Lindholm to World Premiere in Toronto
The fun part about dissecting TIFF's Gala and Special Presentations unveiling are what titles are skipping TIFF, which titles are moving directly from Venice...
2022 Cannes Coverage Wrap-Up: Competition
Armageddon Time - James Gray
Boy from Heaven - Tarik Saleh
Broker - Hirokazu Kore-eda
Frère et sœur - Arnaud Desplechin
Close - Lukas...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 10 – Hirokazu Kore-Eda’s Broker
A previous Palme d'Or winner (Shoplifters), Broker becomes Hirokazu Kore-Eda's eighth trip to Cannes - this follows Distance (2001), Nobody Knows (2004), Air Doll...
2022 Cannes: Abbasi, Dhont, Reichardt, Mungiu & Claire Denis Among 18 Titles Vying for Palme d’Or
The likes of first-time comp contenders Kelly Reichardt, Ali Abbasi and Lucas Dhont are joining former Palme d'Or winners Ruben Östlund, Kore-eda Hirokazu, the...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
We've looked at the non-competing sections (10 predictions). We've visited (20 predictions) the possible Critics' Week programme. We explored (20 predictions) options for the...
Interview: Hirokazu Kore-eda (Air Doll)
Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda returns to a thematic subject matter he knows well: loneliness and emptiness. This time out, he does so via the...
Air Doll | Review
There is No Substitute: Kore-eda Digs into Our Rubber Soul with Fantasy Flick
Reinterpreting the notion of what it is to truly be living and...breathing,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2022: #12. Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Broker
Broker
Produced by TBD
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Written by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Starring: Song Kang-Ho, Gang Dong-Won, Bae Doo-Na, IU
Cinematographer: Hong Kyung-pyo
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #26. Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Baby, Box, Broker
Baby, Box, Broker
Directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda
Starring: Song Kang-Ho, Bae Doona, Dong-won Gang
Release Date/Prediction: With an early 2021 shoot in the works, we...
The Truth | Review
I Remember Mama: Kore-eda Anoints Deneuve as a Diva in Pleasurable Drama
A subtle exercise in the limited reality of both perspective and memory, auteur...
The Conversation: Top 10 Films of the 2019 Toronto Intl. Film Festival
Surprises were few and far between at a relatively reserved 2019 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. Sans a rather intense interest in...
The Conversation: 10 Most Anticipated Films – Venice 2019
There’s much to be excited for in the upcoming 2019 Venice Film Festival, the 76th edition of the world’s oldest major film festival. Of...
The Conversation: 2019 Cannes Film Festival Predictions
For several reasons, the 71st edition of the Cannes Film Festival was something of a slight progression, if at least for the number of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #2. The Truth – Hirokazu Kore-eda
The Truth
Fresh off his 2018 Palme d’Or winning Shoplifters (review), prolific Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda continues his perennial output with his latest project, The Truth,...
Shoplifters | Review
Ties That Bind: Koreeda Examines the Essence of Family from Unexpected Perspective
Anyone familiar with the cinema of Japanese auteur Hirokazu Koreeda already knows what...
The Third Murder | Review
Murder Was the Case That They Gave Him: Kore-eda Mounts Philosophical Crime Thriller
Revered for his finely hewn dramas so often navigating the subtle isolation...
IONCINEPHILE of the Month: Iram Haq’s Top Ten Films of All Time List
Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile, we...
The Conversation: Best Foreign Language Oscar Contenders
While we’ve yet to see what will take home the Golden Lion out of Venice this September, many of the contenders for what will...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Shoplifters
Hirokazu Kore-eda‘s sixth trip to Cannes comes after Our Little Sister in 2015, and the one before that was Like Father, Like Son (which took home...
Live from Cannes: 2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Celebrating our seventh year, for the 71st edition of Cannes, we decided to switch things up for our Cannes Critics' Panel. First, we expanded...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions V: Jia Zhangke & Kirill Serebrennikov Lead the Far East
Cannes 2017 had a strong crop of Russian titles on hand, and several 2018 possibilities could be poised for entry in this year’s program....
After the Storm | Blu-ray Review
One of this year’s overlooked gems, Japanese master Hirokazu Kore-eda’s After the Storm received a solemn theatrical release in March of 2017 courtesy of...
Venice 2017: Weiwei, Haigh, Maoz, Doueiri & Kechiche Compete for Golden Lion
Despite the number of spoilers in TIFF announcements less than 48 hours back, the are some top filmmaker names and highly anticipated film items...
The Conversation: The 2017 Venice & TIFF Vortex
As the fall festival circuit looms, anticipation is high for a number of items expected to premiere in the fourth quarter. Following a glut...
After the Storm | Review
Together Again: Koreeda Unveils another Bittersweet Carefully Constructed Familial Melodrama
For the past decade or so, Japanese auteur has conquered the market on sharply observed...
Through the Looking-Glass…Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2018: #100-11
As the cinematic landscape begins to take shape with the upcoming editions of Sundance, Berlin, and Rotterdam, here are 100 titles of note to...
Our Little Sister | Review
Sisters Doing It For Themselves: Kore-eda’s Continued Examination of Polite Familial Discord
Japanese auteur Hirokazu Kore-eda returns with Our Little Sister (aka Umimachi Diary), another...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell – The 2016 Edition
Tis the season for fevered wish lists and constantly fluctuating prognostications concerning the soon to be revealed 2016 program at the Cannes Film Festival....
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2016: #70. Hirokazu Koreeda’s After the Storm
After the Storm
Director: Hirokazu Koreeda
Writer: Hirokazu Koreeda
Japanese auteur Hirokazu Koreeda wasted little time between premiering his 2015 title Our Little Sister at the 2015...
2015 TIFF: Venice Preems from Masters Skolimowski, Bellocchio & Sokurov Among 13
As usual, the Masters programme is cholk-full of carryover items from world renowned auteurs who've already premiered last February (Berlin), this past May (Cannes)...
2015 Cannes Critics’ Panel Day 2: Kore-eda Needs No Introductions with “Our Little Sister”
The race for the Palme d'Or officially begins today. It's day 2 at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival which means the press core and as per...
2015 Cannes Film Fest: Main Comp 1st Timers Include Kurzel, Lanthimos, Donzelli, Villeneuve, Brize, Joachim Trier & Laszlo Nemes
Returnee former Palme d'Or winners and their latest in Nanni Moretti (Mia Madre), Gus Van Sant (Sea Of Trees) are joined by several Main Comp...
The Conversation: One Never Cannes Tell… 2015 Cannes Film Fest Predictions
With the world’s most prestigious film festival just around the corner, cineastes have been lasciviously salivating about what’s going to show up at Cannes,...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2015: #55. Hirokazu Koreeda’s Kamakura Diary
Kamakura Diary
Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda// Writer: Hirokazu Koreeda
Another Japanese auteur returning with another project is Hirokazu Koreeda, whose last film, 2013’s Like Father, Like Son...
TIFF’s Phat 2013 Line-up Includes Latest From: Chomet, Egoyan, Holofcener, Glazer, Gordon Green & Reichardt
With dramatic fare such as August: Osage County, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Dallas Buyers Club, 2013's Toronto Int. Film Festival once again...
Like Father, Like Son | Review
Blood Ties: An Elegant, Yet Familiar New Film from Koreeda
Children switched at birth and discovered years after the error is the well-worn melodramatic scenario...
2013 Cannes Film Festival Predictions: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Like Father Like Son
#29. Hirokazu Kore-eda's Like Father Like Son
Gist: A successful businessman driven by money, learns that his biological son was switched with another child after...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2013: #53. Hirokazu Koreeda’s Soshite Chichi ni Naru
Soshite Chichi ni Naru
Director/Writer: Hirokazu Koreeda
Producer(s): TBA
U.S. Distributor: Rights Available
Cast: Fukuyama Masaharu, Ono Machiko, Maki Yoko, Lily Franky
Hirokazu Koreeda's Soshite Chichi ni Naru places...
I Wish | Review
Why Did Those Days Ever Have To Go?: Wishmaster Koreeda’s Closely Watched Train
Master filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda returns once again to child protagonists for his...
