Get in touch to send in cinephile news and discoveries. For regular updates, sign up for our weekly email newsletter and follow us @NotebookMUBI.NEWSGoodbye, Dragon Inn.It’s getting harder to go to the movies. IndieWire surveys the state of cinemagoing in the US region by region as multiplexes continue to shutter. From downtown Detroit, the closest first-run theater is now in Canada.More than 500 pro-Palestinian demonstrators staged a sit-in at MoMA on Saturday, protesting the museum trustees’ alleged investments in weapons used by the Israeli military in Gaza. The museum closed its doors to the public and rescheduled planned programming.After confirming that three sitting representatives of the far-right AfD party had been invited to tomorrow night’s Berlinale opening ceremony, amid public outcry, the festival has now disinvited them.REMEMBERINGRocky II.The tributes to Carl Weathers continue to roll in after his death last week at the...
- 2/28/2024
- MUBI
Olga Chernykh’s A Picture To Remember explores the war in Ukraine through three generations.
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam will open with the world premiere of Ukrainian filmmaker Olga Chernykh’s A Picture To Remember as the festival unveils the line-ups for the international and Envision competitions.
A Picture To Remember explores the war in Ukraine through three generations of women, including the director herself, and is a co-production between Ukraine, France and Germany. The film is screening in Envision and has received backing from the IDFA Bertha Support fund.
The international competition features 11 titles, seven of which are world premieres,...
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam will open with the world premiere of Ukrainian filmmaker Olga Chernykh’s A Picture To Remember as the festival unveils the line-ups for the international and Envision competitions.
A Picture To Remember explores the war in Ukraine through three generations of women, including the director herself, and is a co-production between Ukraine, France and Germany. The film is screening in Envision and has received backing from the IDFA Bertha Support fund.
The international competition features 11 titles, seven of which are world premieres,...
- 10/18/2023
- by Ellie Calnan
- ScreenDaily
The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam revealed its opening night film and announced competition lineups in two main categories today, completing the program for the upcoming 36th edition of the world’s largest documentary festival.
At a press conference in Amsterdam, A Picture to Remember, directed by Ukrainian filmmaker Olga Chernykh, was announced as IDFA’s opening night film on November 8. The festival, which includes more than 250 films total, runs from Nov. 8-19.
“[A Picture to Remember] presents a deeply personal and essay-style account of the ongoing war in Ukraine and its violent history, seen through the prism of three generations of women: Chernykh herself, her mother, and her grandmother,” IDFA said in a release. “In a bid for connection and intimacy, the filmmaker uses old family films, recordings of conversations, and news reports to bridge the distance between her and her grandmother. The result is a kaleidoscopic and personal film that travels through time fluidly.
At a press conference in Amsterdam, A Picture to Remember, directed by Ukrainian filmmaker Olga Chernykh, was announced as IDFA’s opening night film on November 8. The festival, which includes more than 250 films total, runs from Nov. 8-19.
“[A Picture to Remember] presents a deeply personal and essay-style account of the ongoing war in Ukraine and its violent history, seen through the prism of three generations of women: Chernykh herself, her mother, and her grandmother,” IDFA said in a release. “In a bid for connection and intimacy, the filmmaker uses old family films, recordings of conversations, and news reports to bridge the distance between her and her grandmother. The result is a kaleidoscopic and personal film that travels through time fluidly.
- 10/18/2023
- by Matthew Carey
- Deadline Film + TV
A cenote is a natural pit, or sinkhole, resulting from the collapse of limestone bedrock that exposes groundwater underneath. Especially associated with the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, cenotes were sometimes used by the ancient Mayas for ritual, sacrificial offerings. At the same time, they constituted the sole water source for Mayans not living near a river or lake. Kaori Oda directs a documentary that highlights this duality through a rather experimental approach that focuses on both the cenote and the people living around them.
“Cenote” is streaming on Mubi
In that fashion, the documentary starts with Oda swimming and shooting underneath the surface of the water of a cenote, with the result being disorienting, but at the same time very beautiful, particularly due to the reflections of the light that create a number of captivating frames. These kinds of shots carry on for the whole duration of the documentary, but...
“Cenote” is streaming on Mubi
In that fashion, the documentary starts with Oda swimming and shooting underneath the surface of the water of a cenote, with the result being disorienting, but at the same time very beautiful, particularly due to the reflections of the light that create a number of captivating frames. These kinds of shots carry on for the whole duration of the documentary, but...
- 2/5/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Exclusive: North America’s largest festival of contemporary Japanese cinema, Japan Cuts, has selected 30 features and 12 shorts for a 2020 edition that will take place entirely online due to continued corona disruption.
Running July 17-30, the traditionally New York-based event will instead be available across the country via a digital platform set up in partnership with Festival Scope and Shift72. Films will be made available to rent with a limited number or virtual tickets per title, priced at $2–$7 with discounted bundles.
Alongside screenings, there will also be virtual Q&As, discussion panels, and video introductions from filmmakers in a bid to maintain the festival’s sense of community and dedication to intercultural communication.
The fest will kick off with a live virtual Q&a with Shinichiro Ueda, director of opening film selection Special Actors, the follow-up to Ueda’s popular breakout debut One Cut of the Dead. The festival’s Centerpiece...
Running July 17-30, the traditionally New York-based event will instead be available across the country via a digital platform set up in partnership with Festival Scope and Shift72. Films will be made available to rent with a limited number or virtual tickets per title, priced at $2–$7 with discounted bundles.
Alongside screenings, there will also be virtual Q&As, discussion panels, and video introductions from filmmakers in a bid to maintain the festival’s sense of community and dedication to intercultural communication.
The fest will kick off with a live virtual Q&a with Shinichiro Ueda, director of opening film selection Special Actors, the follow-up to Ueda’s popular breakout debut One Cut of the Dead. The festival’s Centerpiece...
- 6/24/2020
- by Tom Grater
- Deadline Film + TV
Spending time with filmmaker Kaori Oda, you often hear her reminding herself to thank those who have helped her. In a director's comment, Oda states that showing her debut feature, Aragane (2015) is her way of repaying the generosity of the Bosnian miners who showed her their work. Experiencing her films which so far have all been shot, edited and (except for one short film) sound-designed by Oda herself, Oda is clearly a gifted artist but it seems just as true that her work is made to be a gift to the people she worked with. Her gifts are deservedly being recognized. One notable collaborator is her mentor Béla Tarr, who she studied under at the Hungarian filmmakers' short-lived film school, film.factory. Aragane was made during her time at the film school in Sarajevo and since its release, Oda has drawn other heavyweight fans including Apichatpong Weersathakul, and critic Jonathan Rosenbaum.
- 3/5/2020
- MUBI
A cenote is a natural pit, or sinkhole, resulting from the collapse of limestone bedrock that exposes groundwater underneath. Especially associated with the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico, cenotes were sometimes used by the ancient Mayas for ritual, sacrificial offerings. At the same time, they constituted the sole water source for Mayans not living near a river or lake. Kaori Oda directs a documentary that highlights this duality through a rather experimental approach that focuses on both the cenote and the people living around them.
“Cenote” screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam
In that fashion, the documentary starts with Oda swimming and shooting underneath the surface of the water of a cenote, with the result being disorienting, but at the same time very beautiful, particularly due to the reflections of the light that create a number of captivating frames. These kinds of shots carry on for the whole duration of the documentary,...
“Cenote” screened at the International Film Festival Rotterdam
In that fashion, the documentary starts with Oda swimming and shooting underneath the surface of the water of a cenote, with the result being disorienting, but at the same time very beautiful, particularly due to the reflections of the light that create a number of captivating frames. These kinds of shots carry on for the whole duration of the documentary,...
- 2/5/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
“All children are beautiful when they’re loved.”
During the last years, an increasing number of films, fiction and non-fiction, deal with the issue of dislocation. Whether we are talking about works such as Maren Wickwire’s “Together Apart” or Kaori Oda’s magnificent “Toward a Common Tenderness”, issues like identity and home have become more and more important in the global village. Considering economy and culture have become globalized, the development should not come as a surprise, its spiritual repercussions, however, will have a long afterlife. And many artists sense the topic as one we need to talk about and deal with more sensitively.
The Return is screening at London Korean Film Festival
Regarding these issues, Malene Choi Jensen feature debut “The Return” marks another interesting perspective to the topic, one which is deeply personal to the Danish director. Born in Korea, she was given away for adoption after birth and “The Return” is,...
During the last years, an increasing number of films, fiction and non-fiction, deal with the issue of dislocation. Whether we are talking about works such as Maren Wickwire’s “Together Apart” or Kaori Oda’s magnificent “Toward a Common Tenderness”, issues like identity and home have become more and more important in the global village. Considering economy and culture have become globalized, the development should not come as a surprise, its spiritual repercussions, however, will have a long afterlife. And many artists sense the topic as one we need to talk about and deal with more sensitively.
The Return is screening at London Korean Film Festival
Regarding these issues, Malene Choi Jensen feature debut “The Return” marks another interesting perspective to the topic, one which is deeply personal to the Danish director. Born in Korea, she was given away for adoption after birth and “The Return” is,...
- 10/27/2018
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Born in 1987 in Hirakata (Osaka Prefecture) Kaori Oda had to abandon her dream of becoming a basketball player at an early age. Eventually she decided to study abroad in the United States where she took her first classes in filmmaking. Upon her return to Japan she directed her feature debut, the self-documentary “Thus a Noise Speaks” (2010), a film about her family’s dealing with her coming out as homosexual. In the aftermath she applied for the film.factory program of the Sarajevo Film Academy, a program co-founded by director Bela Tarr.
Her newest documentary titled “Toward a Common Tenderness” deals with the repercussions of her debut feature, but also delves into themes such as the power of the camera as a constructor of reality and the process of re-defining herself as a director. The film premiered at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animation Film 2017 and will be screened...
Her newest documentary titled “Toward a Common Tenderness” deals with the repercussions of her debut feature, but also delves into themes such as the power of the camera as a constructor of reality and the process of re-defining herself as a director. The film premiered at the International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animation Film 2017 and will be screened...
- 7/25/2018
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
“Some things I cannot resist filming, they demand it.”
Ever since the arrival of film as a medium and as an art, the possibilities of it have been endless. In the influential documentary “Man with a Movie Camera” ,P olish filmmaker Dziga Vertov experimented not only with the medium in terms of form, but also aimed to define the relationship of the director, the camera and the subject which is to be filmed. Considering the medium has made many technical advances over the years since the release of Vertov’s there have been quite a few attempts to re-define this relationship. The most noteworthy examples in this field may be Jean-Luc Godard’s “Adieu au Langage” (2014) and the films by Chris Marker.
Generally speaking, the nature of film theory touches upon that exact link to the audience as well as the authenticity of the picture itself. In the end, one of the most interesting aspects,...
Ever since the arrival of film as a medium and as an art, the possibilities of it have been endless. In the influential documentary “Man with a Movie Camera” ,P olish filmmaker Dziga Vertov experimented not only with the medium in terms of form, but also aimed to define the relationship of the director, the camera and the subject which is to be filmed. Considering the medium has made many technical advances over the years since the release of Vertov’s there have been quite a few attempts to re-define this relationship. The most noteworthy examples in this field may be Jean-Luc Godard’s “Adieu au Langage” (2014) and the films by Chris Marker.
Generally speaking, the nature of film theory touches upon that exact link to the audience as well as the authenticity of the picture itself. In the end, one of the most interesting aspects,...
- 7/23/2018
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Now in its 12th year, Japan Cuts continues to grow as the largest festival of contemporary Japanese cinema in North America. Bringing a wide range of the best and hardest-to-see films made in and around Japan today — from blockbusters, independent productions and anime, to documentaries, avant-garde works, short films, and new restorations — Japan Cuts is the place to experience Japan’s dynamic film culture in New York City. Like every year, this thrilling 10-day festival offers exclusive premieres, special guest filmmakers and stars, fun-filled parties, live music and more! Tickets are on-sale now!
The festival programmers Aiko Masubuchi, Kazu Watanabe and Joel Neville Andersonhave highlighted in a note that “perhaps most strikingly, the struggle for dignity and individual rights reverberates throughout the lineup—including Lgbtq advocacy (“Of Love & Law”), reparations for government abuse (“Sennan Asbestos Disaster”) or the plight of refugees (“Passage of Life”). Additionally, multiple films deal with the...
The festival programmers Aiko Masubuchi, Kazu Watanabe and Joel Neville Andersonhave highlighted in a note that “perhaps most strikingly, the struggle for dignity and individual rights reverberates throughout the lineup—including Lgbtq advocacy (“Of Love & Law”), reparations for government abuse (“Sennan Asbestos Disaster”) or the plight of refugees (“Passage of Life”). Additionally, multiple films deal with the...
- 6/25/2018
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
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