Before launching into Third Window Films latest release – Seiji Tanaka’s Melancholic – allow me the indulgence of explaining why I adore East Asian cinema. Japanese, Chinese and Korean cinema use their time as a canvas to evolve, expand or become something else entirely. Outside of the few high profile […]
Third Window Films
Flash Gordon – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 266
Uzumasa Limelight (2014) A Wistful, one-of-a-kind Samurai Movie (Review)
Cinema Eclectica 54 – Mummies Aren’t Daddies
Cinema Eclectica 54 – Mummies Aren't Daddies
Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between A Criminal & A Whore (2016)(Review)
Philippine director Khavn De La Cruz collaborates with Wong-Kar Wai alumni DP Christopher Doyle for Third Windows latest in an exceptionally difficult film to pigeon-hole due to its outright evasion of genre convention. On its surface, Ruined Heart: Another Love Story Between a Criminal & a Whore is a musical […]
Obon Brothers (2015) Character drama that peeks at the Japanese film industry (Festival Review)
Dear White People – Cinema Eclectica Podcast 28
Fuku-Chan of Fuku Fuku Flats (2015) Heartwarming comedy-drama hiding genius casting (Review)
Yosuke Fujita (Quirky Guys and Gals & Fine, Totally Fine), writes and directs his latest film with an enviable simplicity that film is the awkwardly titled Fuku-Chan of Fuku-Fuku Flats. In which the titular Fuku-Chan is a portly 30-something man contented by the simple day-to-day routine of a construction worker […]