MOVIECUBE – SEPTEMBER 2020 – ORIGINAL KaramelKinema and I are (sort of) restarting our blogging activities and revisiting this feature we started seven (!!!) years ago, MovieCube, and I will start this month’s theme—Utopia—with this this lovely film directed by Matt Ross, whom you might recognize as Silicon Valley’s Gavin Belson. Ben Cash lives in… Read More Captain Fantastic (2016)
The film opens with a woman swimming topless in a secluded turquoise-colored beach somewhere in the French Riviera. She is Sofia, a 22-year-old curvaceous woman whom medium close-up serves as the background when the film title appears, An Easy Girl, her sun-kissed skin wet, her breasts left bare. Yet we then follow the film through… Read More An Easy Girl / Une fille facile (2019)
Yoon Hee looks tired. She works in a factory cafeteria, wordlessly pouring seaweed soup for the workers. She lives in a small apartment with her daughter Sae Bom and when she finds her ex-husband waiting for her outside the door, having just visited their daughter, she doesn’t want to spare a minute of attention for… Read More Moonlit Winter / 윤희에게 (2019)
Many of us must have memories about first love in high school and agree that those memories somehow survive in our heads and hearts many, many years after. High school is also where we meet people who accept us for what we are and where we form friendships that last for decades. And as time… Read More Relishing traces of AADC in AADC2
There were rumors that the Makassar Institute of Arts (IKM) was on the verge of being shut down, a mere four years after its establishment in 2008. Aditya Ahmad, one of the students that were supposed to graduate that year, was no way near ready to shoot his graduation project. He had decided to do… Read More Aditya Ahmad: On Taking It Slow
One and a half years ago we saw Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark won the 74th annual Hunger Games, pissing the President off in the way. Katniss’ action at the end of the game saved both her and her lovesick friend Peeta’s lives, but with what cost? Now both of them are living rather peacefully… Read More The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)
MOVIECUBE — OCTOBER 2013 — DOCUMENTARY There was something rather ominous at the third race of the Formula One 1994 season in Imola, Italy. Two days before the big day, during the first qualifying round, Brazilian Rubens Barrichello’s car hit the fence, went flying and somersaulted in the air, yet miraculously only left Barrichello with… Read More Senna (2010)
The following review was a part of ‘Debuts’ Blogathon, run by Mark at Three Rows Back and Chris at Terry Malloy’s Pigeon Coop, originally posted over at Mark’s here. The blogathon features 23 posts from 23 bloggers, highlighting the debut feature of a Director and comparing it to the Director’s overall body of work. It… Read More Barking Dogs Never Bite / 플란다스의 개 (2000)
MOVIECUBE — OCTOBER 2013 — ADAPTATION Charles Howard is working in a quiet bicycle shop when he is asked to repair a man’s car—at that time a brand new technology. Not only is he able to repair it, but he also ends up improving it, and being good with machines as well as words, Howard… Read More Seabiscuit (2003)
MOVIECUBE — OCTOBER 2013 — ORIGINAL Small town attorney Mike Flaherty is having a hard time keeping his business afloat. Sharing an office with an equally worn-down accountant Vig, they curse at how much it will cost if they want to have their old, about-to-blow-up-anytime boiler fixed. However, both Mike and Vig have something they… Read More Win Win (2011)
