Like a good deal of Martin Scorsese’s films, Silence handles the subject of faith in a complex and humanistic way; the legendary American filmmaker transmutes the torment, humiliation and suffering of two young, idealistic Jesuit priests, by the fiendish censors of Feudal Japan,…
NYAFF Round Up #6: TETSUO: THE IRON MAN (1989), SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLY (1996), ALL ABOUT LILY CHOU-CHOU (2001), TEKKONKINKREET (2006)
At this year’s NYAFF, four classic Japanese films were re-released. Despite a growing market for international cinema, many nooks and crannies of Japanese filmmaking have remained untouched and unexplored by Western audiences. Here are our reviews of each film in…