By David Pountain Directed by Jia Zhangke Of all the politically-minded directors of the last two decades, few have had their filmmaking style so innately ingrained in their ideology as the respected Jia Zhangke. I’d […]
Month: May 2015
On May 14th, FilmDoo presented a workshop at the Marché du film in Cannes, as part of the NEXT Digital Forum. The workshop focused on the “Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Distribution and how to […]
By David Pountain Directed by Lucky Kuswandi As the title would suggest, In the Absence of the Sun, the humorous and poignant new drama from Indonesian writer-director Lucky Kuswandi, takes place mostly at night (one single […]
By David Pountain Directed by Koji Fukada Any discussion of Koji Fukada’s affecting new drama, Au revoir l’été, will inevitably involve a comparison to the late great Eric Rohmer. Shadows of the French director’s 1983 […]