video essays / articles / interviews

• how nope tricks your ears
• in praise of subtle performance
• how to do a jumpscare
• strangely familiar places in movies explained
• park chanwook and bong joonho q&a
• one-inch: the best of asian cinema
• long live the microcinema

ozu

• the depth of simplicity
• why did ozu cut to a vase?

k. kurosawa

• anatomy of the scariest scene ever
• kairo: behind the scenes
• cure (1997) – kiyoshi kurosawa & ryusuke hamaguchi
• wandering characters of kiyoshi kurosawa in haunting tokyo

bi gan

• kaili blues q&a
• bi gan & huang jue on long day's journey into night, poetry, and preparation
• a chinese dream - the china of bi gan
• on deconstructing the noir genre and subverting expectations

kore-eda

• on 'still walking' | bfi q&a
• the making of 'after the storm'
• hirokazu kore-eda | BAFTA screenwriters' lecture series
• interview with steve macfarlane
• in another room, from another time