Curent Project: Krzysztof Kieslowski

I could walk step by step, shot by shot through this Edward Yang masterclass of juxtaposition, but I don’t wish to get in its way or to over-explain. More than any other film I’ve examined, I hope my readers are watching “Yi YI” section by section with my

This is the shortest, simplest segment of “Yi Yi,” with almost no dialogue, but it’s lovely. We see these amazing glass boxes, skyscrapers zooming by, observed by train. It doesn’t look so different from Taipei and that is intentional. Edward Yang noted that Taipei’s first grow spurt

As I’ve expressed on this blog before, I’m a huge fan of Iranian cinema. I saw quite a few movies in 2025, and Iranian filmmakers gave the world two of the best — Jafar Pahani’s anti-revenge masterpiece “It Was Just an Accident” and the Oscar nominated documentary “Cutting

Wars have always been upsetting to me. I don’t think anything disturbs me more than the excitement that some people feel about them — the righteous rhetoric that surrounds them, the endless procession of grey men in suits offering battlefield and diplomatic opinions. At this point, the new conflict with

NJ is called away from A-Di by a page to A-Di. We find out that his office has been trying to reach him and somehow had A-Di’s pager number. So what’s the emergency? This is a little confusing, but it appears that their company has come across a

Some things just have to be said. First, President Donald Trump spoke for more than 100 minutes at the State of the Union on Tuesday. He mentioned Iran for three minutes. Most of that was boasting about how he successfully knocked out their nuclear program last June. He talked about