Scribbles and Ramblings

The multi-genre bending world of Kiyoshi Kurosawa One’s view of Kiyoshi Kurosawa will vary depending on which film of his one comes across...

  L’Empire (The Empire, 2024, Bruno Dumont) L'Empire   © Tessalit Productions Bruno Dumont’s newest feature L’Empire falls firmly in th...

With Cannes 2025 officially underway, I am taking inspiration from The Disapproving Swede to revisit the past few years to make a Top 10 l...

Notes on all six of Lee Chang-dong’s directed features up to date: Green Fish (1997) Peppermint Candy (1999) Oasis (2002) Secret Sun...

A double-bill of Paolo Sorrentino's first and newest features: One Man Up (2001) Parthenope (2024) Soccer and Women Tell me someone is ...

Japan has one of the richest cinematic histories in the world, which is why it is very hard to make a Top 10 Film list. Even though many Jap...

This is an update to the previous Top 10 list . Top 10 Iranian Films of All Time: 1. Taste of Cherry (1997, Abbas Kiarostami) 2. Crimson Gol...

This is an updated list to last month’s Top 10. My Top 10 TV Shows 1.  Schitt’s Creek (Seasons 1-6) Pure comedic gold! Perfection in ...

This is a follow-up post to last year’s Spotlight on the films of Bong Joon-Ho. Barking Dogs Never Bite (2000) Memories of Murder (2003) T...

This is a long-awaited follow-up to the 2014 post about Best new TV shows , which in itself was a follow-up to a 2013 post about Best TV Sho...

The news of David Lynch passing away on Jan 15, 2025 came as a shock especially since I had hoped that he was secretly working on one last f...