As a fan of world cinema, London offers a veritable feast of film festivals. The London Korean Film Festival is one of many celebrating contemporary works from South Korea. I’ve written before about how Korean cinema is often cited as the most exciting and interesting currently on the world stage and I’m eagerly awaiting it.
If you’re a fan of Japanese cinema, you’re bound to have come across Midnight Eye at some point. Every year the editors of the site put together a list of what they consider to be the best films of the year, I tend to use this as a guideline of films to try and watch.
Spanish designer Hexagonal, has created a project of distilling film posters to their fundamental elements. Some of them are absolutely brilliant, unsurprisingly I’m quite a fan of his adaptation of Akira. I leave you with a selection of his work below.
On the three hour train journey back to Sheffield from London, I decided that I’d fill the time with a film. I’ve been sitting on “The Foreign Duck, The Native Duck And God” for a while now.
Love Exposure is the latest film by Sion Sono, it caught my attention as it has received quite a lot of praise and won prizes at the Berlin Film Festival.
