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Tag Archives: Real-life figure
Song Sung Blue (2025) ☆☆1/2(2.5/4): The story of a singing couple
Craig Brewer’s latest film “Song Sung Blue” is a bit too conventional to my little disappointment. Probably because I am already familiar with its dramatic real-life story, the movie often felt to me like being no more than a merely … Continue reading
Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): A little but defiant personal chronicle from Karabash, Russia
Documentary film “Mr. Nobody Against Putin”, which won the Special Jury Award when it was shown at the Sundance Film Festival early in last year and then received an Oscar nomination a few weeks ago (It was also the Danish … Continue reading
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Tagged Documentary, Filmmaker, Real-life figure, Real-life story, School, Teacher, War
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The King’s Warden (2026) ☆☆(2/4): A king comes to his village…
South Korean film “The King’s Warden” often tries too hard for laughs and then tears, and I do not like that much. Based on the real-life relationship between one plain common man and a tragically deposed king of the Joseon … Continue reading
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Tagged Period drama, Real-life figure, Real-life story, Royalty, South Korean Film
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The Alabama Solution (2025) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): The systemic failures of Alabama prisons
HBO documentary film “The Alabama Solution” is often sobering as presenting the alarming failures of the prison system of the state of Alabama in US. It may not surprise you much if you have ever heard about how problematic the … Continue reading
2000 Meters to Andriivka (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): In the middle of a battle over one Ukrainian village
Ukrainian documentary filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov’ latest documentary film “2000 Meters to Andriivka”, which won the Directing Award when it was premiered at the World Cinema Documentary section of the Sundance Film Festival early in last year, is a pretty grim … Continue reading
Cover-up (2025) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): A journalist still fighting for truth and transparency
Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus’ Netflix documentary film “Cover-up”, which was released around the end of the last year, gives an overview on the career of Seymore Hersh, a Pulitzer-winning American investigative journalist who deserves to be known more in … Continue reading
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Tagged Documentary, Investigtive journalism, Journalist, Real-life figure, Real-life story
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The Straight Story (1999) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): Lynch at his most sincerely heartfelt
David Lynch’s 1999 film “The Straight Story”, which happened to be shown in selected South Korean theaters along with his several other works in last week, shows Lynch at his most sincerely heartfelt. While many of his works are filled … Continue reading
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Tagged Family, Journey, Real-life figure, Real-life story, Road movie
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Nouvelle Vague (2025) ☆☆☆(3/4): A lightweight reenactment of the Nouvelle Vague era
Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague”, which was released on Netflix in US several weeks ago, is a lightweight reenactment of how Jean-Luc Godard made one of the greatest films in the cinema history during a few weeks of 1959. While it … Continue reading
The Color of Pomegranates (1969) ☆☆☆(3/4): The life of an Armenian poet
In my humble opinion, a good movie can reach to your heart and mind, no matter how vague and elusive it is in what and how it is about. In case of Sergei Parajanov’s 1969 film “The Color of Pomegranates”, … Continue reading
Blue Moon (2025) ☆☆☆1/2(3.5/4): He is surely blue…
“Blue Moon”, which is incidentally one of the Richard Linklater’s two movies released during this year, is a biographical drama film packed with a lot of insight and personality. Mainly focusing on one particularly complicated night of a famous American … Continue reading
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