Toei is 70! Happy birthday Toei! Coincidentally, they've launched a new in-house animation production brand, Eterna. I spoke with them about it for @cartoonbrew.bsky.social

Toei’s ETERNA Animation Debuts With ‘Foxing: Kitsuné-Tsuki’

Director Takeru Shinozuka and producer Yoshihide Moriyama discuss Toei’s new label for original filmmaking and developing new anime talent.

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I spoke with Suzu Hirose, in a career-spanning interview for @japantimes.co.jp She reflects on working with Hirokazu Kore-eda, Lee Sang-il, Shunji Iwai, and Hideki Noda; the differences between stage and screen acting; and the power of period dramas

Suzu Hirose is ready to ‘step into the unknown’

The 28-year-old actor looks back on her formative experiences with some of the most acclaimed contemporary Japanese directors.

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If your Python be Palin Or Idle, clean sailin’ If your Python be Cleese Or Gilliam, jeez.

12. Beyond anything about the film as a film, it was a terrible and entirely unnecessary choice to film the Trojan Horse sequence in occupied Dakhla, Western Sahara, without the consent of the indigenous population.

10. Whatever one thinks of the film as a work of art, it's doing some good in the world, by generating big conversations, bringing new audiences to the cinema, and new readers to ancient literature. I hope it helps save the humanities.

The fact that he’s so dripped out lmao

m a x@maxgrobinson.bsky.social · 2w ago

Nobuhiko Obayashi’s daughter Chigumi is currently sifting through her father’s archives. I’ve never seen this House publicity still before! www.instagram.com/p/DbAe49gCTg...

The more you explore the history of anime, manga, Japanese games history, the more you are confronted with the fact that MANY of the forms’ most potent innovations sprang out of and could not have existed without pornography. It’s integral to and inextricable from these histories

Kotaku@kotaku.com · 2w ago

Ghost In The Shell Fans Who Never Read The Manga Are Very Confused By The New Hornier Adaptation:

Reads like he did it

I spoke with John Waters for the BFI We discussed Italian dubbing, trans representation, Criterion canonisation, and the death of exploitation cinema

John Waters on restoring Hairspray and Desperate Living: “The mistakes are part of the charm”

His biggest popular success and one of his darkest comedies are arriving in the Criterion Collection at the same time. We spoke to Waters to hear why “The very fact that Desperate Living is in 4K is f...

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I found out in the early hours of the morning that Tony Rayns has passed away. I first saw him speak when he introed Mountains May Depart at BFI LFF 2015. The tectonic plates of my brain shifted that evening. Tony was massively inspiring to what I do, how I do it, and why I do it. Rest in peace.

Close enough, welcome back Yukio Mishima

Entertainment Weekly@ew.com · last mo.

Millie Bobby Brown thinks that she was a closeted gay soldier who was slain with a sword to the spine in a past life.

Head of the EHRC really did just say Phrenology will help solve the issue of transgenders in society

Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social · last mo.

And even if we take this “correctly sexing people on sight“ seriously, which we should not, a 2-4% false positive rate over millions of people is a Huge number innit, we’re talking hundreds of thousands the EHRC head here is setting up to be judged trespassers for going to the “correct“ loo

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Jr NTR's Mass Action in RRR

ALT: Jr NTR's Mass Action in RRR

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In 2014, Nagisa Isogai graduated with THE LUST OF ANGELS, a striking genre riposte to the normalisation of train gropers Nine years later, she returned with POLAR NIGHT, a sapphic drama about a vampire art teacher and the women in her orbit I spoke with her for the Substack:

Leave a Trace: Nagisa Isogai on ‘Polar Night’ and ‘The Lust of Angels’

An anthropologist of colliding emotions explores her distinct and defiant cinema

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Was just informed by @snydel.bsky.social that Ordinary Life, which I wrote about here and was previously unavailable, is now streaming until July 22nd on Festival Scope, courtesy of Annecy!

Festival Scope | Annecy International Animation Film Festival for Film Lovers

<br> Explore a curated selection of films from the 2025 edition! <br><br> ###### → Free ###### → 23 June - 23 July ###### → Available in selected countries ###### → Limited Tickets <br><br><br><br> [<...

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juan barquin@woahitsjuanito.bsky.social · 5mo ago

the hottest oscars discourse comes from me and kambole this friday afternoon, writing about a bunch of animated shorts that were eligible but, heartbreakingly, did not score nominations this year.

oh my god this is my marriage

For @japantimes.co.jp, I spoke with Yukiko Sode, Yukino Kishii, and Tadanobu Asano about adapting Mieko Kawakami's ALL THE LOVERS IN THE NIGHT to the silver screen

‘All the Lovers in the Night’ film adaptation brings ‘unstable beauty’ to the screen

During the Cannes Film Festival, director Yukiko Sode and actors Yukino Kishii and Tadanobu Asano reflected on the process of bringing Mieko Kawakami’s novel to life.

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A little bit of Annecy from me: I spoke with WE ARE ALIENS filmmaker Kohei Kadowaki for @cartoonbrew.bsky.social His debut is a visceral hybrid of rotoscoped and traditional animation. We discuss structural rhythm; blending the personal and universal; similarities to Kore-eda's Monster; and more

'We Are Aliens' Director Kohei Kadowaki On Mixing Techniques

Kohei Kadowaki discusses blending rotoscoping with traditional animation, crafting emotional realism, and the influences behind his debut feature.

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with all due respect to Leviticus (a very good movie!) the biggest scare of all was realizing that I am now “Mia Wasikowska is old enough to play the mom of a teen” years old

it's so fucked up that during one of the best moments in Disclosure Day I kept thinking about this

News is finally out that the one-of-a-kind film artist Kanai Katsu passed away on April 22. He was a pioneering indie filmmaker, so we were proud to bring him to Yale in 2009 to show Mujin retto and Good-Bye. RIP. www.sankei.com/article/2026...

Hollywood agencies are searching JAV Titles for short stories and ideas that could be turned into movies following the success of 'Backrooms'

Well, that was a fucking ride.

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In a lengthy new interview for the Substack, I spoke with Shōgun star Shinnosuke Abe about MIRRORLIAR FILMS, a Japanese short film anthology project you ought to know about.

Short, Sweet, and Steady: Shinnosuke Abe talks MIRRORLIAR FILMS

The Shōgun star discusses MIRRORLIAR, the Japanese film industry’s short film secret weapon

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My salads bring all the boys to the yard

Grim!

Jonathan@jonathanmb32.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Obsession has now made more 10 times its $17.2M opening weekend. The last time a wide release outside of December achieved that was The Sixth Sense in 1999.