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'Corpse Bride' At 20: Mike Johnson On Pushing Stop-Motion Limits Johnson discusses how 'Corpse Bride' reshaped stop-motion, proving the medium could match CG in fluidity and ambition while keeping to its handcrafted roots.

To celebrate the spooky season, I spoke with CORPSE BRIDE co-director Mike Johnson for @cartoonbrew.bsky.social about (re)animating Tim Burton's characters, why the film's still kicking at 20, and what he's been up to since

www.cartoonbrew.com/interviews/c...

the king of all cosmos says: "All beings are different. All beings are beautiful."

my least favorite part of writing reviews is having to quantify my opinion into a review score, something nearly always impossible to do without cheapening both my review and the original work

Plays tonight at LFF!

“The sexiness of queerness is that there’s no fixed role”: Julia Jackman on 100 Nights of Hero The LFF closing night film is a storybook fable based on Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel. We spoke to director Julia Jackman about a movie rooted in fairytales but with a very contemporary call to ar...

Euphoric queer fantasia 100 NIGHTS OF HERO is this year's #LFF Closing Film.

I spoke with director Julia Jackman about fluid filmmaking, how to make a varied cast cohesive, and what it means to launch a plea for acceptance into a world that's pushing back against it

www.bfi.org.uk/interviews/j...

Ancestral Sickos portrait man going "AYE...HA HA HA...AYE!"

Me reading all these reviews of Del Toro's Frankenstein that paint it as "What if Crimson Peak was even more Gothic, florid, and horny?"

Oral HIstory: Nobuhiro Yamashita, Doona Bae, and James Iha on “Linda Linda Linda” at 20 Nobuhiro Yamashita, Doona Bae, and James Iha on the making of their cult classic “Linda Linda Linda.”

A joy to speak with Nobuhiro Yamashita, Doona Bae, and James Iha about the legacy of LINDA LINDA LINDA, an underdog indie that continues to capture the hearts of new fans. For @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy

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'Cinema'

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Screenshot of text from London East Asia Film Festival’s 2025 programme: FUTURE FRAMES: AI AI Cinema #1 - Opening Film - to be announced AI Cinema #2 Sigumun | Dir. You Hyeong-jun, Rolen Yealin Jeon, Hong Jin-wook | Korea | 2025 | 15 mins The Dream of Atlantis | Dir. Choi Young-min | Korea | 2025 | 14 mins Fragment of Falling | Dir. Kim Woon-ha | Korea | 2025 | 10 mins

London East Asia Film Festival devoting an entire programme strand to AI “Cinema”…

Satoko Okudera, the Screenwriter Behind Japan’s 2026 Oscar Entry, Gives Rare Interview on How Her Country’s Industry Is Shifting for Women Screenwriter Satoko Okudera, scribe behind this year's Japanese Oscar entry, gives her first interview to an English-language outlet.

In a true exclusive, I spoke with Satoko Okudera for
@indiewire.com

The screenwriter behind The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Shinji Somai's seminal classic Moving, and now Kokuho, she's a singular force, propelling her characters forth into their futures

www.indiewire.com/features/int...

Daisuke Shigaya poured seven years into 'Leave the Cat Alone', a small film that speaks volumes (Busan '25) "We cannot film inside the heart": A sensitive filmmaker with time on his mind speaks with me about his newly Nikkatsu-acquired debut

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"We cannot film inside the heart"

Daisuke Shigaya poured seven years into BIFF Competition title LEAVE THE CAT ALONE, a small film that speaks volumes

We discussed capturing the uncapturable, and what time can reveal about our creative and romantic impulses

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Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile writes a damning birthday note to the true-crime industry The Onion mockumentary Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile asks and answers hard-hitting questions about a news cycle almost beyond parody.

I got to see The Onion's fun and funny and refreshing Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile, which also finds the true-crime industry dead in its cell. Wrote about it: www.avclub.com/jeffrey-epst...

Live-Action Film Director Yoshiyuki Okuyama on Adapting Makoto Shinkai's Classic 5 Centimeters Per Second Anime One of Shinkai's beloved works is now a live-action film. We spoke with young director Yoshiyuki Okuyama about what probing the past can do for the audience and the filmmaker.

Makoto Shinkai's "5 Centimeters Per Second" is a slight, snapshot work. So what happens when you stretch it out, fill in the blanks, and make it live-action? Meaningful magic.

I spoke with director Yoshiyuki Okuyama for
@animenewsnetwork.com

www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/20...

Birds is a masterpiece

I'm sure I'll hear you there yelling "TETSUO TWO" really loudly

I have since seen this and eagerly signed up for the pre-sale 🫡

Hilarious that, by the traditional definition of the term, none of these are New Wave films nor are they directed by New Wave directors.

SUPER FURRY ANIMALS ARE WHAT

🚨🚨🚨Baby Assassins Everyday! (Season One) is coming to HBO Max in October! 🚨🚨🚨

Pissed-off Fans Flooded the Twin Peaks Reddit With AI Slop To Protest Its AI Policies Moderators reversed course on its open door AI policy after fans filled the subreddit with AI-generated Dale Cooper slop.

People on r/twinpeaks flooded the subreddit with AI slop images of FBI agent Dale Cooper and ChatGPT generated scripts after the community’s moderators opened the door to posting AI art.

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NB: There's currently a paragraph attributed to Kutsuna that belongs in the Reedus section. Hopefully the editors will fix it soon.

‘Stories with heart’: Inside Hideo Kojima’s constellation of creatives As the renowned video game director’s Kojima Productions turns ten, we speak to six of Kojima’s diverse collaborators to explore how his singular creative process has shaped their own artistic practic...

I spoke with @hideokojimaen.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp's collaborators for @dazeddigital.com, to discover what his creative process inspired in their own artistic practices

featuring Reedus, Kutsuna, Matsumoto, Grimm Grimm, Woodkid, and CHVRCHES

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Busan 2025 Interview: ALL GREENS Director Takashi Koyama Talks the High-School Drug-Dealing Dramedy You Didn't Know You Needed A lively conversation with the mind behind a daring dramedy at this year's BIFF.

Breathe it in folks, it's Busan ― and what better way to kick off coverage than with a Japanese high-school weed distribution dramedy?

I sat down with writer-director-editor Takashi Koyama to discuss ALL GREENS, his ballsy and electric second feature

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Toronto 2025 Interview: Shu Qi Talks GIRL, Finding a Film Grammar for Girlhood, and What's Next Hong Kong-Taiwanese legend Shu Qi discusses her directorial debut.

I spoke with Shu Qi
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I should publish my interview for this one

poster for the movie linda linda lidna

an ad for the PlayStation port of Linda³, Linda³ Again

Linda explainer!
-Linda Linda Linda is a 2005 movie about a group of girls covering songs by punk band The Blue Hearts.
-Linda³ is an RPG for the PC Engine CD about attempting to recreate Noah's Ark on the planet of Neo Kenya.
-The two are not directly related!

Hope this clears things up!

Children's TV favourite Bagpuss to reawaken for new film It will be the first new official Bagpuss production since the original beloved 1974 series.

Looking for volunteers to man the perimeter and make sure James Corden gets nowhere near this.

Barbie peaked wave simulation on PS1 in 1999 🌊 (there's even pools of stagnant water in the sand when every game to this day uses the same single water level everywhere).