Metrograph Journal

12 stories

Metrograph JournalUSAThe Illiac Passion On the most elaborate of Gregory Markopolous’s modern myths.

September 25

Metrograph JournalUSAJollof Films Senegalese visual artists and curators discuss the towering cinematic figures who inspire their craft.

September 23

Metrograph JournalUSAWinona Ryder A Hollywood “It“ girl comes of age.

September 17

Metrograph JournalUSAMusic Sets You Free An excerpt from the prodigious musician’s remarkable, newly translated autobiography.

September 10

Metrograph JournalUSAAlbert Serra From Locarno, an interview with the indefatigable Catalan filmmaker.

September 8

Metrograph JournalUSAFutures and Pasts: Don’t Play with Fire Foul times in the Fragrant Harbor, in Tsui Hark’s newly restored third feature.

September 4

Metrograph JournalUSAAnja Breien On the late Norwegian filmmaker, master chronicler of feminine ennui.

September 1

Metrograph JournalUSAMississippi Mermaid On Yves Saint Laurent's striking costumes in François Truffaut's subversive neo-noir.

August 27

Metrograph JournalUSALady in the Water On the death of the critic in M. Night Shyamalan’s watery fairy tale.

August 25

Metrograph JournalUSADer Fan Eckhart Schmidt’s chilling cult fable and the all-consuming side of pop fandom.

August 20

Metrograph JournalUSABram Stoker’s Dracula On Coppola’s gorgeous and stubbornly old-fashioned approach to the immortal tale.

August 18

Metrograph JournalUSAChristopher Doyle The legendary DP discusses working in different cultures, his collaborations with Wong Kar-wai, and dancing with Pina Bausch.

August 14

Our mark is 銀幕, ginmaku — the silver screen, and the same two characters in Japanese, Chinese and Korean.

I came to Tokyo at twenty-three for a summer job at a Shibuya mini-theatre and the job never quite ended. Fifteen years of festivals later I still think the only review that counts is the one the room gives you: where the laugh lands, the moment three hundred people stop moving at once, whether anybody stays for the credits.

Cinepuuulse follows Asian cinema — Japan, Korea, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Thailand — across about a hundred and twenty sources. A good number of them are Spanish, French and Portuguese, because those countries programme this work seriously and write about it better than most of the English-language trade. Genre and art-house get the same seat here. I am not ranking them, and nothing is scored out of ten.

Each story is a headline, a short excerpt, one still and a link to the outlet that did the reporting. We never republish the piece, and the still belongs to its studio or its photographer. A Korean trade paper appears in Korean, a French review in French. We point at the work; we do not put words in anyone's mouth.

— Daren Wise, Tokyo