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A scene from "Tezukas Barbara" (Provided by Free Stone Productions Co.) Director Makoto Tezuka accepted the risky challenge of adapting what is perhaps his famous fathers most peculiar manga, a piece so personal that likely only the man who wrote it truly grasped its meaning. Based on "Barubora" by Osamu Tezuka, aka the "god of manga," "Tezukas Barbara" is a fantasy riddled with decadence. "I think this was the only manga that my father had trouble in creating," the director said. "In a positiv...

Dead to Me – copyright. Netflix Dead to Me on Netflix is returning for a third season, which will also sadly be it’s last. Here’s the latest news, and everything we know so far about what we can expect going into the final season. We’ll also cover what new content Dead to Me’s showrunner will be producing after the series wraps.  Dead to Me is a Netflix Original black-comedy series created by Liz Feldman. The series has fast become one of the most-watched comedy series on Netflix, h...

Trends of 2020: The year in branding and logos From clever responses to Covid to a visually revitalised financial sector and a renewed understanding of heritage, we look back on the last 12 months of branding 15/12/2020 7:24 am Despite a year of upheaval, plenty of companies invested in branding in 2020, commissioning updated logos, overhauling visual identities and, in some cases, dreaming up playful ways of responding to the pandemic. At the same time, we saw the rise of Black Lives Matter�...

In the Mood for Love Wong Kar-wai is inarguably one of the most influential directors of contemporary cinema. A filmmaker who never sees his work as complete, as well as one who openly admits to shooting full sequences of films that get thrown on the cutting room floor, Wong is the ideal candidate for a restoration because he wont hold his first completed project with nostalgic treasure. Starting this week, AFS Cinemas streaming platform AFS at Home presents redesigned, reedited, and revived ve...

G. Allen Johnson December 9, 2020Updated: December 10, 2020, 12:28 pm Maggie Cheung and Tony Leung star in Wong Kar-wai’s “In the Mood for Love” (2000). Photo: Janus Films The neon-drenched underworld of “As Tears Go By,” the 1988 Hong Kong noir that announced an exciting new visionary, is now even more seductively seedy. And the agony of unrequited love a tailor has for a high-end prostitute in “The Hand” suddenly has a foodie component. We haven’t had a new Wong K...

Its chris doyles happy place. >> anthony: what do you look at in hong kong? youve lived here how long? >> chris: oh 20 -- 30 years almost right? >> anthony: so -- >> chris: i mean ive spent more time in this space than ive spent in bars. look at this. we have people coming and going. we have the city passing us by. we have -- to me the energy is the noise. is the people. i mean the films that we made are only this way because we made them here. ive made 12 films within two square kilometers of w...

Im smiling now. >> chris: i want to shoot you guys. so tell us -- are you behind the camera? what are you seeing? >> fred: im trying really hard to get focus here. >> chris: really? why is that? this is one of the most beautiful shots ive ever made. ive never made a shot about cameras before. so tell us what is a camera to you? >> fred: i think its a good thing to hide behind. >> chris: i think anthony we have one of the most beautiful images in all of your films. >> anthony: this is why were on...

>> chris: do we have a movie? >> anthony: we have a movie. >> chris: we have a movie. are you sure we -- im worried we didnt record. >> anthony: well find out in a second. >> chris: then we have to do it in voiceover. >> anthony: tai o is one of the last fishing villages in hong kong on the western side of lantau island. the families here have made their living from the sea for generations. for chris doyle and his co-director jenny suen its a return to the location of their recent film "the whit...

>> anthony: how long have you been here now? >> john: going to be six years. >> anthony: six years. >> john: yeah, they tell me that even if you be accepted as a refugee youre not welcome to stay. you have to be settled in another country. they are telling me while youre staying you are not allowed to work, study, even volunteer or contribute in society in any way. >> anthony: but you could exist? thats it. >> sharmake: you can exist yeah. >> anthony: hold on one sec, let me reset. >> chris: how...

Nothing at all. been here now?w long have you >>oh going to be sixears. >> anthony: six years. >> john: yeah, they tell me that even if you be accepted as a refugee youre not welcome to stay. you have to be settled in another country. they are telling me while youre staying you are not allowed to work, study, even volunteer or contribute in society in any way. >> anthony: but you could exist? thats it. >> sharmake: you can exist yeah. >> anthony: hold on one sec, let me reset. >> chris: how was ...