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When I talk to Marder over Zoom, it’s January 2021, and neither of us are aware yet that Sound of Metal will pick up six Oscar nominations: best picture, best actor, best supporting actor, best original screenplay, best sound, and best film editing. As the potential awards indicate, Marder’s fictional feature debut excels both in front of and behind the camera. The cast, many of whom are deaf actors, are all faultless, while the technical details of each scene reveal more and more nuances upon rewatching. I also notice that Marder is so invested in the story that he still speaks as if Ru...

Set in Taipei, the captivating, 156-minute story follows the aftermath of that initial machete madness. Not so much the lost hand – that’s gone, along with the meal – but the family of A-Ho (Wu Chien-ho). Radish (Liu Kuan-ting) and A-Ho were supposed to frighten their target; to A-Ho’s horror, Radish wielded his weapon, and they’re both locked up for years. The fallout extends to A-Ho’s pregnant girlfriend (Wen Chen-ling); his secretive brother, A-Hao (Greg Han Hsu); and his heartbroken parents (Samantha Ko, Chen Yi-wen). The father disowns A-Ho, even asking the judge, “I hope y...

Jumbo is Jeanne, an introverted, 20-something woman played by Noémie Merlant of Portrait of a Lady on Fire fame. By day, Jeanne’s asleep; at 6pm, she’s woken up by her mother, Margarette (Emmanuelle Bercot), for a night shift as an amusement park cleaner. At Jeanne’s workplace, the elusive new colleague defying her to break HR guidelines is Jumbo, a “Move It” ride with metal arms and chair-shaped fingers; he showcases the composure of Robert Redford, the prettiness of Timothée Chalamet, and the loud, clanging mating call of a washing machine. Jeanne soon discovers that Jumbo is t...

20December 2020 Parasite won the Best Picture Oscar. Want to feel sad? Only nine months ago,  Parasite broke the UK’s box office record for a non-English language film. Believe it or not, in early March, there was reason to be optimistic about the future of cinema. Now, in December, the theatrical experience is in trouble, and HBO Max are planning to upload  The Matrix 4 online as if they were Hot Ones videos. If the AT&T-owned streaming service could remove “cinema” from the dictionary, they probably would. Dune, funnily enough, in a non-COVID world, would already be on its fifth ...