Busan 2014 Review: FIRES ON THE PLAIN Drags Us Into The Abyss |
| Busan 2014 Review: FIRES ON THE PLAIN Drags Us Into The Abyss Posted: 12 Oct 2014 10:00 AM PDT  Though based on Ooha Shohei's book of the same name rather than Ichikawa Kon's languid and harrowing 1959 film, Tsukamoto Shinya's Fires on the Plain was always going to be an entirely different beast. Low-budget and with a frenetic and almost crude aesthetic, it may not immediately strike viewers as one of the more effective anti-war films in recent years, but its madcap mix of shaky, high-contrast photography, boundless psychological despair and liberal doses of cheap but stomach churning gore, ably earn it that title. Suffering a wheezing cough that is likely a sign of tuberculosis, Tamura, a Japanese soldier is shipped back and forth between a regiment that doesn't want him and a makeshift hospital that doesn't have space for him in the thick,... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Busan 2014 Review: PARALLEL Means Well But Lacks Drive Posted: 12 Oct 2014 09:00 AM PDT  The heart-warming story of a disabled ice hockey team's journey to the World Championships, Korean documentary Parallel is a testament to perseverance and passion in the face of adversity. However, at 70 minutes and with an all too easy to digest narrative structure, the doc is a well-meaning one that lacks both filmmaking pizazz and a deeper core. Opening in an ice rink abuzz with the sound of scraping skates and the darting shadows of hockey players, Parallel feeds us the heady energy of the ice hockey team's practice session. Yet it is one unlike anything most of us have ever seen. Players lay down an special sleds and, rather than push themselves across the ice, they must drag themselves forward on it with a... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
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