Kim Hye-young’s 2025 South Korean romance “Even If This Love Disappears from the World Tonight” adapts Misaki Ichijo’s novel , asking a question that sits at the heart of every love story: what happens when tomorrow erases today? The film centers on Kim Jae-won (Choo Young-woo), a directionless high schooler, and Han Seo-yoon (Shin Si-ah), […]
1. The title “Diner of Darkness” is wonderfully evocative. Can you walk us through how this concept originated—was it the setting that came first, or Mackie’s Batman-inspired descent into madness? Well a little of both and from frustration of another project slogging in Pre-Production hell. I wanted the team to be busy and have fun
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Living Art: How “Kokuho” Chronicles the Making of a Master The narrative begins in 1964 Nagasaki, where young Kikuo loses his yakuza father and finds refuge in Osaka as an apprentice to Hanjiro, a master kabuki performer played by Ken Watanabe. Lee—whose previous work includes “Hula Girls” and a Japanese remake of “Unforgiven”—structures the film
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There exists a particular kind of cinema that strips away artifice until only raw human anxiety remains. Georgian director Giorgi Markozashvili’s The Burrow is precisely this kind of film—a claustrophobic psychological chamber piece that transforms the witness protection premise into something far more existentially unsettling. The Architecture of Paranoia From the fragmented transcript, one can
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James Henry’s defense attorney commands the frame with unsettling confidence, his performance suggesting someone who views facts not as immutable realities but as raw materials to be shaped. Ed Trucco and Michael Sean McGuinness inhabit their detectives with a fatigue that reads as existential—these are men confronting not just a collapsing case, but the fragility
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Spotlight Interview 4. You’ve had your scripts recognized globally yet remain unproduced. Do you see this phase as frustrating—or as a space of incubation, where the work gathers strength before being realized? Yes, I did. I am happy to announce that is no longer the case – Good, the first story in The Parables anthology,
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Mehler deliberately avoids traditional flashbacks. Instead, he blurs dream and memory, leaving the audience as disoriented as Lua himself. Why? Because trauma doesn’t play like a movie reel—it fragments, it repeats, it stutters. By refusing neat storytelling, Mehler traps us inside Lua’s fractured memory.The guilt that Lua carries for two decades is not accidental—it is
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Though sprawling and chaotic at times, the script captures New York’s contradictions with rare boldness. It is messy, vibrant, and unapologetically political—qualities that made it a standout at Kyoto Cinematica 2024–25. Mecca Draft 4 is less a conventional love story than a parable of survival, loss, and resilience. It dares to laugh in the face
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