Midnight Eye. New reviews.

• "If The Whispering of the Gods is occasionally a bit too eager to wallow in depravity, such youthful indulgence is easy to forgive on the part of a novice director who manages to conjure up such sustained solemnity in the shape of such gorgeous images."

• Heart, Beating in the Dark - New Version "is nether a remake nor a sequel. It is both those things, and at the same time it is also a documentary, a portrait of the consequences of passing time, and an occasionally very funny reflection on what the hell the point is of all this filmmaking business anyway."

• "Although for its budgetary constraints DV / Domestic Violence may not seem like the kind of big dramatic statement churned out by the likes of Koreeda or Akihiko Shiota, it emerges as no less pertinent."

• "The late Shuji Terayama remains one of the most enigmatic figures in the history of Japanese cinema.... Carol Sorgenfrei's Unspeakable Acts is the first monograph in the Western world to attempt to unravel the mystery and do Terayama justice."

Posted by dwhudson at June 24, 2006 6:55 AM