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Akita City “Kanto Matsuri” performance – 2024 Honolulu Festival
19 April 2025 7:57 AM | No CommentsThe Akita City Kanto Festival Executive Committee performed at the 2024 Honolulu Festival, showcasing music and pole-balancing stunts from its annual Kanto Matsuri.
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Petit Bateau Fall 2025 – Tokyo Fashion Week
19 April 2025 5:39 AM | No CommentsWhy did a 132-year-old French casualwear brand, mostly focusing on children's fashion, decide to show at the Tokyo Fall/Winter 2025 collections?
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tiit tokyo Fall 2025 – Tokyo Fashion Week
18 April 2025 9:30 PM | No CommentsAccording to the Rakuten Fashion Week TOKYO show notes, for the Fall/Winter 2025 season, the designers were "inspired by the Danish film "When Animals Dream.""
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Sumo: 73rd yokozuna Terunofuji retires, leaves lasting legacy
10 April 2025 11:57 AM | No CommentsThe Mongolian's calm, regal presence in the dohyo will certainly be missed, but there is no rest for the weary.
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Photos: Yousuke Haga – New York Fashion Week Fall 2025
24 March 2025 3:05 AM | No CommentsPhotos from the Yousuke Haga - Asia Fashion Collection runway show in New York.
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Film Archive
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![The omnibus film Juliets consists of three short films set in the 1970’s, the 1980’s (in flashback), and the present day, all riffing on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. As […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Juliets+-+image+2-115x115.jpg "Review: “Juliets”")
Review: “Juliets”
Christopher BournePosted on May 7, 2011 | No CommentsThe omnibus film Juliets consists of three short films set in the 1970’s, the 1980’s (in flashback), and the present day, all riffing on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. As […] -
Film Review: Lee Myung-se’s “Duelist”
Christopher BournePosted on May 6, 2011 | No CommentsIn "Duelist," Lee reduces narrative to a bare minimum, concentrating on color, balletic swordplay and the pursuit of its lovers/antagonists. -
![Chilsu and Mansu begins with the piercing sound of a civil-defense drill siren, a common feature of daily life for Koreans under the military government of Chun Doo Hwan in […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/chilsu-and-mansu-115x115.jpg "Review: Park Kwang-su’s “Chilsu and Mansu”")
Review: Park Kwang-su’s “Chilsu and Mansu”
Christopher BournePosted on April 29, 2011 | No CommentsChilsu and Mansu begins with the piercing sound of a civil-defense drill siren, a common feature of daily life for Koreans under the military government of Chun Doo Hwan in […] -
![The Tribeca Film Festival returns to New York for its tenth edition from April 20 through May 1, screening this year mostly at venues in the East Village and Chelsea. […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/amour_fou_2-115x115.jpg "2011 Tribeca Film Festival: NEDS, Black Butterflies, L’amour Fou, Artificial Paradises")
2011 Tribeca Film Festival: NEDS, Black Butterflies, L’amour Fou, Artificial Paradises
Christopher BournePosted on April 24, 2011 | No CommentsThe Tribeca Film Festival returns to New York for its tenth edition from April 20 through May 1, screening this year mostly at venues in the East Village and Chelsea. […] -
![Documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s 2009 film La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, is a typically rigorous institutional examination, this time of the famed Paris Opera Ballet, getting up close and personal behind […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/LA+DANSE_10-115x115.jpg "Review: Frederick Wiseman’s “La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet”")
Review: Frederick Wiseman’s “La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet”
Christopher BournePosted on April 22, 2011 | No CommentsDocumentarian Frederick Wiseman’s 2009 film La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, is a typically rigorous institutional examination, this time of the famed Paris Opera Ballet, getting up close and personal behind […] -
![Peter Greenaway’s 2008 film, Rembrandt’s J’Accuse, in which he subjects Rembrandt’s famous 1642 painting The Night Watch to intense forensic, visual, and historical analysis, is one of Greenaway’s very best […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/REMBRANDTSJACCUSE3-115x115.jpg "Review: Peter Greenaway’s “Rembrandt’s J’Accuse”")
Review: Peter Greenaway’s “Rembrandt’s J’Accuse”
Christopher BournePosted on April 15, 2011 | No CommentsPeter Greenaway’s 2008 film, Rembrandt’s J’Accuse, in which he subjects Rembrandt’s famous 1642 painting The Night Watch to intense forensic, visual, and historical analysis, is one of Greenaway’s very best […] -
![The Lookout is the brilliant culmination of screenwriter and first-time director Scott Frank’s work on such superior crime films as Out of Sight and Get Shorty. His protagonist Chris Pratt […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/TheLookout_scene_11-115x115.jpg "Review: Scott Frank’s “The Lookout”")
Review: Scott Frank’s “The Lookout”
Christopher BournePosted on April 8, 2011 | No CommentsThe Lookout is the brilliant culmination of screenwriter and first-time director Scott Frank’s work on such superior crime films as Out of Sight and Get Shorty. His protagonist Chris Pratt […] -
![The wonderfully expressive face of veteran Filipina actress Anita Linda is the heart and main attraction of Adolfo Alix, Jr.’s mesmerizing 2008 film Adela. Alix takes the opposite approach from many […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Adela1-115x115.jpg "Review: Adolfo Alix Jr.’s “Adela”")
Review: Adolfo Alix Jr.’s “Adela”
Christopher BournePosted on April 1, 2011 | No CommentsThe wonderfully expressive face of veteran Filipina actress Anita Linda is the heart and main attraction of Adolfo Alix, Jr.’s mesmerizing 2008 film Adela. Alix takes the opposite approach from many […] -
![The 40th edition of New Directors/New Films screens at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s (FSLC) Walter Reade Theater from March 23 through […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Belle+Epine+1-115x115.jpg "2011 New Directors/New Films Reviews: Belle Epine, Curling, Pariah")
2011 New Directors/New Films Reviews: Belle Epine, Curling, Pariah
Christopher BournePosted on March 26, 2011 | No CommentsThe 40th edition of New Directors/New Films screens at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Film Society of Lincoln Center’s (FSLC) Walter Reade Theater from March 23 through […] -
![How many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more […]](https://www.meniscuszine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/W-Oliver-Stone-115x115.jpg "Review: Oliver Stone’s “W”")
Review: Oliver Stone’s “W”
Christopher BournePosted on March 25, 2011 | No CommentsHow many thousands of my poorest subjects Are at this hour asleep! O sleep, O gentle sleep, Nature’s soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more […]