Tag Archives: Dream

Fantasy as Poetry, Fiction as Metaphor in Shinkai’s YOUR NAME

Posted on May 7, 2017 by Kamran Ahmed

Your Name is a heartfelt, modern love story with an intricately layered narrative spanning philosophy, mythology, romance, and teenage fantasy within a science fiction melodrama. It is a brilliant feature anime, and the best I have seen since Takahata’s The … Continue reading →

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Brief thoughts on Hou

Posted on November 8, 2014 by Kamran Ahmed

There’s something quite awkward, even unrefined in the long takes of Hou’s more languid, observational films, especially those regarding youth culture, and yet this restrained approach to the quotidian somehow has an inescapable power of attraction. At times bizarrely mundane … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellaneous | Tagged Bazin, calm, china, chinese cinema, cinema, david bordwell, Dream, hou hsiao-hsien, languid, Life, long take, Meditation, movie, realism, reality, slow, taipei, taiwan | Leave a comment

Waltz With Bashir (Folman, 2008)

Posted on April 3, 2013 by Kamran Ahmed

Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir (2008) presents a convergence of fictional and non-fictional elements in that the story is true—depicting actual events—yet animated. Shifting the viewer’s attention between modes of documentary and fictional consciousness, the film has shored up much … Continue reading →