Hayley Scanlon

Jun 20, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Mike Kohler |Isabel Stevens |Hayley Scanlon |Jonathan Romney

Sound is 50 percent of the movie going experience, and I've always believed audiences are moved and excited by what they hear in my movies at least as much as by what they see.”George LucasA typical dictionary offers many definitions of acoustic ‘sound’ – covering energy transfer, neurological perception, media content, collectively, such as ‘the sound of The Beatles,’ and environmentally, as in ‘within the sound of the church bells’. Sound invites cross-sensory and emotional response.

Jun 20, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Isabel Stevens |Mike Kohler |Hayley Scanlon |Jonathan Romney

Agnieszka Holland was a precocious 15-year-old when she decided to become a filmmaker. She has notebooks from those years in which she wrote that three things were important to her: visual expression (she originally wanted to be a painter), telling stories, and – the really precocious bit – power, although she didn’t want to be a politician to get it. “It was the mid-60s, when cinema was very artistic, original and personal,” she tells me.

Jun 17, 2024 | bfi.org.uk | Hayley Scanlon |Matthew Thrift |Jasper Sharp |Neil Young

For a time, at least, Mikio Naruse was regarded as one of the four most prominent directors of the golden age of Japanese cinema, alongside Akira Kurosawa, Yasujiro Ozu and Kenji Mizoguchi, but in recent years his star seems to have fallen from the pantheon. In comparison to those other three, his work remains hugely underrepresented in terms of English-friendly home video releases and consequently difficult to see.

Mar 8, 2024 | wp.me | Hayley Scanlon

The Japan Academy Film Prize, Japan’s equivalent of the Oscars awarded by the Nippon Academy-Sho Association of industry professionals, has announced the winners for its 47th edition which honours films released Jan. 1 – Dec. 31, 2023 that played in a Tokyo cinema at least three times a day for more than two weeks.

Feb 28, 2023 | windowsonworlds.com | Hayley Scanlon

Asian Pop-Up Cinema returns for its 16th season in cinemas across Chicago March 18 to April 16. The season will kick off with a special pre-launch screening of Philip Yung’s highly anticipated 1960s crime drama Where the Wind Blows with lead actor Aaron Kwok scheduled to attend in person.