Hu Guan

Aug 6, 2024 | mdpi.com | Shiqiang Wu |Jie Liu |Ying Huang |Hu Guan

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May 21, 2024 | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Hiroshi Okuyama |Kirill Serebrennikov |Hu Guan

QUICK AND DIRTY: LIVE FROM CANNESCanadian master of body horror David Cronenberg abandoned the genre in 1999, with Existenz. Thankfully for his fans, he returned to what his does best two years ago with the Crimes of the Future, a terrifying movie about a performance artist carrying out surgeries bizarre enough to shock Josef Mengele.

May 20, 2024 | dmovies.org | Eoghan Lyng |Kirill Serebrennikov |Hu Guan |Oliver Stone

QUICK AND DIRTY: LIVE FROM CANNESThis is a movie about figure-skating. The high jumps, the squats, the practice, the ambition, and the love. What Japanese filmmaker Hiroshi Okuyama exhibits in this fine tribute to ice sports is the love for the discipline, a passion that is often derailed by human error.

May 20, 2024 | dmovies.org | Victor Fraga |Hu Guan |Oliver Stone |Rungano Nyoni

QUICK AND DIRTY: LIVE FROM CANNESEduard Limonov (Ben Whishaw) is born “somewhere in the Soviet Union” and grows up between Moscow and Kharkiv (the same one on the headlines of the Ukraine War). He becomes a radical writer, poet and lover. His views of the world are deeply pessimistic, and he possesses an inherent antipathy of all human beings.

Nov 15, 2023 | dmovies.org | Daniel Theophanous |Hiroshi Okuyama |Kirill Serebrennikov |Hu Guan

It is likely, as mainstream thinking goes, our perception of asexuality is rather binary and inaccurate. In a world fixated on sex and sexual desire, it is unfathomable to think of its absence; an internal drive deemed so intrinsic to our being. In a rare offering by Lithuanian director Marija Kavtaradze, Slow challenges this ignorance, suggesting that asexuality isn’t a complete lack of sexual desire, but gradations of it which fluctuate over time.