The Reel Thing

BIFF is very much underway! A couple of weeks ago Joe met with Håkon Tveit (Program director (Documentary)/School program/Cine Latino) to discuss BIFF's school program, its importance, the documentary program and Cine Latino! Thanks again to BIFF and Håkon!
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In this very special episode, Joe is joined again by Hanne Rømsing to talk about the recent collab between BFK and Bergen Offentlige Bibliotek (BOB) in which they screened Bernard Bonello's 2023 'The Beast' as part of a project on adaptation at BOB. They discussed the influence of film adaptation, the deeper meanings of the film, and the use of literature as a springboard for cinema.
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In this episode, Joe revisits the life and works of Yasujirō Ozu to give a more holistic view of the Japanese director.
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Sources:
Kantoku Ozu by Shiguehiko Hasumi
Kantozu Yasujiro by Chris Fujiwara in Frames Cinema Journal
Transcending Life on This Planet: The Films of Yasujirō Ozu by Wael Khairy
On Yasujiro Ozu by Paul Schrader
Grave of Yasujiro Ozu from Atlas Obscura
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasujir%C5%8D_Ozu
BFI article Ozu Yasujiro: the master of time by Thom Anderson
Japan House article Ozu Yasujiro life and films by Jasper Sharp
Harvard Film Archive Ozu 120: The Complete Ozu Yasujiro by Kelley Dong
Nippon.com article Ozu Yasujiro: A Director’s Time in Tateshina by Carmen Grau Villa

Witness me!
We're so back! What a lovely day! In this first episode of the new season of 'The Reel Thing', Joe talks about the heart-racing, blood-pumping, car-driving production of George Miller's smash hit 'Mad Mad: Fury Road'. Specifically touching on the decades the film took to make, they also explored the notion of 'climate fiction' and environmentalism in fiction.
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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mad_Max:_Fury_Road
‘Mad Max: Fury Road’: The Oral History of a Modern Action Classic by Kyle Buchanan (Published 2020) NYT
‘A fetish party in the desert’: the making of Mad Max: Fury Road , March 2022, Peter Bradshaw
Time Out Magazine: Mad Max: Fury Road's George Miller on his post-apocalyptic classics and Mel Gibson by Joshua Rothkopf
Challenging Narrative and Gender Representation in the Action Genre, Kyle Barrett
Writer/Director George Miller Talks MAD MAX: FURY ROAD, Returning to the Post-Apocalyptic World, Thousands of Storyboards, and More at Comic-Con by Christina Radish (2014)
Lights! Camera! Infraction! Mad Mad shows why Hollywood indulges bad behaviour by Ryan Gilbey (2022)
Stories to save the world: the new wave of climate fiction by Claire Armistead
https://tabitha-whiting.medium.com/climate-fiction-is-now-our-reality-a267bd1db4c7
‘It’s Not Climate Change - It’s Everything Change’ Margaret Atwood (essay)

In this director-focus episode, Joe talks all about the director Hong Sang-soo, following BFK's screenings of Tale of Cinema, The Novelist's Film, and In Our Day.
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Sources:
Tale of Cinema by Dennis Lim
https://www.frieze.com/article/hong-sang-soo-capacious-confined-cinema
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hong_Sang-soo
https://bronzescreendream.com/hong-sang-soo/
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-new-yorker-interview/hong-sangsoo-knows-if-youre-faking-it
https://www.koreanfilm.or.kr/eng/films/index/peopleView.jsp?peopleCd=10089497
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DjAOlKrdpls&pp=ygUYZGVubmlzIGxpbSBob25nIHNhbmcgc29v
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-BttGmnVyw&pp=ygUdbWFydGluIHNjb3JzZXNlIGhvbmcgc2FuZyBzb28%3D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYv8HCQvxfA
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