Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2, recently released by The Criterion Collection, contains the debut feature from current master Apichatpong Weerasethakul, his 2000 film Mysterious Object at Noon.
New Directions has just released a new book containing two new-to-English novellas by the great César Aira: The Little Buddhist Monk and The Proof, each translated from the Spanish by Nick Caistor. In this post, Trevor writes about The Little Buddhist Monk, which he considers to be one of the best Aira novellas in years.
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project, recently released by The Criterion Collection, opens with a striking film set in the slums of Manila, Lino Brocka’s 1976 film Insiang.
Today The Criterion Collection is releasing what is surely in contention for release of the year, Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project No. 2. We’ll be reviewing each of the six films included in this set. Here is a brief overview of the set as a whole.
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