In the Works....

For those who might have worried that I was letting my work (here and elsewhere) fall by the wayside, fear not! Though it's true I have been pretty quiet over the past year or so, it's for a good reason: I've been busy working on a sizable new project about the great Left Bank filmmaker Alain Resnais! You can take a peek at a few pages from my research notebooks below, and in the meantime rest assured that I'm going to be working on putting out some fresh writing (here and elsewhere!) before too long!

Thank you everyone for your curiosity, interest, and patience - and happy viewing!

Films in a Decade (2010-2019)

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

On the one hand, I've generally grown far less inclined towards lists and rankings when it comes to highlighting films I've enjoyed, preferring instead to give them the more in-depth treatments they deserve. On the other hand, since a decade does only come around every once in a while, here is a gathering, in alphabetical order, of films I saw over the past decade that made a strong impression on me. And in a related note, I'm included in MUBI Notebook's critics poll of the images that defined the decade in cinema!

Thanks for reading, and happy new year!

Aqérat (We, the Dead) (Edmund Yeo, 2017)
Casting Blossoms to the Sky (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 2012)
Cemetery of Splendor (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2015)
Centro Histórico (Pedro Costa, Manoel de Oliveira, Víctor Erice, Aki Kaurismäki, 2013)
Certified Copy (Abbas Kiarostami, 2010)
Django Unchained (Quentin Tarantino, 2012)
Film Socialisme (Jean-Luc Godard, 2010)
The Florida Project (Sean Baker, 2017)
Gebo and the Shadow (Manoel de Oliveira, 2012)
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014)
Halley (Sebastián Hofmann, 2012)
Le Havre (Aki Kaurismäki, 2011)
Holy Motors (Leos Carax, 2012)
Hugo (Martin Scorsese, 2011)
In Another Country (Hong Sang-soo, 2012)
It Felt Like Love (Eliza Hittman, 2013)
Life of Riley (Alain Resnais, 2014)
Like Someone in Love (Abbas Kiarostami, 2012)
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012)
Mekong Hotel (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2012)
Modern Love (Takuya Fukushima, 2018)
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016)
Moonrise Kingdom (Wes Anderson, 2012)
The Other Side of Hope (Aki Kaurismäki, 2017)
Our Homeland (Yonghi Yang, 2012)
The Homesman (Tommy Lee Jones, 2014)
Our Little Sister (Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2015)
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2018)
Postcard (Kaneto Shindo, 2010)
The Second Life of Thieves (Woo Ming Jin, 2014)
Ship of Theseus (Anand Gandhi, 2013)
Snowpiercer (Bong Joon-ho, 2013)
Starlet (Sean Baker, 2012)
Stray Dogs (Tsai Ming-liang, 2013)
Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015)
The Tiger Factory (Woo Ming Jin, 2010)
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2010)
Visages Villages (Agnès Varda and JR, 2017)
The Wonders (Alice Rohrwacher, 2014)
You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet (Alain Resnais, 2012)
Zama (Lucrecia Martel, 2017)

Blondin Miguel in Le Havre

Welcome!

Hello there, and welcome to my new blog! This will be the new online home (following my previous blog, Subtitle Literate) for original and previously published pieces on film and various other topics pertaining to the arts and world culture, all written by YT.

I appreciate your patience as I fine-tune the site over the next little bit, and truly hope you find a measure of inspiration, enlightenment, or even simple diversion from the work I post here over the coming months and years.

Please stay tuned for this site's debut piece, an extensive study of Malaysian filmmaker Edmund Yeo and the impressive number of short films he has made over the past ten years as an accomplished writer, editor, and director. Edmund's second feature film, Aqérat (We, the Dead), as well as his new documentary Yasmin-san will both have their world premieres at this year's Tokyo International Film Festival on October 28th, 2017.