MIDNIGHT SCREENINGS: “Gimme Danger” (Jim Jarmusch), “Train to Busan” (Yeon Sang-ho).

Like Rashomon, several of Kore-eda Hirokazu’s films use different perspectives to get to one truth. In Monster, a boy (Soya Kurokawa) complaints that a teacher has struck him and bullied him, and his mother (Sakura Ando) presses for answers, which are not readily easy to find. Ando is outstanding, as is Hinata Hiiragi as the […]

This year’s edition will be hosted by one Italian screen legend, Franco Nero, and is dedicated to another, the late Marcello Mastroianni, whose centenary it coincides with, as well as the late Italian playwright Eduardo de Filippo.