Author Michael Campi

2024. Just the other day, with continued reports in the media of migrations of people across state and national borders, I was asked where, if I had the chance, I would most want to live. Having been born in Me...

The posthumous international triumph of Mikio Naruse is one of the most unique corrections in film history. - Phillip Lopate, quoted in the booklet accompanying the Criterion release of Naruse’s When a Woman A...

The striking series of DVD releases from Masters of Cinema celebrates an eclectic mix of directors and genres. Cinéphiles should rejoice that there are now such accessible and essential titles providing extende...

Everyone has a desert island list of films that are still out of reach for personal perusal but fortunately we have the major oeuvre of the clowns of the silent cinema period on DVD. The features and short ...

A few hours by bus or less than an hour by plane from Seoul, Jeonju is the latest South Korean provincial city to stage a major film festival. In the western province of Chollabuk-do, Jeonju is the sixth larges...

The 24th edition of the Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF) unspooled from April 12 to 27, 2000. Since its beginnings, a quarter of a century ago, this has been the pre-eminent Asian film festival enc...