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Not the good kind of bonkers.
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Nicolas Cage stars in Sion Sono s samurai-Western rescue story set in a post-nuclear wasteland.
Three years ago, Sundance booked Panos Cosmatos
Mandy, a hyperviolent, singularly weird film that ranks among the most worthwhile products of Nicolas Cage s anything-for-a-paycheck period. Cult-movie lightning doesn t strike twice with
Prisoners of the Ghostland, a Cage-starring (mostly) English-language effort by prolific Japanese director Sion Sono. A mashup of idioms that sends Cage into a kind of netherworld to rescue (read: re-kidnap) a young woman for a petty tyrant, it alternates between too simplistic and incomprehensible, spending much of its time in between those poles in the I understand, but I don t care zone. Destined to be quickly forgotten, it would need to play a hardcore genre festival to find an appreciative audience of any size.
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Today marks the first day of a film festival that introduced the world to filmmakers like Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Ryan Coogler, and Damien Chazelle, just to name a few. It’s day one of the virtual 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
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And while Sundance has helped make many directors household names, one who has long made a name for himself is Japanese filmmaker Sion Sono. The subversive, provocative director has been winning awards and dropping jaws for two decades with films like
Love Exposure, Cold Fish and
Tokyo Tribe. In all that time though, one thing Sono hadn’t done was make an English language film. That changes this week with the world premiere of
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