Now exclusively playing on @criterionchannl, Christopher Makoto Yogi’s (@makotoyogi) spellbinding cinematic reverie is a ghost story set in the lush countryside of the north shore of O‘ahu, Hawai‘i. https://t.co/0Ixc81y08o
Incorporating history and mythology, dream logic and surrealism, I WAS A SIMPLE MAN is a time-shifting, kaleidoscopic story of a fractured family facing the death of their patriarch. https://t.co/0Ixc81y08o
Los Angeles, I WAS A SIMPLE MAN will be opening THIS FRIDAY! @makotoyogi be there at the 7:10pm showing for a q&a with special guests: https://t.co/Fk51oKYvV1
The new indie film “I Was a Simple Man,” starring Constance Wu, begins showing at the renovated Opera Plaza Cinema TODAY!
Read more about the film here:
via @BRFilmsAllen https://t.co/gr4MhNSCGJ
"I WAS A SIMPLE MAN’s quietly uncanny narrative wondrously depicts not only a dying man’s reflection on his life, but also the very nature of Hawaii itself" - Wes Greene, @Slant_Magazine@makotoyogi's gorgeous I WAS A SIMPLE MAN opens Friday, 11/19
https://t.co/dEFtSbQH6v
This week at Metrograph:
📽️Tonight: Robert Buck and @eai_org present CRUISING: BACK TO FRONT
📽️The new 4k restoration of Dennis Hopper's OUT OF THE BLUE opens 11/17
📽️@makotoyogi's luminous festival hit I WAS A SIMPLE MAN premieres 11/19
And more: https://t.co/YXQdvcgvXa
Join A-Doc at @IDAOrg’s #DocsGetReal all week! Today at 2PM PT, watch @GeetaGandbhir@inellipsis@Marj & @bhawinsuchak report back to the field on their work behind the scenes tackling structural & values-related challenges in the doc ecosystem https://t.co/oVSA5XOGwp
Following up on my push for everyone to hire, track, fund, and collaborate with black and brown documentary filmmakers to tell the stories of this time in a way that will contribute to the dismantling the systems of oppression in the film world and in our country overall...
In 2018, @ALazarowich, Sky Hopinka, Adam Khalil and @adam_piron co-founded COUSIN to support Indigenous artists expanding the form of film. With @Cinereach, we've now launched a call for projects by Indigenous artists working in this space. More info here: https://t.co/JB7qsuroMi
AUGUST AT AKIKO'S was named one of the Best Films of 2019 by The New Yorker. See it on 2/5 at #NitehawkProspectPark with director @makotoyogi here for a Q&A: https://t.co/gOxKtvzOzG
The reason we need diversity in criticism to balance the picture:
Why I Had A Hard Time Watching American Factory by @producerkarin https://t.co/I3rJ1FdxzZ