Steve Kopian

@unseenfilms.bsky.social

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A collection of reviews of films from off the beaten path; a travel guide for those who love the cinematic world & want more than the mainstream releases

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CITY OF WIND at NYAFF is a very good film. Its a coming of age tale involving a teenage shaman in Mongolia. Trust me - you want to see this www.unseenfilms.net/2024/07/city...

City of Wind (2023) NYAFF 2024www.unseenfilms.net CITY OF WIND is really good. I say that because I saw it during a run of a number really poor films and I was beginning to think I would nev...

the NYAFF short WHEN A ROCKET SITS ON THE LAUNCH PAD is a film so poorly filmed as to give us no sense of anything beyond close up faces. A huge disappointment unseenfilms.net/2024/07/when...

WHEN A ROCKET SITS ON THE LAUNCH PAD (2023) NYAFF 2024unseenfilms.net Portrait of a girl named Fang who wants to play basketball and continue with her education however her parents have other ideas. Despite loo...

A heads up- I will be going to NYAFF tomorrow- Saturday and next week. If you see me or my bag- say hello

Just a heads up- some of my NYAFF and Fantasia coverage is going to be a bit late-I was buried with films in the last 24 and while I am good-I'm not that good, especially since the cats have turned the cloning machine into an amusement park ride

Shin'ya Tsukamoto's SHADOW OF FIRE is one of the highlights of the Japan Society's Japan Cuts. It's a poke in the eye look at the true cost of war on the survivors. It will leave you broken & beaten. Hope they release more tickets because you need to see it unseenfilms.net/2024/07/shad...

Shadow of Fire (2023) Japan Cuts 2024unseenfilms.net God bless Shin'ya Tsukamoto. Since bursting on the scenes with TETSUO:THE IRON MAN he has been making films that confound the audience and b...

I need not to be going to NYAFF tomorrow so I can stay home and watch NYAFF movies

Who thought that sending me a whole bunch of films with short expiration dates was a good idea?

Opening Friday is THE CROSSING about a woman who goes to Istanbul to find her niece. It's a great gem of a film www.unseenfilms.net/2024/07/cros...

Crossing (2024) opens Fridaywww.unseenfilms.net A woman leaves Georgia (the country) and goes to Turkey with the intention of finding her trans niece. With a young man who knew her niece i...

LOVE LIES is about a widow who find she is being scammed by a much younger man on a dating app. It's a bit to similar to too many other recent films to stand out www.unseenfilms.net/2024/07/love...

Love Lies (2024) NYAFF 2024www.unseenfilms.net A older widowed doctor begins an on-line relationship with an engineer through a dating app. She begins to help him out financially unaware...

From Jay The Chou

Takashi Kitano's KUBI (it means neck) is his passion project. It's a funny but very ugly look at coup attempt that goes sideways & the games the samurai play to try and keep their heads. It will leave you bruised. A must see at the Japan Society's Japan Cuts unseenfilms.net/2024/07/kubi...

Kubi (2023) Japan Cuts 2024unseenfilms.net Takashi Kitano has been trying to tell this story for so long that Akira Kurasowa is supposed to have said that if Kitano could make the fil...

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OPening Friday is JOIN OR DIE a look at how clubs and organizations made America by connecting people and how now that everyone i on their phone its dying www.unseenfilms.net/2024/07/join...

Join Or Die (2023) opens Fridaywww.unseenfilms.net This is a very good look at the role of clubs and associations in American society. The film reveals how the various clubs, civic associatio...

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Bully, Little Stuffed Bull 🐮

the next one has bugs, gas, every streets, windshields and phone calls to Elvis

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Bully, Little Stuffed Bull 🐮

@randimason.bsky.social and her drive to be healthy and cut down on your flatulence is behind this isn't it? It should be Baked beans.

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Mike Sterling, Comics Guy

You still buying the cookie must have gotten eaten by the mailman ploy? I can't imagine how many chocolate chip cookies he must owe you

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Bully, Little Stuffed Bull 🐮

I see Marshall successfully cloned you at last

I know English can help sell a film, but if the actors don't speak the language well it comes off awkward

BE WITH ME at #nyaff has Hou Hsiao-hsien producing the first film of his art director Huang Wen-Ying to mixed results. Its a slow film about a woman taking stock of her life www.unseenfilms.net/2024/07/be-w...

Be With Me (2023) NYAFF 2024www.unseenfilms.net Hou Hsiao-hsien produces the first film of his art director Huang Wen-Ying to mixed results. In BE WITH ME an art director leaves her film t...

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I liked FAYE the Faye Dunaway doc on HBO

The always great Fantasia Fest starts Thursday. Here is a curtain raiser with notes on coverage and links to the things I've seen before. www.unseenfilms.net/2024/07/fant...

Fantasia 2024 Curtain Raiserwww.unseenfilms.net The always awesome Fantasia starts this week in Montreal, and all is right in that little corner of the world. Running from the 18th until A...