Dec 1, 2020 · Jessica Kiang is a Berlin-based freelance film critic and programmer. In films that elude categorization, the Ukrainian director developed a boldly experimental aesthetic that evokes her mercurial inner dialogue and the leaps and stutters of her imagination.

Dec 1, 2020 · In Cronenberg’s Crash, no one has a life story, a past, or a single recognizable emotional response. No one has much of anything, really, except for an insatiable, mechanical libido—a vestigial remnant of a vaguely remembered humanity—and a car.

Season one, titled “The Secret History of the Casting Couch,” will detail the notorious Hollywood casting couch through the decades and draw parallels between recent sex scandals and...

Feb 23, 2024 · Based on a novella by Claire Keegan — whose “The Quiet Girl” was adapted into an Oscar-nominated feature in 2022 — the film is set in 1985 in the town of New Ross, Ireland, which is home to one of...

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May 30, 2023 · Ridley Scott’s 1991 hit, written “like the whole thing came at once” by debut screenwriter Callie Khouri, is many things. It’s an unapologetically feminist fuck-you, smuggled into a cops-and-criminals chase. It’s a feminine reworking of the usually masc on-screen buddy dynamic and a lovers-on-the-run tale where the romance is passionately platonic.

By Jessica Kiang ‘Rifkin’s Festival’ Review: Woody Allen Travels to Movie Memory Lane The filmmaker seems to acknowledge the world has changed in this light tale of a director (Wallace Shawn ...

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Jessica Kiang is an International Critic for Variety, covering all the major European and Asian festivals. She also writes for Sight & Sound, BBC Culture and The Playlist, where she spent five verbose years as Features Editor.

Dec 20, 2023 · The Co-founder and Lead Curator of the Mint Chinese Film Festival Yixiang Shirley Lin visited the 2023 Belfast Film Festival and had an interview with Jessica Kiang who is an international film critic, jury and programmer.