Kevin B. Lee is a filmmaker, critic and karaoke enthusiast based in New York. Kevin specializes in producing video form criticism, as featured on The Moving Image Institute, The House Next Door, and his own blog Shooting Down Pictures, where he chronicles his quest to watch the 1000 greatest films ever made. Kevin is Vice President of Programming and Education of dGenerate Films, a distribution company whose mission is to bring Chinese independent cinema to U.S. audiences. Kevin's short film "Dastaar: Defending Sikh Identity" aired on PBS in 2006. Kevin is developing a feature film project due to shoot in New York City and Beijing in 2009.
One of the most laudable entries on the recent festival circuit is So Yong Kim’s Treeless Mountain, which has racked up awards at Pusan, Dubai and Berlin. Following her 2005 DiY breakthrough In Between Days, Kim revisited the stories and settings of her childhood in Korea to film a stoic yet deeply affecting chronicle of [...]
It sounds like the setup to a tasteless joke: a Peruvian woman keeps a potato in her vagina to guard her chastity. It’s the premise to the Golden Bear Best Picture winner at this year’s Berlinale, Claudia Llosa’s La Teta Asustada aka The Milk of Sorrow. The biggest joke of all may be that this [...]
Kevin B Lee presents the only end-of-the-year wrap-up list to use a Jean Cocteau reference to talk about Benh Zeitlin, and a Tarkovsky reference to talk about Kanye West. Probably.
Kevin Buist
FLAME + CITRON Review
Christopher Campbell
Happy Halloween Links. Today in Film...
Brandon Harris
5 80s Literary Adaptations Worse Than...
Kevin Kelly
John Krasinski, Brief Interviews With...
Karina Longworth
SpoutBlog, Now Available in Book Form
Paul Moore
October 31, Karina’s Last Day
Lauren Wissot
Sasha Grey Interview
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