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Wednesday, April 7, 2010

Key Moments from 21st Century Cinema: The Cigarette War


Dead Or Alive 2: Birds (Takashi Miike, 2000)

Ben Sachs' essay on the film is up at the Auteurs' Notebook.
Posted by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky at Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Labels: (Key Images of 21st Century Cinema), Takashi Miike

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