Paprika, one of the most visually impressive anime films from the 2000s, is currently available to watch for free on YouTube pretty much everywhere. I say pretty much, as for some reason if you're in ...

Among the makers of Japanese anime, director Satoshi Kon has carved out his own smart, grown-up approach. Not much is cutesy or kid-related about Kon’s films, which range from the disturbing “Perfect ...

Petersen told MTV News that a young writer has given him a script treatment, and the writer will develop a full script if he receives a go-ahead. Petersen adds that writing the possible script "will ...

Christopher Nolan’s Inception (2010) is often hailed as one of the most mind-bending films ever made, but few know that it drew major inspiration from Satoshi Kon’s 2006 anime masterpiece Paprika.

Based on a serialized novel by Yasutaka Tsutsui, this loopy anime from director Satoshi Kon (Millennium Actress) isn’t a movie that’s meant to be understood so much as simply experienced—or maybe ...

"Paprika" is not your kid's animated film. Heck, it's not even your teenager's. The hallucinogenic yet disturbingly immediate world it inhabits is violent, scary and strangely beautiful. "Paprika" is ...

Note: "Paprika" isn't part of the Platform festival, but it's anime arriving in Portland at the same time, so we decided -- what the hey -- we'd stick it in the fest review section. It's been nearly ...

Where has he been hiding? Wolfgang Petersen, the other German action movie director (not Roland Emmerich), hasn't directed anything since Poseidon back in 2006. He's attached to an alien movie called ...