Search Results for: "wong kar-wai"

23 September – 10 October 2007 While I couldn’t make the trek to the 2007 Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), there were murmurs amongst those who attended of a less-than-stellar program a...

It is now a done deal: at the beginning of November, the American Film Institute Festival (1-11 November) and the American Film Market (31 October-7 November) are held quasi-simultaneously – one in a ...

John Gianvito Antony I. Ginnane Stephen Goddard Chiranjit Goswami Kharálampos Goyós Benjamin Halligan Lee Hill Peter Hourigan Brian Hu Christoph Huber Pasquale Iannone Raine...

Acquarello Peg Aloi Geoff Andrew Sean Axmaker Martyn Bamber Michael Bartlett Paolo Bertolin Rochelle Boland Stephen Brower Thomas Caldwell Dan Callahan Michael Campi Ben ...

Books on Asian media with “globalisation” in their titles often address a familiar set of topics, such as the migration of Hong Kong film stars to Hollywood or the challenge posed to purportedly local cinemas b...

The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art – and, by analogy, our own experience – more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, ...

November 1-12, 2006 The American Film Institute Festival (AFI), now with its twin shadow, the American Film Market (AFM), is a double-entry affair. On the one hand, it serves as a testing ground for soon...

28 September–13 October 2006 The jury is still out whether cinema is a “window to the world” – yet “masking” it rather than “framing” it (André Bazin) – or if it is made of “fragments extracted from the ...

French critics coined the term Nouvelle Vague Allemande in response to the rise of a new wave of filmmaking in Germany. In this wide-ranging interview, the filmmaker and co-editor of the magazine Revolver discusses the current state of German cinema in the light of its history, and the cultural and æsthetic ideas that impact on his films and thinking.

20 April – 4 May 2006 “San Francisco’s in a tough position” tells me the editor of a major American film magazine, at a festival reception in honour of Guy Maddin, or Werner Herzog, I can’t remember. His...

April 4–19, 2006 Immediate and full disclosure: I spent only nine full days in Hong Kong, saw 27 movies, (1) and ate way too much dim sum. (2) Below is a list of what I saw, (3) reactions fearlessly summ...

Made in homage to the cinema of Ozu, McKibbin argues that the film is far more than a simple tribute to the legacy of the Japanese master.

Detailed analysis of the poetics of Hou’s celebrated observational long-take aesthetic.

DVD: Optimum (UK). No: OPTD0256. Language: English. Ratio: 1.85:1. Length: 1:39:00. Colour. Extras: two featurettes; trailer. Region: 2. * * * Longing to believe that in a world fractured by strife ther...

October 13–26, 2005 As a daring and cinephiliac event, the Vienna International Film Festival (Viennale) shares its programming philosophy with such kindred film festivals as Rotterdam, Indie Lisboa, Tor...

Editors’ Note As readers may seek and search entries, rather than read from beginning to end, full titles, director credits and years of release have been included with each reference. Several authors have ...

Editors’ Note As readers may seek and search entries, rather than read from beginning to end, full titles, director credits and years of release have been included with each reference. Several authors have ...

Editors’ Note As readers may seek and search entries, rather than read from beginning to end, full titles, director credits and years of release have been included with each reference. Several authors have ...

For many, Mysterious Skin was one of the best films of 2005. In this wide-ranging discussion director Gregg Araki talks about what attracted him to the story, and much else about his career in general.

September 23–October 9, 2005 I would be remiss if this year’s recap of the New York Film Festival neglected a tip of the hat to my predecessor, Jared Rapfogel, whose astute and exhaustive coverage of the...

June 10–25, 2005 Despite procuring State Government funding, the 52nd Sydney Film Festival featured a reduced number of films (170) compared to previous years, the most notable effect of the management...

April 19–May 1, 2005 It’s hard to describe New York as a film-festival-starved town, with the 41 year-old New York Film Festival towering most visibly over a teeming hive of more specialised cousins, f...

May 11–22, 2005 Front cover: disclaimer? I returned from Cannes with my mind full of images, reflections and discussions about the 48 films from the various official and non-official selections (1) I sa...

April 14–30, 2005 The Film Festival (strange beast that it is) is itself a definable space. For two to three weeks the industry comes together with the critics and the cineastes (two more strange beasts...

April 2-17, 2005 Attending a film festival in Istanbul is a distracting experience. That’s not to say that the International Istanbul Film Festival, now in its 24th year, is not well-organised – it is,...

March 22–April 6, 2005 The Hong Kong International Film Festival (HKIFF), finishing its 29th installment this past April, has long been a sophisticated locus not only for Hong Kong film culture and cin...

Unlike Hero – to which it was inevitably compared – Zhang Yimou's follow up film should be considered more as an “intimate drama” about love than as a historical epic or political allegory.

February 18–March 3, 2005 In the second of his two programmed lectures at the Mercury Cinema, special guest film scholar David Bordwell described the second biannual Adelaide Film Festival as being one ...

Ten years in the making, Lav Diaz's epic ten-hour Evolution of a Filipino Family has finally left the editing room and is more than worth the wait. In this interview, he discusses the immense undertaking of making the film, as well as Filipino society and cinema past and present.

Why are remakes of East Asian films in Hollywood so popular right now? Xu puts forward some compelling reasons.

September 1–11, 2004 Despite fears that Marco Müller's overt wooing of Hollywood glamour would undercut the artistic mission of the 2004 Venice Film Festival, there were enough auteurist names and festi...

The Entries George Papadopoulos Alan Pavelin Mark Peranson Jit Phokaew Mike Plante Jared Rapfogel Andy Rector Bérénice Reynaud Mark Richardson Peter Rist Vadim Rizov James ...

The Entries Ed Halter Shigehiko Hasumi Bruce Hodsdon Alexander Horwath Brian Hu Christoph Huber Anton Ivin Elric Kane Robert Keser Jonas Varsted Kirkegaard Gabe Klinger J...

The Entries Acquarello Mubarak Ali Michael J. Anderson Geoff Andrew Saul Austerlitz Martyn Bamber Mike Bartlett Steve Benedict Alexander Bisley Stephen Brower Thomas Caldwel...

On the dust jacket of The Dream Life, Clint Eastwood squints and squats in his Dirty Harry stance, wielding his Magnum .44 in wide angle, the long metallic barrel absurdly hypertrophied and directly aimed at th...

• Festival Wrap-Up • Friday 6 August • Thursday 5 August • Wednesday 4 August • Monday 2 August • Sunday 1 August • Thursday 29 July • Tuesday 27 July • Monday 26 July • Saturday 24 July • Fri...