Although the 34th Hong Kong International Film Festival doesn't officially get under way until Sunday, press screenings have begun and yesterday I got the chance to see Gaspar Noe's latest piece of shock & awe Cinema. Gapsar Noe makes Lars...
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by James Marsh, March 17, 2010 12:11 AM
Marco Ferreri's 1969 film Dillinger is Dead is now out on DVD from The Criterion Collection. Ferreri's film is an exercise in pop art surrealism that captures the aesthetic and political zeitgeist of the 60s. Connoisseurs of avant-garde cinema will...
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by Rodney Perkins, March 16, 2010 9:00 PM
Though I will need to double check my notes for the past few months before saying this definitively, Jorge Michel Grau's debut feature Somos Lo Que Hay may just be the best film I have seen all year. This is...
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by Todd Brown, March 16, 2010 8:24 PM
"I wish Francis 'Oggs' Cruz, Richard Bolisay, and Dodo Dayao would get space in the broadsheets, because they're far more interesting than anyone writing there regularly."--Alexis Tioseco, "Wishful Thinking for Philippine Cinema" When he was a boy, Richard Bolisay's...
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by Michael Guillen, March 16, 2010 3:24 PM
[With Shane Meadows' Le Donknow seems a good time to re-post our earlier review of the film.] about to screen at SXSW 2010 - and having just screened as part of Canadian Music Week - Roadie. Washout. Reluctant father. Meet...
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by Todd Brown, March 16, 2010 2:24 PM
Gut-twisting and soul-troubling, Simon Rumley's latest film fires a stun gun into the heart of horror. For every convention that is honored, another is upended and a third is smashed to pieces. Red White & Blue amply demonstrates Rumley's continuing...
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by Peter Martin, March 16, 2010 1:07 PM
It is the late 1800s: two hooded horseback riders square off in a race across the Welsh countryside. The incident concludes in both tragedy and suspicion, and, in part, incites the surviving rider to emigrate from Wales to Patagonia,...
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by Peter K., March 16, 2010 12:55 PM
As I've mentioned in my review, I've a personal affinity for documentaries because they offer that keen insight and perspective through the filmmaker's lens on their pet subject and in Singapore, we're witnessing a growing number of quality documentarians who are...
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by Stefan, March 16, 2010 11:38 AM