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Thai Film Voted Best Of Decade

24 November 2009 2:46 PM, PST | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century, was selected as the best film of the decade in a poll conducted by the Toronto International Film Festival. Of some 60 film curators, historians and programmers polled by the festival, Syndromes received 53 votes. Coming in second was Chinese director Jia Zhangke's Platform, which received 49 votes by the panel. Jia also nabbed third place, with 48 votes going to his Still Life, which won the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice Film Festival in 2006. French filmmaker Claire Denis's Beau Travail took fourth place with 46 votes. And Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love rounded out the top five with 43 votes. »

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Decade in Review: 2001 Top Ten

17 November 2009 8:41 PM, PST | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

What follows is my original top ten list of 2001. We'll discuss each year of the decade over the next month or two (we already did 2000). I do this because I am curious about which films "stick" and which fade and why and maybe you are too? Best year of the decade I think. The top five films would all be valid #1 film choices in some years. New comments are in red.

Note: This list references films released in NYC in 2001, not year of production or year in which they first the hit festival circuit or whatnot.

Runners Up (in descending order): Sexy Beast, Ali, Series 7: The Contenders, The Others, Last Resort and Waking Life. I don't remember loving Ali that much... and more than The Others? I don't remember that at all. I mean Nicole Kidman was the shit Twice Over in 2001.

In my round up of the »

- NATHANIEL R

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Cairo Time

17 October 2009 5:30 AM, PDT | Anh Khoi Do and Movies | See recent Anh Khoi Do and Movies news »

Although many of us prefer fast-paced romantic movies like Vicky Cristina Barcelona, let it be said that Cairo Time is not a repulsive film. With its interesting premise about two people who don't want to openly confess their feelings for each other and a solid acting, this is a movie you should consider. However, this doesn't mean that Cairo Time doesn't have any flaws.

Juliette (Patricia Clarkson), a workaholic editor of a female magazine, has come to Cairo, the capital city of Egypt, to spend some time with her husband (Tom McCamus) who works for the United Nations (Un). However, once in Cairo, Juliette learns from Tareq (Alexander Siddig), a friend from her husband, that her husband can't be there because he's not done with organizing a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip. As she spends some time with Tareq to keep herself busy, Juliette and him will gradually develop a love relationship. »

- anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)

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Halfway House: In the Mood For a Nap

15 October 2009 9:00 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

halfway house halfway through the day, we stop a movie 'bout halfway through... what do we see?

49 minutes into In the Mood for Love: a sticky rice snack and short nap

Mrs. Chan (Maggie Cheung) and Mr. Chow (Tony Leung Chiu Wai) are eating sticky rice, killing time until the coast is clear and she can leave his rented room. They haven't cheated on their spouses (who never appear in the movie) but they're obsessed with appearances Mr. Chow: What would they assume?

Mrs. Chan: One can't put a foot wrong ...and with good reason, too. It's not hard to read their love, however languidly they try to sidestep it. Director Wong Kar Wai, his art director/costumer (William Chang) and cinematographers (Christopher Doyle and Pin Bing Lee) are also obsessed with appearances. The beauty of this movie can render one speechless.

In the Mood For Love just aches with longing throughout. »

- NATHANIEL R

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Tere Kya Hoga Johnny to Premiere at Liff

2 October 2009 12:20 PM, PDT | Bollyspice | See recent Bollyspice news »

Sudhir Mishra's Tere Kya Hoga Johnny/Ride The Wave Johnny will premiere at the London International Film Festival on October 13th and is scheduled for release in India on November 28th. The film stars Neil Nitin Mukesh, Soha Ali Khan and Shahana Goswami. Compared in style to Wong Kar-Wai's In The Mood For Love, the film is a visual feast and Soha Ali Khan a revelation as a girl whose life is running out of control. Neil Nitin Mukesh also establishes himself in the movie as one of the most magnetic of new wave Indian stars. The producers will be making the most of the opportunity by setting up camp in London.

The Festival also features Gulaal, perhaps one of the most under-rated and under-promoted movies of the year. Anurag Kahyap's political thriller about radical student politics stars Kk Menon and Piyush Mishra and starts its run on Saturday, »

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Now on Netflix: The Asian Movies Arrive

1 October 2009 1:40 AM, PDT | JustPressPlay.net | See recent JustPressPlay news »

Netflix has added an impressive list of new films to their InstantWatch feature again this week. Quite a number of them are great titles from various Asian countries that I'm glad to see made accessible to Us viewers. Some of them are modern classics that need no introduction to cineastes, but others are pleasant surprises.

Tetsuo: The Iron Man

One of my favorite movies of all time, Tetsuo is Japanese cyberpunk at its most definitive. The first feature film by the great Shinya Tsukamoto, Tetsuo is the highly allegorical—and illogical—story of a businessman whose body slowly morphs into machine against his will, after he accidentally runs over a metal fetishist. Perverse, daring and brimming with energy, Tetsuo is one of the coolest things Japanese cult cinema has to offer.

Watch it now

Tokyo!

An anthology series, Tokyo! stands out for being directed by three famous directors (Michel Gondry, »

- Arya Ponto

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Chinese Art-House Auteur to Do Sci-Fi?

3 August 2009 9:04 PM, PDT | CinemaSpy | See recent CinemaSpy news »

He’s recognized the world over for art house dramas and romances starring the brightest stars of Hong Kong. But for his next project, director Stanley Kwan is trying his hand at science fiction.

The Canadian Press reports Kwan’s new film, which is currently shooting in Shanghai, will revolve around a troupe of acrobats from 1930’s China who travel to the present day, where they befriend a group of modern youths. It will be his first movie in four years, after the 2005 romance Everlasting Regret made a splash on the festival circuit.

Kwan described the new film, which has the Chinese title Dancing with Your Heart, as "The Matrix meets song and dance." It will show off the talents of acting and music students Kwan met while developing a Chinese musical.

"Very few of the graduates of Chinese performing arts schools have the chance to start a career in performing arts, »

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The greatest movies ever made

2 August 2009 10:59 AM, PDT | blogs.suntimes.com/ebert | See recent Roger Ebert's Blog news »

All lists of the "greatest" movies are propaganda. They have no deeper significance. It is useless to debate them. Even more useless to quarrel with their ordering of titles: Why is this film #11 and that one only #31? The most interesting lists are those by one person: What are Scorsese's favorites, or Herzog's? The least interesting are those by large-scale voting, for example by IMDb or movie magazines. The most respected poll, the only one I participate in, is the vote taken every 10 years by Sight & Sound, the British film magazine, which asks a large number of filmmakers, writers, critics, scholars, archivists and film festival directors.

1. The Night of the Hunter, 1955

That one at least has taken on a canonical aspect. The list evolves slowly. Keaton rises, Chaplin falls. It is eventually decided that "Vertigo" is Hitchcock's finest film. Ozu cracks the top ten. Every ten years the net is thrown out again. »

- Roger Ebert

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What I Watched, What You Watched: Installment #2

2 August 2009 4:26 AM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

Back again with another installment of "What I Watched, What You Watched," and due to my time in San Diego covering Comic Con and the fact one of the selections included this time around is the complete season from a television show this installment doesn't have as many titles, but the second page has a little extra something I hope you'll be interested in checking out. As a reminder to those that either didn't read the first installment (read it here) in this new feature series or forgot, "What I Watched, What You Watched" is a chance for me to share with you the movies (and sometimes television shows) I have been watching that don't necessarily make it into the headlines every week. My goal is to do this on a weekly basis unless things get in the way (such as this time around). I hope this will spark conversation »

- Brad Brevet

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Broken Sword With Broken Arm

15 July 2009 7:00 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

"Broken Sword" has broken his arm! It's practically all I've been thinking about today. Perhaps I should explain for those who haven't yet heard...

Tony Leung Chiu-Wai was so injured while training for Wong Kar Wai's next picture, a biopic about Bruce Lee's mentor called The Grand Master (not to be confused with Ip Man starring Donnie Yen which is on the same topic). Apparently his arm must rest for over a month (the September start date is looking shaky). My poor Tony. That arm is a cinematic treasure: it draped languorously over his head while he smoked in bed, it tenderly held stuffed animals and Faye Wong's legs, it smoked endless cigarettes and carried so many noodles, it held Tang Wei down while another appendage had its way with her, it embraced the goddess Maggie Cheung so many times. No real harm should ever come to it. »

- NATHANIEL R

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Sequel Madness

3 June 2009 7:39 PM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

I love that Hollywood plans ahead for years and that the internet dutifully hangs on every corporate decision. There's always an internet flurry of excitement about it... as if we're all purchasing calendars for 2011,2012,2013 and circling dates. We eagerly pretend that we're planning our social calendars around it.

I barely know what I'm doing next week.

That said, I love Sam Raimi's Spider-Man movies... so when the teaser poster hit today I did imagine myself lined up on May 6th two years from now, I admit. This despite my feeling that franchises should quit while they're ahead. Q: How do you top Spider-Man 2? A: You don't. You just quit and move on to another project. Even if Hollywood wants to live on a diet of superheroes alone there are still hundreds of them that are awaiting celluloid treatment.

I love superheroes as much as anyone (ok, slightly less I guess. »

- NATHANIEL R

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Doc Filmmaker Havana Marking's Top Ten Films of All Time

1 June 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of filmmakers? As part of our monthly Ioncinephile profile (interview with filmmaker with an upcoming theatrical release), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their Top Ten list of All Time Films. This month, Havana Marking (the documentary filmmaker behind Afghan Star - Zeitgeist Films 06/26/2009) gave us her list (in alphabetical order). We present Havana Marking's Top Ten Films of All Time as of June 2009.Bio: Afghan Star is Havana Marking’s first feature documentary, shot over the 4 months in Kabul. She has produced TV docs (both factual entertainment and one-off polemics) for over 10 years now, although directing is relatively new to her: before As she directed The Crippendales (2007)– a 30min film about the first troupe of disabled strippers winning the Channel 4@Sheffield scheme for New Talent. Etre at Avoir – Nicholas Philibert »

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Promotional stills for Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Kuuki Ningyou” (Air Doll).

12 May 2009 5:07 PM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

The other week Jason Gray hinted at having a batch of stills from the upcoming film Kuuki Ningyou that he couldn’t post until time drew closer to Cannes. Well, it starts tomorrow so there is no better time than today to release those stills upon the public and I can say they were well worth the wait. Wow! The images alone are stunning to look at. How can the film possibly measure up. Mr. Magee over at JFilm, the clever fellow that he is, also noted, “One of the umpteenth reasons why was that it was being shot by cinematographer Lee Ping Bing, who shot Wong Kar Wai’s “In the Mood for Love” along with Christopher Doyle as well as a number of films by Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien. He’s got a wonderful eye and delivers some breathtakingly rich and luminous imagery and it doesn’t »

- Mack

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Obit: Fortissimo Films' Wouter Barendrecht

6 April 2009 2:27 PM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »

By Wrap Staff

Fortissimo Films co-founder and chairman Wouter Barendrecht died Sunday in Bangkok of heart failure. He was 43.

Barendrecht was in Thailand to screen a rough cut of Fortissimo's latest film, "Nymph," and had just left a busy Filmart in Hong Kong.

Barendrecht, who spent the past 19 years with Fortissimo and guided such Asian films as Wong Kar-wai's "Chungking Express" and "In the Mood for Love," was a leader in the independent ... »

- harley lond

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How Many of Yahoo's '100 Movies To See Before You Die' Have You Seen?

23 March 2009 8:42 PM, PDT | Rope of Silicon | See recent Rope Of Silicon news »

I recently made a point to see all of the films I had not seen on IMDb's Top 250 list and outside of the unavailable Safety Last! (Does anyone own this or know where I can buy it for less than $80?) I managed just that. In talking about taking on the list I discussed it with a fellow Seattle critic who said to me, "Yeah, but there are a lot of fanboy films on that list." I told them I understood that, but there are also plenty of great films on that list and also said it is always best to be sure you see all the films your potential readership has seen and also believes are great. On top of the IMDb list I have also created a spreadsheet that totals 495 films made up of the IMDb Top 250, the AFI Top 100, the complete list of Best Picture winners and Roger Ebert »

- Brad Brevet

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Rental Queue Alert: Australia, Ashes of Time, Wonder Woman

8 March 2009 10:01 AM, PDT | FilmExperience | See recent FilmExperience news »

Calling out sick never quite works for me...confessions of a blogaholic, I guess. Here are today's new DVDs. (Links go to Netflix for your ease of queue'ing)

The Must See

Ashes of Time Redux I once tried to watch a copy of Ashes of Time before the "reworking" and the image quality was so bad that I gave up after five minutes. Who wants a Wong Kar Wai movie with its visuals compromised? Nobody who knows how ravishing his imagery is, that's who. I'm thrilled to have a real go at this swordsmen drama starring the unbeatable Tony Leung Chiu-Wai and his two greatest screen lovers: Happy Together's Leslie Cheung and In the Mood for Love's Maggie Cheung. Plus there's Tony's frequent co-star and offscreen wife Carina Lau, Jacky Cheung and the legendary Brigitte Lin (The Bride With White Hair). Yes please sextupled.

Your Other Options

I've Loved You So Long »

- NATHANIEL R

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Weinsteins are thinking of what they'll do 'Afterwards'

12 February 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- In a deal that went under the radar from the flurry of deals taking place in Berlin, this pick-up of a recently release (in France) suspense-thriller that was co-produced by the French, Germany and Canada and which features an international cast that begins with Romain Duris, John Malkovich and includes Evangeline Lilly in her first major film role and this is perhaps why The Weinstein Co. grabbed hold of Gilles Bourdos' English debut Afterwards from the Wild Bunch folks. It was released early in the year in France but got panned by critics there and it didn't get much notice at Toronto Film Festival last year -- so there are question marks as to if this will receive any legroom theatrically. I don't know what kind of television draw Lost receives, but perhpas the company is banking on the popularity of Lilly to market the U.S. release. »

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