Reeling at Reel Asian: “Dooman River”
Posted by Jef in Film, Reeling on 13. Nov, 2010 | 0 Comments
Everything in Zhang Lu’s Dooman River is cold and slow. The film is full of long takes and pregnant pauses, and its characters hide their turmoil and rage behind deliberate dialogue and calm faces. Connecting the border of North Korea and China, the Dooman itself is shown as a gruelling and frigid trek for refugees [...]
Reeling at Reel Asian: Clement Cheng and “Gallants”
Posted by Jef in Film, Interviews, Reeling on 12. Nov, 2010 | 2 Comments
“The reason our movie was really hard to finance was because [our actors] are all 60 years-old or over. And our movie is like Cocoon meets Karate Kid. And that’s really weird.” – filmmaker Clement Cheng The 2010 Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival kicked off Tuesday with one of the best films I’ve seen [...]
Reeling: Our Day Will Come, Into the Wind, Aftershock
Posted by Simon in Film, Reeling, Reviews on 19. Sep, 2010 | 1 Comment
I watched a few movies at the Toronto International Film Festival this year. I considered writing about each as individual posts, but then I realized I didn’t have enough to say about any of them that would be even remotely capable of maintaining your interest. So in the spirit of comprehensive coverage and efficiency, I [...]
Reeling: Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Posted by Simon in Film, Reeling, Toronto on 29. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
The crowd in the theatre was literally buzzing during a recent advance screening of Edgar Wright’s Scott Pilgrim vs. The World. Everyone’s cell phones had been confiscated and nobody knew what time it actually was. Impatience begat face-to-face conversation and, nerdy and self-indulgent as it was, the energy in the air built to a fever [...]
Reeling: I Am Love (Io sono l’amore)
Posted by Anupa in Film, Reeling, Reviews on 20. Jul, 2010 | 1 Comment
How do I love thee Tilda Swinton? Let me count the ways: you can pull off edgy in a way girls half your age would die to be able, you are 50 years old and still more than perceptibly cool, you have collaborated with Viktor & Rolf, been a performance artist, killed your latest Dazed [...]
