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Tsai Ming-liang Retrospective
A report on La Cinémathèque's major retrospective of the works of Malaysian-born Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang.
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Marriage of the Blessed
A look back at one of Makhmalbaf's most important mid-career political films, Marriage of the Blessed.
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Close-Up X 2
A look back at some Iranian shorts and a feature documentary which have an element of reflexivity which is common to most Iranian cinema.
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New Zealand Korean Film Festival 2004
In October 2004 New Zealand held its first ever Korean Film Festival in Auckland, not only revealing that Asians have other pastimes than boy racing, kidnapping, and pouring their money into the NZ education system, but also showing how one small country has turned its film industry into a force to be reckoned with on the global scene.
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An Interview with Higashi Yoichi
On the occasion of Fuon (The Crying Wind, Japan, 2004, 106 mins.) showing in competition at the 2004 Festival des Films du Monde (World Film Festival), in Montreal, the director of the film, Higashi Yoichi, along with principal actor, Uema Muneo, and Yamagami Tetsujiro, the film’s producer were interviewed by Peter Rist for Offscreen.
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The Bottled Fool Interview
As I said in my most recent Fantasia International Film festival report, the director of “Bottled Fool”, Hiroki Yamaguchi, is a good bet to become the next big thing out of Japan. After making a prize winning short in 1999 at the age of 21 (“Shinya Zoki”/“Midnight Viscera”) he soon completed his first feature film in the same year, “Hateshinai tameiki” (1999).
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Perception and Spirit in Film: Everything Must Change
A study of two recent art house films (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter ... and Father and Son) which feature male relationships at their emotional center.
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Fantasia 2004 Part 1: Selections from Japan (mainly) and Korea
Fantasia is back after a one year hiatus, stonger than ever.
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Fantasia 2004 Part 2: Selections from the International Programming
Part-two of Fantasia Festival report.
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The Hong Kong International Film Festival, continued (finally)
Festival report which covers events from 2002 to 2004.
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Fulltime Cinema: An Interview With Johnnie To
An interview with Hong Kong director Johnnie To.
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The 27th World Film Festival: The Cinema of Asia
Writer Rist concentrates on the Asian offerings at the 27th edition of the WFF.
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Suicide, Regeneration, and a Tear upon Waking: Fantasia 2003
Randolph Jordan stretches his writer's arms in his two-part Fantasia 2003 report, using part one to reflect on cult cinema spectatorship.
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Fantasia Part 2. Suicide is for the Birds
Jordan uses part two of his report as an extended mediation on Fantasia (and Jordan) favorite Takashi Miike.
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UCLA’s “Heroic Grace: the Chinese Martial Arts Film”
In September 2002, at the Toronto International Film Festival, I was very pleased to meet Cheng-Sim Lim, the Head of Programming at the UCLA Film and Television Archive, who told me she was curating a series of films celebrating the history of Chinese Martial Arts on film!
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