Vietnamese Directors Speak Out On CHO LON and Censorship |
| Vietnamese Directors Speak Out On CHO LON and Censorship Posted: 08 Jun 2013 10:30 PM PDT  The banning of the Nguyen brothers' Cho Lon caused extreme rage in Vietnam yesterday. And not just for filmmakers or film geeks, but all over the country; I haven't seen anything like this before. Previously banned films came and went quietly, but Cho Lon is now the focus of a national conversation. The public reactions from Johnny and Charlie Nguyen to the verdict definitely fuelled the debate and led many people to vent their disgust at the Censorship Board. After the banning, actor Johnny Tri Nguyen said everything he needed to in just one sentence: "What's more to be said? It's like losing my son."His brother Charlie Nguyen, beloved director of The Rebel and Cho Lon, also felt immense sadness at the news. His response from the... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
| Ari Folman's THE CONGRESS Gets Picked Up For US Distribution Posted: 08 Jun 2013 08:30 AM PDT  Wow, Drafthouse Films is on a roll. Robin Wright seems plenty happy in the picture above and so are we. Director Ari Folman completely bowled us over with his (almost) fully animated documentary Waltz With Bashir. So rest assured that when he announced his next film would be an adaptation of Stanislaw Lem's 1971 novel The Futurological Congress, we pricked up our ears. Then it became known that Ari Folman planned to mix real footage with psychedelic animation, and we saw people like Robin Wright, Harvey Keitel and Paul Giamatti appear on the cast-list. That made us very curious. In the film version, actress Robin Wright plays an alternate version of herself who is transformed into a chemical formula, so she can be endlessly used... [Read the whole post on twitchfilm.com...] |
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