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Sundance Film Festival Comes To Hong Kong

Sundance Film Festival Comes To Hong Kong

Posted: 01 Aug 2014 04:00 AM PDT

The Sundance Institute announced today that it will be partnering with The Metroplex to present Sundance Film Festival - Hong Kong Selects in the Asian city in August this year. A selection of 8 new American independent films, all of which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival, will be shown at the new 9-screen multiplex in Kowloon Bay from 19-28 September, accompanied by a delegation of filmmakers and festival organisers. This move comes two years after Sundance London was launched, and follows last year's opening of Sundance NEXT FEST in Los Angeles, as the festival organisers collaborate with regional partners to bring the best of American Independent Cinema to the rest of the world.This is great news for Hong Kong cinephiles, where the ultra-competitive theatrical...

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Review: THE WHITE HAIRED WITCH OF LUNAR KINGDOM Is A Soulless Remake, Devoid Of Magic

Posted: 01 Aug 2014 03:05 AM PDT

Jacob Cheung's new retelling of Liang Yusheng's bestselling novel makes a royal mess of its source material as well as bearing little resemblance to Ronny Yu's much-loved 1993 adaptation. Conflicted over whether to favour action, intrigue or romance, the film fails to strike a consistent tone, while its two leads offer little chemistry to steam up the screen.While Liang Yusheng's 1950s wuxia novel The Bride With White Hair has been adapted numerous times for both the big and small screens, the most familiar version for most film fans likely being Ronny Yu's 1993 adaptation, starring Brigitte Lin and Leslie Cheung. Arguably Yu's film is one of the least faithful to its original source, dispensing with much of the larger story to focus on the doomed...

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Fantasia 2014 Review: THE ONE I LOVE Offers Smart Couples Therapy, With Big Laughs

Posted: 31 Jul 2014 01:30 PM PDT

I doubt I will laugh out loud more at a film this year. Charlie McDowell's couples therapy session par excellence, featuring a very game cast of two, namely Mark Duplass and Elisabeth Moss, made me smile so hard at times my face actually hurt. I burned fucking calories with the enjoyment of this movie. The One I Love, contains enough insight and humour (not to mention, utter engagement) in its neo-Twilight Zone execution, that you may never have to visit the self-help section of the bookstore, ever. This is the mandatory date movie of the year. Sophie and Ethan are several years into their marriage, still without kids, and are more content to follow the usual rhythms and patterns established over the years. This is to the...

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Review: GET ON UP Gets Down With Its Bad Self

Posted: 31 Jul 2014 10:30 AM PDT

The brand new James Brown biopic Get On Up is a mixed bag, both admirable and aggravating. It manages to wear out it's welcome with only a few bad scenes. It's both boring and totally engaging; inert while dancing up a storm. It's impressive and exhausting; showing too much of the life of the godfather of soul, yet we come away knowing very little. Get On Up, for all it's commendable attention to period and visual detail and performances, is all mixed up. And for the love of mercy, I can't figure out why. Director Tate Taylor of The Help fame still hasn't learned that a two and a half hour running time does not add gravitas to already challenging subject matter. He does seem to...

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Innaritu's BIRDMAN International Trailer Smells Like Balls. Glorious, Wonderful Balls.

Posted: 31 Jul 2014 10:00 AM PDT

Whatever you may be doing right now, this is better.Soon to open the Venice Film Festival and close New York, Alejandro Innaritu appears poised to single handedly revive Michael Keaton's career with Birdman. A dark comedy reportedly shot to feel as though the entire film is a single long take, Birdman stars Keaton as a washed out actor famous for playing a b-list superhero trying to make a comeback on Broadway. And then things get weird.Ed Norton, Emma Stone, Naomi Watts and Zach Galifianakis also star and just in case the fabulous first trailer wasn't enough to convince you on this one there is now a new international offering with loads of new footage and some saucy language. It's even better. Take a look below....

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McConaughey Takes To The Skies In Second Trailer For Nolan's INTERSTELLAR

Posted: 31 Jul 2014 09:40 AM PDT

We've long known that director Christopher Nolan could lay on the spectacle with the best of them while also rating as one of the stronger idea men working in mainstream Hollywood. And it is becoming increasingly clear that he's adding something new to his palette with the upcoming Interstellar: Emotion. Perhaps drawing upon his own experiences as a parent Nolan appears to here be applying his gifts for large scale story and applying them in service of something considerably more intimate. And the results appear intriguing thus far.A new trailer for Interstellar took a bow at the recently wrapped San Diego Comic Con and has now been released online. Take a look below....

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Talking CALVARY With Writer-Director John Michael McDonagh

Posted: 31 Jul 2014 09:20 AM PDT

It was back in January that I had the chance to attend the world premiere of John Michael McDonagh's thoroughly remarkable Calvary at the Sundance Film Festival and came away feeling that I had just shared in something special, a film that is not just one of the best of the year but stands a very legitimate chance of becoming a lasting touchpoint years down the road. Seven months on from the premiere that feeling holds just as strong as it did then. And with Calvary now hitting US screens I am able to revisit the conversation I had with McDonagh the next day, one which touches on the actual film, of course, while also roaming into his thoughts on the creative process in general...

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Review: THE STRANGE LITTLE CAT, A Masterclass In Minimalism, From A Newcomer

Posted: 31 Jul 2014 09:01 AM PDT

While cinema acts as a temporal artifice like no other medium out there, films that capture the absolute spark of a moment -- the Nowness of a breath or a look -- for all to experience at a further moment, are few and far between. Seizing the utterly uncanny and uplifting sense of life not merely observed, but experienced and felt on the most nuanced and beautiful of levels, Ramon Zürcher's debut feature (his thesis film at the dffb [Berlin School] in Germany) The Strange Little Cat is most assuredly one of these "Now Wave" films.  At a succinct 72 minutes this beguiling look into one family's Saturday is, despite such a length, actually ponderous and airy by nature. Its minimalist aesthetic vividly stands at...

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Review: CALVARY, A Tragic, Devastating Masterpiece

Posted: 31 Jul 2014 08:01 AM PDT

John Michael McDonagh's 2011 directorial debut The Guard was one of the stronger debut films of recent years, combining as it did McDonagh's fabulous script, a strong but not overwhelming sense of visual style and a blazing performance from leading man Brendan Gleeson. Three years later McDonagh is back with his sophomore effort, Calvary, and as strong as his debut picture already was, this is a massive step forward, a complex and emotionally devastating picture shot through with wry dark humor and -- once again -- an utterly arresting performance from Gleeson. Clearly this is a creative collaboration with the potential to yield remarkable fruit for many years yet to come. Gleeson is Father James, parish priest to a small coastal village. Father James is...

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Stunt Man Takes The Lead IN THE HERO

Posted: 31 Jul 2014 07:30 AM PDT

Ah, the lowly suit actor ... a somewhat uniquely Japanese phenomenon, the name reserved for the action performers whose faces will never be seen on screen despite years put in making others look good. They're the guys inside the hero suits and one of them is going to get his due in Take Masaharu's In The Hero.Karasawa Toshiaki stars as a middle ages suit actor with 25 years in the biz struggling to cope with his own middle age and the arrival of a cocky young newcomer. But the veteran gets his chance to shine when a big budget foreign production has their stunt performers quit over safety concerns and the job passes to him ...Balancing out action and drama the trailer for In The...

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Review: James Franco's CHILD OF GOD Is A Revelation

Posted: 31 Jul 2014 07:00 AM PDT

Love him or hate him, James Franco has one of the more interesting Hollywood careers going these days. My own relationship with the man was born of indifference and suckled at the teat of hatred, thanks in no small part to the 2011 Oscars. But his skeezetastic turn in Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers weaned me of my hate, and I'm slowly starting to feel the love, if not for his artistic output, then at least for the audacity of his career choices. He's pretentious yet self-deprecating, prudent yet reckless. He stars in blockbuster tentpoles, ridiculous self-referential soap opera arcs, makes no budget art films, and adapts "unfilmable" works of literature. I don't know, but I think it might be time to start taking him seriously.   So what does...

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