Oleh Arnold

18 August 2014

Posted: 18 Aug 2014 04:05 AM PDT

Ann Hui's The Golden Era is set to have it's world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where it will screen as the official closing film early next month. It stars Tang Wei (Lust, Caution, Finding Mr. Right) as the prominent female writer Xiao Hong, who garnered acclaim for her novels, poetry and memoirs detailing her experiences in China in the 1930s, during the Japanese Occupation. Xiao led a suitably epic yet tragically short life, fleeing from her home province of Heilongjiang to Beijing at a young age to avoid an arranged marriage, only to be found by her fiance, knocked up and abandoned in Harbin and almost sold into prostitution. She travelled on to Shanghai and eventually down to Hong Kong, all the while chronicling...

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Learning From The Masters Of Cinema: F.W. Murnau's FAUST - A GERMAN FOLK LEGEND

Posted: 18 Aug 2014 02:00 AM PDT

In today's cinematic marketplace, audiences have grown increasingly used to Hollywood fare dominating both domestic and international box offices. In the last few years we have even seen studios steer their biggest blockbusters increasingly towards overseas markets, with particular focus given to Asia. It is predominantly for this reason that we now get more remakes, reboots, sequels and franchise-building, in the hope of pushing familiar, pre-existing properties onto new audiences hungry for grand-scale spectacle rather than nuanced characterisation and intricate plotting. At the time of writing, every film in 2014's box office Top 10 was an adaptation of a pre-existing property. In fact the only film on the list that isn't a remake or sequel is Phil Lord and Chris Miller's The Lego Movie, based...

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Macabro 2014: Full Lineup Announced

Posted: 17 Aug 2014 07:30 AM PDT

On Thursday, August 14, Macabro (Mexico City International Horror Film Festival) revealed all the details for its upcoming 13th edition.Macabro 2014 will be celebrated from August 21 to 31, at the following venues: Teatro de la Ciudad "Esperanza Iris", Cineteca Nacional, Cinematógrafo del Chopo, Centro Cultural Carranza, Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Museo Panteón de San Fernando, and Circuito de FARO's. It kicks off at the Teatro de la Ciudad, with a free screening of The Curse of Styria. Check out the full lineup, along with special events, in the gallery below....

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