Title: She, A ChineseWriter/Director: Xiaolu GuoStarring: Lu Huang, Wei Yibo, Geoffrey HutchingsUK-France-Germany 2009
This was a good film. A good, solid film. Not phenomenal, but it was very well written, shot, edited, had great sound design and arresting performances. On top of that, the director is both Asian and female, which does not matter, but is [...]
Title: KaraokeDirector: Chris ChongStarring: Zahiril Adzim, Mislina Mustaffa, Mohammed HariryMalaysia 2009
Cannes loved it, Toronto loved it, heck Calgary just gave the director $25 000. The festival elite may love this sorry excuse for a movie, but the truth is,it’s nothing but a pretentious piece of nonsense. It’s everything that’s cliched about the Asian art-house. Single [...]
Title: Pintu TerlarangWriter/Director: Joko AnwarStarring: Fachri Albar, Marsha Timothy, Ario BayuIndonesia 2008
Last year at the LFF, I caught another film by Anwar titled ‘The Secret’, a truly atmospheric horror film that was hampered by an over the top ending. This year, he’s back at the LFF with his third feature film, one that is truly [...]
Title: 45365Directors: Bill Ross, Turner RossUSA 2009
The title is the zip code for the middle-American enclave that is Sydney, Ohio with a population of 20000, and also the hometown of the directors. Observational documentary would be the best way to describe this slice of Americana, that both fulfills expectations as well as defy them.
The brothers [...]
Title: At The End Of DaybreakWriter/Director: Ho YuhangStarring: Chui Tien Yau, Wai Ying Hung, Jane NgMalaysia/Hong Kong/South Korea 2009
Everything I am about to blog about is merely an observation on my part. I pre-empt this post with that statement because this is a film, I think, where each individual will find something different in it [...]
Augmented Reality or AR as it’s called is all the rage. Loads of apps are out at the moment utilising the tech, particularly for city guide apps like Yelp and Layar.
But here comes John Mayer to really push the potential further. He’s created a very interesting AR experience for one of his new tunes and [...]
Title: HeadhunterWriter/Director: Rumle HammerichStarring: Lars Mikkelsen, Henning Moritzen, Charlotte MunckDenmark, 2009
So I caught my first film at the London Film Festival this afternoon and boy what a cracker of a film it was. The corporate thriller has oftentimes been the domain of the Americans, I mean who can make movies about capitalist intrigue better than [...]
I’ve begun work on a new script. For much of 2009 if you asked me what I was going to be making in 2010, I would have said we’d be putting ‘The List’ into production, shooting in Athens and Koroni in Greece. I still might very well do so, if the pieces fall together somehow, [...]
I am reposting these 2 posts from the past in light of the fact, that Bahir & Ben are the duo behind what is without a doubt the hottest short film of the year in Malaysia. Their short “Meter” was so anticipated as part of the 15 Malaysia series, it crashed the entire site upon [...]
Not much has been going on for me lately save for me working on the usual stuff. So rather than blog about nothing I will get an update out as soon as there is something worth writing about.
Promise.