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My repeated reliance on Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Rouge seminar address “In Search of New Genres and Directions for Asian Cinema” belies not so much laziness on my part as the fact that Hsiao-hsien’s suggestion of the potential values (and pitfalls) of using “local elements … firmly rooted in local culture"—specifically when creating horror genre films—remains not only salient advice for East Asian and Southeast...
My repeated reliance on Hou Hsiao-hsien's Rouge seminar address "In Search of New Genres and Directions for Asian Cinema" belies not so much laziness on my part as the fact that Hsiao-hsien's suggestion of the potential values (and pitfalls) of using "local elements … firmly rooted in local culture"—specifically when creating horror genre films—remains not only salient advice for East Asian and Southeast...
SINGAPORE: Chinese Singaporeans may be speaking more Mandarin at home these days, but this has not discouraged Singapore filmmakers from capturing a very local sound � Chinese dialects � in some of their recent productions.
The character at the center of A Summer at Grandpa's , it seems to me, is not the boy but his younger sister, Ting-Ting. At least, she is the one who seems to manifest the intelligence of Hou Hsiao-hsien himself: observant, focused, not always predictable, compassionate but not particularly sentimental, intermittently happy, always subtly searching (and watching). The film doesn't have the "masterpiece...
Mumbai, June 13 (IANS) The two-day premiere of the 10th Osian’s-Cinefan Festival of Asian and Arab Cinema got off Friday that will showcase 14 movies, selected from 160 entries, and a collection of seven short films. Being held at the National Centre for Performing Arts (NCPA) complex in South Mumbai, the entry is free on [...]
I just heard from Kevin Lee’s blog that RAISED FROM DUST will be released as a DVD. I haven't seen this film, but Filmsick who saw it praised it a lot. You can read the details about this DVD release at Kevin's blog: http://alsolikelife.com/shooting/ This is what Filmsick wrote about this film: “This film is about a poor woman who has a sick husband staying in a hospital and a daughter who can't pay...
Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Flight of the Red Balloon is two films – one set in Paris and one set in a media wonderland that could be anywhere.
RATING: (POLITE APPLAUSE)Flight of the Red Balloon: Drama. Starring Juliette Binoche, Simon Iteanu and Song Fang. Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsien. In French with English subtitles. (Not rated. 113 minutes. At Bay Area theaters. To see complete movie listings and...
The Flight of the Red Balloon has Ara Osterweil revisiting Hou Hsiao-hsien's oeuvre in the new issue of the Brooklyn Rail: "[A]s anyone who has watched Hou's films knows, history ain't like pornography: you don't always know it when...
Directed by Hou Hsiao Hsien. With Juliette Binoche, Song Fang, Hippolyte Girardot and Simon Iteanu. Distributed by IFC First Take. In French with subtitles. 1 hour, 53 mins. No MPAA rating (adult themes). Playing at: Ritz at the Bourse.
Juliette Binoche, introducing Flight of the Red Balloon to audiences at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, described the project as a "life-changing experience."
The summer when I was 4, my mother took me each Friday to the town library to sit in the dark with a juice box, a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, and 10 or 20 other kids to watch a movie. This was a year or two before VCRs became ubiquitous, when watching movies was still by necessity a communal pastime. These library outings happened each week, but there's only one movie I can remember—vividly—seeing...
The summer when I was 4, my mother took me each Friday to the town library to sit in the dark with a juice box, a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich, and 10 or 20 other kids to watch a movie. This was a year or two before VCRs became ubiquitous, when watching movies was still by necessity [...]
