MSNBC.com: Today (Free subscription) | 09/23/2008
Despite America's current economic woes, one industry is doing quite well: the video game business. TODAY's tech editor Paul Hochman explains why they're scoring high in sales, the hottest games for this coming season and offers tips for parents.
Twitch (Free subscription) | 09/22/2008
How’s this for an odd film pedigree: a remake of a Hong Kong action film, shot in Russian with largely Russian backing with a Swedish director. This is what you’ve got with Newsmakers . A remake of Johnnie To’s Breaking News with the action transplanted to Russia - reportedly the first ever Russian remake of a Hong Kong film - the film is directed by young Swede Anders Banke, well known is these parts...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 09/17/2008
This was a surprisingly strong year at TIFF. And this is despite the surprising absence of significant mainstream titles ( The Road , Milk , The Changeling , Revolutionary Road and Ponyo on A Cliff ) and a number of Asian directors (notably Hong Sang-Soo , Johnnie To , Takashi Miike , Shinya Tsukamoto and Hayao Miyazaki ) all of whom have new films. The theme in the Midnight Madness section, as well...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
Film News: Organizers receive more than 180 films -- Selectors for the sophomore Asia Pacific Screen Awards will have to wade through twice as many candidates as the first kudosfest.
Festival21.com (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Biennale Cinema 65th Venice Film Festival Official Venezia 65 Awards Venice, 6th September 2008The Venezia 65 Jury, chaired by Wim Wenders and comprised of Juriy Arabov, Valeria Golino, Douglas Gordon, Lucrecia Martel, John Landis, and Johnnie To, having viewed all twenty-one films in competition, has decided as follows:GOLDEN LION for Best Film:The Wrestler by Darren Aronofsky (USA)SILVER LION for...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
DVD Video Review: With Johnnie To due for inclusion in Eureka's Masters of Cinema range in early November (courtesy of 'Mad Detective'), Anthony Nield takes a look back at one of his earlier pictures, 'Election' from 2005, and Optimum's 2006 Region 2 handling.
Cat Bauer | 09/08/2008
(VENICE, ITALY) By now, you probably know that The Wrestler won the Golden Lion at La Biennele di Venezia 65. Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica, otherwise known as the 65th International Venice Film Festival. If you were to translate that word by word, it would look more like The Biennial of Venice 65 Exhibit International of the Art Cinematography. To add to the confusion, La Biennale,
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
"Hollywood outsider Mickey Rourke capped his big screen comeback on Saturday when The Wrestler, in which he plays a lonely, washed out fighter, won the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice festival," report Mike Collett-White and Silvia...
Turkish daily news (Free subscription) | 09/01/2008
With guests like Brad Pitt and George Clooney, and the latest movies from the Coen brothers, Darren Aronofksy and Hayao Miyazaki, the 65th Venice Film Festival will continue to attract movie lovers to
Twitch (Free subscription) | 08/23/2008
Oh, Johnnie To ... when you told people you planned to slow down and make fewer films I actually believed you. With big budget international project The Red Circle due to shoot in December I figured you’d be kind of busy preparing and would give up your two-or-three films simultaneously working methods. Nope. I was wrong. Johnnie To has reunited with Mad Detective actor Lau Ching-Wan on a picture titled...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
Blu-Ray News: Eureka Entertainment have announced the UK Blu-ray Disc release of Johnnie To & Wai Ka Fai's Mad Detective as part of their Masters of Cinema Series on 20th October 2008 priced at £19.99. Last year's largest grossing film at the Hong Kong box...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
News: Eureka Entertainment have announced the UK DVD release of Johnnie To & Wai Ka Fai's Mad Detective as part of their Masters of Cinema Series on 20th October 2008 priced at £17.99. Last year's largest grossing film at the Hong Kong box office t...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 07/25/2008
Film News: Co. receives movie rights from Tartan Group -- Media Asia, the Hong Kong production and distribution outfit, has retrieved rights to movies including the "Infernal Affairs" trilogy, from the collapsed distributor Tartan Group.
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
"Hong Kong genre-jumping auteur Johnnie To's films are invariably pretty and intelligent (though not always clear-headed and restrained), and his specific achievement here is in pushing neo-noir conventions (already a hyphenated set of narrative rules developed from Chinatown through...
Film Junk (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
It’s the weekend we’ve all been waiting for… the motion picture event of the summer has arrived. Of course, you know I am talking about Mamma Mia!, the movie based on the beloved ABBA musical! There’s also a little film called The Dark Knight hitting theatres this weekend, but I’m sure no one will see [...]
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Cat Bauer | 09/08/2008
(VENICE, ITALY) By now, you probably know that The Wrestler won the Golden Lion at La Biennele di Venezia 65. Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica, otherwise known as the 65th International Venice Film Festival. If you were to translate that word by word, it would look more like The Biennial of Venice 65 Exhibit International of the Art Cinematography. To add to the confusion, La Biennale,...
