Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
SINGAPORE: "My Magic", Singapore's official entry for the Oscars, has had a lukewarm response with local movie-goers. One reason could be it's NC16 rating.
Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | 09/25/2008
SINGAPORE: Singapore artists who receive the Cultural Medallion Award have been urged to produce works that set new milestones.
Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
SINGAPORE : Two Singapore films, "My Magic" and "12 Lotus", will be featured at the 13th Pusan International Film Festival in Korea next month.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Film News: Singapore selects Eric Khoo's 'My Magic' -- The Motion Picture Producers' Association of Japan (Eiren) has selected the Yojiro Takita helmed drama "Okuribito" (Departures) as Japan's contender for the foreign language Oscar, the pic's international distrib, Shochiku, announced Friday.
Twitch (Free subscription) | 08/28/2008
Eric Khoo’s new film was one of the many movies shown at Cannes last year that got really mixed reviews. Some where praising it for it’s pure beauty, some were wondering why it was even part of the competition. After seeing it at the World Film Festival, it’s easy to see why it divided the audience. My Magic doesn’t have the prestige of a Clint Eastwood film, it’s a film shot in only nine days on a...
Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
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.
Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
Singapore had its first film competing for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year, Eric Khoo's My Magic . And though the Straits Times did a nice story about the film before it went to the festival, it still seems like it's taken forever for the local media to take note of Khoo's achievement. Finally, Channel NewsAsia worked up a piece about the film . Here's an excerpt: It was a proud...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 06/01/2008
"Eric Khoo's My Magic, Singapore's historic first entry to Cannes Competition, is interesting for casting Tamils (a minority in his country) in lead roles," writes Maggie Lee in the Hollywood Reporter. "It could have been a simple yet heartbreaking story...
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Film Reviews: A film so small that, even at 76 minutes, it plays like a way-distended short vignette, Eric Khoo's "My Magic" is thin, very unmagical fare.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
In the movie CHE Part 1and 2 directed by Steven Soderbergh. The role politics plays in the implementation of ideas is what Steven tries to highlight. In 1952, General Fulgence Batista orchestrated a coup in Cuba and took control of the presidency, he suspended free elections.
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Spring is in the air, and Hollywood's biggest stars are headed for France. You know what that means, gang: It's Cannes time! What do you say we take a look at this year's festival schedule?
O B L I Q U I T Y (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
The curtain rises on the 61st edition of the Cannes Film Festival on May 14, 2008. This year’s feature film jury members include: Sean Penn, President (American actor, director, screenwriter), Jeanne Balibar (French actress), Alexandra Maria Lara (German actress), Natalie Portman (Israeli-American actress), Marjane Satrapi (Iranian author, director), Rachid Bouchareb (French director), Sergio [...]...
Singapore News Alternative (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Topnews.In 6 May 2008 Singapore - Eric Khoo, the first Singapore filmmaker to compete for the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival, is still pinching himself. Up against such famed directors as Clint Eastwood is Khoo's 75- minute movie, My Magic, shot in a marathon nine days with a lead actor making his screen debut. "I'm still on a mental high," the 42-year-old Khoo said. "It was my most passionate...
Singapore News Alternative (Free subscription) | 04/29/2008
THR.com 28 Apr 2008 SINGAPORE -- Singapore director Eric Khoo has joined forces with local studio MediaCorp. Raintree Pictures to make the biopic "Chinese Rose," based on the life story of a famed Chinese cabaret dancer, Khoo said Monday. "Rose" is Khoo's first film since "My Magic," which will compete for the Palme d'Or at May's Festival de Cannes. The film centers on Rose Chan, a cabaret dancer turned...
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
Following is a list of films in the main competition for the coveted Palme d'Or award this year. Hundreds of other films will also be showing out of competition.
