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Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | yesterday
... the same number of votes are tied in the same ranking. Apichatpong shares space with such names as Jia Zhang-ke, Wong Kar Wai, Jean Luc-Godard, David Cronenberg and Gus Van Sant on a list the Globe and Mail calls "either the best examples of film art of the decade or a cinema snob's top cocktail-party namedroppers." Here it is : Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul,...
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Twitch (Free subscription) | yesterday
... What struck me initially upon reading this list is that Asia really dominates it. There are two Jia Zhang-ke films in the top 3, and three in total in the 54 item list. There are also 3 Apichatpong Weerasethakul films, 3 Hou Hsiao-hsien films, 2 Tsai Ming-liang, and others from Wong Kar Wai, Lee Chang-Dong, Edward Yang and Hiyao Miyazaki. That is a lot of love, considering Asia if often...
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TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... austere. For instance, second and third spots are both occupied by work from the cerebral director Jia Zhang-ke of China: Platform and Still Life , respectively. In portraying the ecological, cultural and psychological impact of the Three Gorges Dam, Still Life can sometimes seem ascetic to the extreme �?? until the long, unedited takes and snail?s pace camera pans begin to reveal scenes...
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Coffee Coffee and More Coffee (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
Yu Yan Zhang Wei - 2009 Benten Films 35mm film There is a scene in Fish Eyes when most of the action is seen as the reflection on a mirror. The mirror, the full-length kind usually found in bathrooms,...
