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Thai Film Voted Best Of Decade

24 November 2009 2:46 PM, PST | Studio Briefing - Film News | See recent Studio Briefing - Film News news »

Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century, was selected as the best film of the decade in a poll conducted by the Toronto International Film Festival. Of some 60 film curators, historians and programmers polled by the festival, Syndromes received 53 votes. Coming in second was Chinese director Jia Zhangke's Platform, which received 49 votes by the panel. Jia also nabbed third place, with 48 votes going to his Still Life, which won the Golden Lion for best film at the Venice Film Festival in 2006. French filmmaker Claire Denis's Beau Travail took fourth place with 46 votes. And Hong Kong director Wong Kar-wai's In the Mood for Love rounded out the top five with 43 votes. »

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Life Show Review

15 July 2009 3:36 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

Not the most recent release, but since this film received so little attention on the web I thought it would be nice to review one of the films that stood on the brink of the recent miniature boom of mainland Chinese films

Life Show is Huo’s second film I come across, and similarly to Postmen in the Mountains, I’m pretty sure it’s appeal will be quite limited to the Western world. It’s very much a mainland Chinese film, and if you’re not called Zhang Ke Jia directing that film it means people won’t have the immediate reflex to turn their heads. But if you ask me to pick between these two directors, Jianqi Huo is definitely the more interesting of the two. Life Show more than affirms this.

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Cannes 2009 Producer's Patch: MK2

14 May 2009 | ioncinema | See recent ioncinema news »

- Whenever I watch my Charlie Chaplin films on disc it is the MK2 logo that I see before I pull out the title from the DVD shelf. A staple in the French cinema their library is filled with auteurs – including last year's Cannes presented Paranoid Park (Van Sant), Zhang Ke Jia's 24 City and Belge director Dominique Abel's Rumba. This year Mk2 bring Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos's Dog tooth and Mathias Gokalp's Nothing Personal in the sidebars and they have Abdellatif Kechiche's next (Black Venus) in production (the director gave us brilliant The Secret of the Grain in 2007/08) and they also have Patrice Chereau's long awaited film – Persecution starring names like Romain Duris and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Black Venus  by Abdellatif Kechiche - Production Certified Copy  by Abbas Kiarostami - Production Diamond 13 (Diamant 13)  by Gilles Beat - Completed Inferno (L'enfer D'Henri Georges Clouzot)  by Serge Bromberg »

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2009 | 2007 | 2006

3 articles from 2009

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