Taiwan International Co-Funding Program (Ticp) from Taiwan Creative Content Agency (Taicca) continues to make an impact at the 74th Berlinale. Black Tea and Shambhala enter the main competition, while Sleep With Your Eyes Open competes at Encounters. Festival veteran Tsai Ming-Liang scored two official selections with his latest documentary Abiding Nowhere in Berlinale Special and The Wayward Cloud at Berlinale Classics Special.
Black Tea is Abderrahmane Sissako's follow up feature after Timbuktu with Taiwan as a key location and two Taiwanese actors Chang Han from A Brighter Summer Day and Wu Ke-Xi of Nina Wu playing alongside Nina Mélo in this cross-cultural romance. The film also received investment from Kaohsiung Film Fund.
Also in the main competition is Shambhala, the second feature from Nepal's Min Bahadur Bham, which sees a woman journey across the Himalayas to prove her innocence. Liao Ching-Sung and Roger Huang are two executive producers from...
Black Tea is Abderrahmane Sissako's follow up feature after Timbuktu with Taiwan as a key location and two Taiwanese actors Chang Han from A Brighter Summer Day and Wu Ke-Xi of Nina Wu playing alongside Nina Mélo in this cross-cultural romance. The film also received investment from Kaohsiung Film Fund.
Also in the main competition is Shambhala, the second feature from Nepal's Min Bahadur Bham, which sees a woman journey across the Himalayas to prove her innocence. Liao Ching-Sung and Roger Huang are two executive producers from...
- 2/16/2024
- by Adam Symchuk
- AsianMoviePulse
Taiwan-based auteur Tsai Ming-liang, who has two films in the Berlinale this year, is a contrarian who would be almost at home working with art-galleries and museums as cinemas and film festivals. Indeed, his new “Abiding Nowhere” is part financed by the Smithsonian Institute.
“Abiding Nowhere,” which premieres on Monday in the Encounters section and consists of lonely wanderings through Washington DC by a barefoot monk, is, by Tsai’s own admission, “not a normal film.”
“It does not have a story or a plot. There are no performances and no language. It shares similarities with my other films, but pushed to extremes. Perhaps it is incomprehensible,” said Tsai, Friday, at a Berlin masterclass. “I’m not trying to tell you anything through script or performance. It could be perfect for a gallery or museum, but I still hope it plays in theaters.”
It is the second time that Tsai...
“Abiding Nowhere,” which premieres on Monday in the Encounters section and consists of lonely wanderings through Washington DC by a barefoot monk, is, by Tsai’s own admission, “not a normal film.”
“It does not have a story or a plot. There are no performances and no language. It shares similarities with my other films, but pushed to extremes. Perhaps it is incomprehensible,” said Tsai, Friday, at a Berlin masterclass. “I’m not trying to tell you anything through script or performance. It could be perfect for a gallery or museum, but I still hope it plays in theaters.”
It is the second time that Tsai...
- 2/16/2024
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
What splits the fine line between desire and expectations? Is it a thing you can see? Is it a thing you can film?
Film at Lincoln Center’s new retrospective supposes that if any of those questions have answers, they might reside in the cinema of Edward Yang. Moving from “A Rational Mind”––the title of their 2011 retrospective of Yang’s work––to “Desire/Expectations” reframes those questions to be more diffuse, less singular. A rational mind could answer in the affirmative or negative; a slash indicates that desire and expectations may occupy the same terrain simultaneously.
“A rational mind” is also, perhaps, an accusation a Yang character could lob at another, especially in A Confucian Confusion (1994), a workplace farce that subjects a “culture company” in 1990s Taipei to the contradictions of Confucian teachings. In turn (or simultaneously), the film interrogates Confucian-influenced, consumer-friendly spaces––like 1990s Taipei––to rethink old-world molds of tradition and expectation.
Film at Lincoln Center’s new retrospective supposes that if any of those questions have answers, they might reside in the cinema of Edward Yang. Moving from “A Rational Mind”––the title of their 2011 retrospective of Yang’s work––to “Desire/Expectations” reframes those questions to be more diffuse, less singular. A rational mind could answer in the affirmative or negative; a slash indicates that desire and expectations may occupy the same terrain simultaneously.
“A rational mind” is also, perhaps, an accusation a Yang character could lob at another, especially in A Confucian Confusion (1994), a workplace farce that subjects a “culture company” in 1990s Taipei to the contradictions of Confucian teachings. In turn (or simultaneously), the film interrogates Confucian-influenced, consumer-friendly spaces––like 1990s Taipei––to rethink old-world molds of tradition and expectation.
- 12/29/2023
- by Frank Falisi
- The Film Stage
Welcome to our rundown of the most-watched branded YouTube videos of the week.
We’re publishing this snippet of a larger Gospel Stats Weekly Brand Report in order to analyze sponsorship trends in the creator economy. Any video launched in tandem with an official brand partner is eligible for the ranking.
And – as the name up above would imply – all the data comes from Gospel Stats. If you’re interested in learning more about Gospel – and which brands are sponsoring what creators on YouTube – click here.
Welcome back to the Gospel Stats Weekly Brand Report! For the third week in a row, MrBeast is sitting in the #1 position, and a relatively unknown sponsor is thankful for his continued success.
Other big-name creators are chasing Jimmy Donaldson in this week’s brand report. Marques Brownlee, Veritasium, and Kurzgesagt are three channels occupied by brainy creators, and those smartypants stars are showing...
We’re publishing this snippet of a larger Gospel Stats Weekly Brand Report in order to analyze sponsorship trends in the creator economy. Any video launched in tandem with an official brand partner is eligible for the ranking.
And – as the name up above would imply – all the data comes from Gospel Stats. If you’re interested in learning more about Gospel – and which brands are sponsoring what creators on YouTube – click here.
Welcome back to the Gospel Stats Weekly Brand Report! For the third week in a row, MrBeast is sitting in the #1 position, and a relatively unknown sponsor is thankful for his continued success.
Other big-name creators are chasing Jimmy Donaldson in this week’s brand report. Marques Brownlee, Veritasium, and Kurzgesagt are three channels occupied by brainy creators, and those smartypants stars are showing...
- 12/11/2023
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Launching in the first year of the pandemic in 2020, Taiwan Creative Content Fest (Tccf) has taken a few years to secure its positioning in the global film markets calendar, but this year’s edition is on track to be its biggest and most international yet.
The event, which runs November 7-12 at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei, is divided into three sections – Pitching, which has opened to international projects for the first time (see separate story for more details); Market, which has been extended from three to four days and has around 100 companies attending; and Innovation, which explores the intersection between content and technology.
Taiwan’s content industries suffered less than some of their neighbours during the pandemic, as being an island, the borders could be quickly closed, limiting the spread of Covid-19. For most of the past three years, shooting on film and TV projects has continued and cinemas remained open.
The event, which runs November 7-12 at Songshan Cultural and Creative Park in Taipei, is divided into three sections – Pitching, which has opened to international projects for the first time (see separate story for more details); Market, which has been extended from three to four days and has around 100 companies attending; and Innovation, which explores the intersection between content and technology.
Taiwan’s content industries suffered less than some of their neighbours during the pandemic, as being an island, the borders could be quickly closed, limiting the spread of Covid-19. For most of the past three years, shooting on film and TV projects has continued and cinemas remained open.
- 10/30/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Kevin B. Lee (left) in conversation with Tsai Ming-liang.Even though he didn't have a new film to premiere, Tsai Ming-liang was the guest of honor at this year's Locarno Film Festival. Tsai received the Pardo alla carriera achievement award at the Piazza Grande; was the subject of Moving Portraits, an exhibition at the Il Rivellino gallery; presented a screening of his 2020 film Days; and delivered several talks and masterclasses. One such talk was “On the Future of Cinema”: the centerpiece of a Locarno Film Festival initiative exploring the medium’s technological and cultural transformations. The face of Locarno’s Future of Cinema programming is the scholar, media artist, and critic Kevin B. Lee. A prolific video essayist, Lee has produced over 350 works of audiovisual criticism, and with his award-winning Transformers: The Premake (2014), he introduced and popularized the “desktop documentary” format. Unfolding as a real-time screen recording of Lee’s MacBook,...
- 10/26/2023
- MUBI
Originally slated to launch on Oct. 20, Gaf moved up its launch and will now premiere its holiday programming one week before the Hallmark Channel.
You better hurry and haul out the holly, because Great American Family has decided that it cannot wait to get the holiday celebrations underway. So, the fast-growing cable channel announced on Thursday that its annual Great American Christmas programming block was moving up its premiere date by one week and will now kick off on Friday, Oct. 13. Holiday films will start airing on the network at 6 a.m. Et on Friday, and the first world premiere original film, “Destined 2: Christmas Once More,” will air on Saturday, Oct. 14 at 8 p.m. Et.
Great American Family’s annual holiday movie event will kick off on Friday, Oct. 13 at 6 a.m. Et. This year’s Great American Christmas will feature 20 original films. Gaf’s holiday celebration will air...
You better hurry and haul out the holly, because Great American Family has decided that it cannot wait to get the holiday celebrations underway. So, the fast-growing cable channel announced on Thursday that its annual Great American Christmas programming block was moving up its premiere date by one week and will now kick off on Friday, Oct. 13. Holiday films will start airing on the network at 6 a.m. Et on Friday, and the first world premiere original film, “Destined 2: Christmas Once More,” will air on Saturday, Oct. 14 at 8 p.m. Et.
Great American Family’s annual holiday movie event will kick off on Friday, Oct. 13 at 6 a.m. Et. This year’s Great American Christmas will feature 20 original films. Gaf’s holiday celebration will air...
- 10/12/2023
- by Matt Tamanini
- The Streamable
The autumnal equinox isn’t until Saturday, but boygenius are ringing in the fall season a couple of days early with the chilling animated video for “Cool About It.”
Directed by Lauren Tsai, the clip features hauntingly gorgeous imagery, portraying the relationship between a dog and a toy with Tim Burton-esque imagery of stitched faces. “‘Cool About It’ is a beautifully melancholic and piercing song that puts words to feelings often unexplained,” Tsai explained. “It is an absolute dream to collaborate with the genius that is boygenius.”
“Cool About...
Directed by Lauren Tsai, the clip features hauntingly gorgeous imagery, portraying the relationship between a dog and a toy with Tim Burton-esque imagery of stitched faces. “‘Cool About It’ is a beautifully melancholic and piercing song that puts words to feelings often unexplained,” Tsai explained. “It is an absolute dream to collaborate with the genius that is boygenius.”
“Cool About...
- 9/20/2023
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
boygenius have shared a brand new music video for “Cool About It,” a highlight off their long-awaited debut album the record.
The video arrives after the supergroup trio — Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus — teased it on social media earlier this week. It’s entirely animated, and directed by Lauren Tsai.
“‘Cool About It’ is a beautifully melancholic and piercing song that puts words to feelings often unexplained,” Tsai said in a press release. “It is an absolute dream to collaborate with the genius that is boygenius. I made animated videos on YouTube when I was 11 and I cannot imagine something I’d lose my mind over more if I could go back in time and tell myself. I will always be grateful to the band for the many ways in which their work has affected my life.”
Watch the “Cool About It” video below.
boygenius, who recently appeared...
The video arrives after the supergroup trio — Phoebe Bridgers, Julien Baker, and Lucy Dacus — teased it on social media earlier this week. It’s entirely animated, and directed by Lauren Tsai.
“‘Cool About It’ is a beautifully melancholic and piercing song that puts words to feelings often unexplained,” Tsai said in a press release. “It is an absolute dream to collaborate with the genius that is boygenius. I made animated videos on YouTube when I was 11 and I cannot imagine something I’d lose my mind over more if I could go back in time and tell myself. I will always be grateful to the band for the many ways in which their work has affected my life.”
Watch the “Cool About It” video below.
boygenius, who recently appeared...
- 9/20/2023
- by Abby Jones
- Consequence - Music
It might still technically be summer for a few more days, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t start thinking about the holidays, and Great American Family is here to help. The fast-growing cable channel has announced its full slate of original movies and stars for its upcoming Great American Christmas extravaganza that will kick off on Friday, Oct. 20. While the specific dates and times for each film will be announced as the holidays approach, the cabler confirmed that the first of 20 original holiday films will premiere on Saturday, Oct. 21.
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With just over a month to go before the around-the-clock holiday celebration begins, it’s time to figure out your best streaming option to keep up on all of the Gaf original holiday films. If finding the cheapest way to stream feel-good, original holiday movies are your singular goal, then Frndly TV is your best option.
- 9/18/2023
- by Matt Tamanini
- The Streamable
Gac Family Holiday Slate Includes Movies Starring Danica McKellar, Chad Michael Murray, & Jen Lilley
As the cold nights draw nearer, one thing draws clearer:
It's almost Christmas, which means we're getting exciting Holiday-themed programming.
Great American Family on Monday unveiled the 20 original movies that will comprise its third annual Great American Christmas.
Thankfully, plenty of familiar faces help bring these movies to life.
Check out the entire slate below.
12 Games of Christmas, starring Johnny Ramey and Felisha Cooper.
In 12 Games of Christmas, a group of old friends and neighbors are transported into a Christmas-themed board game during a Christmas party.
A Christmas Blessing, starring Lori Loughlin, James Tupper, and Jesse Hutch.
A TV chef (Loughlin) is divinely inspired to take over her late aunt's charity with help from a new friend (Hutch) and handsome business associate next door (Tupper).
A Christmas Commission (wt), starring Sarah Fisher and Simon Arblaster.
Two rival realtors (Fisher and Arblaster) are forced to work together to sell one special house before Christmas.
It's almost Christmas, which means we're getting exciting Holiday-themed programming.
Great American Family on Monday unveiled the 20 original movies that will comprise its third annual Great American Christmas.
Thankfully, plenty of familiar faces help bring these movies to life.
Check out the entire slate below.
12 Games of Christmas, starring Johnny Ramey and Felisha Cooper.
In 12 Games of Christmas, a group of old friends and neighbors are transported into a Christmas-themed board game during a Christmas party.
A Christmas Blessing, starring Lori Loughlin, James Tupper, and Jesse Hutch.
A TV chef (Loughlin) is divinely inspired to take over her late aunt's charity with help from a new friend (Hutch) and handsome business associate next door (Tupper).
A Christmas Commission (wt), starring Sarah Fisher and Simon Arblaster.
Two rival realtors (Fisher and Arblaster) are forced to work together to sell one special house before Christmas.
- 9/18/2023
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
Pure, unalloyed joy is harder to find in movies than you’d think. Heck, look at our big list of the best feelgood films ever_, which is re-released this week to celebrate its 20th birthday.
After weeks of increasingly elaborate deceptions and the kind of security operation the Stasi would be proud of, Jack Black’s Dewey Finn – the artist formerly known as Ned Schneebly (and even more formerly Schneeeebly) – has secretly used his fraudulent stint as a supply teacher to turn a gang of precocious-but-square kids into a crack team of rock ‘n’ roll delinquents. They’re discovered and Dewey goes back to being burnout loser Dewey – but the kids he’s fired up with a healthy disrespect for anyone over the age of 30 won’t let him drop out like that. They bundle him onto their bus, dash to the gig, and just about make their slot.
It helps that,...
After weeks of increasingly elaborate deceptions and the kind of security operation the Stasi would be proud of, Jack Black’s Dewey Finn – the artist formerly known as Ned Schneebly (and even more formerly Schneeeebly) – has secretly used his fraudulent stint as a supply teacher to turn a gang of precocious-but-square kids into a crack team of rock ‘n’ roll delinquents. They’re discovered and Dewey goes back to being burnout loser Dewey – but the kids he’s fired up with a healthy disrespect for anyone over the age of 30 won’t let him drop out like that. They bundle him onto their bus, dash to the gig, and just about make their slot.
It helps that,...
- 9/8/2023
- by Tom Nicholson
- Empire - Movies
Celebrated Malaysian-Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang sat down with Variety on the eve of receiving the Locarno Film Festival Career Award. The award is only the latest in a series of prizes from major European festivals the art-house maverick has received – from the 1994 Golden Lion from Venice for “Vive L’Amour” to the Silver Bear that “The River” won in Berlin in 1997.
So how does he feel to have received this latest sign of esteem from the film community?
“This is very special for me,” Tsai says. “I’m very happy, especially for my films which are not easy to see. Coming here and receiving a reward is a very big encouragement for me. Especially these festivals. They saw that I had embarked on a different way of creation. So here they gave me a space to show my short films.”
Since the 2010s, this “different way of creation” has seen Tsai...
So how does he feel to have received this latest sign of esteem from the film community?
“This is very special for me,” Tsai says. “I’m very happy, especially for my films which are not easy to see. Coming here and receiving a reward is a very big encouragement for me. Especially these festivals. They saw that I had embarked on a different way of creation. So here they gave me a space to show my short films.”
Since the 2010s, this “different way of creation” has seen Tsai...
- 8/7/2023
- by John Bleasdale
- Variety Film + TV
by Paweł Mizgalewicz
If you are interested in the boundaries of cinema, then Korean “Empty” can definitely serve as an example of what you can do with the artform, or perhaps: how little can you do. How few shots, how little movement, how little editing – you know, things that often are mentioned as the definition of what a film even is. This one could almost be called… photos. “Empty” will make it into some film textbooks, even if it won't make it into your local cinema. “Honestly, I think that if I showed this movie in Korea, most of the people would walk out during the screening”, said director Kil Min-hyeong in Wrocław, at the site of his film's public debut. “Korean viewers prefer intensive films, with a lot of stimuli, like ‘Parasite'”. It might seem funny that Bong Joon-ho's instant classic can be given as the first example of an action bonanza,...
If you are interested in the boundaries of cinema, then Korean “Empty” can definitely serve as an example of what you can do with the artform, or perhaps: how little can you do. How few shots, how little movement, how little editing – you know, things that often are mentioned as the definition of what a film even is. This one could almost be called… photos. “Empty” will make it into some film textbooks, even if it won't make it into your local cinema. “Honestly, I think that if I showed this movie in Korea, most of the people would walk out during the screening”, said director Kil Min-hyeong in Wrocław, at the site of his film's public debut. “Korean viewers prefer intensive films, with a lot of stimuli, like ‘Parasite'”. It might seem funny that Bong Joon-ho's instant classic can be given as the first example of an action bonanza,...
- 7/31/2023
- by Guest Writer
- AsianMoviePulse
NYC Weekend Watch is our weekly round-up of repertory offerings.
Museum of Modern Art
One of our greatest living filmmakers, Tsai Ming-liang, is subject of a career-spanning retrospective that starts today; Tsai will give a talk on Saturday.
Film at Lincoln Center
A 4K restoration of Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Véronique begins a run.
Roxy Cinema
Kenneth Branagh’s Frankenstein, Michael Mann’s The Keep, and Coppola’s Dracula play on 35mm, while Weyes Blood presents prints of Virginia Woolf and Rebecca.
Museum of the Moving Image
See It Big: Extended Cuts! offers unique opportunity to see films in their original form, starting with Once Upon a Time in America and Little Shop of Horrors; the great Manny Kirchheimer and Leo Hurwitz are subject of a series.
Film Forum
Isabelle Huppert, maybe our greatest actress, is celebrated in a retrospective with work by Godard, Pialat, Verhoeven, and Haneke; Breathless continues,...
Museum of Modern Art
One of our greatest living filmmakers, Tsai Ming-liang, is subject of a career-spanning retrospective that starts today; Tsai will give a talk on Saturday.
Film at Lincoln Center
A 4K restoration of Kieślowski’s The Double Life of Véronique begins a run.
Roxy Cinema
Kenneth Branagh’s Frankenstein, Michael Mann’s The Keep, and Coppola’s Dracula play on 35mm, while Weyes Blood presents prints of Virginia Woolf and Rebecca.
Museum of the Moving Image
See It Big: Extended Cuts! offers unique opportunity to see films in their original form, starting with Once Upon a Time in America and Little Shop of Horrors; the great Manny Kirchheimer and Leo Hurwitz are subject of a series.
Film Forum
Isabelle Huppert, maybe our greatest actress, is celebrated in a retrospective with work by Godard, Pialat, Verhoeven, and Haneke; Breathless continues,...
- 10/21/2022
- by Nick Newman
- The Film Stage
In a future that regrettably lacks flying cars and teleportation as early predictions in movies and television may have suggested, Jay-Z is doing his part to advance the technological age. The billionaire rapper’s venture capital firm was the lead investor in the Los Angeles-area startup Stellar Pizza as they raised funds to create robot trucks that make pizza from scratch.
The firm, Marcy Venture Partners, brands itself as leading or co-investing in companies with meaningful brand values. Stellar Pizza joins their roster alongside Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty with...
The firm, Marcy Venture Partners, brands itself as leading or co-investing in companies with meaningful brand values. Stellar Pizza joins their roster alongside Rihanna’s Savage x Fenty with...
- 10/4/2022
- by Larisha Paul
- Rollingstone.com
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