tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36117750422025661792011-07-31T06:08:41.703+08:00Dreaming about cinema, dreaming about an ideal life in Hong Kong...The Daydreamerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02959672457255733288noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3611775042202566179.post-82615528668907770812010-03-31T18:15:00.015+08:002010-04-03T19:51:38.149+08:00

Original Thai title: เจ้านกกระจอก Director: Anoncha Suwichakornpong อโนชา สุวิชากรพงศ์ Cast: Phakpoom Surapongsanurak, Arkaney Cherkham, Paramej Noiam Length: 82 mins Year: 2009 IMDB MAJOR SPOILERS THROUGHOUT REVIEW Films that attempt to link a metaphysical study of human life and death with the cosmos will always be ambitious. 2001: A Space Odyssey 2001太空漫遊 and Solaris 星球索拉羅斯 are fine

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Original Japanese title: しんぼる Director: Hitsohi Matsumoto 松本人志, David Quintero Length: 93 mins Year: 2009 IMDB A comedy superstar in Japan, Hitoshi Matsumoto's directorial debut Dai Nipponjin 大日本人 (aka Big Man Japan) was a welcome introduction of postmodern revisionism to the Japanese superhero genre, as well as (to leave off my academic pretenses) being simply a hilarious popcorn movie.

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I'm pretty late for posting this as my favourite event of the Hong Kong calendar has started 2 days ago, but better late than never. If there are any fellow bloggers/internet lurkers/members of the public/stalkers who would like to catch a film together and have a coffee/debate/fight afterwards, feel free to send me an email! Films that I've bought tickets: Symbol 睡衣男異次元空間 - 6/3 2:30pm (Asian

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1. Props for this year's programme booklet design. A handy A4 size, perfect for on-the-go browsing/sharing and for keeping you seemingly occupied while queuing up for the next screening (even though most of those who bother to queue up are presumably avid festgoers who planned their schedules well in advance). The cover's psychological/film noir theme also gives a good impression of

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It's been almost 10 months since my last post, but I've decided to start blogging again. Much has changed during this period, both personally and the people/events around me, but some things remain the same: my procrastination, my writer's block and my passion for cinema and politics. Any particular reasons for why I'm restarting this blog? A sudden reminiscence for what I've written, the ensuing

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Original Japanese title: 愛のむきだし Director: Sono Sion 園子溫 Cast: Nishijima Taahiro 西島隆弘, Mitsushima Hikari 満島ひかり, Ando Sakura 安藤サクラ, Atsuro Watabe 渡部篤郎, Watanabe Makiko 渡辺真起子 Length: 237 mins IMDB Sono Sion's Love Exposure has all the hallmarks of a great cult film. It's brave and ambitious (it's nearly 4 hours long), has copious amounts of sex and bloody violence, and picks its satiric targets

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Director: Yu Guangyi 于廣義 (Simplified Chinese: 于广义) Length: 90 mins, 94 mins Year: 2006, 2008 Sometimes the best films are made at places that the director knows inside out. This is the case for Yu Guangyi, a man without prior filmmaking training or experience, who has created two award-winning documentaries capturing old, impoverished lifestyles in the face of rapid social change in China. *

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Director: Yamazaki Yutaka 山崎裕 Starring: Watanabe Makiko 渡辺真起子 Ando Sakura 安藤 サクラ Length: 104 minsDon't be misled by the programme guide that Torso is another quirky indie like Lars and The Real Girl (never released in Hong Kong but somehow in Taiwan and Singapore). Instead, realising that Yamazaki Yutaka is a regular collaborater with Kore-ada Hirozaku, and you may expect a quiet,

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Director: Pablo Larrain Starring: Alfredo Castro, Amparo Noguera, Paola Lattus, Héctor Morales, Elsa Poblete Length: 98 mins Year: 2008 IMDB Raul (Alfredo Castro) is a 52 year old man with only one goal: to give the best impersonation of John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever 週末夜狂熱. He's staging the dance act with a bunch of amateurs at a local restaurant, but he's aiming for a bigger prize:

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The Daydreamer highly recommends fellow daydreamers to catch the remaining screenings of Tokyo Sonata at Palace IFC or Broadway Cinematheque (check here). Shown in last year's HKAFF, Tokyo Sonata was one of better releases of the rather lacklustre 2008**. Kurosawa Kiyoshi 黒沢清, director of horror films such as Kairo (aka Pulse) 惹鬼回路 and Retribution 惹鬼狂叫, comes up with a family drama/shomingeki 庶民劇

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It's the time of the year when Hong Kong cineastes go nuts (or try to go nuts, thanks to the daily constraints that is our job). I'm relieved the programme still has a lot of arthouse and world cinema, and not dumped with heartwarming drudgery as announced previously in Mingpao 明報. Though smaller in scale this year (what happened to the outdoor screenings?), there's still plenty worth watching.

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Director: Ivy Ho 岸西Starring: Karena Lam 林嘉欣, Ekin Cheung 鄭伊健Length: 100 minsYear: 2008IMDBWatching this on a early afternoon weekday screening two weeks ago, I remember the audible groaning a few rows back midway in the film. It was clear that Claustrophobia won't go down well for the couples, let alone the mainstream audience, who pay to see it under the impression that it's just another date

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So why did I start a blog?I came across blogging several years ago, when many of my friends started pouring their thoughts on Xanga. Besides providing a valuable opportunity for stalking (same goes for Facebook), I never understood the point of it: exposing your pet hates and anxieties to your friends, presumably so that they could 'understand' you better, without realising that it can equally

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