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Category Archives: Film
[Film] My Beautiful Short Films (Volume 4) [South Korea]
My Beautiful Short Films (Volume 4) Originally posted in 2010 on London Korean Links) Released by KOFIC (Korean Academy of Film Arts) this DVD was one I was very curious and keen to see. Consisting of 10 short films made by directors while studying at the Academy, the shorts range between 11 and 30 minutes [...]
Posted in Film, Korean, Reviews
Tagged as: Bong Joon Ho, Film, review, short films, South Korea
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[Anime] Gyo: Tokyo Fish Attack [Hirao, Japan, 2012]
Based on the manga of the same name by Junji Ito, this surreal apocalyptic horror is brought to the screen by Takayuki Hirao and is a fantastic, bizarre, grotesque anime about mutated fish that arrive on land complete with metallic pincer like legs and a deadly disease. Kaori on holiday with two friends in Okinawa [...]
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Terracotta Film Festival: Dancing Queen [Lee Suk-Hoon, S. Korea,2012]
This second film of the Korean Breakfast Club double bill was a comedy with a little more social punch, dealing with gender roles in Korean society, politics and show business. The story focuses on Jung-Hwa (Uhm Jung Hwa) once known as the Madonna of Shinchon who once dreamed of being a singer before marrying her childhood [...]
Posted in Film, Korean, Reviews
Tagged as: Film, korean, review, terracotta film festival, uhm jung hwa
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Terracotta Film festival: Couples [Jeong Yong-Ki, S. Korea, 2011]
Couples is not an easy storyline to explain, but that is perhaps one of the reasons I enjoyed it so much. A remake of the film ‘Stranger of Mine‘ (Ken Uchida, Japan 2005), the main action takes place during one day as we follow the story of several couples and how their lives intertwine and [...]
Terracotta Film Festival: Seediq Bale [Wei te-sheng, Taiwan, 2011]
2012 seems to be the year of independant movies for Terracotta along with the debut directors and tales inspired and based on true events. Seediq Bale is no exception to this trend and, Twelve years in the making, it made a gripping two and a half hour viewing. Set in the early 20th centrury it [...]
Terracotta Film Festival: The Woodsman and the Rain [Shuichi Okita, Japan, 2011]
I make no secret of it as its good to know what the reviewer’s bias is, but the first reason this film was on my list was because Oguri Shun was one of the two main leads. Born into a theatrical family, he is actually a very good actor and I’ve enjoyed all the dramas [...]
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Tagged as: Film, japanese, review, shun oguri, terracotta film festival
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Terracotta Film Festival: From Up On Poppy Hill [Goro Miyazaki, Japan, 2011]
Studio Ghibli has consistently produced animation that has appealed to a wide range of people across the globe. Hayao Miyazaki is well known for uplifting and adorable ‘Totoro’, the magical and often dark ‘Spirited Away’, ‘Princess Mononoke’ and ‘Naussica’ to name a few. (I’m actually very fond of Panda! Go Panda!’) but this is son [...]
Posted in Anime, Film, Japanese, Reviews
Tagged as: anime, ghibli, goro miyazaki, japam, terracotta film festival, up on poppy hill
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Terracotta Film Festival: Arirang [Kim Ki-Duk,S. Korea, 2011]
Finally! I had been hoping to see this along with a Q&A at the Korean Film Festival earlier this year, but it never materialised much to my disappointment. Kim KiDuk, despite a rather mysogenistic approach on occasion to his female characters on film, is one of the Korean directors whose work I really enjoy. [...]
Posted in Chinese, Directors, Film
Tagged as: arirang, documentary, Film, kim kiduk, korean director
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Terracotta Film Festival: Masterclass with Guo Xiaolu
I first encountered Guo Xiaolu when her thought provoking documentary ‘Concrete Revolution’ was shown in London and then through her novel ‘Village of Stone’. I had actually been intending to miss her film ‘UFO in her eyes’ as my day was already packed with things to watch and four films on the go was not [...]
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Tagged as: Chinese director, Guo Xiaolu, masterclass, terracotta film festival
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Terracotta Film Festival: Return to Burma [Midi Z, Burma/Taiwan, 2011]
The first film ever shot in Burma and presented at film festivals internationally, this was a must on my list of films to see. I’d read a lot about Burma from various sources such as Pascal Khoo Thwe’s ‘From the land of Green Ghosts’; The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green [...]
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Tagged as: burma, Film, review, taiwan, terracotta film festival
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