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The Single Cinephile’s Guide to Anti-Valentine’s Day Films
To give you a sense of how I feel about Valentine’s Day, I’ll share two short stories. First, a couple years ago, I had a “platonic” Valentine, for whom I prepared Hershey kisses by removing the paper tags in each and replaced them with various lyrics from Elt...
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Cine-Math: 5 Film Equations
Let it be known that I exist purely to subvert all of the Asian stereotypes: I quit karate, I can't speak a lick of Chinese, a quit violin, and, much to the chagrin of others', I can't do math for the life of me. So, what have I left other than the movies? Cin...
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Wong Kar-wai to Adapt “Ferryman”
For a director that isn't afraid to take his time between projects, I almost did a double-take at the news that Wong Kar-wai will begin work on his next film in 2015. From The Film Stage, Wong Kar-wai (In The Mood For Love, The Grandmaster) will be adapting a ...
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“Vara: A Blessing” is a Beautiful Journey Through Traditional Indian Music and Dance
Earlier in the week at Tribeca, Beneath the Harvest Sky and Broken Hill Blues explored the coming of age stories of young men in isolated locations in America and Sweden, respectively. In Vara: A Blessing, the focus is on a young Indian female, and instead of ...
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Wong Kar-Wai’s ‘The Grandmaster’ is Visually Decadent But Narratively Patchy
The following review is an expanded version of one that ran as part of our coverage of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where a longer cut of the film was exhibited than is being released in the United States.
While it’s not necessarily a stan...
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Why Harvey Weinstein’s Neutering of Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Snowpiercer’ Is An Insult To Us All
When I caught wind that Bong Joon-ho, the South Korean auteur behind complex genre masterworks The Host, Mother and Memories of Murder, had a new film coming out this year, it was enough to immediately become my most anticipated release of 2013. Bong is that k...
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The Second Criterion: ‘In the Mood for Love’
It’s difficult to write about In the Mood for Love in terms of theme because much of the film is concerned with ephemeral, almost inexpressible feelings. Still, the characters’ quest for understanding and the relationship that forms out of that creates an inte...
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Motion In The Flux: The Postcolonial Hong Kong Of ‘Chungking Express’
This article originally appeared at Gazing At Film.
Hong Kong is a nation without a past. After spending time as a British colony, it was then handed back over to China causing it to be in a constant state of motion. Unlike America, which began as colonies...
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