Tag: 2009
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Inconstant Reader: Under the Dome
“We’ll lose that whatdoyoucallit, elephant of surprise.”
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Oceans
In Oceans, directors Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud (Travelling Birds) attempt to answer the question “What is the ocean?” through powerful and emotive visuals. Narrated by Pierce Brosnan, the film provides a stunning look at an alien world beneath the surface.
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A View of Love (Alliance Française French Film Festival 2011)
Jean Dujardin and Marie-Josée Croze join actress-turned-director Nicole Garcia in her latest outing. Part of a wave of French cinema dealing with the French occupation of Algeria, it is now screening at the Alliance Française French Film Festival 2011.
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Castaway on the Moon
The 2011 Korean Cinema Blogathon is on, and we are taking a look at Lee Hae-jun’s 2009 sophomore effort. Soon to be remade for US audiences by Mean Girls director Mark Waters, audiences everywhere should take the opportunity to explore this modern classic.
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets’ Nest
The Swedish saga of the girl with questionable hobbies comes to a suitably gripping conclusion in the final part of the “Millennium Trilogy”. Based on the works of Stieg Larsson, it is soon to be remade for US audiences by David Fincher. Directed by Daniel Alfredson, it stars Noomi Rapace and Michael Nyqvist.
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Japanese Film Festival 2010: Wrap Up
It has been half a week since the end of the Sydney leg of 14th Japanese Film Festival, and we’re slowly coming down off the dizzying heights of the best that Japanese cinema has to offer us. Is Post Festival Displacement (PFD) a treatable disorder, and if so, can we claim it on Medicare? With…
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The Summit: A Chronicle of Stones (Japanese Film Festival)
Prior to the availability of handheld GPS, people used to rely on these things called maps and surveying to find their way around the world. It sounds like some kind of madness, but apparently they didn’t have the Internet in those days either. (It’s ok, we can say what we like about them here: they’ll…
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Oblivion Island: Haruka and the Magic Mirror (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
Production I.G. has always been a ground-breaker in the Japanese animation industry. Indeed, Production I.G. was the first company to film a series almost entirely in English with Japanese subtitles to reach a wider possible market, starting with the short feature Blood: The Last Vampire. With their latest feature, director Shinsuke Sato (Princess Blade) and animation director…
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Villon’s Wife (Japanese Film Festival 2010)
Based on the semi-autobiographical Osamu Dazai novel Villon no Tsuma.
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