Sentences with phrase «asian cinema»

With its focus on groundbreaking Asian cinema, this prestigious event is known for its dynamic programming and commitment to the development of a vibrant local film culture Frequency about 1 post per month.

Along with art exhibitions, the Prada Foundation in Milan organizes guided tours, talks, special programs, interviews, and is particularly committed in film screenings which in the last year included special events dedicated to Italian, Russian and Asian cinema from the 30s to the 70s, and to the work of Roman Polanski.

She has lectured on a variety of subjects from gender theory to Asian cinema to experimental film throughout the United States, France, Austria, Taiwan and Hong Kong.

To celebrate the release of The Assassin, a stunning new take on wuxia films by renown director Hou Hsiao - Hsien, we are offering you the chance to win East Asian cinema prize bundles.

Plus, if you have a particular interest in Asian cinema, it's the place to find films from those directors yet to be anointed and celebrated in the anchor festivals around the world.

For example, he pioneered those racing tracking shots that are now a staple of Hollywood and Asian cinema.

Darrell William Davis teaches Asian cinema, Hollywood, and postcolonial theory at the University of NSW, School of Theatre, Film and Dance.

Asian cinema's sole representative is Psycho Raman, a serial killer thriller from India directed by Gang's of Wasseypur helmer Anurag Kashyup.

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Gong Li - she has majorly contributed to global cinema and honoring her would help introduce a new audience to her work as well as Asian cinema.

Asia in Sitges Asian cinema, that this year will count on the support of institutions such as The Brussels Hong Kong Economic Trade Office, Japan Foundation, and the Korean Film Council, will continue to be omnipresent in the Festival - across all sections, including Focus Asia.

Its similarities to that cornerstone of modern Asian cinema do not however prove to be its undoing as Memories of the Sword is an often beautifully realized, artfully photographed cinematic experience filled with rich characters and even richer histories.

(Hanoi: SEAPAVAA, 2001) Given the paucity of English language literature regarding South East Asian cinema, this rather erratic anthology...

He has written widely on East Asian cinema, and in particular Chinese cinema.

Films by women, films about women, world cinema and in particularly Asian cinema.

Especially when it comes to making English language versions of brilliant moments in Asian cinema.

Yahoo! Singapore finds out from the Asian cinema dream - team why exactly the film took so long to be made and if rumours about Wong and Leung being at odds are really true.

War flick and Asian cinema are, of course, two of the elements that went into George Lucas» conceptual gumbo for «Star Wars,» and Edwards uses these influences in new ways.

Forget what you think you know about Asian cinema just because you saw a dubbed version of «Crouching Tiger» and experienced the bloody kung fu - homage of «Kill Bill.»

This 2013 Hong Kong feature was nominated for a slew of native film awards including Best Action Choreography, Best Editing, Best Visual Effects and Best New Director and with my penchant for violent Asian cinema, I have trouble believing that this won't be a surprise victory for SIFF.

The 2nd annual Indie Meme Film Festival, highlighting contemporary South Asian cinema, starts tonight at the Regal Arbor.

Hey y ’ all, the gods of Asian cinema worked overtime this year at the New York Asian Film Festival and brought forth a true acting legend.

Instead, he focuses on Asian cinema and Japanese animation in particular.

Firestorm This 2013 Hong Kong feature was nominated for a slew of native film awards including Best Action Choreography, Best Editing, Best Visual Effects and Best New Director and with my penchant for violent Asian cinema, I have trouble believing that this won't be a surprise victory for SIFF.

Film wise he's open to anything, but in his early 20's he was heavily into Asian cinema and still enjoys the guilty pleasures of martial arts films.

But it made most of the international press, apart from a few aficionados of Asian cinema, uneasy; they were confounded by the complicated plot and overflowing cast of characters, and in some cases directly repelled by the frank exposures of childish macho bluster and hollow consumerist excess that reflected so accurately the frantic nonsense of the Cannes festival itself.

Effortlessly moving between depictions of daily life, sprinkled with humor and warmth, to extraordinarily heartbreaking events (without straying into melodrama) and taut action sequences, Jang provides actor Song Kang - ho (Snowpiercer, The Host) another opportunity to prove that he's one of the finest character actors working in Asian cinema today.

Even better would have been a list that took in all of Asian cinema, since it's not just Chinese cinema that gets ignore.

Two years later, he was the driving force (with Charles Tesson) behind a special double issue of Cahiers on Hong - Kong cinema that was to acquire mythical status among Francophone admirers of Asian cinema and of the golden age of Hong - Kong cinema.

The Udine Far East Film Festival, one of Europe's biggest showcases for contemporary Asian cinema and also one of TwitchFilm's favorite international festivals, has officially unveiled its lineup during a press conference which took place earlier today.Covering a wide variety...

Add in some of that good - old eye - watering violence that Mr Park Chan - wook does so well and you have a delicious slice of pure Asian cinema.

It is a claustrophobic family drama bearing all the hallmarks of high - brow Asian cinema.

She specializes in Asian cinema.

Before you pour the bucket of pig's blood on me, I want to first say I'm well aware Silence is adapted from Shūsaku Endō's novel of the same name, which was also turned into a film in 1971 that received worldwide acclaim upon release (another Scorsese remake of an Asian cinema classic!).

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Extras: Audio commentary by film scholar Richard Suchenski, new interview with Asian cinema expert Tony Rayns, the 2017 rerelease trailer.

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With a specific fascination in both the western genre and Asian cinema in general, I am of the view that good movies are either enlightening or entertaining, and if you are truly lucky they are both.

Martial and arts are a natural translation to Asian cinema.

We are interested in not just those directors who are long venerated — although there is no lack of passionate support for figures such as Robert Bresson, judging from the entries so far — but, equally, the major figures (criminally little - known as they may be) in any sector or mode or geographical region of cinema: animation (Chuck Jones), independent (Todd Haynes), film - essay (Chris Marker), «new Asian cinema» (Edward Yang), experimental, «third cinema», B - films, underground, women's cinema...

Coming two years after Kim Jee - woon's 2008 Korean spaghetti western The Good, the Bad, the Weird, Daniel Lee's historical action epic 14 Blades offers another instance of mainstream Asian cinema attempting to give Western genre tropes a distinctly Eastern flavor.

Slides Maggie Cheung, acting out her own role as one of the greatest stars of Asian cinema, comes to Paris to portray Irma Vep (the character created by Musidora) in a remake of the famous series «Vampires» directed by Louis Feuillade between 1915 and 1916.

The ever - increasing importance of Asian cinema is documented in this issue with a collection of essays that reveal its many diverse aspects.

Such a travesty, considering how many greats there are in Asian cinema.

On the very different end of the scale, Asian cinema delivered two bonkers and blood - splattered midnight movies with Kim Ki - duk «s «Moebius» (a big step up from his Golden Lion - winning «Pieta «-RRB- and Sion Sono «s meta «Why Don't You Play In Hell.»

There's been a recent surge in the availability of Asian cinema in our local video stores here in Melbourne.

(Hanoi: SEAPAVAA, 2001) Given the paucity of English language literature regarding South East Asian cinema, this rather erratic anthology contributes substantially to improving our knowledge of cinema in...

Sian Sono's «The Whispering Star» won the NETPAC award for Asian cinema.

Despite Oscar's historic (and frankly bizarre) resistance to Asian cinema, even in the foreign film categories, an incredible six films from her resume have been nominated for Oscars.

From David's initial VIFF entry: The festival is particularly strong in Asian cinema, programmed by the indefatigible Tony Rayns; the festival also gives the «Dragons and Tigers?