But one can't help but wonder what
kind of film Park might have made if he'd had the full creative control to which he's accustomed in Korea.
Not exact matches
Korean director
Park Chan - wook's English - language debut plays like one giant homage to Alfred Hitchcock (particularly his 1943
film «Shadow
of a Doubt»), but with a decidedly unique and erotic twist that's every bit as perverse as his previous work — the
kind of movie that gets under your skin and stays there for days.
Without passing any judgement on the actual
film, can I just say that a
film called «La French» with Jean Dujardin at Cannes sounds like the
kind of parody you'd see in a South
Park episode about the Cannes filmfestival.
Arriving the same year American Spike Lee would remake his seminal Oldboy,
Park Chan Wook's highly anticipated first English - language feature proved a
kind of poetic statement
of call - and - response to the tendency for North American cinema to re-make excellent
films not just more linguistically palatable, but better while they're at it.
In his one -
of - a-
kind fiction / documentary hybrid Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Take One, director William Greaves presides over a beleaguered
film crew in New York's Central
Park, leaving them to try to figure out what
kind of movie they're making.
TELLURIDE, Colo. — In the blazing noon sun
of Labor Day, on a panel discussion in Elks
Park, the veteran critic Stanley Kauffmann put his finger on the
kinds of films that the Telluride Film Festival does not exist to support: movies made
of special effects and technology.
Tsui sets his avoidance dances in confined spaces (tiny apartments, backstage dressing rooms), but To's are set out in the open: a fountain in a public
park, a street corner, a sidewalk (a similarly choreographed scene plays out as well early in Romancing in Thin Air, itself a
kind of compendium
of all
of To's romantic comedies, where Sammi Cheng and Louis Koo wander outside the grounds
of the hotel, oblivious to each others» presence despite occupying the same
film frame).
Playing off the concept
of knowing what
kind of film they are making, it is quite evident that the director is playing homage to Steven Spielberg
films like Jurassic
Park and Jaws.
Aside from Manchester and Love & Friendship, none
of Amazon's
films has been a big earner yet, although
films like Chi - Raq, Paterson, and
Park Chan - wook's The Handmaiden got the
kind of critical acclaim the studio was looking for.
Filled with nostalgia for the
kind of future Disney envisioned when he built the original Tomorrowland theme
park in the 1950s, Bird's
film borrows sci - fi tropes from «The Matrix,» «Stargate» and other
films, mooshing them together with CGI action sequences (one
of which, a rocket lifting off from the Eiffel Tower, is truly spectacular) and enough philosophizing to fill several TED talks.
Park has worked his entire career to avoid the usual kids»
film template: fart and burp jokes and pop culture references wrapped up with chase scenes and smashed inside some
kind of valuable lesson.
One Mile
Film (5,280 feet
of 35 mm
film negative and print taped to the mile - long High Line walk way in New York City for 17 hours on Thursday, September 13th, 2012 with 11,500 visitors — the visitors walked, wrote, jogged, signed, drew, touched, danced, parkoured, sanded, keyed, melted popsicles, spit, scratched, stomped, left shoe prints
of all
kinds and put gum on the filmstrip — it was driven on by baby stroller and trash can wheels and was traced by art students — people wrote messages on the
film and drew animations, etched signs, symbols and words into the
film emulsion lines drawn down much
of the filmstrip by visitors and Jwest with highlighters and markers — the walk way surfaces
of concrete, train track steel, wood, metal gratings and fountain water impressed into the
film;
filmed images shot by Peter West —
filmed Parkour performances by Thomas Dolan and Vertical Jimenez — running on rooftops by Deb Berman and Jwest —
film taped, rolled and explained on the High Line by art students and volunteers) 2012, 58 minutes, 40 seconds 35 mm negative and
film print transferred to high - definition video, no sound Commissioned and produced by Friends
of the High Line and the New York City Department
of Parks and Recreation
Landau says that
kind of creative cross-collaboration has already begun, with ideas from the team at Walt Disney Imagineering making it into the upcoming sequels, and ideas tied to the upcoming
films present in the
park on opening day.