“Film begins with DW Griffith and ends with Abbas Kiarostami.” – Jean-Luc Godard This quote sounds a bit exaggerated,but no one could deny the fact that Abbas Kiarostami has diverted cinema off its course a little bit.As one of the most important directors alive,the Cannes winner keeps making films that extend not only the possibilities of cinema but […]
Year: 2012
Criterion Gems: Shallow Grave
From today I’m gonna introduce a new series on Taste of Cinema called Criterion Gems,which consists a series of reviews of the Criterion Collection titles that need to be discovered by more film fans.Let’s start this marathon with one of their new titles,British Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle’s thrilling debut – Shallow Grave. First let’s have […]
Classic Chinese Cinema: Running Out of Time (An Zhan)
Until today I’ve written four posts in this series,unlike the previous classic and arthouse type,today I’m gonna introduce a very entertaining flick from top-notch Hong Kong crime genre filmmaker Johnnie To and his Milky Way Image. Running Out of Time is the most accessible Chinese-language film I can think of,and if you are a crime genre […]
Not Dazed and Confused Any More
Anyone who has been a regular reader of my blog knows that I haven’t posted consistently for a long while,until I “suddenly” came back and wrote again half a month ago.I owe my readers a late apology that I didn’t write a post for notification about my vacation,I also felt guilty for being too careless […]
Classic Chinese Cinema: The Terrorizers
“The bombs we plant in each other are ticking away” -Edward Yang In my last 3 posts of this classic Chinese cinema series,I’ve covered cinema from Mainland and Hong Kong,today I’m introducing an early masterpiece from a towering figure in Taiwan cinema history,Edward Yang,who is also my favorite Chinese-language film director. Yang only shot […]
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10 Greatest Movies about Making a Movie
“When somebody who makes movies for a living — either as an actor, writer, producer or director — lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film — a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is […]