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Passing Notes In Fifth Period History Class With Phoebe Cates

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2007-12-26 05:25:00 by Jeremy Richey in Moon In The Gutter
...period history class. Allyson played a relatively small role in my life but even now, well over fifteen years since I last saw her, there isnt a month that goes by where I dont stop for an instant and think about her and remember those funny little words that passed between us or the way she brightened up that fifth period class on a daily...
 
 
 
 
 
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12th Thai Short Film & Video Festival review: Diseases and a Hundred Year Period

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2008-08-29 20:02:00 by WiseKwai in Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal
...Period Directed by Sompot "Boat" Chidgasornpongse , the short is one of a growing number of reaction pieces to the censorship of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century . Diseases effectively functions as a documentary of this troubling episode in Thai cinema history Sompot, who served as a second assistant director on Syndromes...
 
 
 
 
 
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The Rise Of Period Dramas In Korea

2007-10-05 23:40:00 by moviepal in East Asian Movie and Drama Blog
 
...period drama series Taewangsasingi or The Four Guardian Gods of the King (picture), I was struck by how good the TV ratings for period dramas in Korea were in general. Although these drama serials are not as well-known as comtemporary romantic drama serials such as Princess Hours or Coffee Prince in Asia, for the last couple of years, these
 
 
 
 
 
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Trailer Watch: John Woo's Period Epic Red Cliff

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2008-02-01 11:54:44 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
 
...period adventure on a Kurosawa-scale is the $75-million Red Cliff, his first Asia-shot film since 1992's Hardboiled. Set in the Three Kingdoms period of Chinese history, the epic was filmed over four months in mainland China This trailer took my breath away. My only regret: that Chow Yun-Fat, fresh from working on a Jerry Bruckheimer-scale...
 
 
 
 
 
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Toronto Watch: Me and Orson Welles

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2008-09-06 05:31:25 by Variety.com * in Thompson On Hollywood
...period evocation of the early days of the Mercury Theatre, based on a book by a player who was 15 when he first encountered Welles. Linklater and co. try for total virisimilitude; the impersonation of Welles by Brit Christian McKay (who has done a Welles one-man show) is uncanny and delightful. Also surprisingly winning is Zac Efron of...
 
 
 
 
 
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KIYOSHI KUROSAWA BLOGATHONCure: Confusion and Sophistication

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2008-07-25 23:22:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...period for American cinema; but that just happened to be the period when Kurosawa saw the most movies. Even when he sees the same films now, he thinks many of the films of that period are wonderful; films by such famous directors as Sam Peckinpah, Robert Aldrich, Richard Fleischer, and Don Siegel. But Kurosawa specifies that these American...
 
 
 
 
 
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Everything Is Cinema and Criticism Is Nothing

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2008-08-02 10:29:00 by Ed Howard in Only The Cinema
...period, beginning with Breathless and including Contempt , Pierrot le fou and Weekend would have to know that pain is part of love. If we didn't, how carefully could we have been watching his movies in the first place To paraphrase Zacharek on Brody, that's a lovely sentiment, but what exactly does it have to do with anything? She...
 
 
 
 
 
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HOLLYWOOD ASIAN: PHILIP AHN AND THE POLITICS OF CROSS-ETHNIC PERFORMANCEThe Evening Class Interview With Hye Seung Chung

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2008-06-10 13:31:00 by Maya in The Evening Class
...period. Hye Seung discovered Ahn was widely known by the WWII generation, by older Americans in their 60s and 70s, who remembered him as "one of those bad guys" in WWII propaganda films. Though these performances were obviously hideous stereotypes of Japanese military officers and spies, Hye Seung was startled to uncover interviews with...
 
 
 
 
 
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Lipstick (1976)

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2008-04-09 07:00:00 by Jeremy Richey in Moon In The Gutter
...period) and his work on LIPSTICK is no different as it is an exceedingly well-directed and confident film LIPSTICK was the brainchild of mega big time producers Dino De Laurentiis and Freddie Fields. It began to take shape in the mid seventies and it was first offered to award winning British director Michael Winner in 1974. Winner, no...