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6 items from 2011
Will Kill to Work: Takashi Miike's "13 Assassins"
28 April 2011 9:11 PM, PDT | MUBI | See recent MUBI news »
A question for you: how do you deal with contradictions in a director's filmography? The question becomes more complicated when talking about "workman" filmmakers like Japanese maverick Takashi Miike or Johnnie To (or, going back, of course, Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, William Wellman, and the lesser known)—with such prodigious output, how do audiences, critics, and the artist-workers themselves understand the instances of one film project contradicting another?
How, in the case of To, do we talk about Election and Triad Election (a.k.a. Triad Election)—critical indictments of violent genre cinema—when those films are followed up by Exiled, which proceeds to indulge those very same conventions? Or, in the case of the director of the subject of this piece, how does one look at 2004's withering time traveling anti-violence treatise Izo, and then see, several films later, 13 Assassins—as classical or old fashioned a samurai film as there ever was? »
Cannes 2011: Jury Includes Jude Law, Uma Thurman and Oliver Assayas
20 April 2011 8:16 AM, PDT | FilmSchoolRejects.com | See recent FilmSchoolRejects news »
As the time ticks on towards this year’s fest, the official Cannes Film Festival website has just sent me a Newsletter informing me of the Avengers style band of filmy people who will make up this year’s Grand Jury- lead in Captain America style (albeit a grumpy and grizzly version now) by Robert DeNiro. Among the list of eight are stellar actors Uma Thurman and Jude Law (stellar provided we forget the other Avengers movie, and the remake of Sleuth), writer/director Oliver Assayas (Carlos) and director Johnnie To (Election). The full list is as follows: Martina Gusman (actress and producer, Argentina) Nansun Shi (producer, Hong Kong/China) Uma Thurman (actress, scriptwriter, producer, USA) Linn Ullmann (writer,literary critic, Norway Olivier Assayas (director, France) Jude Law (actor, producer, UK) Mahamat Saleh Haroun (director, Chad) Johnnie To (director, producer, Hong Kong/China) What the names mean to the likely winners isn’t clear yet, but »
- Simon Gallagher
Uma Thurman, Jude Law Join Robert De Niro on Cannes Feature Film Jury
19 April 2011 11:51 AM, PDT | The Wrap | See recent The Wrap news »
Uma Thurman is the second American on the feature film jury of the Cannes Film Festival, joining jury chairman Robert De Niro, the festival announced Tuesday. The other members, all announced Tuesday, include British actor Jude Law, Argentinian actress/producer Martina Gusman ("Carancho") and French director Olivier Assayas ("Carlos"). Other jurors: producer Nansun Shi ("Late Autumn") from China, director Mahamat Saleh Haroun ("A Screaming Man") from Chad and director-producer Johnny To ("Election") from Hong Kong. Norwegian critic-writer Linn Ullmann, the daughter of Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullman, completes the panel. The jury's selections, including the »
- Joshua L. Weinstein
Sparrow – review
16 April 2011 4:05 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
The reputation of Hong Kong director Johnnie To rests on such stylish gangster films as Election (2005), a dark study of the contest for the leadership of a long-established triad. Sparrow, which has taken three years to reach this country, is a beautifully made, deliberately puzzling thriller in which a team of Hong Kong pickpockets (led by the handsome Simon Yam) are taken for a painful ride by a beautiful femme fatale working for an ageing big-time criminal. It's a film of considerable style but little substance. A sparrow apparently is a harbinger of bad luck as well as Chinese underworld slang for pickpocket.
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- Philip French
Sparrow – review
14 April 2011 4:06 PM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Johnnie To's pickpocket comedy is unexpectedly entertaining – and has the strangest imaginable influence
Johnnie To is the multi-talented Hong Kong director with a reputation here for hard-hitting crime and action: his Election (2005), about a fratricidal war for gangland primacy has many admirers; I found it clotted and self-conscious. This movie is lighter, easier and more likeable: it's a sprightly comedy caper about a pickpocket gang that pays eccentric homage to French cinema. But it's not Bresson. The movie on which it's modelled is, of all things, Jacques Demy's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. Veteran tough guy Simon Yam plays Kei, the leader of a light-fingered gang roaming the Hong Kong streets, pinching purses and wallets and palming them quickly on to each other. Chung Chun Lei, played by Kelly Lin, is a beautiful, mysterious woman spying on Kei on behalf of ageing gang boss Mr Fu (Lo Hoi Pang »
- Peter Bradshaw
All About Love (2010) Movie Review
14 January 2011 7:42 AM, PST | Beyond Hollywood | See recent Beyond Hollywood news »
Acclaimed Hong Kong director and industry veteran Ann Hui returns with “All About Love”, a film considerably lighter in tone than her last outing, the depressing, Tin Shui Wai-set “Night and Fog”. Needless to say, although the film’s premise does suggest light romantic comedy, with a script by author and screenwriter Yang Yee Shan (responsible for the hard hitting “Whispers and Moans” and “True Women for Sale”), it also tackles a number of serious societal concerns. The film is headlined by a couple of top acting talents in Sandra Ng (currently enjoying a career renaissance thanks to the likes of “Echoes of the Rainbow”) and 1990s pop star Vivian Chow (making her first film appearance for 14 years), with support from Eddie Cheung (“Election”) and William Chan (“Beauty on Duty!”). The film revolves around two urbanite lesbians and former lovers, Macy (Sandra Ng) and Anita (Vivian Chow), who meet again »
- James Mudge
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