SXSW Review
Beijing Taxi
Director: Miao Wang
World Premiere
Documentary Competition
78 minutes
Complete Coverage of SXSW 2010
Synopsis
Beijing Taxi is a feature length documentary that vividly portrays Beijing undergoing a profound transformational arch. Through a humanistic lens, the intimate lives of three taxi drivers connect a morphing city confronted with modern issues and changing values. With diverse imagery combined with a contemporary score rich in atmosphere, we experience a visceral sense of the common citizens’ persistent attempts to grasp the elusive. Candid and perceptive in its filming approach and highly cinematic in style, Beijing Taxi takes us on a lyrical journey into fragments of a society riding the bumpy roads to modernization. Though the destination is unknown, they continue to forge ahead.
Director Bio
Beijing native Miao Wang has a B.A. in economics from the Univ of Chicago and a M.F.A. in design/film from Parsons. Her...
Beijing Taxi
Director: Miao Wang
World Premiere
Documentary Competition
78 minutes
Complete Coverage of SXSW 2010
Synopsis
Beijing Taxi is a feature length documentary that vividly portrays Beijing undergoing a profound transformational arch. Through a humanistic lens, the intimate lives of three taxi drivers connect a morphing city confronted with modern issues and changing values. With diverse imagery combined with a contemporary score rich in atmosphere, we experience a visceral sense of the common citizens’ persistent attempts to grasp the elusive. Candid and perceptive in its filming approach and highly cinematic in style, Beijing Taxi takes us on a lyrical journey into fragments of a society riding the bumpy roads to modernization. Though the destination is unknown, they continue to forge ahead.
Director Bio
Beijing native Miao Wang has a B.A. in economics from the Univ of Chicago and a M.F.A. in design/film from Parsons. Her...
- 3/31/2010
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
SXSW 2010 – Day Four
Hurry up and wait … for MacGruber starring Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer and Ryan Phillippe.
Today was the random one you get at every festival. You just don’t know what you’re going to see. Some early screenings on Friday suddenly left me with only one thought – get MacGruber.
Complete Coverage of SXSW 2010
I went to the Fast Pass express lane at 8:45 a.m. to wait in line, so I could then wait in a shorter line. It opened at 10 and I was able to get my pass no problem.
Then it was off to see Audrey the Trainwreck.
Synopsis
For Ron Hogan, life is fine… not great, not good, just… fine, and on the verge of retiring any sort of dream heÕs harbored of a life less ordinary. Pushing thirty and working a thankless office job, internet dating is one more routine in Ron Hogan’s well-ordered life.
Hurry up and wait … for MacGruber starring Will Forte, Kristen Wiig, Val Kilmer and Ryan Phillippe.
Today was the random one you get at every festival. You just don’t know what you’re going to see. Some early screenings on Friday suddenly left me with only one thought – get MacGruber.
Complete Coverage of SXSW 2010
I went to the Fast Pass express lane at 8:45 a.m. to wait in line, so I could then wait in a shorter line. It opened at 10 and I was able to get my pass no problem.
Then it was off to see Audrey the Trainwreck.
Synopsis
For Ron Hogan, life is fine… not great, not good, just… fine, and on the verge of retiring any sort of dream heÕs harbored of a life less ordinary. Pushing thirty and working a thankless office job, internet dating is one more routine in Ron Hogan’s well-ordered life.
- 3/18/2010
- by Jeff Bayer
- The Scorecard Review
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