Tag: In The Mood for Love
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Past Lives review – a spine-tingling romance of lost chances
Korean-Canadian writer-director Celine Song’s tremendous feature debut tells the poignant tale of childhood sweethearts separated by fate and thousands of milesThis supremely confident feature debut from Korean-Canadian writer-director Celine Song is a spine-tingling gem – a tale of not-so-brief encounters between star-crossed souls, played out over a period of 24 years. Combining the aching yearning…
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Past Lives review – a must-see story of lost loves, childhood crushes and changing identities
Celine Song’s feature debut about two people whose lives intertwine again after years apart is delicate and sophisticated, but also simple and directThis heart-meltingly romantic and sad movie from Korean-Canadian dramatist and filmmaker Celine Song left me wrung out and empty and weirdly euphoric, as if I’d lived through an 18-month affair in the course…
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Venice to Honor Liliana Cavani, Tony Leung Chiu-wai With Golden Lions for Career Achievement
The Venice Film Festival will honor “The Night Porter” director Liliana Cavani and Tony Leung Chiu-wai, the Hong Kong star of “In the Mood for Love” and Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings,” with its 2023 Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement.Cavani first attended Venice in 1965 with the historical doc “Philippe Pétain:…
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Why Is Jeanne Dielman Sight & Sound’s Top Movie of All Time?
As cinema geeks waited for Sight & Sound to release the latest iteration of its Greatest Films of All Time list, they warmed themselves up for the inevitable Twitter arguments by pregaming a little. What movie would take the top spot this time? Would it be Vertigo again? Would Citizen Kane take back the throne?…
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Film Preservation Workshop Returns to India After Covid Hiatus
A seventh edition of the Film Preservation and Restoration Workshop India is to be held Dec. 4-10, 2022, at the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Vastu Sangrahalay museum in Mumbai.The seven-day workshop designed by David Walsh, training and outreach coordinator at the International Federation of Film Archives (Fiaf), will include theory and practical group sessions in the…
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Tony Leung to be Feted as Asian Filmmaker of the Year at Busan Film Festival
Tony Leung Chiu-wai, the Hong Kong star of “In The Mood For Love” and Marvel’s “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” has been named Asian Filmmaker of the Year by the Busan International Film Festival. Leung will collect his award at the festival’s opening ceremony on Oct. 5. 2022.The festival will open with…
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Irma Vep Trailer: Olivier Assayas Directs A Miniseries Remake Of His Own Film
A brand new trailer has dropped for the HBO limited series, “
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‘Before, Now & Then’ (Nana) Review: Wong Kar-Wai Meets Apichatpong Weerasethakul in Transfixing Political Drama
Imagining what “In the Mood for Love” might have been like had Apichatpong Weeraserhakul directed it will land you somewhere in the vicinity of “Before, Now & Then,” Kamila Andini’s beguiling drama set in 1960s Indonesia. Anyone familiar with that country’s history, even if only through Joshua Oppenheimer’s devastating companion documentaries “The Act of Killing”…
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Water Cooler: Zack Snyder’s Justice League, Godzilla vs. Kong, Nobody, Mighty Ducks: Game Changers, Sasquatch, The Last Blockbuster, Made for Love, In the Mood For Love
On the March 24, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film managing editor Jacob Hall, weekend editor Brad Oman, senior writer Ben Pearson, and writers Hoai-Tran Bui and Chris Evangelista to discuss what they’ve been up to at the Water Cooler. At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing:…
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Korea Box Office: Foreign Film Revenues Collapse in 2020
The New Year weekend rankings give a bizarre indication of the havoc currently being wreaked on the Korean box office by the coronavirus, audience caution and stay at home orders. For a start, a Hollywood title scored a rare victory.“Wonder Woman 1984,” the most recently released film of international significance, took the top spot for…