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hmmm, film critics.
putting in a late entry just before the 2,000 worder is supposed to surface.
I have spent some time pondering the role of a film critic. I think it goes far beyond just putting up words on a public media (newspapers, magazines, websites, whatever) about a particular film. By watching a film first hand (and I [...]
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the DEPARTED one – Remake: Infernal Affairs and The Departed
something to do with my thesis, I find it particularly useful as most I have spoken to has either not watched both films, or are relatively familiar with the HK cinema (like myself)
I find myself disagreeing, mainly because of the fact that I didn’t like The [...]
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The cultures portrayed in Asian films faces the possibility of losing certain cultural narratives when the big Hollywood studios buy the rights to and do actually remake these movies.
The filmmakers content with the use cross-cultural representation of similar messages via the replacement of cultural symbols rooted in the original culture with replacement symbols that are [...]
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iRack
hmmm it’s deeper than you think, just watch on. and have a good laugh, of course.
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Sketches of Frank Gehry
” Everything has been done before. What changes is only the technology.”
- Frank Gehry
So I was at the Botanic Gardens on tuesday night, catching the last showing of the moonlight cinema before it takes a winter break of its own. “Sketches of Frank Gehry” by Sidney Pollack was on show. I guess we all know [...]
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