Film Festival '05
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yup, i have oredi marked out some films to watch.
esp post revolutionary era -
Got any to recommend?
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i actually wanted to watch butterfly one...
but it was on the same time as my test... so cannot go liao...
then wanted to watch ghost in the shell, but it's too ex... 21 bucks... thot might as well buy the vcd or dvd.... -
Got Ghost in the Shell?Originally posted by coolger03:i actually wanted to watch butterfly one...
but it was on the same time as my test... so cannot go liao...
then wanted to watch ghost in the shell, but it's too ex... 21 bucks... thot might as well buy the vcd or dvd....
Which season? Or the Movie?
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movie... ghost in the shell 2: the innocence....Originally posted by deathscythe99:Got Ghost in the Shell?
Which season? Or the Movie?
it's the closing movie, so will be more ex lor... -
Hmm..Originally posted by coolger03:movie... ghost in the shell 2: the innocence....
it's the closing movie, so will be more ex lor...
Very very nice movie leh...but I watched liao
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shiT i lost my siff05 program!!!!!gotta go get another copy!!!!argh!!!!
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heheeh... if u just want the schedule, it's on the webpage... but for the details, u will need to look into each individual webpage....Originally posted by ratinacage:shiT i lost my siff05 program!!!!!gotta go get another copy!!!!argh!!!!
or u want it for keepsake one? -
I heard a movie dedicated to our beloved CSJ was axed from the lineup, huh?
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who is CSJ?
and pls, stop using ur clone to post!
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i need the booklet to go buy tix mah.these are the shows i wana catch:Originally posted by coolger03:heheeh... if u just want the schedule, it's on the webpage... but for the details, u will need to look into each individual webpage....
or u want it for keepsake one?
stray dogs - 22April
the people of angkor - 18April
post revolutionary era - 15April
butterfly - 23April
looking for madonna - 24april
peep tv show - 20april
tokyo noir - 29april
a wicked tale and malice - 23 april
memories of dien bien phu - 23april
passage of life - 10april
anyone interested in any of these, lets go!!!! -
Start: Apr 10, '05 2:00p
Location: Goethe-Institut
A Buddhist monk and young girl pass each other almost everyday on their regular walk. For the girl, it is a journey to carry water back to her home for cooking and bathing. For the monk, it is the daily ritual of reciting prayers and receiving alms from passersby. One day, they meet at the bridge and here, the young girl is rescued from an abyss by the monk and given a reason to hope. Shown in the Fringe Programme.
Shown in Fringe Programme
Director: Luu Huynh
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 45min
Year: 1999
Rating: M18 -
Post Revolutionary Era (World Premiere)SIFF '05 Apr 2, '05 2:47 AM ET
for everyone
Start: Apr 15, '05 9:15p
Location: Singapore History Museum
Zhang Yang’s passionate support of rock’n’roll culture in urban China is impossible to miss from his previous film ‘Quitting’ (SIFF 2002) which blended theatre and film to explore the life of actor and music-lover Jia Hongsheng. ‘Post Revolutionary Era’ is like Zhang’s version of Dave Markey’s ‘1991 - The Year Punk Broke’ (1992) in that it documents with love and solidarity, a whole generation of musicians and music lovers who live and struggle for the music they make. It is a eulogy to the new Beijing, to rock bands of any ilk who live dirt poor in rural farm areas, co-existing peacefully with their landlords (poor farmers themselves) and save up every yuan to simply rock out. Chockfull to the brim with footage of live shows, poetic explosions and manifesto-like declarations, Zhang’s documentary is joyous, as it rightfully should be.
Director: Zhang Yang
Country: China
Duration: 100min
Year: 2004
Rating: NC-16 -
The People of Angkor(SIFF '05)
Start: Apr 15, '05 7:00p
Location: Singapore History Museum
Rithy Panh (S-21 Khmer Rouge Killing Machine SIFF 2004) continues his exploration of Cambodia – a land devastated by oppression, poverty and war. Here, he focuses on the famous city of Angkor, widely recognised for its bas-reliefs and religious iconography. Panh gleans stories from the inhabitants of the city and their hopes, however slim, for the future. A peddler who has yet to learn to read and cannot afford an education wonders what direction to take. A former peasant who now labours at restoration sites remembers his agrarian days fondly and cherishes his fighting cock named “Lemon Soup”. Through these different stories, both humour and pathos emerge.
Director: Rithy Panh
Country: Cambodia / France
Duration: 90min
Year: 2003
Rating: PG -
Peep “TV” Show(SIFF '05)
Start: Apr 20, '05 7:00a
Location: Singapore History Museum
Yutaka TsuchiyaÂ’s film is a raw, no-budget postmodern dive into the lifestyle spawned by our technological revolution and the practice of surveillance that now predominates. Armed with a DV camera, the director roamed the streets of Shibuya around Tokyo. Dislocated, apathetic and apparently without conventional family lives, these characters engage in the classic exhibitionist-voyeur ritual, get off on Internet images and TV news flashes of disasters. Day or night, Yutaka TsuchiyaÂ’s low-grade grainy insights into urban, contemporary Japan are both startling and revelatory. Winner of the FIPRESCI Prize at Rotterdam International Film Festival 2004.
Director: Yutaka Tsuchiya
Country: Japan
Duration: 98min
Year: 2003
Rating: M18 -
Stray Dogs(SIFF '05)
Start: Apr 22, '05 7:00p
Location: Prince 1
Set in Afghanistan, ‘Stray Dogs’ concerns brother and sister Zahed and Gol Ghoti who rescue a dog from the clutches of a group of kids bent on killing it on the premise that it belongs to one of their enemies – British, Soviet or American. The Ghoti siblings are virtual orphans, with both parents in jail. While their father was a Taliban fighter, their mother is arrested for remarrying in order to avoid starvation and poverty. As Zahed and Ghoti are homeless, they frequently visit their mother in prison and eventually, one of the guards allows them to spend nights with her. When the warden puts an end to this arrangement, insisting it is not an orphanage, they try their hand at petty crime just to be able to gain entrance into prison and a life off the streets. Ironic, beautifully shot in the characteristic style of the Makhmalbaf Film House and filled with pathos for a struggling people, Meshkini shows herself to be an exquisite filmmaker in her own right.
Director: Marziyeh Meshkini
Country: Iran
Duration: 93min
Year: 2003
Rating: NC16 -
A Wicked Tale and Malice
Start: Apr 23, '05 11:00a
Location: Singapore History Museum
Tzang’s experimental psychological thriller is a skewed twist on the peachy fairytale about a little girl who has a fascination for the forbidden. She meets a mysterious stranger who persuasively lures her into a game of manipulation. The film is a postmodern rendering of Little Red Riding Hood, where seduction, innocence and fear all combine to produce a picture of the human psyche. Like Tzang’s previous film e’Tzaintes, ‘A Wicked Tale’ uses expressionistic techniques and a subterranean dream landscape to let the story unravel. Premiering to accolade in Rotterdam, Tzang's film will be an Asian Premiere here in Singapore.
To be screened with A Wicked Tale and Malice.
Director: Tzang Merwyn Tong
Country: Singapore
Duration: 45min
Year: 2004
Rating: NC16
Malice
Sam Loh (Outsiders, 2004) maintains his fascination for the intersection of lives and desires leading to conflicting, often violent conclusions. Aimee (Amy Cheng) and Gerald (Lim Kay Tong) are in a listless marriage, while Jon (Timothy Nga) and Julianne (Agnes Wong) are engaged, though there is an apparent lack in their relationship as well. Aimee and Jon play strangers in public but are having an affair, something they both want to reveal so they can come clean and commit to each other. But infidelity is answered with malice.
To be screened with A Wicked Tale and G-23
Director: Sam Loh
Country: Singapore
Duration: 22min
Year: 2004
Rating: PG -
Butterfly / Hudie(SIFF '05)
Start: Apr 23, '05 4:15p
Location: Prince 1
Butterfly / Hudie
Flavia is a thirty-year old teacher, married with a son who suddenly confronts her past desires and history when she falls in love with a woman she casually meets at a supermarket. Instead of restraining herself, Flavia surrenders to this unanticipated connection and in it, finds a release for her sexual identity. It also allows her to recollect her days as a student in the 1980s, a period of tense political riots, when she experienced her first such encounter. Yan Yan MakÂ’s (Brother, SIFF 2002) Butterfly is also a tale about another love relationship between two women in contemporary Hong Kong who struggle against social prejudice to come out and embrace their identities in public space. Starring Josie Ho and Isabel Chan.
Director: Yan Yan Mak
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 124min
Year: 2004
Rating: R21 -
Memories of Dien Bien Phu / Ky Uc Dien Bien(SIFF '05)
Start: Apr 23, '05 9:15p
Location: Jade 2
Made in time to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the Dien Bien Phu victory, Do Minh Tuan’s film focuses on personal relationships as they manifest during turbulent political times. While fighting for the liberation of Dien Bien Phu, Bernard a young French soldier switches allegiance and joins the Vietnamese soldiers out of fear. Bao (Pham Quang Anh) guides Bernard on his journey and helps him as he’s been wounded in combat. May (Kieu Anh), a nurse, is sent along with them to look after Bernard and help Bao. The journey has a profound impact on all three inadvertent companions – Bao and May gradually develop love for each other and Bernard’s perceptions of the Vietnamese dramatically shifts through his time spent with them.
Director: Do Minh Tuan
Country: Vietnam
Duration: 120min
Year: 2004
Rating: NC-16 -
Looking for Madonna(SIFF '05)
Start: Apr 24, '05 11:00a
Location: Singapore Singapore History Museum
Looking for Madonna (produced by Garin Nugroho) is a fascinating film that treads the fine line separating documentary and fictional film, developed around true cases of people who are HIV-positive in West Papua. West Papua has the highest concentration of HIV cases in Indonesia. Looking For Madonna begins with an intriguing, almost witty story about men and sex workers narrated by Minus, one of the "characters" in the film. But afterwards, we are taken on a journey into the lives of sex workers and another narrative arc is built around the true story of a cremation of one HIV victim.
Rantau's clever melding of genres allows him to show how the disease spreads through the sharing of needles, as well as the illicit trade in substances of various kinds. An illness as critical and ubiquitous as this one is as rampant in Asia as it was once thought to be in other parts of the world.
To be screened with Dajang Soembi.
Director: John De Rantau
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 93min
Year: 2004
Rating: NC16 -
Tokyo Noir(SIFF '05)
Start: Apr 29, '05 9:15p
Location: Prince 1
Tokyo Noir is an omnibus of three short stories delving into the lives of contemporary Japanese women and their attitudes towards the sex industry. In the first story, a woman (Takami Yoshimoto) with a repressed libido finds freedom of expression when she starts turning tricks. In the second, Aimi Nakamura plays a popular sex worker in a Tokyo brothel, who is taken by surprise when her ex-boyfriend comes by to visit. In the last tale, Aya Seki writes about her sexual experiences on a blog and ends up befriending a lonely woman. Three tales of contemporary Japanese women living in Tokyo, the films are also a compendium of frequently unseen or unarticulated ideas of sexuality.
Director: Masato Ishioka / Naoto Kumazawa
Country: Japan
Duration: 127min
Year: 2004
Rating: R-21 -
i had wanted to watch this movie too!Originally posted by ratinacage:Butterfly / Hudie(SIFF '05)
Start: Apr 23, '05 4:15p
Location: Prince 1
Butterfly / Hudie
Flavia is a thirty-year old teacher, married with a son who suddenly confronts her past desires and history when she falls in love with a woman she casually meets at a supermarket. Instead of restraining herself, Flavia surrenders to this unanticipated connection and in it, finds a release for her sexual identity. It also allows her to recollect her days as a student in the 1980s, a period of tense political riots, when she experienced her first such encounter. Yan Yan MakÂ’s (Brother, SIFF 2002) Butterfly is also a tale about another love relationship between two women in contemporary Hong Kong who struggle against social prejudice to come out and embrace their identities in public space. Starring Josie Ho and Isabel Chan.
Director: Yan Yan Mak
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 124min
Year: 2004
Rating: R21
but it's on the same day as my jap test...
somemore at the same time also... so cannot go liao...
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My friend got that vcd. I help her buy from yahoo auction de.. Haha.. that's the movie i wun watch for sure cos i can't tahan the trailer already.. abit too er xin for me.. The way that two actresses make out on bed..Originally posted by coolger03:i actually wanted to watch butterfly one...
but it was on the same time as my test... so cannot go liao...
then wanted to watch ghost in the shell, but it's too ex... 21 bucks... thot might as well buy the vcd or dvd....
My friend behave abit "YY" after that also.. -_- -
gonna go buy the tix later. anyone wanna catch any of the above??