What follows is an exchange between Josh Timmermann (a fellow critic and Vancouver resident, who you may recall from this) and I, wherein we discuss the Vancouver International Film Festival and its individual parts, a chance to color outside the lines a bit and discuss the ins and outs of our festival experiences.
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Above: Granville 7 Theatre, Viff's primary venue.
Adam Cook: I’ve been attending Viff since 2008—and you’ve been attending since 2007—so it seems kind of safe to say we’re well on our way to being veterans of the festival; although, this claim is humbled when encountering someone like Chuck Stephens—a member of this year’s Dragons & Tigers jury—who has been coming (from out of town, no less) for something like twenty years. However, five years of Viff-going has equipped me with a knack for knowing how to approach the festival, how to navigate the programming—and,...
Context!
Above: Granville 7 Theatre, Viff's primary venue.
Adam Cook: I’ve been attending Viff since 2008—and you’ve been attending since 2007—so it seems kind of safe to say we’re well on our way to being veterans of the festival; although, this claim is humbled when encountering someone like Chuck Stephens—a member of this year’s Dragons & Tigers jury—who has been coming (from out of town, no less) for something like twenty years. However, five years of Viff-going has equipped me with a knack for knowing how to approach the festival, how to navigate the programming—and,...
- 11/8/2012
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
The Best of Korean Cinema is a running series of articles that comes out every two weeks, in which I take a look at the best 21st century Korea has to offer, cinematically speaking, whether that means big names like Park Chan Wook and Kim Jee Woon or unknown curios that deserve the coverage. Each article will cover two thematically similar films; this time it’s two gangsters films: 2012’s Nameless Gangster, directed by Yun Jong-Bin, and Ha-Yu’s A Dirty Carnival, from 2006.
Nameless Gangster
Directed by Jong-bin Yun
Written by Jong-bin Yun
2012, South Korea
Choi Ik-Hyun (Choi Min-Sik) is a Customs Officer operating in Busan docks, preventing anything untoward, that’s the idea anyway as his department is corrupt. One day there is a shake-up, making all of the internal corruption a death sentence hanging around their necks and because Ik-Hyun has the smallest family it is going to...
Nameless Gangster
Directed by Jong-bin Yun
Written by Jong-bin Yun
2012, South Korea
Choi Ik-Hyun (Choi Min-Sik) is a Customs Officer operating in Busan docks, preventing anything untoward, that’s the idea anyway as his department is corrupt. One day there is a shake-up, making all of the internal corruption a death sentence hanging around their necks and because Ik-Hyun has the smallest family it is going to...
- 10/4/2012
- by Rob Simpson
- SoundOnSight
The 45th Sitges International Fantastic Film Festival of Catalonia will be held from October 4-14, 2012. We already know that The Body, by debut director Oriol Paulo, is opening the fest, and now word has come as to several of the other films that will be shown. Some may not be pure horror, but we're including everything here so you'll be 100% in the know.
From the Press Release:
Catalan cinema will be one of the stars in the Festival’s Official Selection, with two films that will be going in for the María Award for Best Motion Picture, the Festival’s main prize, based on the popular robotic character from Fritz Lang’s classic Metropolis. The first is Painless, Juan Carlos Medina’s first feature film, a passionate fantastic fable that takes root in the Spanish Civil war and stars Alex Brendemühl. The second film is El Bosc, based on a...
From the Press Release:
Catalan cinema will be one of the stars in the Festival’s Official Selection, with two films that will be going in for the María Award for Best Motion Picture, the Festival’s main prize, based on the popular robotic character from Fritz Lang’s classic Metropolis. The first is Painless, Juan Carlos Medina’s first feature film, a passionate fantastic fable that takes root in the Spanish Civil war and stars Alex Brendemühl. The second film is El Bosc, based on a...
- 6/27/2012
- by The Woman In Black
- DreadCentral.com
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