The Criterion Channel is closing the year out with a bang––they’ve announced their December lineup. Among the highlights are retrospectives on Yasujiro Ozu (featuring nearly 40 films!), Ousmane Sembène, Alfred Hitchcock (along with Kent Jones’ Hitchcock/Truffaut), and Parker Posey. Well-timed for the season is a holiday noir series that includes They Live By Night, Blast of Silence, Lady in the Lake, and more.
Other highlights are the recent restoration of Abel Gance’s La roue, an MGM Musicals series with introduction by Michael Koresky, Helena Wittmann’s riveting second feature Human Flowers of Flesh, the recent Sundance highlight The Mountains Are a Dream That Call To Me, the new restoration of The Cassandra Cat, Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar, Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster, and more.
See the lineup below and learn more here.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam, 1988
An American in Paris, Vincente Minnelli,...
Other highlights are the recent restoration of Abel Gance’s La roue, an MGM Musicals series with introduction by Michael Koresky, Helena Wittmann’s riveting second feature Human Flowers of Flesh, the recent Sundance highlight The Mountains Are a Dream That Call To Me, the new restoration of The Cassandra Cat, Lynne Ramsay’s Morvern Callar, Wong Kar Wai’s The Grandmaster, and more.
See the lineup below and learn more here.
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Terry Gilliam, 1988
An American in Paris, Vincente Minnelli,...
- 11/13/2023
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Rathaus, the New York and Detroit-based production company behind such films as Tim Sutton’s Funny Face, Cedric Cheung-Lau’s The Mountains Are a Dream that Call to Me and Diana Peralta’s De Lo Mio, has announced a new grant supporting Detroit-based filmmakers. The Rathaus Film Grant will give $10,000 to one moving image artist in support of a short film, feature film, documentary, hybrid piece, or video art. Funds are unrestricted. As the Faq notes, they “can be used in any way that significantly progresses your project forward. This could be anything from; supporting you to take time off to write […]
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The post Rathaus Announces Detroit-Focused $10,000 Film Production Grant first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 9/20/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Rathaus, the New York and Detroit-based production company behind such films as Tim Sutton’s Funny Face, Cedric Cheung-Lau’s The Mountains Are a Dream that Call to Me and Diana Peralta’s De Lo Mio, has announced a new grant supporting Detroit-based filmmakers. The Rathaus Film Grant will give $10,000 to one moving image artist in support of a short film, feature film, documentary, hybrid piece, or video art. Funds are unrestricted. As the Faq notes, they “can be used in any way that significantly progresses your project forward. This could be anything from; supporting you to take time off to write […]
The post Rathaus Announces Detroit-Focused $10,000 Film Production Grant first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post Rathaus Announces Detroit-Focused $10,000 Film Production Grant first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 9/20/2023
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Screening tomorrow night at New York’s Bam Rose Cinema is one of the real and under-screened discoveries of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me, the transfixing debut feature from Cedric Cheung-Lau, who has worked for a decade in the New York independent film scene gaffing such features as Patti Cake, Christine and Monsters and Men. Embracing slow cinema and tacking away from the dialogue-driven penchant of much U.S. independent film, The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me is as much about landscape as story, about the possible meanings delivered through the pauses […]
The post “Understanding This Feeling, How this Strange and Foreign Land Meant So Much to Me”: Cedric Cheung-Lau on The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “Understanding This Feeling, How this Strange and Foreign Land Meant So Much to Me”: Cedric Cheung-Lau on The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 4/4/2022
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Screening tomorrow night at New York’s Bam Rose Cinema is one of the real and under-screened discoveries of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me, the transfixing debut feature from Cedric Cheung-Lau, who has worked for a decade in the New York independent film scene gaffing such features as Patti Cake, Christine and Monsters and Men. Embracing slow cinema and tacking away from the dialogue-driven penchant of much U.S. independent film, The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me is as much about landscape as story, about the possible meanings delivered through the pauses […]
The post “Understanding This Feeling, How this Strange and Foreign Land Meant So Much to Me”: Cedric Cheung-Lau on The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “Understanding This Feeling, How this Strange and Foreign Land Meant So Much to Me”: Cedric Cheung-Lau on The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 4/4/2022
- by Scott Macaulay
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Distracted by a cow he tries to drive past one late evening while on the way to meet his girlfriend, Wang Xueming (Eddie Peng) briefly takes his eyes off the road and runs over a man whose corpse he then – deeply distressed – disposes off in a spontaneous attempt to ‘unsee’ the crime. Or does he? The recap of tragic event gets re-told so many times by Xueming himself that it becomes unclear what had happened to the man whose body police fished out of the river α few days after the incident. The forensic report also contradicts the first in a row of Xueming’s memories – the victim was allegedly not run over by a car, but murdered with two bullets to the head.
“Are You Lonesome Tonight?” screened at Cannes Film Festival
The feature debut by Weng Shipei “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” had its special screening in the official selection of Cannes Film Festival,...
“Are You Lonesome Tonight?” screened at Cannes Film Festival
The feature debut by Weng Shipei “Are You Lonesome Tonight?” had its special screening in the official selection of Cannes Film Festival,...
- 7/20/2021
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
Two travelers heading in opposite directions cross paths in Nepal's high Himalayas in The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me. This Sundance Next entry is a mood piece that dispenses with story and causal events in the name of creating an indefinable atmosphere and exalting the power of nature to influence human destiny. Making landscape the protagonist with documentary insistence, Cedric Cheung-Lau's first feature takes the viewer on a spectacular trek through Annapurna Sanctuary, alternating high-altitude forests with views of the great mountain and its awe-inspiring ranges.
But the intangible, unpersuasive story takes its toll ...
But the intangible, unpersuasive story takes its toll ...
- 1/30/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Two travelers heading in opposite directions cross paths in Nepal's high Himalayas in The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me. This Sundance Next entry is a mood piece that dispenses with story and causal events in the name of creating an indefinable atmosphere and exalting the power of nature to influence human destiny. Making landscape the protagonist with documentary insistence, Cedric Cheung-Lau's first feature takes the viewer on a spectacular trek through Annapurna Sanctuary, alternating high-altitude forests with views of the great mountain and its awe-inspiring ranges.
But the intangible, unpersuasive story takes its toll ...
But the intangible, unpersuasive story takes its toll ...
- 1/30/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Cedric Cheung-Lau’s The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me characterizes landscape in a way that almost seeks to anthropomorphize it. Its central characters, Tukten, a young Nepali man on his way to Dubai and Hannah, an elderly Australian woman traveling on her own, cross paths while traveling in opposite directions on the Annapurna mountains. Their relationship is fleeting, but the Nepali mountain range holds a heightened command of the narrative. Taking great influence in part from the dreamscape style of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Editor Aacharee Ungsriwong speaks about the creative nuances of the film. Filmmaker: How and why did […]...
- 1/28/2020
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
Cedric Cheung-Lau’s The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me characterizes landscape in a way that almost seeks to anthropomorphize it. Its central characters, Tukten, a young Nepali man on his way to Dubai and Hannah, an elderly Australian woman traveling on her own, cross paths while traveling in opposite directions on the Annapurna mountains. Their relationship is fleeting, but the Nepali mountain range holds a heightened command of the narrative. Taking great influence in part from the dreamscape style of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Editor Aacharee Ungsriwong speaks about the creative nuances of the film. Filmmaker: How and why did […]...
- 1/28/2020
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
A chance encounter between two travelers trekking along a path on the Annapurna mountains in Nepal propels the story in Cedric Cheung-Lau’s debut feature, The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me. Tukten, a young man from Nepal, is en route to Dubai in the hopes of finding opportunity when he meets Hannah, an older Australian woman traveling solo. As important as the lead characters are the Annapurna mountains themselves, having a sentience and knowledge of their own. Dp Jake Magee speaks about the character of landscapes, the frustration of relying on nature and the brilliance of editors. Filmmaker: […]...
- 1/28/2020
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
A chance encounter between two travelers trekking along a path on the Annapurna mountains in Nepal propels the story in Cedric Cheung-Lau’s debut feature, The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me. Tukten, a young man from Nepal, is en route to Dubai in the hopes of finding opportunity when he meets Hannah, an older Australian woman traveling solo. As important as the lead characters are the Annapurna mountains themselves, having a sentience and knowledge of their own. Dp Jake Magee speaks about the character of landscapes, the frustration of relying on nature and the brilliance of editors. Filmmaker: […]...
- 1/28/2020
- by Filmmaker Staff
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
If a mountain-climbing adventure like Everest or Vertical Limit removed its bombastic thrill-seeking setpieces and was instead directed with the patient, reverent eye of Apichatpong Weerasethakul one may conjure up something like The Mountains Are a Dream That Call to Me. Cedric Cheung-Lau, who established his career on the lighting teams of A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, The Mend, Little Men, and more notable indies, makes his feature directorial debut with this peaceful, meditative journey through the Annapurna Mountain range in Nepal. Compact in narrative scale, but as epic as one can imagine in terms of capturing the awe of the gorgeous environment our small set of characters traverse, the film is a meditative testament to appreciating one’s surroundings in all their glory.
Hannah (Alice Cummins) is a visitor from Australia in her twilight years on a journey of self-discovery. She encounters Tukten (Sanjaya Lama), a young...
Hannah (Alice Cummins) is a visitor from Australia in her twilight years on a journey of self-discovery. She encounters Tukten (Sanjaya Lama), a young...
- 1/25/2020
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
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