- Film Comment posted the "50 Best Undistributed Films of 2012," beginning with "Our Children" (Joachim Lafosse, Belgium/Luxembourg/France/Switzerland), followed by "Memories Look at Me" (Song Fang, China) and "First Cousin Once Removed" (Alan Berliner, U.S.). Read their full list here. - Watch a short (very short - twenty second) teaser for Nicolas Winding Refn's "Only God Forgives," with Ryan Gosling in this Thai-set revenge tale. Check it out below and here. - Take a look at Naomi Watts as Princess Diana. The actress also reveals her anxious perspective on the role; she agreed to take the "high, high, high risk" role because it would happen whether or not she accepted it. The film will focus on Princess Diana's affair with Dr. Hasnat Khan. - Matt Damon and Ben Affleck originally wanted Morgan Freeman or Robert De Niro to play the Robin Williams psychiatrist role in "Good Will.
- 1/7/2013
- by Maggie Lange
- Thompson on Hollywood
The Dragons & Tigers section has been the richest part of Viff’s legacy, dating back to 1994. Each year, the Award for Young Cinema has highlighted an as yet unrecognized talent of East Asian cinema. This year the Dragons & Tigers jury was made up of Shinozaki Makoto, Joao Pedro Rodrigues and Chuck Stephens. I was able to see a few films from the competition, including the winner Emperor Visits the Hell, directed by Li Luo. An often perplexing, but always interesting film, Li’s movie transports a story (three chapters) from the Ming Dynast novel Journey to the West to modern times, and things play out with a strange deadpan distance. While I preferred another competition film, Song Fang’s Memories Look at Me, I understand the eagerness to reward something a little more outside of the box.
Next up was a streak of great films from renowned auteurs Olivier Assayas,...
Next up was a streak of great films from renowned auteurs Olivier Assayas,...
- 10/15/2012
- by Adam Cook
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
★★★☆☆ Unsurprisingly, given its title, the past plays a major role in the debut feature film of Song Fang, best known as the nanny in Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Flight of the Red Balloon (2007). Gentle, pleasant, and seemingly autobiographical, Memories Look at Me (2012) is an exploration of life, the passing of time, and fatality. To say that it is a film about death, though, gives a suggestion of something much grimmer than this intimate family portrait turns out to be.
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- 10/12/2012
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
In a late scene in Memories Look at Me, Song Fang's lovely, elegiac debut feature, Fang (played by Song herself), a young woman from Beijing visiting her parents at her childhood home in Nanjing, wistfully expresses to her mother her wish to go back to when she was seventeen. "I'd like to relive my life," Fang says. Her mother tries to dissuade her from this notion. "Sort yourself out in the present ... You've made your choices," her mother tells her. Their conversation turns to chilies growing outside their window; Fang remarks on how well the chili plants have grown. "People are no different," her mother answers. "People need nurturing. Or they don't grow." This scene illustrates a major theme of Fang's film: the weight...
- 10/6/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Song Fang's "Memories Look At Me" is a tough one: while the filmmaker's debut is a lovely, pleasant experience, it's extremely difficult to make the movie sound at all appealing. A large percentage of it takes place in a single apartment, with each dialogue-heavy scene generally composed of a single static shot; the camera with a view of either someone's side or back, but rarely their front. There's no plot, arcs, narrative thrust, or anything of the kind. Party poopers will quickly decry that "nothing happens" and, honestly, they wouldn't be wrong. But mysteriously, the intensely slice-of-life 'Memories' works, and its comforting nature and attention to real moments make for an especially soothing experience. With a role in the remarkable "Flight of the Red Balloon" by auteur Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Song is no stranger to acting and here takes the spotlight as the lead. The movie opens with a pensive stare out of the window.
- 10/5/2012
- by Christopher Bell
- The Playlist
Above: Passion (Brian de Palma, France/Germany).
Tonight the 50th incarnation of the New York Film Festival gets underway at Lincoln Center, and for the third year running I have tried to find posters for all the films in the festival’s main slate (see 2010 and 2011). Poster art not being what it used to be, these inevitably pale in comparison to the posters I collected last week for the very first Nyff of 1963. For starters, most of those were illustrated, whereas only two of this year’s batch are hand drawn: the folk-art Filipino design for Bwakaw and Spanish artist Riki Blanco’s illustration for The Dead Man and Being Happy. But there are some other standouts, like the striking UK quads for Holy Motors and Ginger and Rosa, the near-abstract monochrome and gothic lettering of Leviathan, the unconventional titling for Barbara (coupled with that can’t-lose photo of Nina Hoss on a bike,...
Tonight the 50th incarnation of the New York Film Festival gets underway at Lincoln Center, and for the third year running I have tried to find posters for all the films in the festival’s main slate (see 2010 and 2011). Poster art not being what it used to be, these inevitably pale in comparison to the posters I collected last week for the very first Nyff of 1963. For starters, most of those were illustrated, whereas only two of this year’s batch are hand drawn: the folk-art Filipino design for Bwakaw and Spanish artist Riki Blanco’s illustration for The Dead Man and Being Happy. But there are some other standouts, like the striking UK quads for Holy Motors and Ginger and Rosa, the near-abstract monochrome and gothic lettering of Leviathan, the unconventional titling for Barbara (coupled with that can’t-lose photo of Nina Hoss on a bike,...
- 9/28/2012
- by Adrian Curry
- MUBI
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