by Jason Adams
The latest crime-thriller from director Yi'nan Diao of Black Coal Thin Ice fame is hitting the streets of New York running on March 6th when The Wild Goose Lake opens at Film Forum -- for the rest of you, here in the Us anyway, it's supposed to have a national roll-out from there. The film's already played a slew of international fests (Team Experience voted it one of the best Unreleased Films of 2019 with our annual awards) -- it premiered at Cannes last spring and by fall it was playing the New York Film Festival, which is where I saw it and reviewed it, calling it...
(Hey that's me!) The story's a Noir standard, kind of Fritz Lang's M meets The Warriors...
The latest crime-thriller from director Yi'nan Diao of Black Coal Thin Ice fame is hitting the streets of New York running on March 6th when The Wild Goose Lake opens at Film Forum -- for the rest of you, here in the Us anyway, it's supposed to have a national roll-out from there. The film's already played a slew of international fests (Team Experience voted it one of the best Unreleased Films of 2019 with our annual awards) -- it premiered at Cannes last spring and by fall it was playing the New York Film Festival, which is where I saw it and reviewed it, calling it...
(Hey that's me!) The story's a Noir standard, kind of Fritz Lang's M meets The Warriors...
- 2/13/2020
- by JA
- FilmExperience
by Jason Adams
Police officers close in on and surround a perp, their light-up dance sneakers blinking blue with every step. Hotel rooms half orange half pink, a sleepless phantasmagoria. A panicked streak through a zoo in the middle of night, flashes of light illuminating a tiger, an elephant, a succession of wild animal eyes in extreme close-up, blinking back madness. The Wild Goose Lake, the latest film from Black Coal Thin Ice director Yi'nan Diao, turns the crowded alleys and markets of Wuhan, Central China, into some sort of neon fever dream -- a riot of crime and color and scooter rides straight to hell, bang bang.
Starting off like a variation on The Warriors we first meet our characters gathered for an underground syndicate meeting -- everybody's come together to divide up the city, block by block, street by street...
Police officers close in on and surround a perp, their light-up dance sneakers blinking blue with every step. Hotel rooms half orange half pink, a sleepless phantasmagoria. A panicked streak through a zoo in the middle of night, flashes of light illuminating a tiger, an elephant, a succession of wild animal eyes in extreme close-up, blinking back madness. The Wild Goose Lake, the latest film from Black Coal Thin Ice director Yi'nan Diao, turns the crowded alleys and markets of Wuhan, Central China, into some sort of neon fever dream -- a riot of crime and color and scooter rides straight to hell, bang bang.
Starting off like a variation on The Warriors we first meet our characters gathered for an underground syndicate meeting -- everybody's come together to divide up the city, block by block, street by street...
- 9/29/2019
- by JA
- FilmExperience
The 65th Berlin International Film Festival opens this Thursday with Spanish director Isabel Coixet's Nobody Wants the Night. Starring Juliette Binoche, Rinko Kikuchi, and filmed across Bulgaria, Norway and Spain, Coixet's Arctic-set romantic escapade is a fairly low-key opener. However, whilst it may not be as glamorous or high profile as last year's inaugural gala, Wes Anderson's ornate crime-caper The Grand Budapest Hotel, Coixet's latest remains a fitting curtain raiser for a festival that prides itself as much for its culturally diverse programme, as the glitz and glamour of its red carpet galas. This year's Golden Bear grand prize will be decided by jury president Darren Aronofsky, whilst last year the award was won by Yi'nan Diao's Black Coal, Thin Ice in a mediocre denouement to the main competition.
- 2/4/2015
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Slowly building a name for himself on the international film scene with previous efforts "Uniform" and "Night Train," director Yi'nan Diao heads to the Berlin International Film Festival this week for the first time with "Black Coal, Thin Ice." And with the film slated to screen in-competition for the Golden Bear, it bodes well for what audiences are about to experience. Starring Liao Fan, Gwei Lun Mei and Wang Xuebing, the film follows a down-and-out detective and his successful protégée who reunite to tackle a cold case and catch a serial killer still on the loose. This exclusive clip from the film showcases the tightly wound mood and atmosphere of the picture, and also highlights the grim nature of the crime being investigated, with a severed hand just the start of what's to come. "Black Coal, Thin Ice" premieres this week at Berlin and is produced by Daniel Victor's company Boneyard Entertainment China.
- 2/12/2014
- by Kevin Jagernauth
- The Playlist
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