Nostalgic docufiction that morphs into a lockdown thriller, Lou Ye’s “An Unfinished Film” is the second work at this year’s Cannes Film Festival (alongside Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides”) in which a “Sixth Generation” Chinese filmmaker has repurposed their old films to create something new. The line between reality and drama blurs as Lou genuinely re-discovers years-old footage, and proceeds to follow a fictitious film crew completing an abandoned project, only for China’s severe Covid-19 lockdowns to interrupt their work, as well as life in all its rhythms.
Few films have so skillfully captured the way Covid caused such traumatic temporal disruptions in its early days, wherein sudden changes in physical and emotional routine caused time to both stretch and collapse. The foundation for this dissonance is laid when Lou, by way of director character Xiaorui — played by Mao Xiaorui, Lou’s assistant director on...
Few films have so skillfully captured the way Covid caused such traumatic temporal disruptions in its early days, wherein sudden changes in physical and emotional routine caused time to both stretch and collapse. The foundation for this dissonance is laid when Lou, by way of director character Xiaorui — played by Mao Xiaorui, Lou’s assistant director on...
- 5/23/2024
- by Siddhant Adlakha
- Variety Film + TV
Some people are inextricably linked with our childhoods. You might not even know their names, but you would absolutely notice their absence. Pokémon is one such series that is inseparable from our childhoods, and so are the voice actors of the show.
Rachael Lillis, an integral part of Pokemon’s English dub cast, is currently seriously unwell, and fans have taken it upon themselves to give back to this legendary artist.
Pokémon Voice Actress in Dire Need of Fans
Misty in Pokemon | Bulbapedia
Rachael Lillis, a well-known Pokémon voice actress, has been battling cancer in a Los Angeles nursing home since late January 2024. It was revealed that the actress had been diagnosed with breast cancer, which eventually spread to her spine. In fact, the cancer has also negatively affected her ability to walk.
She has voiced some notable characters like Misty, Team Rocket’s Jessie, Jigglypuss, Vulpix, and others in Pokémon.
Rachael Lillis, an integral part of Pokemon’s English dub cast, is currently seriously unwell, and fans have taken it upon themselves to give back to this legendary artist.
Pokémon Voice Actress in Dire Need of Fans
Misty in Pokemon | Bulbapedia
Rachael Lillis, a well-known Pokémon voice actress, has been battling cancer in a Los Angeles nursing home since late January 2024. It was revealed that the actress had been diagnosed with breast cancer, which eventually spread to her spine. In fact, the cancer has also negatively affected her ability to walk.
She has voiced some notable characters like Misty, Team Rocket’s Jessie, Jigglypuss, Vulpix, and others in Pokémon.
- 5/20/2024
- by Aaheli Pradhan
- FandomWire
Lou Ye's docufiction hybrid “Unfinished Film” is one of the best films made about life during pandemic, even though it wasn't originally planned to be that. It was the new circumstances that forced Ye to change his plans, when he and his crew were caught in the lockdown in a place near Wuhan to make a completely different kind of movie. What came out of it is a captivating act of genius which captures the exact moment when normality got squashed by the unpredictable chain of events: first the pandemic, and then a complete lockdown. Shot by multiple cameras, “Unfinished Film” is a movie within a movie, showing people in front and behind the camera, each absorbed in their own line of duty. But the actors and crew members are also caught off-guard, and at one point even Ye himself uexpectedly appears on screen, doing his directing job. In the movie,...
- 5/20/2024
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
The Beatles and Rolling Stones were two of England’s biggest bands in the 1960s, yet they rarely crossed paths professionally. Paul McCartney said the press manufactured the rivalry between the bands, but it wasn’t hard to fabricate animosity as the groups rarely worked together and presented different images in the media (the clean-cut Beatles and grimier Stones). They recorded the same song twice, but outside of that, The Rolling Stones worked with The Beatles just twice.
(top) Paul McCartney (left) of The Beatles and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones; (bottom) John Lennon (center) in ‘The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus | Victor Blackman/Express/Getty Images; Andrew Maclear/Redferns John Lennon and Paul McCartney gave The Rolling Stones 1 of their first hit songs
Once Paul and John Lennon established themselves as ace songwriters, they weren’t above giving their songs to other artists. That includes The Rolling Stones.
(top) Paul McCartney (left) of The Beatles and Mick Jagger of The Rolling Stones; (bottom) John Lennon (center) in ‘The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus | Victor Blackman/Express/Getty Images; Andrew Maclear/Redferns John Lennon and Paul McCartney gave The Rolling Stones 1 of their first hit songs
Once Paul and John Lennon established themselves as ace songwriters, they weren’t above giving their songs to other artists. That includes The Rolling Stones.
- 3/23/2023
- by Jason Rossi
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
Jason Schwartzman, Maya Rudolph and Daniel Radcliffe are among the stars who will make guest appearances in the Andy Samberg-led adult animated series “Digman!,” Comedy Central confirmed to TheWrap.
The adventure comedy series, which premieres Wednesday, March 22 at 10:30 p.m. Et/Pt, centers on a world in which archaeologists are massive celebrities and the coolest people on the planet, according to the official logline.
While Samberg voices protagonist Rip Digman, the show’s slate of guest stars includes Clancy Brown, Andy Daly, Cole Escola, Harvey Guillén, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Marc Evan Jackson, Rachel Kaly, Kerri Kenney, Lauren Lapkus, Jane Lynch, Mike Mitchell, Kyle Mooney, Claudia O’Doherty, Lennon Parham, Daniel Radcliffe, Maya Rudolph, Paul Rust, Jason Schwartzman, Carl Tart, Joe Lo Truglio and Edgar Wright.
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Aside from Samberg,...
The adventure comedy series, which premieres Wednesday, March 22 at 10:30 p.m. Et/Pt, centers on a world in which archaeologists are massive celebrities and the coolest people on the planet, according to the official logline.
While Samberg voices protagonist Rip Digman, the show’s slate of guest stars includes Clancy Brown, Andy Daly, Cole Escola, Harvey Guillén, Kirby Howell-Baptiste, Marc Evan Jackson, Rachel Kaly, Kerri Kenney, Lauren Lapkus, Jane Lynch, Mike Mitchell, Kyle Mooney, Claudia O’Doherty, Lennon Parham, Daniel Radcliffe, Maya Rudolph, Paul Rust, Jason Schwartzman, Carl Tart, Joe Lo Truglio and Edgar Wright.
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‘True Detective’ Season 4: Jodie Foster and Kali Reis Team Up in the Snowy Arctic in First Look at HBO’s Next Mystery (Photo)
Aside from Samberg,...
- 2/15/2023
- by Loree Seitz
- The Wrap
Announced by Deadline this afternoon, Peacock is developing a murder-mystery series from Austin Winsberg (“Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist”) titled “The Show Must Go On,” described in their report as “an hourlong murder mystery anthology, which would mark the first time Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Phantom of the Opera musical is used as part of a TV series.”
What does that mean, exactly? Deadline details…
“The Show Must Go On is a darkly comedic murder mystery anthology series. Each season would take place in the days leading up to a big, live, televised event and would tackle a new murder with a refreshed cast. Season 1 is set behind the scenes during the making of a fictitious version of Lloyd Webber’s worldwide mega-hit: The Phantom of The Opera Live!
“As if putting on a giant, live, beloved musical isn’t enough of a challenge, imagine how hard it will be with endless production problems,...
What does that mean, exactly? Deadline details…
“The Show Must Go On is a darkly comedic murder mystery anthology series. Each season would take place in the days leading up to a big, live, televised event and would tackle a new murder with a refreshed cast. Season 1 is set behind the scenes during the making of a fictitious version of Lloyd Webber’s worldwide mega-hit: The Phantom of The Opera Live!
“As if putting on a giant, live, beloved musical isn’t enough of a challenge, imagine how hard it will be with endless production problems,...
- 9/9/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
If Parasite‘s stunning wins at the Oscars has you craving more horror out of South Korea, you’ll definitely want to check out the trailer for The Closet, embedded at the top of the article. The film, written and directed by […]
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- 2/12/2020
- by Josh Millican
- DreadCentral.com
Barcelona – Spain’s Chema García Ibarra is hardly a stranger to big fest selection: His shorts have played Cannes Directors’ Fortnight (“Attack From the Robots From Nebula 5”), Sundance, Berlin (“Mystery”) and San Sebastian (“The Disco Shines”).
Now, championed by the Ecam Madrid Film School’s Incubator program, and having been put through Greece’s Oxbelly Screenwriter’s Lab, “ García Ibarra’s first feature project, “The Sacred Spirit,” has made it to Toronto, as part of its 2019 Filmmakers Lab. In his debut, half of Spain sets out in search of a missing girl, while a Spanish ufology assn. holds a night sightings session. One of its members, the weight challenged José Manuel, will determine the fate of humanity.
Mixing costumbrismo – local social detail – with touches of cinéma-verité and low-fi sci-fi, seasoned with a singular sense of surreal humor, García Ibarra, highlighted by Variety as a talent to track, has been described...
Now, championed by the Ecam Madrid Film School’s Incubator program, and having been put through Greece’s Oxbelly Screenwriter’s Lab, “ García Ibarra’s first feature project, “The Sacred Spirit,” has made it to Toronto, as part of its 2019 Filmmakers Lab. In his debut, half of Spain sets out in search of a missing girl, while a Spanish ufology assn. holds a night sightings session. One of its members, the weight challenged José Manuel, will determine the fate of humanity.
Mixing costumbrismo – local social detail – with touches of cinéma-verité and low-fi sci-fi, seasoned with a singular sense of surreal humor, García Ibarra, highlighted by Variety as a talent to track, has been described...
- 8/6/2019
- by Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Chinese crime drama “Summer of Changsha” screened at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section despite lacking the necessary approvals from China’s censors. It premiered without its director or creative team in attendance, who blamed “technical reasons” for their absence — marking the third time that Chinese censorship appears to have caused a disruption at a major international festival this year.
The film played to full theaters on the Croisette Wednesday and Thursday, but without the required “dragon seal” that indicates it has been approved by Chinese authorities. Movies lacking the seal cannot be released theatrically in China, and, since a recent tightening of restrictions, also increasingly cannot be screened abroad at festivals. Titles bound for overseas festivals now also need an additional travel permit that, once issued, means that a film’s length and dialogue cannot be changed and no new investors can come on.
At noon on Tuesday,...
The film played to full theaters on the Croisette Wednesday and Thursday, but without the required “dragon seal” that indicates it has been approved by Chinese authorities. Movies lacking the seal cannot be released theatrically in China, and, since a recent tightening of restrictions, also increasingly cannot be screened abroad at festivals. Titles bound for overseas festivals now also need an additional travel permit that, once issued, means that a film’s length and dialogue cannot be changed and no new investors can come on.
At noon on Tuesday,...
- 5/23/2019
- by Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Chinese producer, Li Rui (“The Sword Identity”) says that good films need to explore the connections between religion, souls, and human nature.
In his “Summer of Changsha,” when a detective and a surgeon get together on a murder case, crime solving is not the only thing on their minds. There is love, guilt, and more philosophical questions about redemption, and the afterlife.
A new trailer for the film, which premieres at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section, appears to show a distraught woman reduced to tears by a gruesome murder. But all may not be as it seems.
The story of “Changsha” could have taken place anywhere in the world, says actor, performance coach, and first-time feature director Zu Feng. Its questions about the past, future and the ability to live in the present would have remained the same.
The film was indeed shot in the central Chinese city of Changsha,...
In his “Summer of Changsha,” when a detective and a surgeon get together on a murder case, crime solving is not the only thing on their minds. There is love, guilt, and more philosophical questions about redemption, and the afterlife.
A new trailer for the film, which premieres at the Cannes Film Festival in the Un Certain Regard section, appears to show a distraught woman reduced to tears by a gruesome murder. But all may not be as it seems.
The story of “Changsha” could have taken place anywhere in the world, says actor, performance coach, and first-time feature director Zu Feng. Its questions about the past, future and the ability to live in the present would have remained the same.
The film was indeed shot in the central Chinese city of Changsha,...
- 5/15/2019
- by Patrick Frater and Rebecca Davis
- Variety Film + TV
Chinese films have won a shelf-full of top prizes at major festivals in the past few years. And the country is now making major movies that increasingly top global box office charts – Chinese sci-fi title “The Wandering Earth” is by far the highest- grossing movie in the world so far in 2019, grossing more than $676 million in China alone – but none of that is helping shore up the business of independent Chinese sales agents.
“It is a tough business, we may not be doing it after Cannes,” says Yang Ying, head of sales at Movie View Intl. The company, which represented the stunning 2017 experimental film “Dragonfly Eyes” and star-studded drama “Forever Young,” may instead fall back to its magazine publishing and local marketing strengths.
The problems are multifold: Chinese films have little recent record of scoring with international audiences; China’s sales companies are mostly small and fragile; and recent turmoil...
“It is a tough business, we may not be doing it after Cannes,” says Yang Ying, head of sales at Movie View Intl. The company, which represented the stunning 2017 experimental film “Dragonfly Eyes” and star-studded drama “Forever Young,” may instead fall back to its magazine publishing and local marketing strengths.
The problems are multifold: Chinese films have little recent record of scoring with international audiences; China’s sales companies are mostly small and fragile; and recent turmoil...
- 3/17/2019
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
While the specific sociopolitical moment (the re-emergence of censorship in China affecting the line-up of this year’s Berlinale with eliminating Zhang Yimou’s “One Second” from the official competition due to “post-production issues” being only the most prominent example) surrounding the world premiere of “So Long, My Son”, the newest film by the Chinese 6th generation director Wang Xiaoshui, might be forgotten in the next couple of months, the film itself, the skill it was filmed with and its social relevance are here to stay with us for quite a period of time.
The world premiere at Berlinale was crowned with the double Silver Bear for both of the leading actors and more of the festival exposure is likely to occur for Wang’s three-hour epic, examining the social and humane cost of the decades of the “one child” policy in China.
So Long, My Son was screened at...
The world premiere at Berlinale was crowned with the double Silver Bear for both of the leading actors and more of the festival exposure is likely to occur for Wang’s three-hour epic, examining the social and humane cost of the decades of the “one child” policy in China.
So Long, My Son was screened at...
- 2/20/2019
- by Marko Stojiljković
- AsianMoviePulse
Director Lou Ye’s intriguing but exasperating drama focuses on criminal undertakings with overblown results
Lou Ye is a Chinese director who has courageously challenged the authorities, receiving bans and rebukes from a Beijing establishment nonetheless wary of their troublemaker’s international prominence at film festivals. This is probably most true of his 2006 movie, Summer Palace, that tackled the great taboo: Tiananmen Square. Latterly though, he seems to be drawn to the noir-melodrama mode, simmering emotions and criminal secrets incubated in the vast new megacities which China has been building. That was true of his aptly titled 2012 film, Mystery, and it’s true of his initially intriguing, but ultimately exasperating, overlong and borderline preposterous new mystery drama-thriller, set in Guangzhou, southern China, whose scary vastness Ye establishes in his opening shots.
Perhaps Ye took inspiration from screenwriter Robert Towne’s final line from Roman Polanski’s famous film: “Forget it Jake,...
Lou Ye is a Chinese director who has courageously challenged the authorities, receiving bans and rebukes from a Beijing establishment nonetheless wary of their troublemaker’s international prominence at film festivals. This is probably most true of his 2006 movie, Summer Palace, that tackled the great taboo: Tiananmen Square. Latterly though, he seems to be drawn to the noir-melodrama mode, simmering emotions and criminal secrets incubated in the vast new megacities which China has been building. That was true of his aptly titled 2012 film, Mystery, and it’s true of his initially intriguing, but ultimately exasperating, overlong and borderline preposterous new mystery drama-thriller, set in Guangzhou, southern China, whose scary vastness Ye establishes in his opening shots.
Perhaps Ye took inspiration from screenwriter Robert Towne’s final line from Roman Polanski’s famous film: “Forget it Jake,...
- 2/12/2019
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
From the celebrated Lou Ye, one of contemporary Chinese cinema's greatest directorial talents, comes the Best Film and Best Screenplay Asian Film Award-winning Mystery (2012), an intricate and unpredictable whodunit. To celebrate the home entertainment release of Mystery this Monday (11 November), we've kindly been provided with Three DVD copies of Ye's Un Certain Regard contender to give away to our Asian cinema-adoring readership, once again courtesy of our friends over at UK arthouse distributors Artificial Eye. This is an exclusive competition for our Facebook and Twitter fans, so if you haven't already, 'Like' us at facebook.com/CineVueUK or follow us @CineVue before answering the question below.
- 11/15/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
★★★☆☆China's enfant terrible Lou Ye returns after a five-year government ban on filmmaking with Mystery (2012), a rain-soaked melodrama set against the disconsolate mist of Wuhan's impetuously erected industrial landscape. Opening with an explosive car crash, Ye's latest is a tangled wreck of moral impasses and social inspection. Slicing through a sheet of unrelenting rainfall, two modified sports cars - driven by a group of insufferably affluent kids - race through the streets of the Hubei province capital. Their recklessness is dramatically halted, however, when they fail to notice a young woman who has wandered into the road.
- 11/11/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The announcement of the Asian Movie Awards has just been released with some big films and actors going against against each other to win the big awards. Some of these include Drug War (Louis Koo), Outrage Beyond, actors such as Choi Min-sik and Tony Leung Ka-fai, to Directors such as Takeshi Kitano and Lou Ye.
I do have a few favorites in this list and i feel best movie could go to Drug War and best actor should fall to Choi Min-sik (just brilliant in every movie).
Here is the list of nominations below, feel free to write your favorites in the comment box at the bottom of the page.
Best Film
“Drug War” (Mainland China)
“Gangs of Wasseypur, Part 1 & 2″ (India)
“Mystery” (Mainland China)
“Outrage Beyond” (Japan)
“Pieta” (South Korea)
Best Director
Anurag Kashyap, “Gangs of Wasseypur, Part 1 & 2″ (India)
Abbas Kiarostami, “Like Someone in Love” (Japan/France/Iran)
Kim Ki-duk,...
I do have a few favorites in this list and i feel best movie could go to Drug War and best actor should fall to Choi Min-sik (just brilliant in every movie).
Here is the list of nominations below, feel free to write your favorites in the comment box at the bottom of the page.
Best Film
“Drug War” (Mainland China)
“Gangs of Wasseypur, Part 1 & 2″ (India)
“Mystery” (Mainland China)
“Outrage Beyond” (Japan)
“Pieta” (South Korea)
Best Director
Anurag Kashyap, “Gangs of Wasseypur, Part 1 & 2″ (India)
Abbas Kiarostami, “Like Someone in Love” (Japan/France/Iran)
Kim Ki-duk,...
- 1/20/2013
- by kingofkungfu
- AsianMoviePulse
Four Indian films have been nominated for the 7th Asian Film Awards with Anurag Kashyap’s Gangs of Wasseypur leading the pack with four nominations: Best Film, Anurag Kashyap for Best Director, Wasiq Khan for Best Production Designer and Rajeev Ravi for Best Cinematographer.
In other nominations, Nawazuddin Siddiqui will compete for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Talaash, Anand Gandhi contends for Best Screenwriter for his debut film Ship of Theseus and Pritam Chakraborty vies for Best Composer Award for his melodies in Barfi!.
Andy Lau, a noted actor of Hong Kong will head the judging panel. A total of 30 films from nine countries will compete under 14 categories at the award function to be held on 18th March, 3013. The annual event is organised by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society.
Full List of Nominations:
Best Film
Drug War (Mainland China)
Gangs of Wasseypur, Part 1 & 2 (India)
Mystery (Mainland...
In other nominations, Nawazuddin Siddiqui will compete for Best Supporting Actor for his work in Talaash, Anand Gandhi contends for Best Screenwriter for his debut film Ship of Theseus and Pritam Chakraborty vies for Best Composer Award for his melodies in Barfi!.
Andy Lau, a noted actor of Hong Kong will head the judging panel. A total of 30 films from nine countries will compete under 14 categories at the award function to be held on 18th March, 3013. The annual event is organised by the Hong Kong International Film Festival Society.
Full List of Nominations:
Best Film
Drug War (Mainland China)
Gangs of Wasseypur, Part 1 & 2 (India)
Mystery (Mainland...
- 1/17/2013
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Lou Ye's first release in his homeland for a decade is a beautiful and violent film echoing some of contemporary China's problems
The launch party for the first film by Lou Ye to be screened in China for 10 years was held in Yugong Yishan, a trendy music venue in central Beijing, once the headquarters of a Chinese warlord. Lou Ye, dressed in black from top to toe, mingled with the crowd of journalists and friends, while on stage, the group Zhao Ze played one of the film's theme tunes.
Mystery (Fucheng mishi) was presented at the Cannes Film Festival last May and released in China last month. It is a story of a love triangle that turns to tragedy against the smoggy backdrop of Wuhan, taken from a woman's real-life account about her unfaithful husband that caused a stir in China in 2009. This is Lou Ye's seventh film but only...
The launch party for the first film by Lou Ye to be screened in China for 10 years was held in Yugong Yishan, a trendy music venue in central Beijing, once the headquarters of a Chinese warlord. Lou Ye, dressed in black from top to toe, mingled with the crowd of journalists and friends, while on stage, the group Zhao Ze played one of the film's theme tunes.
Mystery (Fucheng mishi) was presented at the Cannes Film Festival last May and released in China last month. It is a story of a love triangle that turns to tragedy against the smoggy backdrop of Wuhan, taken from a woman's real-life account about her unfaithful husband that caused a stir in China in 2009. This is Lou Ye's seventh film but only...
- 11/20/2012
- by Brice Pedroletti
- The Guardian - Film News
The 17th edition of the International Film Festival of Kerala (Iffk) has announced its lineup. The festival will run from 7th to 14th December, 2012 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala.
Some of the highlights of the lineup are festival favourites of the year Amour, Chitrangada, Samhita, The Sapphires, Drapchi, Miss Lovely, Me and You, Celluloid Man, and Baandhon.
Fourteen films will screen in the Competition section while seven contemporary films will be screened in “Indian Cinema Now” section.
Complete list of films:
Competition Films
Fourteen feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America will compete for the coveted “Suvarna Chakoram” (Golden Crow Pheasant) and other awards.
Always Brando by Ridha Behi (Tunisia)
Inheritors of the Earth by T V Chandran (India)
A Terminal Trust by by Masayuki Suo (Japan)
Shutter by Joy Mathew (India)
Today by Alain Gomis (Senegal-France)
The Repentant by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)
Sta. Niña by Manny Palo (Philippines)
Present Tense...
Some of the highlights of the lineup are festival favourites of the year Amour, Chitrangada, Samhita, The Sapphires, Drapchi, Miss Lovely, Me and You, Celluloid Man, and Baandhon.
Fourteen films will screen in the Competition section while seven contemporary films will be screened in “Indian Cinema Now” section.
Complete list of films:
Competition Films
Fourteen feature films from Asia, Africa and Latin America will compete for the coveted “Suvarna Chakoram” (Golden Crow Pheasant) and other awards.
Always Brando by Ridha Behi (Tunisia)
Inheritors of the Earth by T V Chandran (India)
A Terminal Trust by by Masayuki Suo (Japan)
Shutter by Joy Mathew (India)
Today by Alain Gomis (Senegal-France)
The Repentant by Merzak Allouache (Algeria)
Sta. Niña by Manny Palo (Philippines)
Present Tense...
- 11/2/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Subtitled fare always seems to consume me in September and early October as the Foreign Language Submission List for Oscar takes shape (it's not quite official yet but the submission deadline has passed). This is also the time of year when The Golden Horse, the preeminent Chinese/Taiwanese film awards, announce their nominations. Rather than a huge Academy vote, the Golden Horse is determined by a jury. Andy Lau who starred in Hong Kong’s Oscar submission A Simple Life last year and is best known internationally for two hits from the Aughts (The House of Flying Daggers and Infernal Affairs which was later remade into The Departed) is the president of this year’s jury.
Caught in the Web, China's Oscar submission, was apparently not eligible.
Best Picture Nominees
Beijing Blues -a police procedural Mystery - is the leader with 8 nominations. It's a thriller from Lou Ye, who is...
Caught in the Web, China's Oscar submission, was apparently not eligible.
Best Picture Nominees
Beijing Blues -a police procedural Mystery - is the leader with 8 nominations. It's a thriller from Lou Ye, who is...
- 10/3/2012
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Opening this year’s Un Certain Regard programme, Mystery returns festival veteran Lou Ye to Cannes for the fourth time, having screened Purple Butterfly, Summer Palace and Spring Fever in the main competition in past years, and after being banned from filmmaking for five years by the Chinese government. Though he is on less provocative form here than previously, he does still sneak in a criticism of the Chinese justice system and the somewhat distasteful practice of private settlements overriding criminal prosecution. His story here focuses on Lu Jie (Hao Lei), a happy housewife whose life is shattered when she discovers that her husband (Hao Qin) is having an affair. The story isn’t quite that conventional however, as it is framed by an explosive event – the death of her husband’s mistress under the wheels of a young rich playboy’s car – and when murder is suggested, the film quickly sets about solving the mystery of...
- 5/18/2012
- by Simon Gallagher
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
Marion Cotillard, Rust and Bone The Guardian‘s Peter Bradshaw on Jacques Audiard‘s De rouille et d’os / Rust & Bone, starring Marion Cotillard (who’s already getting Oscar buzz) and Matthias Schoenaerts: "What could have been simply bizarre, sentimental or contrived here becomes an utterly absorbing love story; Rust and Bone is a tale of a miraculous friendship which evolves into an enthralling and moving romance, wonderfully acted by Marion Cotillard and Matthias Schoenaerts. … This is early days in the festival, but Rust and Bone has to be a real contender for prizes, and, the odds will be shortening to vanishing point for Cotillard getting the best actress award." Time‘s Mary Corliss Rust & Bone: "For all the grit of its milieu and the stark cinematographic contrasts of blinding brightness and midnight murkiness, this is a movie of the old school; Kings Row and An Affair to Remember leap to mind.
- 5/17/2012
- by Anna Robinson
- Alt Film Guide
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