53rd London Film Festival: A Round-Up
Edwin MakAbove: Pema Tsedan’s The Search. Now that the red carpets on Leicester Square have furled, the maddening din over square-jawed celebrities, and anthropomorphic foxes recede into distant memory, we can
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53rd London Film Festival: "She, a Chinese" (Guo Xiaolu, UK)
Edwin MakGuo Xiaolu’s first narrative feature is, ostensibly, a portrait of a youth’s (Huang Lu) rites-of-passage in today’s alienating, globalised world. It unravels over three stages. First at her family’s
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Epilogue '08: Edwin Mak, R3
Edwin MakThanks for your response to my post Harry, but if I may, a brief clarification is in order. Although I do prefer to watch films made on film projected on celluloid—as I do films shot on HD video projected
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Epilogue '08: Edwin Mak, R3
Edwin MakAndrew and Harry both paint a familiar image of film distribution and exhibition, and it is an image that I can only echo: one characterized by aporia. It depicts on one hand an industry attempting to
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Epilogue '08: Edwin Mak, R2
Edwin MakI've been nothing but green-eyed and negative in my comments on "London vs. Paris" so far, so let me shift towards some London pleasures instead and lighten-up a bit.One way of doing this is to talk about
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Epilogue '08: Edwin Mak, R1
Edwin MakHello all, and I guess by the time this goes up, happy lunar new year too!The topic of underexposed (undistributed) favourites is an interesting one. In terms of exhibition, personally, I'm quite an infrequent
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The Notebook's First Annual Writers' Poll: Edwin Mak
Edwin MakEach of the Notebook's writers were given the opportunity to submit two lists of their ten favorite films of 2008. One is restricted to films receiving at least a week's theatrical run in the U.S., a
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When Change Meant Change: Revisiting 1930s Chinese Leftist Cinema
Edwin MakThe recent issue of UCLA’s Asia Pacific Arts Magazine has a timely new feature on: 'Social Change in Asian film'. As the authors themselves admitted, it was an editorial inspired by the latest presidential