Film director and screenwriter Ashim Ahluwalia spoke about the challenges of adapting Spanish drama ‘Elite’ for an Indian audience and making the web series ‘Class’. He said the biggest responsibility was retaining the characters from the original story.
He shared: “‘Class’ is an Indian adaptation of the global series ‘Elite’, and is something I was very excited about. Rather than just making a localised copy, I used the Spanish show in the way that one would use a source novel as a starting point for something altogether new. It’s not just about recreating a show for Indian audiences, but also about bringing a unique perspective and cultural context to the story.”
Ashim is a well-known film director, screenwriter, and producer. The National Award winner is best known for his critically acclaimed films, ‘Daddy’, ‘Thin Air’, and ‘Miss Lovely’, among others.
He elaborated more about his recent web series and...
He shared: “‘Class’ is an Indian adaptation of the global series ‘Elite’, and is something I was very excited about. Rather than just making a localised copy, I used the Spanish show in the way that one would use a source novel as a starting point for something altogether new. It’s not just about recreating a show for Indian audiences, but also about bringing a unique perspective and cultural context to the story.”
Ashim is a well-known film director, screenwriter, and producer. The National Award winner is best known for his critically acclaimed films, ‘Daddy’, ‘Thin Air’, and ‘Miss Lovely’, among others.
He elaborated more about his recent web series and...
- 2/28/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy are waiting to be the star of your nightmares! Funko's Five Nights at Freddy's action figures and Mystery Minis will be available in December! Also, check out the details and trailer for Machinima's Happy Wheels series and Thin Air book details and ghost prank video.
Five Nights at Freddy's Figures and Mystery Minis: From Funko: "Action Figures: Five Nights at Freddy's
The Five Nights at Freddy's gang is returning to our Action Figure line!
Don't be fooled by Funtime Foxy's cheerful appearance -- Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy are in their terrifying Nightmare form!
Collect them all to assemble a special Nightmarionne!
Coming in December!
Mystery Minis: Five Night's at Freddy's
These Mystery Minis glow in the dark! Freddy Fazbear and his creepy crew of animatronic buddies are coming this winter!
Coming in December!”
Images from Funko:
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Machinima's Happy Wheels Animated Series: Press Release: "Burbank,...
Five Nights at Freddy's Figures and Mystery Minis: From Funko: "Action Figures: Five Nights at Freddy's
The Five Nights at Freddy's gang is returning to our Action Figure line!
Don't be fooled by Funtime Foxy's cheerful appearance -- Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, and Foxy are in their terrifying Nightmare form!
Collect them all to assemble a special Nightmarionne!
Coming in December!
Mystery Minis: Five Night's at Freddy's
These Mystery Minis glow in the dark! Freddy Fazbear and his creepy crew of animatronic buddies are coming this winter!
Coming in December!”
Images from Funko:
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Machinima's Happy Wheels Animated Series: Press Release: "Burbank,...
- 11/3/2016
- by Tamika Jones
- DailyDead
“A Beautiful Planet,” a 3D documentary from filmmaker Toni Myers, will make its domestic debut in IMAX theaters on Apr. 29 next year, Disney announced on Thursday. Produced in cooperation with Nasa, the film features stunning footage of Earth from space, shot by the astronauts or cameras mounted on the International Space Station (photo top). Also Read: 'Everest' Venice Review: Jake Gyllenhaal and Company Find Some Thrills But Mostly Thin Air Myers has been editing, writing, producing and directing films specifically tailored for IMAX since 1971. Her most recent documentary feature film, 2010’s “Hubble 3D,” has grossed nearly $70 million. “A Beautiful Planet” will be presented.
- 9/3/2015
- by Todd Cunningham
- The Wrap
From the Toronto International Film Festival, Adam Cook and Daniel Kasman continue our series of festival dialogues. Johnnie To's Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2 had its world premiere in Tiff's Special Presentations section.
Adam Cook: Here we are again, talking To. It's frustrating how many times I've encountered a dismissive attitude towards Johnnie To's romantic comedies. I realize even the director himself disassociates from them, but, and especially with his most recent works, the rom-coms have been as formally intricate and as impressively crafted as his more revered crime films. As everyone was praising Drug War, it was Romancing in Thin Air that stood out for me. Before that there was Don't Go Breaking My Heart (written on here by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky), an impossibly entertaining love triangle in the big city movie, that while over the top and silly, had some of To's most impressive images...
Adam Cook: Here we are again, talking To. It's frustrating how many times I've encountered a dismissive attitude towards Johnnie To's romantic comedies. I realize even the director himself disassociates from them, but, and especially with his most recent works, the rom-coms have been as formally intricate and as impressively crafted as his more revered crime films. As everyone was praising Drug War, it was Romancing in Thin Air that stood out for me. Before that there was Don't Go Breaking My Heart (written on here by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky), an impossibly entertaining love triangle in the big city movie, that while over the top and silly, had some of To's most impressive images...
- 9/13/2014
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
Dear Danny,
I also rode the Tokyo Tribe rollercoaster, and my head hasn’t stopped spinning yet. Slamming together the most rabid excesses of the worlds of manga comics and hip-hop music, it’s a continuous blitzkrieg: Sono’s ne plus ultra of sheer brio, and, along with Godard’s Adieu au language, the festival’s most assaultive sensory experience so far. Its pinwheel neon hues, inflamed camera movements and acrobatic gangland mugging are straight-up dilations of Seijun Suzuki’s vintage gonzo pulp—indeed, the first time I ever heard Japanese rapping on screen was during a brief interlude in Suzuki’s mock-opera Princess Raccoon. I doubt even that veteran iconoclast, however, could have dreamed up the bit in Tokyo Tribe when the vile underworld kingpin (Riki Takeuchi), swollen like an obscene parade float, pulverizes a field of warring gangs with a Gatling gun held, of course, crotch-level. Such moments of absolute glee abound,...
I also rode the Tokyo Tribe rollercoaster, and my head hasn’t stopped spinning yet. Slamming together the most rabid excesses of the worlds of manga comics and hip-hop music, it’s a continuous blitzkrieg: Sono’s ne plus ultra of sheer brio, and, along with Godard’s Adieu au language, the festival’s most assaultive sensory experience so far. Its pinwheel neon hues, inflamed camera movements and acrobatic gangland mugging are straight-up dilations of Seijun Suzuki’s vintage gonzo pulp—indeed, the first time I ever heard Japanese rapping on screen was during a brief interlude in Suzuki’s mock-opera Princess Raccoon. I doubt even that veteran iconoclast, however, could have dreamed up the bit in Tokyo Tribe when the vile underworld kingpin (Riki Takeuchi), swollen like an obscene parade float, pulverizes a field of warring gangs with a Gatling gun held, of course, crotch-level. Such moments of absolute glee abound,...
- 9/9/2014
- by Fernando F. Croce
- MUBI
Hong Kong’s Media Asia has sold Johnnie To’s romantic comedy Don’t Go Breaking My Heart 2 to Magnum Films for North America.
Starring Louis Koo, Miriam Yeung and Gao Yuanyuan, the film is a sequel to To’s 2011 hit Don’t Go Breaking My Heart. Magnum also picked up two other Media Asia titles as part of a package – To’s Romancing In Thin Air and Gary Mak’s Sdu: Sex Duties Unit.
Media Asia has also sold animated feature Monkey King Reloaded to Turkey’s Saran Media and Myanmar’s Golden Yellow Tree, which also acquired action thriller Helios.
Directed by Sunny Lok and Longman Leung, Helios stars a pan-Asian cast including Jacky Cheung, Nick Cheng and Korea’s Ji Jin-hee and Choi Si-won. Media Asia has already received several offers from Korea for the film and expects to close a deal during Cannes.
Starring Louis Koo, Miriam Yeung and Gao Yuanyuan, the film is a sequel to To’s 2011 hit Don’t Go Breaking My Heart. Magnum also picked up two other Media Asia titles as part of a package – To’s Romancing In Thin Air and Gary Mak’s Sdu: Sex Duties Unit.
Media Asia has also sold animated feature Monkey King Reloaded to Turkey’s Saran Media and Myanmar’s Golden Yellow Tree, which also acquired action thriller Helios.
Directed by Sunny Lok and Longman Leung, Helios stars a pan-Asian cast including Jacky Cheung, Nick Cheng and Korea’s Ji Jin-hee and Choi Si-won. Media Asia has already received several offers from Korea for the film and expects to close a deal during Cannes.
- 5/15/2014
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
From Johnnie To (Life Without Principle, Election), master of the Hong Kong crime thriller, comes the critically-acclaimed, action-packed drama Drug War, debuting on Digital, Blu-ray and DVD October 15th from Well Go USA Entertainment. The film stars Louis Koo (Triple Tap, Accident), Sun Honglei (A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop), Michelle Ye (Motorway, Once a Gangster), Huang Yi (Legendary, Romancing in Thin Air), Wallace Chung (Forever Young), and Li Guangjie (Motorway, Romancing in Thin Air). When our friends at Well Go asked if we wanted to give away a few copies of the new Drug War Blu-ray to our loyal readership, we were more than happy to jump on the opportunity. For your chance to win a Drug War Blu-ray: Follow @SLSS_Tweets on Twitter, then retweet any tweets that you see about this giveaway. We will randomly choose the winners from anyone who follows @SLSS_Tweets and retweets this giveaway on Twitter.
- 10/9/2013
- by Don Simpson
- SmellsLikeScreenSpirit
In a summer suffuse with the overblown abstractions of CGI blockbusters, one welcomes a return to concrete filmmaking, and Johnnie To's great Drug War served this purpose perfectly: firm lines, structural plotting, and geometric decoupage makes for a highly material formalism, all deeply tied to the director's first completely Mainland Chinese production.
Like 2011's romcom Don't Go Breaking My Heart, this film is powered by formal play, but the material here is a corrosive but ambiguous thriller about a Mainland Anti-Drug cop (Sun Honglei) chasing down suppliers, transporters, and the moneymen forming a curvilinear connection spanning Hong Kong, going through China to South Korea and ending in Japan. Louis Koo is a loyalty-hopping Hong Konger cooking meth on the Mainland; caught by the police, he is blackmailed under the threat of execution by the State into exposing factories and ratting out his workers, then forced to go undercover with...
Like 2011's romcom Don't Go Breaking My Heart, this film is powered by formal play, but the material here is a corrosive but ambiguous thriller about a Mainland Anti-Drug cop (Sun Honglei) chasing down suppliers, transporters, and the moneymen forming a curvilinear connection spanning Hong Kong, going through China to South Korea and ending in Japan. Louis Koo is a loyalty-hopping Hong Konger cooking meth on the Mainland; caught by the police, he is blackmailed under the threat of execution by the State into exposing factories and ratting out his workers, then forced to go undercover with...
- 7/23/2013
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Cult favourite and auteur Johnnie To joins the ranks of Hong Kong directors trying their luck on the Mainland with the thriller “Drug War”, following up on his co-produced “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart” and “Romancing in Thin Air”. Seeing him work again with regular partner and writer Wai Ka Fai, the Milkyway outing has To returning once more to the violent world of cops and crooks, with shifting loyalties and shootouts being the order of the day. Having played at Venice in competition and at other international festivals, the film has been eagerly awaited by fans and critics, in particular with regards to seeing how the director deals with the notoriously strict Mainland censors, who generally frown upon his usual brand of bloody moral grey areas. Sun Hong Lei (“Lethal Hostage”) stars as narcotics squad captain Zhang Lei, who gets a break in his case when drug dealer Timmy Choi (Louis Koo,...
- 6/12/2013
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
Blind Detective (Johnnie To, Hong Kong)
Midnight Projections
The second in our series of Cannes dialogues between Adam Cook and Daniel Kasman is on Johnnie To's Blind Detective, which screened out of competition as a Midnight Projection.
Adam Cook: Blind Detective stands out among Johnnie To’s recent work as one of his most outlandish and over-the-top films. In some ways, it feels like it meets halfway between his earlier comedies, made before he became such a rigorous craftsmen, and his present formalism. That being said, it retains a certain looseness and spontaneity that distinguishes it from just about anything he's made. How do you define this film within his oeuvre?
Daniel Kasman: I've seen a lot of To but not in any way a majority, and have especially large gaps in his earlier work (80s thru early 90s) and in a certain amount of comedies which certainly...
Midnight Projections
The second in our series of Cannes dialogues between Adam Cook and Daniel Kasman is on Johnnie To's Blind Detective, which screened out of competition as a Midnight Projection.
Adam Cook: Blind Detective stands out among Johnnie To’s recent work as one of his most outlandish and over-the-top films. In some ways, it feels like it meets halfway between his earlier comedies, made before he became such a rigorous craftsmen, and his present formalism. That being said, it retains a certain looseness and spontaneity that distinguishes it from just about anything he's made. How do you define this film within his oeuvre?
Daniel Kasman: I've seen a lot of To but not in any way a majority, and have especially large gaps in his earlier work (80s thru early 90s) and in a certain amount of comedies which certainly...
- 5/22/2013
- by Notebook
- MUBI
Amanda Bynes' videos have a special place in our hearts and in the pantheon of "celebrity behavior we just don't understand," but the Nickelodeon star has just lost the "most cray cray" crown to another troubled star: Tila Tequila.
The former reality star has been in and out of rehab these past couple of years and has made headlines for battling drug abuse and an eating disorder, attempting suicide, live-tweeting her miscarriage and more.
A few days ago, Tequila, 31, posted a seven-minute video to YouTube titled "Super Human Abilities: Tila Tequila Creating Energy Balls & Electricity Out of Thin Air!"
In it, her face is barely visible as she tries to remain out of the frame (excusing it by saying she just woke up). Instead, it focuses on her hands, which supposedly have purple and green lights, swirling smoke and lasers coming out of them. Tequila says the friend who...
The former reality star has been in and out of rehab these past couple of years and has made headlines for battling drug abuse and an eating disorder, attempting suicide, live-tweeting her miscarriage and more.
A few days ago, Tequila, 31, posted a seven-minute video to YouTube titled "Super Human Abilities: Tila Tequila Creating Energy Balls & Electricity Out of Thin Air!"
In it, her face is barely visible as she tries to remain out of the frame (excusing it by saying she just woke up). Instead, it focuses on her hands, which supposedly have purple and green lights, swirling smoke and lasers coming out of them. Tequila says the friend who...
- 4/29/2013
- by Liat Kornowski
- Huffington Post
As is no doubt befits the ease of manipulation of film's past through contemporary consumer digital means, Rotterdam this year seems full of “video essays” and art pieces deconstructing or exploring cinema material and history. The proliferation alone prompts my skepticism; browse the festival catalog and see videos that engage with Psycho, Zabriskie Point, Eyes Wide Shut, Easy Rider, Freud's celluloid doppelgangers, Faces, and more.
From the spectral underground comes a real work of cinephilia, and by that I mean something that is neither fetishization of a film object nor an exploitation of the same for other means. Rather, Mary Helena Clark's 16mm Orpheus (Outtakes), which I had the pleasure of seeing at Tiff's Wavelengths program last September and revisiting again in Rotterdam, finds on the cutting room floor the facts, dreams, and possibilities of cinema history and future. Cinephilia as lucid consciousness of what lies beneath, behind, and beyond films.
From the spectral underground comes a real work of cinephilia, and by that I mean something that is neither fetishization of a film object nor an exploitation of the same for other means. Rather, Mary Helena Clark's 16mm Orpheus (Outtakes), which I had the pleasure of seeing at Tiff's Wavelengths program last September and revisiting again in Rotterdam, finds on the cutting room floor the facts, dreams, and possibilities of cinema history and future. Cinephilia as lucid consciousness of what lies beneath, behind, and beyond films.
- 2/2/2013
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Now that the year has come to an end, and all the top tens have come out of the woodwork, certain films continue to fly under the radar, either due to lack of distribution or a general lack of interest—even with established auteurs like Johnnie To. As with his romantic-comedy (see: not an action film) Don’t Go Breaking My Heart last year, Romancing in Thin Air has dodged critical appreciation, having avoided major festivals, and in the little press it has received, has sometimes been dismissed as a slight effort outside of To’s wheelhouse (i.e. gangster & crime pictures). However, To’s weaving in and out of his action staples and “romantic” comedy/dramas (for the record, all of his films are romantic) is more akin to Howard Hawks alternating between his westerns, crime films, and melodramas—from The Big Sleep to Red River to His Girl Friday...
- 1/15/2013
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
News.
Studio Ghibli has announced that both Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata's new films will be released in Japan next summer.
Raya Martin and Mark Peranson are currently filming a project in Mexico titled La ultima pelicula starring Alex Ross Perry:
"The fiction-documentary hybrid takes place in the context of the pending Mayan Apocalypse, when a filmmaker and his guide traverse the Mexican countryside with the goal of making the last movie, a contemporary update of the acid Western. Alex Ross Perry, Gabino Rodriguez and Iazua Larios star in the project, which takes inspiration from the myths of the American West constructed by filmmakers Sam Peckinpah, Monte Hellman and Dennis Hopper."
Film Comment has announced its top 50 films of the year (topped by Holy Motors), as well as the top 50 undistributed films of the year, a list which includes Traveling Light by Notebook contributor Gina Telaroli. Indiewire has...
Studio Ghibli has announced that both Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata's new films will be released in Japan next summer.
Raya Martin and Mark Peranson are currently filming a project in Mexico titled La ultima pelicula starring Alex Ross Perry:
"The fiction-documentary hybrid takes place in the context of the pending Mayan Apocalypse, when a filmmaker and his guide traverse the Mexican countryside with the goal of making the last movie, a contemporary update of the acid Western. Alex Ross Perry, Gabino Rodriguez and Iazua Larios star in the project, which takes inspiration from the myths of the American West constructed by filmmakers Sam Peckinpah, Monte Hellman and Dennis Hopper."
Film Comment has announced its top 50 films of the year (topped by Holy Motors), as well as the top 50 undistributed films of the year, a list which includes Traveling Light by Notebook contributor Gina Telaroli. Indiewire has...
- 12/19/2012
- by Adam Cook
- MUBI
Hong Kong – They came, and they conquered again: mainland Chinese and Hong Kong filmmakers swept Taiwan’s Golden Horses Awards this year, with the island’s own contingent nearly completely brushed aside in all categories. Gwai Lun-mei’s coronation as best actress (for romance drama Gf*Bf) and Chang Jung-chi’s best new director win (for Touch of the Light, Taiwan’s entry in the best foreign language Oscar race), in addition to composer Lo Tayu’s contribution to the best original film song (for the Hong Kong film Romance in Thin Air), provided the few moments of cheer for local audiences eager to
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- 11/24/2012
- by Clarence Tsui
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
My last Johnnie To movie was 2009′s “Vengeance”, which was good, but not great. And when a Johnnie To movie isn’t great, I’m always left feeling a little disappointed. It’s his fault, he’s done so many great films, I automatically expect good stuff when I sit down with a Johnnie To movie. He’s done plenty since then, including romance dramas “Romancing in Thin Air” and “Don’t Go Breaking My Heart”, with crime flick “Life Without Principle” squeezed in between them. His latest is “Drug War”, starring Louis Koo as some type of loopy drug lord who gets captured after a car accident. Or something like that. An official synopsis for the film is apparently a little hard to find, even though the movie itself already has a teaser trailer (see below) and is due out sometime later this year. But in case you missed it,...
- 9/17/2012
- by Nix
- Beyond Hollywood
The 12th Osian’s Cinefan Film Festival, New Delhi (27 July to 5 August 2012) will open with Japanese director Keiichi Sato’s “Asura” and close with Rituparno Ghosh’s “Chitragandha”.
Festival announced its competition lineup and highlights on Wednesday.
According to the official press release the festival will present 15 World premieres, 8 International premieres, 104 Indian premieres and 13 Asian premieres from China, Estonia, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Morocco and Algeria among other Asian and Arab countries.
Films In Competition
Asian & Arab
1. Death For Sale (Mort à Vendre)/Faouzi Bensaidi, Morocco, France, Belgium, United Arab Emirates
2011/India Premiere
2. Ex Press (Ex Press)/Jet Leyco, Philippines 2011/India Premiere
3. Headshot (Fon Tok Kuen Fah)/Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Thailand 2011/India Premiere
4. Highway (Autobahn)/Deepak Rauniyar, Nepal, USA 2011/Asia Premiere
5. Inside (Yeralti)/Zeki Demirkubuz, Turkey 2012/Asia Premiere
6. Mekong Hotel/Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, UK 2012/India Premiere
7. Milocrorze: A Love Story (Mirokurôze)/Yoshimasa Ishibashi, Japan 2011/India...
Festival announced its competition lineup and highlights on Wednesday.
According to the official press release the festival will present 15 World premieres, 8 International premieres, 104 Indian premieres and 13 Asian premieres from China, Estonia, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Japan, Philippines, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Morocco and Algeria among other Asian and Arab countries.
Films In Competition
Asian & Arab
1. Death For Sale (Mort à Vendre)/Faouzi Bensaidi, Morocco, France, Belgium, United Arab Emirates
2011/India Premiere
2. Ex Press (Ex Press)/Jet Leyco, Philippines 2011/India Premiere
3. Headshot (Fon Tok Kuen Fah)/Pen-ek Ratanaruang, Thailand 2011/India Premiere
4. Highway (Autobahn)/Deepak Rauniyar, Nepal, USA 2011/Asia Premiere
5. Inside (Yeralti)/Zeki Demirkubuz, Turkey 2012/Asia Premiere
6. Mekong Hotel/Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, UK 2012/India Premiere
7. Milocrorze: A Love Story (Mirokurôze)/Yoshimasa Ishibashi, Japan 2011/India...
- 7/12/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
I can't remember a time I went to the Seattle International Film Festival (Siff) press launch and looked over the list of films and saw so many I was interested in seeing. The claim to fame for over the years is to call it the largest and most-highly attended festival in the United States. This is a fact I've often taken issue with as I don't equate quantity with quality. Granted, there has been a large number of quality features to play the fest over the years, including Golden Space Needle (Best Film) winners such as Kiss of the Spider Woman (1985), My Life as a Dog (1987), Trainspotting (1996), Run Lola Run (1999), Whale Rider (2003) and even recent Best Director winner, Michel Hazanavicius's Oss 117: Nest of Spies in 2006. That said, looking over this year's crop of films I see a lot of films I will be doing my absolute best to see.
- 4/27/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Cueafs had the pleasure and honour to talk to acclaimed Hong Kong director Johnnie To on the third day of the 14th Udine Far East Film Festival. Founder of Cueafs Spencer Murphy interviewed To about Fresh Wave - the film collection from Hong Kong about the state of the Cantonese language cinema and his most recent film currently screening at Udine, Romancing in Thin Air (2012).
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- 4/25/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
★★★★☆ It may come as no surprise to devoted East Asian film fans when acclaimed director Johnnie To admits his last two romantic endeavours, Don't Go Breaking My Heart (2011) and new film Romancing in Thin Air (2012), were made to easily pass the censorship rules in mainland China. However, it would be disingenuous to claim that a film produced for a mass audience would have no artistic value. To's latest commercial venture certainly confirms his status as the best and most consistent director working in Hong Kong.
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- 4/24/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
Although best known internationally for his action films and triad thrillers, legendary Hong Kong director Johnnie To has enjoyed huge popularity domestically with romantic comedies and dramas, having collaborated with screenwriter Wai Ka Fai on numerous occasions to great success. Following on from their 2011 outing “Don’t go Breaking my Heart”, the duo team up again for “Romancing in Thin Air”, which also sees the return to the genre of actress Sammi Cheng, who memorably starred for To and Wai in their classic “Needing You” back in 2000. The film also features a fine leading man in Louis Koo, and a top drawer supporting cast of familiar faces that includes Gao Yuanyuan (“Don’t go Breaking my Heart”), Wang Baoqiang (“Love for Life”), Crystal Huang (“East Meets West”), Wilfred Lau (“Overheard 2”), Tanny Tien (“The Jade and the Pearl”), and Li Guangjie. The film starts with Koo as megastar actor Michael, who...
- 4/10/2012
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
A red letter day. There's a new Senses of Cinema out and it opens with the first part of Daniel Fairfax's interview with Jean-Louis Comolli, who edited Cahiers du cinéma from 1965 to 1973. Senses editor Rolando Caputo: "At the time, Cahiers was undergoing its so-called 'Marxist-Leninist' phase, with a heavy overlay of Lacanian psychoanalytic theory." And Slavoj Žižek would have been in his late teens, early 20s. At any rate: "Put simply, at stake was the demystification of the 'cinematic apparatus' to demonstrate how ideology was both embedded within the technology of cinema and an effect of its representational modes."
Fairfax: "Having steadily made films over the last 40 years — including the magisterial series on the French electoral machine, Marseille contre Marseille (1996) — Comolli has also pursued a prolonged theoretical pre-occupation with the cinema, which, in various ways, is profoundly defined by his earlier participation in Cahiers. Refreshingly, he has never sought to repudiate his radical past,...
Fairfax: "Having steadily made films over the last 40 years — including the magisterial series on the French electoral machine, Marseille contre Marseille (1996) — Comolli has also pursued a prolonged theoretical pre-occupation with the cinema, which, in various ways, is profoundly defined by his earlier participation in Cahiers. Refreshingly, he has never sought to repudiate his radical past,...
- 3/20/2012
- MUBI
In the past few months, we’ve seen the brilliant first poster and trailer for the 3D re-release of Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace to whet our appetites for the film’s return to the big screen at the start of next year.
I wasn’t a frequent cinemagoer when the film first came out in 1999 – mind you, I had only just turned nine, so that’s not really my fault – and so I for one (amongst the millions of other fans, I’m sure) cannot wait for it to come back to cinemas. The re-release will be the first of all of the six films to be put back into the cinema in the next few years, following their conversion into 3D to give fans of the franchise a whole new cinema experience to look forward to.
We’ve now got a great new poster for the film to share with you,...
I wasn’t a frequent cinemagoer when the film first came out in 1999 – mind you, I had only just turned nine, so that’s not really my fault – and so I for one (amongst the millions of other fans, I’m sure) cannot wait for it to come back to cinemas. The re-release will be the first of all of the six films to be put back into the cinema in the next few years, following their conversion into 3D to give fans of the franchise a whole new cinema experience to look forward to.
We’ve now got a great new poster for the film to share with you,...
- 12/20/2011
- by Kenji Lloyd
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
A Pestering Journey
Dok Leipzig, the 54th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated film will feature a special section for Indian documentaries called ‘Filmmakers as Changemakers — The Rhythms of India.’ The festival which will be held from October 17-23, 2011 in Leipzig, Germany describes this section as ‘An unknown sub-continent beyond the Bollywood clichés – seen with the eyes of Indian filmmakers.’
The films that will screen in this section are: In For Motion by Anirban Datta, A Pestering Journey by K.R. Manoj, At The Stairs by Rajesh S. Jala, Bounded-Boundless-Journeys with Ram and Kabir by Shabnam Virmani, Inshallah, Football by Ashvin Kumar, Love in India by Q, Manipur Song by Pankaj Butalia, Oranges and Mangoes by Priyanka Chhabra, Out of Thin Air by Shabani Hassanwalia, Songlines by Vasudha Joshi, The Salt Stories by Lalit Vachani, The Stitches Speak by Nina Sabnani, Vertical City by Avijit Mukul Kishore and Word...
Dok Leipzig, the 54th International Leipzig Festival for Documentary and Animated film will feature a special section for Indian documentaries called ‘Filmmakers as Changemakers — The Rhythms of India.’ The festival which will be held from October 17-23, 2011 in Leipzig, Germany describes this section as ‘An unknown sub-continent beyond the Bollywood clichés – seen with the eyes of Indian filmmakers.’
The films that will screen in this section are: In For Motion by Anirban Datta, A Pestering Journey by K.R. Manoj, At The Stairs by Rajesh S. Jala, Bounded-Boundless-Journeys with Ram and Kabir by Shabnam Virmani, Inshallah, Football by Ashvin Kumar, Love in India by Q, Manipur Song by Pankaj Butalia, Oranges and Mangoes by Priyanka Chhabra, Out of Thin Air by Shabani Hassanwalia, Songlines by Vasudha Joshi, The Salt Stories by Lalit Vachani, The Stitches Speak by Nina Sabnani, Vertical City by Avijit Mukul Kishore and Word...
- 10/8/2011
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Running between August 31st and September 10th, the 68th edition of the Venice Film Festival would be a dandy last edition for festival impresario Marco Muller even if he doesn't nab the likes of Wong Kar-wai's The Grandmaster, Walter Salles' On the Road, Fernando Meirelles' 360 and/or Zhang Yimou's Heroes of Naking. In his final year of contract, with approximately twenty-two competition slots (minus the already confirmed opening film from Italian res George Clooney and his Tiff-bound The Ides of March), this thursday's announcement should be heavy on items from the the U.K along with a robust presence from European filmmakers headed by Roman Polanski's Carnage. From France, we think that Vincent Paronnaud and Marjane Satrapi's Chicken With Plums (see pic above) Mathieu Kassovitz's Rebellion, Yves Caumon's Bird, John Shank's Last Winter, Emily Atef's Tue-Moi (Kill Me) and Juan Diego Solanas...
- 7/25/2011
- IONCINEMA.com
You know those incredible looking nature documentaries Best Buy, or any other generic electronics and appliance store, has playing on those huge overpriced HDTVs it's trying to sell? Chances are they're from the BBCs increasingly large selection of superbly filmed series (like Planet Earth or Life) that highlights one aspect or another of the amazing planet we live on. Planet Earth was epic in its undertaking and Life was utterly breathtaking, and now they've gone and done it again with their series Human Planet, which started on April 17th and is running just three more nights on the Discovery Channel at 7pm (until the 24th). If you miss it now, you can buy (or rent) it on DVD and Blu-ray as of the 26th (just two days later), but if you can watch it right now just by turning on the TV...
Before we move on, here's the trailer, just to give you a taste.
Before we move on, here's the trailer, just to give you a taste.
- 4/22/2011
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Thin Air Theatre Company presents at the Butte Theatre, 139 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek; Oct. 2-31, a melodrama adapted from the 1867 Victorian melodrama Lost in London. This new adaptation tells the story of a poor Cripple Creek miner who journeys to Denver to reclaim his wife and to have his vengeance on the villain who stole her. It is a thrilling story of honor, revenge, and enduring love, even from beyond the grave. The show will be followed by an all-new longer-than usual Halloween Olio ? 45 minutes of trilling and chilling musical fun. Opening night will also feature a meet the cast and crew event with snacks and champagne ? tickets are first-come-first-serve.
- 9/16/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
Thin Air Theatre Company presents at the Butte Theatre, 139 E. Bennett Ave., Cripple Creek; Oct. 2-31, a melodrama adapted from the 1867 Victorian melodrama Lost in London by Watts Phillips. This new adaptation tells the story of a poor Cripple Creek miner who journeys to Denver to reclaim his wife and to have his vengeance on the villain who stole her. It is a thrilling story of honor, revenge, and enduring love, even from beyond the grave. The show will be followed by an all new Halloween Olio.
- 8/19/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
The raging creeks and still snow-packed peaks of Aspen, Colorado don't outwardly suggest any hints of a global water crisis, but it provides a reflective backdrop for design students who arrived here this week to tackle what is certain to be the greatest challenge currently facing the planet: Water conservation.
As the finalists for the global Index: Aiga Aspen Design Challenge, these students designed campaigns and product concepts to solve issues around water use, safety and awareness. But the competition doesn't end with a trophy and a handshake: After intense workshops with design and business leaders in the idyllic alpine setting, they'll leave Aspen with business plans meant to bring the ideas to market.
Here's one example, from Ceren Bagatar of the Umea Institute of Design, Sweden: Emergency Water Purifier for Flood Conditions, a purification system made specifically for the days after floods when clean water is nearly impossible to come by.
As the finalists for the global Index: Aiga Aspen Design Challenge, these students designed campaigns and product concepts to solve issues around water use, safety and awareness. But the competition doesn't end with a trophy and a handshake: After intense workshops with design and business leaders in the idyllic alpine setting, they'll leave Aspen with business plans meant to bring the ideas to market.
Here's one example, from Ceren Bagatar of the Umea Institute of Design, Sweden: Emergency Water Purifier for Flood Conditions, a purification system made specifically for the days after floods when clean water is nearly impossible to come by.
- 6/26/2009
- by Alissa Walker
- Fast Company
As global warming ramps up and creates new weather patterns, droughts will inevitably become more common. Enter the Water Building Resort concept, a structure designed by architect Orlando de Urrutia that could become the first building to convert air into water.
De Urrutia envisions a south-facing facade covered into transparent photovoltaic glass to capture solar energy. The northern facade contains lattices to provide ventilation along with Teex Micron Atmospheric Water Generators to convert condensation and humid air into drinking water. At full capacity, an Awg system can produce 35,000 to 109,000 gallons of water per day.
De Urrutia's resort, designed for humid areas, will contain an aquarium, restaurant, gyms, spa services, and exhibition rooms. A water treatment facility will be placed on the bottom floor to purify rainwater and sea water, and a technological investigation center will control water quality. The resort is an innovative use of Awg technology, but the people...
De Urrutia envisions a south-facing facade covered into transparent photovoltaic glass to capture solar energy. The northern facade contains lattices to provide ventilation along with Teex Micron Atmospheric Water Generators to convert condensation and humid air into drinking water. At full capacity, an Awg system can produce 35,000 to 109,000 gallons of water per day.
De Urrutia's resort, designed for humid areas, will contain an aquarium, restaurant, gyms, spa services, and exhibition rooms. A water treatment facility will be placed on the bottom floor to purify rainwater and sea water, and a technological investigation center will control water quality. The resort is an innovative use of Awg technology, but the people...
- 6/11/2009
- by Ariel Schwartz
- Fast Company
Consider the following scenario: You're at the airport, scurrying from parking garage to terminal. Luggage in tow, you glance at the signage as you rush for the elevator: "Level 4, Row C." Now, rather than juggle your hand luggage, suitcase, Pda, and stylus (or worse, dig for a pen and a slip of paper), you think to yourself: I'll just remember 4C and write it in my phone when I get inside the airport. Now, when you return to pick up your car next week, you'll wander around lost like the costars of "Dude, Where's My Car?"
This scenario, put forth by a group of Duke University engineering students, is a familiar one; people need to jot a quick note or create a small mental cue, but don't necessarily have time to fish for a pad and pen or pause to tap out a note on their iPhone or Blackberry. As...
This scenario, put forth by a group of Duke University engineering students, is a familiar one; people need to jot a quick note or create a small mental cue, but don't necessarily have time to fish for a pad and pen or pause to tap out a note on their iPhone or Blackberry. As...
- 6/10/2009
- by Clay Dillow
- Fast Company
Researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute in Stuttgart say they've invented a novel way to turn air moisture into drinking water, thus helping solve the dire water shortages that face much of the world.
Here's how it works. First "hygroscopic brine"--a saline solution which absorbs moisture--runs down a tower, soaking water from the air as it moves along. It's then sucked into a vacuum-sealed tank. There, solar collectors heat up the brine. Thanks to the vacuum, the solution's boiling point is relatively low--so it's easy to create steam that then condenses into drinkable water. Presto! The remaining solution then runs down the tower, and the process repeats itself. The entire assembly is powered by the aforementioned solar collectors and solar panels, so that all of its energy needs are self contained.
The scientists have already tested the basic concept in the lab, and they're now trying to assemble a test facility.
Here's how it works. First "hygroscopic brine"--a saline solution which absorbs moisture--runs down a tower, soaking water from the air as it moves along. It's then sucked into a vacuum-sealed tank. There, solar collectors heat up the brine. Thanks to the vacuum, the solution's boiling point is relatively low--so it's easy to create steam that then condenses into drinkable water. Presto! The remaining solution then runs down the tower, and the process repeats itself. The entire assembly is powered by the aforementioned solar collectors and solar panels, so that all of its energy needs are self contained.
The scientists have already tested the basic concept in the lab, and they're now trying to assemble a test facility.
- 6/2/2009
- by Cliff Kuang
- Fast Company
Thin Air Theatre Company producers are gearing up for a new year at the Butte Theater 139 E. Bennett Avenue, Cripple Creek. The news season starts June 5. The Fantasticks - June 5-Sept. 26 The Fantasticks, a 1960 musical with music by Harvey Schmidt and lyrics by Tom Jones, the world's longest-running musical, for 42 years. Tickets: $15.75 Adult; $13.75 Senior; $9.75 Children; $12.75 for groups of 20+ See butteroperahouse.com for schedule and to buy tickets.
- 2/13/2009
- BroadwayWorld.com
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