I first saw G-23 at the begin­ning of my first year in FSV. Much hype had pre­ceded it and I enthu­si­as­ti­cally watched it with a few friends of mine inside of a Ngee Ann the­atre. When it was all over I was met with numer­ous com­ments all pos­i­tive say­ing : “Wow that was good” and “Excellent.” Sitting down and watch­ing this by myself sev­eral months later I still won­der to myself. Do peo­ple imme­di­ately praise this movie just based on the fact it has won many awards? Or the hype Ngee Ann has placed around it as well as Anthony Chen skills? Read More >

The night was the crown­ing moment for grad­u­at­ing Film Sound and Video stu­dents, a screen­ing of the grad­u­at­ing projects lov­ingly and devot­edly carved by many aspir­ing and soon to be film-makers. Similar to past screen­ings that have been tra­di­tion for final year stu­dents, Projection 08 should likely stand proud amongst it’s pre­de­ces­sors with its wide range of qual­ity short films. Read More >

Review By Rein Zahrein Based on the best-selling comic book series by Hur Young Man, Le Grand Chef, directed by Jeon Yoon Soo (My Girl And I, Besa Me Mucho) stood on the #1 spot in Korea for about three weeks. It touched on a famil­iar ter­ri­tory in the likes of films shown just a few months back such as No Reservations and Ratatouille. Read More >

Writer/Director/Producer – Albert Lamorisse Editor – Pierre Gillette Cinematographer – Edmond Sechan Composer – Maurice Le Roux Rarely a direc­tor would have chil­dren as their tar­geted audi­ence; one of such direc­tor is Albert Lamorisse. His films fea­ture chil­dren as the pro­tag­o­nist and are fan­tasy in genre, com­ple­ment­ing the vivid imag­i­na­tion of chil­dren. I would con­sider The red bal­loon is his mag­num opus. Read More >

First of all, being exposed to Hollywood Cinema so much, it is almost rare for some­one like me to be exposed to Independant Films or Short Films–A Chairy Tale by Claude Jutra and Norman McLaren–is not an excep­tion. So when I first saw it, it was a unique expe­ri­ence where I actu­ally fell in love with the chem­istry between the main char­ac­ter and the chair. The film reminded me of past movies like the 1988 film, ‘Who Framed Roger Rabbit’ due to the fusion of real life actors with sim­ple ani­ma­tion. Of course, ‘A Chairy Tale’ was made alot sim­pler with­out any use of CGI but just the prim­i­tive Stop-Motion Animation, but that chem­istry was there. Simple, yet highly like­able. So what made the chair such a favor­able side char­ac­ter despite look­ing like any other ordi­nary wooden stool? That I can any­time bravely com­pare its over­all per­for­mance to other CGI char­ac­ters? I say it’s the per­son­al­ity, por­trayal and per­for­mance. The chair’s stub­born and child-like per­son­al­ity is brought to life so well despite it being just a sim­ple house­hold object. The way it moved, showed how fast and smart it was. The flips and stunts it did showed how wacky and child­ish this chair’s char­ac­ter was. And as the film reaches its cli­max, the chair’s curios­ity to the man’s sad emo­tions can be seen through its slow move­ment and the con­stant pausing-to-peep ges­tures as he cir­cles the man curi­ously. Oh and even when it gets excited at the cli­max when the man pre­tends to be the chair itself, you see the chair leap and hop on the man’s lap! I even heard the girls behind me say ‘Aw it’s so cute’. What make objects look alive? It’s not how well they are drawn or ani­mated as this film firmly proves. But it’s the right ele­ments and famil­iar phys­i­cal reac­tions that relate to human beings, adding up to a won­der­fully enter­tain­ing per­son­i­fi­ca­tion to a story. Reviewed by Joshuah Simon.

Fahrenheit 9/11 is one of those doc­u­men­taries that has stayed in my head, con­stantly pro­vok­ing me with its mes­sages and impli­ca­tions since its release, but more impor­tantly as a film, it was a mon­u­men­tal suc­cess that shook peo­ple from all walks of life that were directly or indi­rectly affected by the inci­dent on 9/11. Read More >

Written by Neil Simon, Murder by death is homage to great lit­er­a­ture detec­tives as well as famous onscreen detec­tives. Mystery fiction’s fans would enjoy Murder by Death thoroughly.

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