You know how the saying goes… Beauty is in the eye of the beholder of the Big Mac. Wait, that's not how it goes, whatever…you get the idea! People far and wide are flocking to a Taiwan McDonald's location to get a glimpse at an employee who's been dubbed a—drumroll—McGoddess by her legions of fans. That's right, Wei Han Xu, who also goes by Wei Wei, is the latest Internet sensation to cause a veritable viral uproar with her looks. According to many on social media, men have been traveling from all across the globe to check Wei Wei out, and even film her in her work uniform (…and sometimes sailor or maid costumes, but let's just move past that creepy...
- 8/18/2015
- E! Online
Organisers behind a New York-based festival highlighting films from the Beijing Independent Film Festival (Biff) that fell foul of local authorities have turned to Kickstarter.
Cinema On The Edge: Best Of The Beijing Independent Film Festival 2012-2014 is scheduled to run from August 7-September 13 at museums and theatres across New York.
Critic and curator Shelly Kraicer, filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki and dGenerate Films founder Karen Chien have corralled 18 films from the likes of Ai Weiwei, Li Luo and Zou Xueping.
The films will screen in the Us for the first time and are among a selection programmed by the Beijing Independent Film Festival (Biff, pictured) that have met with resistance from Chinese officials over the last three years.
Biff top brass were forced to cancel the festival in 2014 after men claiming to be villagers prevented filmmakers and members of the public from entering the Beijing suburb of Songzhuang where the event takes place. The films were...
Cinema On The Edge: Best Of The Beijing Independent Film Festival 2012-2014 is scheduled to run from August 7-September 13 at museums and theatres across New York.
Critic and curator Shelly Kraicer, filmmaker J.P. Sniadecki and dGenerate Films founder Karen Chien have corralled 18 films from the likes of Ai Weiwei, Li Luo and Zou Xueping.
The films will screen in the Us for the first time and are among a selection programmed by the Beijing Independent Film Festival (Biff, pictured) that have met with resistance from Chinese officials over the last three years.
Biff top brass were forced to cancel the festival in 2014 after men claiming to be villagers prevented filmmakers and members of the public from entering the Beijing suburb of Songzhuang where the event takes place. The films were...
- 7/8/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Read More: 10 More Things I Learned During My Failed Kickstarter CampaignIn 2014, organizers of the Beijing Independent Film Festival were detained and stopped from showing independent Chinese films to the public. As a way to shed light on the groundbreaking cinema that was supposed to be featured in the festival, the films will now be screened courtesy of Cinema on the Edge in New York City through August and September. However, this mission to give back the voices of independent thinkers and creators in China needs your help to succeed, and Cinema on the Edge has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help meet funding goals. Cinema on the Edge will include Ai Wei Wei's documentary "Ping'an Xueqing," Li Luo's "Emperor Visits The Hell" and much more from subversive and groundbreaking films and filmmakers from China. The movies will be screened in different museums and theaters throughout New York City once...
- 7/7/2015
- by Sarah Choi
- Indiewire
In her latest Op-Doc, Laura Poitras documents a meeting between the artist Ai Wei Wei and technologist Jacob Applebaum as they meet in Beijing to stuff toy pandas with shredded Nsa documents that were given to Poitras and Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, some two years prior. As Poitras notes in her accompanying write-up in the Times, “During the encounter, Ai and Appelbaum continually filmed and photographed each other. Between their cameras and mine, we created a zone of hyper-surveillance.” Watch above.
- 6/9/2015
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
In her latest Op-Doc, Laura Poitras documents a meeting between the artist Ai Wei Wei and technologist Jacob Applebaum as they meet in Beijing to stuff toy pandas with shredded Nsa documents that were given to Poitras and Glenn Greenwald by Edward Snowden in Hong Kong, some two years prior. As Poitras notes in her accompanying write-up in the Times, “During the encounter, Ai and Appelbaum continually filmed and photographed each other. Between their cameras and mine, we created a zone of hyper-surveillance.” Watch above.
- 6/9/2015
- by Sarah Salovaara
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Read More: 'Citizenfour' Team Edward Snowden and Laura Poitras Talk to the Late David Carr If there's anyone who's proven the immense power of documentary, it's Laura Poitras, the director and producer of the Oscar-winning documentary "Citizenfour." Her film shook new ground when it exposed the whereabouts of Edward Snowden, the elusive ex-nsa employee behind the infamous 2013 Wikileaks, as well as the invasive wiretapping practices of the Nsa. Poitras' commitment to truth and storytelling didn't stop there, however, as she was invited to film Chinese artist and activist Ai Wei Wei and computer researcher and confidant to Edward Snowden, Jacob Appelbaum, in their first collaboration for a powerful art-tech piece entitled "Panda to Panda." Her short film, "The Art of Dissent," debuted today on The New York Times' website, and it documents the intricate and eye-opening processes behind Appelbaum and Ai Wei Wei's collaboration. Just...
- 6/9/2015
- by Sarah Choi
- Indiewire
Hailed as the greatest Chinese film ever made, Fei Mu's 1948 melodrama Spring In A Small Town arrives on DVD for the first time in the UK, courtesy of the BFI. A heartbreaking tale of loyalty, yearning and resilience in the wake of the Second World War, Fei's film was buried by the Communist Party and has only reemerged in recent years, where it is garnering deserved comparisons with the work of filmmakers like Ozu Yasujiro and Wong Kar Wai.In a nondescript region of post-war China, Yuwen (Wei Wei) lives a simple and somewhat isolated life. Married to the once-rich Liyan (Shi Yu), whose health has steadily declined, along with his wealth, during the eight years of their union, Yuwen's role is now little more...
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- 2/9/2015
- Screen Anarchy
The 9-minute short was shot in secret in Beijing and had its Kickstarter campaign temporarily shut down by star Ai Wei Wei, China’s most prominent artist and dissident, after producer/writer/director/editor Jason Wishnow overstepped in his marketing of the project. The film, about four people in China dealing with a water shortage in the near future, premieres today at the Telluride Film Festival and on Fandor, the subscription film website.
Wishnow, a pioneer in quick-and-dirty video who has been director of film and video for tech conference Ted, created the short during a particularly daunting period last year in Beijing, which has some of the world’s worst air pollution. But after filming was done, Wishnow launched a Kickstarter campaign to finish the project, focusing on Ai’s role in his marketing. The resulting media notoriety outraged Ai, who had not been aware of the fundraising campaign,...
Wishnow, a pioneer in quick-and-dirty video who has been director of film and video for tech conference Ted, created the short during a particularly daunting period last year in Beijing, which has some of the world’s worst air pollution. But after filming was done, Wishnow launched a Kickstarter campaign to finish the project, focusing on Ai’s role in his marketing. The resulting media notoriety outraged Ai, who had not been aware of the fundraising campaign,...
- 8/31/2014
- by David Bloom
- Deadline
Peter Bradshaw declares his admiration for Fei Mu's 1948 romance, which sees long lost love rekindled among the ruins of the second world war. Zhou Yuwen (Wei Wei) lives with her neurotic husband Dai Liyan (Shi Yu). Their unhappy marriage is tested when Yuwen's former lover, Zhang Zhichen, pays them a visit. Spring in a Small Town is being re-released by the BFI and is in cinemas from Friday Continue reading...
- 6/19/2014
- by Peter Bradshaw and Henry Barnes
- The Guardian - Film News
Ai Wei Wei is China's most influential contemporary artist, active in numerous fields (sculpture, installation, architecture, photography, and more...), as well as a major political activist for democracy and human rights, making him one of the leading critical voices against the Chinese government. He is now making his debut as a film actor, as the lead in a new science fiction film, a short titled "Sandstorm", where he plays a smuggler in a world devoid of water. We all got to see Ai Wei Wei's work in the 2008 Olympics as he is the consulting artist for the then newly built Beijing National Stadium, "The Bird's Nest", which housed the Olympic Games for that year. Ai Wei Wei's work has been exhibited in countless museums...
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- 4/19/2014
- Screen Anarchy
★★★☆☆ Much like Ai Wei Wei's recent Surveillance Camera sculpture, Vivian Qu takes on China's aggressive panoptical policing in Trap Street (2013) with a sense of doomed inquiry. Nominated for the First Feature prize at this year's London Film Festival, the film explores how information technology is both the target and perpetrator of State meddling in contemporary China, laying bare the nation's spiralling surveillance culture with a dark, noirish twist. Li Quiming (Lu Yulai) is a part time city surveyor, supplementing his low paid traineeship by installing illegal surveillance cameras in hotels and gentlemen's saunas.
Pursuing a strange woman on a rainy night ensnares Quiming in an underworld of government corruption and conspiracy when he discovers that his enigmatic femme fatale, Guan Lifen (played with vacant elusivity by actress He Wenchao), resides on a street that doesn't exist on maps. The film's title refers to the cartographer's tradition of including a...
Pursuing a strange woman on a rainy night ensnares Quiming in an underworld of government corruption and conspiracy when he discovers that his enigmatic femme fatale, Guan Lifen (played with vacant elusivity by actress He Wenchao), resides on a street that doesn't exist on maps. The film's title refers to the cartographer's tradition of including a...
- 10/21/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
The Cold Winter
Directed by Zheng Kuo
China, 2011
“Why are there violent demolitions in a harmonious society?” asks artist Zhang Jun as he leads the cameras of director Zheng Kuo through the derbies of the wall that once stood behind his art studio. His joke about the Chinese phrase “harmonious society” is repeated later as he points out broken objects that lay scattered across his studio floor. The Cold Winter – or Chinese “暖冬”, meaning ‘warm winter’ and taken from the name of the ‘Warm Winter Plan’, the subject of the film – is a documentary feature by Zheng Kuo. The film focuses on a group of artists living in a number of Beijing’s arts districts and their struggle to save their studios from demolition by land developers during one of Beijing’s coldest winters. Zheng made the documentary after happening upon the Warm Winter Project while shooting another film, 798 Station,...
Directed by Zheng Kuo
China, 2011
“Why are there violent demolitions in a harmonious society?” asks artist Zhang Jun as he leads the cameras of director Zheng Kuo through the derbies of the wall that once stood behind his art studio. His joke about the Chinese phrase “harmonious society” is repeated later as he points out broken objects that lay scattered across his studio floor. The Cold Winter – or Chinese “暖冬”, meaning ‘warm winter’ and taken from the name of the ‘Warm Winter Plan’, the subject of the film – is a documentary feature by Zheng Kuo. The film focuses on a group of artists living in a number of Beijing’s arts districts and their struggle to save their studios from demolition by land developers during one of Beijing’s coldest winters. Zheng made the documentary after happening upon the Warm Winter Project while shooting another film, 798 Station,...
- 9/11/2013
- by Adriene Lilly
- SoundOnSight
Mr. Go is the latest player to join the roster of the Bears, a down-on-their-luck team in the Korean Baseball League. He's got biceps that rival Mark McGwire's and a swing that rockets every pitch into the stratosphere.
Oh yeah, and he's a giant gorilla.
"Mr. Go" is a Korean comedy that tells the story of the titular ape, a circus performer turned baseball prodigy. Mr. Go grew up as Ling Ling -- he was renamed by savvy Korean Baseball League executives -- whose companion, a young girl named Wei Wei, must strike a deal to have him play in the league in order to pay off her deceased grandfather's debt.
Mr. Go -- rendered in sometimes lifelike, sometimes laughable CGI, depending on the scene -- is a natural, slamming home runs out of the park to the delight of the giant crowds and scantily clad cheerleaders who flock to his games.
Oh yeah, and he's a giant gorilla.
"Mr. Go" is a Korean comedy that tells the story of the titular ape, a circus performer turned baseball prodigy. Mr. Go grew up as Ling Ling -- he was renamed by savvy Korean Baseball League executives -- whose companion, a young girl named Wei Wei, must strike a deal to have him play in the league in order to pay off her deceased grandfather's debt.
Mr. Go -- rendered in sometimes lifelike, sometimes laughable CGI, depending on the scene -- is a natural, slamming home runs out of the park to the delight of the giant crowds and scantily clad cheerleaders who flock to his games.
- 7/21/2013
- by Katie Roberts
- Moviefone
The world’s art elite donned their shiniest loafers last week and beat a swift path by vaporetto, gondola, and speedboat to the biggest international art event this year, the 55thVenice Biennale. With a record 88 national pavilions, and ten countries appearing for the first time — including Angola, Kosovo, the Maldives, and bizarrely, the Vatican — there was no shortage of spectacles. Among the highlights and press stunts from the first few days were: Jeremy Deller’s acclaimed British Pavilion, which included birds of prey snatching Range Rovers from the super-rich; Milla Jovovich’s appearance in a Plexiglas box in the Barnabo garden; Portugal’s Pavilion arriving on sea in the form of decommissioned ferry boat decked out ornately inside and out; and in Venice’s Sant’Antonin church, Ai Wei Wei’s arresting account of his 81 days spent in a Chinese prison. We bring you twenty of the most noteworthy artworks from around Venice.
- 6/7/2013
- by Tess Thackara
- Vulture
Huayi Brothers continues to push the promotional campaign in China for the potential summer blockbuster film of Kim Yong-hwa's Mr. Go with the launch of the first trailer. Chinese actress Xu Jiao (Starry Starry Night, CJ7) star as Wei Wei, the childhood friend and caregiver to Ling Ling, the Baseball-playing Gorilla and Sung Dong-il (Take Off, 200 Pounds Beauty) co-star as the sports agent who recruited the Gorilla to the Korean professional Baseball league.Wei Wei grew up in the circus with a bat-swinging gorilla named Ling Ling. After her grandfather dies in the Great Sichuan Earthquake, she has only Ling Ling to depend on. In order to pay her grandfather's debt, she has no choice but to accept sports agent Sung's proposal to bring Ling...
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- 5/31/2013
- Screen Anarchy
As a joint co-production between Huayi Brothers of China and Showbox of Korea, its only natural that Kim Yong-hwa's Mr. Go will receive a heavy push as a must-see Pan-Asian summer blockbuster event in both countries. A "superstar" conference was recently held in Beijing, kicking off the first Chinese promotional campaign with the debut of a video that features an extended clip of the loveable baseball-playing gorilla doing what he does best - cracking baseball out of the stadium.The cast include Xu Jiao (Starry Starry Night, CJ7) and Sung Dong-il (Take Off, 200 Pounds Beauty).Wei Wei grew up in the circus with a bat-swinging gorilla named Ling Ling. After her grandfather dies in the Great Sichuan Earthquake, she has only Ling Ling to depend on....
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- 5/6/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Just yesterday, Showbox unveiled the first teaser for their major summer title Mr. Go via Naver and now, there is a behind-the-scenes video via Daum that features the technical process of creating this CG character and integrating it in a live action environment. The highlight of the video is the actual footage of the ape stepping up the plate and getting ready to bat. The quality of the visual effects looks stunningly real.As mentioned before, the big-budget sports comedy is directed by Kim Yong-hwa (Take Off, 200 Pounds Beauty) and the cast includes Xu Jiao (Starry Starry Night, CJ7) and Sung Dong-il (Take Off, 200 Pounds Beauty).Synopsis:Wei Wei grew up in the circus with a bat-swinging gorilla named Ling Ling. After her grandfather dies in...
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- 3/21/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Last week brought us our first look at Mr. Go, a Baseball-playing Gorilla headlining Showbox's new Korean comedy, but how does he look in action? Naver has the answer with the first 30-second teaser, featuring this CG character indulging in a variety of primate-related antics, and some initial interaction with baseball and baby girl Wei Wei, who will become his future manager.Based on a popular Korean comic by Heo Yeong-man, the live action film is directed by Kim Yong-hwa (Take Off, 200 Pounds Beauty) with a $20 million budget. The cast includes Xu Jiao (Starry Starry Night, CJ7) and Sung Dong-il (Take Off, 200 Pounds Beauty).Wei Wei grew up in the circus with a bat-swinging gorilla named Ling Ling. After her grandfather dies in the...
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- 3/20/2013
- Screen Anarchy
[Update: Added teaser poster and another concept art in our gallery.] Meet Mr. Go, a gorilla who also happens to be a professional Baseball player. And he may very well establish a benchmark in Korean visual effects for a photorealistic CG character. The sports comedy poses unprecedented challenges in Korean cinema, consisting of 2000 shots in full 3D photography with half of the footage allocated to bringing a Gorilla to life through performance capture and the most sophisticated CGI.Based on a popular Korean comic by Heo Yeong-man, the live action film is directed by Kim Yong-hwa (Take Off, 200 Pounds Beauty) with a $20 million budget. The cast includes Xu Jiao (Starry Starry Night, CJ7) and Sung Dong-il (Take Off, 200 Pounds Beauty).Wei Wei grew...
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- 3/13/2013
- Screen Anarchy
Roger Ross Williams’ “God Loves Uganda” will premiere in the U.S. documentary competition at the Sundance Film Festival Jan. 18 at the Library Center Theatre. And Indiewire has the exclusive first look at the powerful new poster art. From the producers of “Buck,” which screened at Sundance in 2011, “God Loves Uganda” tells the story of how the anti-gay rhetoric of conservative American evangelicals led to the Ugandan Parliament passing a noxious and deadly anti-homosexuality bill. Julie Goldman (“Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry,” “Beware of Mr. Baker”) produced. Read More: Sundance 2013: U.S. Documentary Competition Program Williams, who won the best documentary short subjects Oscar in 2010 for “Music by Prudence,” will be in Park City to support the film along with several of the film’s subjects. Josh Braun’s Submarine Entertainment is repping sales on the doc at the festival. ...
- 1/8/2013
- by Jay A. Fernandez
- Indiewire
More love for Ben Affleck's "Argo!" The fantastic movie won Best Film and Best Director at the recently announced St. Louis Film Critics Awards. My favorite category though is the Best Scene where there's a 4-way tie between "Django Unchained," "Hitchcock," "The Impossible," and "The Master."
Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2012 St. Louis Film Critics Awards. For winners/nominees of other award-giving bodies, click here:
Best Film
*** Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director
*** Ben Affleck (Argo)
Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom)
Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
Best Actor
Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)
*** Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained)
John Hawkes (The Sessions)
Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)
Denzel Washington (Flight)
Best Actress
*** Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
Jennifer Lawrence...
Here's the complete list of winners (highlighted) and nominees of the 2012 St. Louis Film Critics Awards. For winners/nominees of other award-giving bodies, click here:
Best Film
*** Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director
*** Ben Affleck (Argo)
Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom)
Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
Best Actor
Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)
*** Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained)
John Hawkes (The Sessions)
Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)
Denzel Washington (Flight)
Best Actress
*** Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty)
Jennifer Lawrence...
- 12/18/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
The list of usual suspects is emerging -- "Argo," "Django Unchained," "Life of Pi," "Lincoln," "Moonrise Kingdom," and "Zero Dark Thirty" will all vie for the Best Film category in the St. Louis Film Critics Awards. Missing from the roster is "Les Miserables" although the excellent musical received a nod for Anne Hathaway's brilliant performance. I do like their Best Scene category. What's your favorite scene last year?
Here's the full list of nominations:
Best Film
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director
Ben Affleck (Argo)
Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom)
Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
Best Actor
Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained)
John Hawkes (The Sessions)
Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)
Denzel Washington (Flight)
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty...
Here's the full list of nominations:
Best Film
Argo
Django Unchained
Life of Pi
Lincoln
Moonrise Kingdom
Zero Dark Thirty
Best Director
Ben Affleck (Argo)
Wes Anderson (Moonrise Kingdom)
Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty)
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained)
Benh Zeitlin (Beasts of the Southern Wild)
Ang Lee (Life of Pi)
Best Actor
Bradley Cooper (Silver Linings Playbook)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Lincoln)
Jamie Foxx (Django Unchained)
John Hawkes (The Sessions)
Joaquin Phoenix (The Master)
Denzel Washington (Flight)
Best Actress
Jessica Chastain (Zero Dark Thirty...
- 12/11/2012
- by Manny
- Manny the Movie Guy
This week on Operation Kino, we're off our meds and running laps around the neighborhood, as all four of us-- yes, even Da7e saw it!-- review David O. Russell's new film Silver Linings Playbook. From there we jump into what's been a hot topic in the movie writing world lately: movie run times, whether there is a certain length movies should be, and whether any of this really matters. Before any of that, though, we've got a lightning round inspired by Killing Them Softly and then tidbits, in which David talks about Killing Them Softly, Patches catches you up on the docs Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry and The Gatekeepers, Da7e runs down the year in comics, and Katey ponders the many cultural reference points within Dog Day Afternoon. Take a listen below and find your downloading options; for more from all of us, you...
- 11/30/2012
- cinemablend.com
[With the film opening in limited theatrical release in Canada and the U.S. tomorrow, we revisit our review from this year's HotDocs.] A common phrase on the internet, particularly in social media circles is "Pictures, or it didn't happen." This certainly treads close enough to the general ethos of documentary filmmaking to make Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry about the most appropriate film to kick off a documentary film festival in some time. Maybe of all time. And It certainly does not hurt that the film is quite excellent. Artist cum political activist Ai Wei Wei has been giving the middle figure (both figuratively and literally) to the Chinese government for many years, and is considered by many to be the most blunt (and...
- 7/26/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Rory Kennedy’s "Ethel" and Eric Toledano and Oliver Nakache’s "The Intouchables" tied for the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the Nantucket Film Festival awards ceremony on Sunday evening. Stella Meghie’s "Jean of the Joneses" was announced as the winner of the Showtime Tony Cox Screenplay Competition, while Sarah Koskoff received the Award for Best Screenwriting in a Feature Film for "Hello I Must Be Going." Nash Edgerton and David Michod won the Award for Best Screenwriting in a Short Film, and Corinne Ladeinde’s Ernesto won the Audience Award for Best Short Film. Documentary prizes included Best Storytelling in a Documentary (Alison Klayman for "Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry) and Best Writer/Director (Mike Birbiglia, "Sleepwalk with Me"). “This year’s festival was larger than ever both in the number of films and live events,” added Artistic Director Mystelle...
- 6/25/2012
- by Devin Lee Fuller
- Indiewire
A press conference released today added a diverse cornucopia of exciting Cannes and post-cannes titles that are confirmed to be playing at Miff (August 2-19). Initially the First-Glance titles caused excitement with the news that Michael Haneke's Amour, Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom and festival favourite Werner Herzog's Into The Abyss were announced along with other gems the likes of Miike's Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the premiere of Australian horror film 100 Bloody Acres, festival darlings Tabu and Beasts of the Southern Wild and Indie delights Your Sister's Sister and Ruby Sparks. Additional noteworthy titles include the controversial figure of Ah Wei Wei: Never Sorry, the academy favourite about a real football team in Undefeated, Japanese Anime A Letter to Momo and French animation Le...
- 6/20/2012
- Screen Anarchy
A common phrase on the internet, particularly in social media circles is "Pictures, or it didn't happen." This certainly treads close enough to the general ethos of documentary film-making to make Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry about the most appropriate film to kick off a documentary film festival in some time. Maybe of all time. And It certainly does not hurt that the film is quite excellent.Artist cum political activist Ai Wei Wei has been giving the middle figure (both figuratively and literally) to the Chinese government for many years, and is considered by many to be the most blunt (and maybe the most effective) artist/intellectual 'actively working' - a euphemism for not incarcerated by the state - in modern China. His high international reputation is perhaps acting as...
- 4/27/2012
- Screen Anarchy
London — Olympic organizers have announced the details of a nationwide arts extravaganza coinciding with the London Games.
Some 12,000 events will feature 25,000 artists – including representatives of every nation competing in the Summer Olympics that start July 27 and end Aug. 12.
Artists including Cate Blanchett, Damien Hirst, Wynton Marsalis, Yoko Ono, Simon Rattle, Ai Wei Wei and are set to take part in the festival encompassing art, music, comedy and dance.
Plans include a major concert featuring Jay-z, Rihanna and Florence + The Machine. Some 100,000 fans are expected for the event, which will take place at the Hackney Marshes in east London.
The festival runs from June 21-to Sept.9.
_________
Online:
. http://www.london2012.com/festival...
Some 12,000 events will feature 25,000 artists – including representatives of every nation competing in the Summer Olympics that start July 27 and end Aug. 12.
Artists including Cate Blanchett, Damien Hirst, Wynton Marsalis, Yoko Ono, Simon Rattle, Ai Wei Wei and are set to take part in the festival encompassing art, music, comedy and dance.
Plans include a major concert featuring Jay-z, Rihanna and Florence + The Machine. Some 100,000 fans are expected for the event, which will take place at the Hackney Marshes in east London.
The festival runs from June 21-to Sept.9.
_________
Online:
. http://www.london2012.com/festival...
- 4/26/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
Washington, Feb 24: While boys usually perform better than girls in science and math, some studies have asserted that girls do better in arithmetic.
And a new study has revealed that the advantage comes from girls' superior verbal skills.
"People have always thought that males' advantage is in math and spatial skills, and girls' advantage is in language," said Xinlin Zhou of Beijing Normal University, who cowrote the study with Wei Wei, Hao Lu, Hui Zhao, and Qi Dong of Beijing Normal University and Chuansheng Chen of the University of California-Irvine.
"However, some parents and teachers in China say girls do arithmetic better than boys in primary school."
Zhou and his colleagues did a series of tests.
And a new study has revealed that the advantage comes from girls' superior verbal skills.
"People have always thought that males' advantage is in math and spatial skills, and girls' advantage is in language," said Xinlin Zhou of Beijing Normal University, who cowrote the study with Wei Wei, Hao Lu, Hui Zhao, and Qi Dong of Beijing Normal University and Chuansheng Chen of the University of California-Irvine.
"However, some parents and teachers in China say girls do arithmetic better than boys in primary school."
Zhou and his colleagues did a series of tests.
- 2/24/2012
- by Leon David
- RealBollywood.com
Now that you have started shooting you must, and absolutely must, abide by the one golden rule: Never keep it subtle. As hard as it may seem, you have to remove the concept or even meaning of anything that is subtle, nuanced and restrained. Always remember, in Pushto film, it always pays to be louder.
This article is part of series by Zia Ahmad on Film Genres in Pakistan
Overweight beauties, middle-aged gruff leading men, starched hair pieces, logic defying plots, garish costumes, mind boggling dance and fight sequences and pelvic thrusts performed with uncharacteristic gusto: all are hallmarks that define the cornerstone of Pakistani film culture that we know as Pushto films. Over the years Pushto cinema has formed an identity that is utterly unique, offering a brand of entertainment that no self respecting man would want to see with his mother, sister, aunt, wife and kids. It didn...
This article is part of series by Zia Ahmad on Film Genres in Pakistan
Overweight beauties, middle-aged gruff leading men, starched hair pieces, logic defying plots, garish costumes, mind boggling dance and fight sequences and pelvic thrusts performed with uncharacteristic gusto: all are hallmarks that define the cornerstone of Pakistani film culture that we know as Pushto films. Over the years Pushto cinema has formed an identity that is utterly unique, offering a brand of entertainment that no self respecting man would want to see with his mother, sister, aunt, wife and kids. It didn...
- 10/8/2011
- by Zia Ahmad
- DearCinema.com
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