Home » Archives for Bernard Boo
Bernard Boo
667 articles written by Bernard Boo
- Movie | April 25, 2013
Simon Killer
In Simon Killer, director Antonio Campos plays provocateur, giving us a protagonist who becomes so unlikable, so repulsive, you’re sure to leave the theater full of hatred and contempt for him. Campos’ film is thoroughly distressing, an exercise in...
- Film Festival | April 23, 2013
2013 SFIFF Coverage Introduction
In a few days, San Francisco will be flooded with film geeks, critics, filmmakers, hobos (they’re always there), and film lovers of all kinds for the 56th annual San Francisco International Film Festival. San Francisco hosts a huge number...
- Interview | April 19, 2013
Interview: Antonio Campos – Simon Killer – Part 2
In Part 2 of our interview, we talk to Mr. Campos about his fascination with adolescence as subject matter, teaching Brady Corbet to moan, his use of sound and mirror images in storytelling, Chantal Akerman’s influence on his work,...
- Interview | April 16, 2013
Interview: Antonio Campos – Simon Killer – Part 1
In Simon Killer, director Antonio Campos weaves a tale of the evolution of loneliness and isolation into madness. The titular hero is a recent college grad who, hurting from a bad breakup, takes a trip to Paris, disconcertedly seeking...
- Movie | April 12, 2013
Evil Dead (2013)
As I watched a demon-possessed girl split her own tongue in half with a rusty boxcutter, and then proceed to partake in the most disgusting French kiss I’ve ever seen, I was so overwhelmed with disgust that I forgot...
- Film Festival | March 27, 2013
CAAMFest 2013 Wrap-Up and Top 5 Films
My first experience at CAAMFest was a blast. It was exciting to see Asian-American cinema come into its own right before my eyes. Being that there aren’t many true representations of Asian America in cinema today (that’s an understatement),...
- Film Festival | March 27, 2013
2013 CAAMFest: Seeking Asian Female, Old Romances, Mekong Hotel and more
Seeking Asian Female Director Debbie Lum set out to make a documentary about “yellow fever”—the infatuation some older white men have with younger Asian women that can border on fetishism. What she got instead was something extraordinary, something she...
- Film Festival | March 25, 2013
2013 CAAMFest: Abigail Harm, Harana, Sunset Stories
Abigail Harm Abigail Harm is a modern interpretation of a classic Korean folktale that drips with atmosphere and expertly balances fantasy with raw human emotion. Set in a darker, otherworldly version of New York City, we follow the lonely...
- Film Festival | March 21, 2013
2013 CAAMFest: The Reluctant Fundamentalist & Midnight’s Children
This past Sunday, I saw a pair of fantastic adaptations of prize-winning books: Deepa Mehta’s adaptation of Salman Rushdie’s epic Midnight’s Children, and Mira Nair’s take on Mohsin Hamid’s cultural drama, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, starring Riz Ahmed, Liev Schreiber,...
- Film Festival | March 19, 2013
2013 CAAMFest: Late Summer, When Night Falls, High Tech Low Life
Late Summer Late Summer borrows its title from the work of one of the most celebrated directors of all time, Yasujiro Ozu. If you’re familiar with Ozu’s work, you’ll recognize that the title makes quite the statement. Surely director...
- Movie | March 19, 2013
Someone I Used to Know
After several years, three childhood friends meet on a summer night at a Los Angeles night club to reminisce and have a nostalgic chat over drinks. Danny has become a wealthy pervert, Luke is now a heartthrob movie star,...
- Movie | March 18, 2013
The We and the I
High schoolers are at the most vulnerable and volatile stage in life, teetering on the precipice of adulthood. Full of insecurity, they cling to each other to form cliques in fear that they might be judged by others. They...
- Film Festival | March 16, 2013
2013 CAAMFest: Opening Night, Linsanity, Graceland
CAAMFest kicked off with a screening of Evan Jackson Leong’s look into the Jeremy Lin phenomenon, Linsanity, at San Francisco’s Castro Theater, and then moved a few blocks down Market Street to the beautiful Asian Art Museum for the...
- Film Festival | March 14, 2013
2013 CAAMFest Coverage Introduction
Tonight marks the opening night of CAAMFest, once known as the San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival, CAAMFest is a celebration of Asian and Asian American media, food, music, culture, digital arts, and of course, film. Though re-branded...
- Interview | March 11, 2013
Interview: Todd Looby – Be Good
Be Good was number two on our top 10 list of films at this year’s SF Indiefest (check out our review), and director Todd Looby spoke with us about the movie, his filmmaking process, working with Joe Swanberg, what makes...