2013 Sundance London Coverage IntroductionBy Amy Priest Being from the UK with only a select few film festivals to attend each year, Sundance London offers British film-fans the chance to access the UK premiere of the...
2013 SFIFF Coverage IntroductionBy Bernard Boo 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...
List of 2013 Cannes Film Festival trailersBy Dustin Jansick So far only a handful of films that will be playing at this year’s Cannes Film Festival actually have trailers available. But as we begin to get closer to...
Cannes 2013 Lineup AnnouncedBy Dustin Jansick The wait is now over as the lineup for the 2013 Cannes Film Festival has been announced this morning. While a few film festivals such as Sundance and Berlin...
CAAMFest 2013 Wrap-Up and Top 5 FilmsBy Bernard Boo 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...
2013 CAAMFest: Seeking Asian Female, Old Romances, Mekong Hotel and moreBy Bernard Boo 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...
2013 CAAMFest: Abigail Harm, Harana, Sunset StoriesBy Bernard Boo 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,...
2013 CAAMFest: The Reluctant Fundamentalist & Midnight’s ChildrenBy Bernard Boo 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...
2013 CAAMFest: Late Summer, When Night Falls, High Tech Low LifeBy Bernard Boo 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...
2013 CAAMFest: Opening Night, Linsanity, GracelandBy Bernard Boo 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...
2013 CAAMFest Coverage IntroductionBy Bernard Boo 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,...
SF IndieFest Coverage Wrap-UpBy Bernard Boo After two weeks of movie-watching, subway-riding, popcorn-eating, people-meeting, white-russian-drinking madness, all I can say is that SF IndieFest is an incomparable experience not to be missed by any fan...
Top 10 Films from SF IndieFestBy Bernard Boo The lineup at this year’s SF IndieFest was unbelievably strong; I anticipated that there would be at least a few certified duds, but that wasn’t the case. Though I...
SF IndieFest Reviews – All the Light in the Sky, Sun Don’t Shine & MoreBy Bernard Boo Joe Swanberg’s All the Light in the Sky is a naturalistic portrait of Marie (Jane Adams), an actress whose career seems to be losing steam. Romantically, she’s gotten to...
