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Dark Blood (Berlinale)
In 1993, director George Sluizer ended production of his film, Dark Blood, when the lead actor died unexpectedly. I’m too young to have much to say about River Phoenix. I was five when he died, and I don’t remember...
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Sightseers
First premiering at the sidebar event held during Cannes Film Festival called the Director’s Fortnight, Ben Wheatley’s Sightseers is a film that works best when it takes you by surprise, therefore knowing little as possible and avoiding trailers would...
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
Perhaps the point of the film is to have no point, but it feels like more of a cop out than any real revelation.
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Way Too Indie Short Film Spotlight #3
North Atlantic After you see this short you can understand why it’s spent three years amid the film festivals official selections, the BFI London Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival both played host in 2010 and 11 to the...
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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),...
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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...
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Come Out and Play
Come Out and Play is a vicious and methodical new horror film by a mysterious new film director who only goes by the name of Makinov. This film is an update of Who Can Kill a Child?, the 1976...
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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...
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Attenberg
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg does not shy away from showing absurd situations in unorthodox environments, something that has become a staple in the last few years of Greek cinema. Attenberg is a film that explores mankind’s primal desires (sex)...
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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,...
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Declaration of War
Declaration of War is about the nightmare that every parent with a sick newborn fears, that something is not quite right with their child. This French film by Valérie Donzelli, who also shares a lead role, is ultimately about...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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