“Of Love and Honor” (Bushi no Ichibun) (2006)

High production values. Fits the genre to a T: melodramatic and predictable, with overwrought weather elements and even a cameo by Ogata Ken as an Obi-wan Kenobi figure (the facetiousness of such an analogy is fully warranted imho). In other words, dull viewing.
At one point, the movie presents a possibility that it could transcend [...]

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Missing scenes from Fritz Lang’s Metropolis restored after 80 years

Miracles do happen!
The rediscovery, revealed by the newspaper Die Zeit, came to light after Paula Felix-Didier, curator of Buenos Aires’ Museo del Cine, acted on a tip-off from a former film club director that the full-length version had been gathering dust in the museum’s archive since the early 90s. [...]

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Reading without rhythm – 24/4/08

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Thanks TokyoMango!
- Vom leisen Inferno der Depression und von der Unheimlichkeit des Glücks.
- Vantan gets a sneak preview of the Peranakan Museum. The museum occupies the old Tao Nan school building at Armenian Street, next to The Substation.
- PingMag pays homage to Tony Silver, one of the first to identify and capture the [...]

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SFS History in “Latent Images”

A couple of weeks ago, while reading up to prep for the Perspectives Film Festival, I discovered that Jan Uhde and Yvonne Ng Uhde had already compiled a comprehensive account of the Singapore Film Society’s history since 1958, in their book Latent Images: Film in Singapore. I contacted them, and they were kind enough to [...]

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SIFF – Quick Cuts – 8 April 2008

(Cross-posted on the SFS blog.)
Yep, got a lot to catch up on. I’ll be working backwards from my most recent viewings. Hopefully I can get to NTU’s Perspectives Film Festival (31 Mar – 4 Apr 2008) before too long.
(Darn it Stefan, don’t you sleep? )
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Vivid
Singapore / 2007 / 30 mins
dir. Sam Loh
Another example [...]

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Lobby Cards – the Leonard Schrader Collection

From the homepage:
The Collection consists of 8,462 vintage lobby-cards and 5,000 related items – many the sole surviving traces of long-lost silent films – acquired by late screenwriter/filmmaker Leonard Schrader over the course of 27 years. While Schrader preserved his collection with painstaking care in hundreds of 13×15 photographer’s albums – or “binders” – mysteriously [...]

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“Perfect Blue” re-released

Been ages, huh?
Perfect Blue has a special place in my movie and anime-loving heart, so it’s some comfort to know that Satoshi Kon’s first directorial feature has been re-released on Feb 29th on DVD and Blu-Ray, with new cover art (see left)
Re-release homepage here
But strange – doesn’t look like they’ve retouched any of the animation. [...]

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Animation Nation 2007: 23 Nov – 1 Dec

Tickets on sale now. The festival is in its fourth year, and the lineup just gets better (thanks to the hard work of Dave and his team!). But you can judge for yourself:
Animation Nation 2007 is proudly presented by Singapore Film Society, with the generous support of the Media Development Authority of Singapore. Part of [...]

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Foto Friday

6ixth – Jeff Chouw’s photo exhibition of Opposition MP Chiam See Tong campaigning in 2006 — is now online on Chouw’s site.
(Found via Tan Pin Pin’s blog. And coincidentally: Yisheng’s just posted his review of the 2006 exhibition up on his blog.)
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An extract from the NYT feature on Yoshiyuki Kohei’s series on park voyeurs (picked [...]

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Randomess #406V

The Japanese Film Festival’s still on btw. Last day 23 Sept. Most of the Imamura films have been screened, but we haven’t started on Ichikawa Jun’s and Yoshiyuki Kazuko’s yet. In other words, come watch
TimeOut writeup on JFF 2007
Steven Levitt explains why you don’t get much good analysis of current public policy.
Charles Landry [...]

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