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Sunday, November 30th, 2008
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 New issue.
Survey question:
Why and for whom do you film today?
Why and for whom do you write/work today? Interviews:
Edwin (by Alexis Tioseco)
Faozan Rizal (by Eric Sasono)
Sasithorn Ariyavicha (by Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn)
Features:
Tan Chui Mui's notes made in the dark
Ben Slater on the writing of Saint Jack
Vinita Ramani on coming out of the film school closet
Reviews:
Kong Rithdee on Apichatpong Weerasetheakul's Syndromes and a Century
Vinita Ramani on Amir Muhammad's Village People Radio Show
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Friday, January 4th, 2008
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Thursday, October 18th, 2007
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Wednesday, October 10th, 2007
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Tuesday, August 7th, 2007
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A new local magazine that I may be contributing some film articles for:
And two links with interesting discussion threads on it:
Click the City (with comments about its relationship with Manifesto, a magazine the team of Rogue worked on for its first two issues)
Carlos Celdran Recommends (with comments about third world politics and magazine content. join in the discussion!)
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its not a story about my father, but its a nice story, and it has john ford.
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Saturday, March 17th, 2007
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I'll be honest and admit that I've only come across the name of contemporary Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek recently. And this [Click here: Politics Between Fear and Terror] is the first time I've heard him speak.
The link is to a lecture given by Zizek at UCSD. Follow the link and click on [webcast] to watch and hear his two hour lecture, which starts with an interesting discussion on United 93 and World Trade Center, spilling into Schindler's List . Let me know what you think.
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Friday, February 23rd, 2007
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From Kong's blog, an excerpt of his review of Babel.
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Charting the courses of the characters' lives is no doubt a job of screenwriters and directors. Catholic or Calvinist or Buddhist, they're all playing God, and playing God is part of the game. But to some directors, playing God also means acknowledging God -- to humble oneself before a greater force, an all-encompassing cosmic energy whose entirety cinema can only try to replicate, without success. Directors like Bergman, Bresson or Ozu always evoked the presence of God, sometimes questioning him, sometimes bowing before him, but always reminding us that something is always beyond our grasp. The films of those directors are poems, because they let us ponder bigger questions. Babel only gives us answers, which is satisfying though its impact barely lasts.
It is unholy of me, but I'm reminded of another movie I've recently seen that's pertinent to this God issue. Little seen elsewhere aside from its country of origin Heremias, Book One: The Legend of the Lizard Princess is a mesmerising religious allegory made by independent Filipino director Lav Diaz. The nine-hour monochrome movie concerns the lonely journey of a poor peasant who's tested by hostile nature, corrupt government officials, devils in the guise of men, and maybe by his god. The image of the peasant dragging his cow through muddy puddles and his futile attempt to do what his conscience tells him is the right thing to do represents a spiritual poetry on the ongoing trial of humanity.
Heremias is a film that believes both in the power of cinema and in God. Babel is a beautiful picture that believes only in itself.
(read whole article: here)
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Sunday, February 11th, 2007
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Saturday, February 10th, 2007
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(Un)real: Versions of Experience
War is no longer declared,
but rather continued.
The outrageous has become the everyday.
The hero is absent from the battle.
The weak are moved into the firing zone.
The uniform of the day is patience,
the order of merit is the wretched star
of hope over the heart.
- Ingeborg Bachmann
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