Monthly Archives: May, 2011

In the end, though, the only brand that Spurlock's film finally condemns is his own. The man is a money-making machine without the backbone to risk putting his name, and face, on a genuinely radical or incendiary idea. For these reasons, POM Wonderful is counter-productive.

Spurlock Continues His Trend of Supersizing Himself Instead of Exploring His Topic of Choice

In a debut whose chief eloquence lies, paradoxically, in its simmering silences, Vietnamese filmmaker Tran Anh Hung recalls the meditative filmmaking of masters like Ozu and Bresson—but not without his own inspired revisions.

Last year she filled up the HKIFF with four films: she was the editor on Scud’s Amphetamine, she co-wrote Peng Ho Cheung’s Love in the Puff and she made both a feature (Ex) and short film (We Might as Well be Strangers).

In a debut whose chief eloquence lies, paradoxically, in its simmering silences, Vietnamese filmmaker Tran Anh Hung recalls the meditative filmmaking of masters like Ozu and Bresson—but not without his own inspired revisions.