Monthly Archives: January, 2012

The trap of love.

"Kobayashi's nonchalant writing and deft direction of his first time actors make About A Pink Sky a solid debut, but the intimacy and inner conflict he creates with a shallow focus field and hand held cinematography brings the picture up a notch. Through teenage reckless abandon and a world stripped of both visual and aural extraneous noise, Kobayashi is able to remove the social shields of youth to unveil one of humanity's greatest gifts, compassion and understanding that beams through the awkward fog of aged humor."

Raised On Stolen Hope, Borrowed Cash, and Mistaken Relationships Keiichi Kobayashi's Tokyo International Film Festival winning feature debut, see the helmer pull triple duty on...

Raised On Stolen Hope, Borrowed Cash, and Mistaken Relationships

Brit Daniel Mulloy is an award-winning short filmmaker (over 80 fest awards folks) who belongs to both the extended Sundance filmmaking family and a celluloid loving family of his own -- we've featured his sister Lucy and her debut film, Una Noche which is headed off to Berlin next month. We've been keeping tabs on the helmer since 2006's "Antonio’s Breakfast," and it was last year where I got to speak to Mulloy about what should be the last of a string of shorts, before he embarks on the feature filmmaking portion of his career.