Tag: 2018 Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Intl. Film Festival
Video Interview: Wi Ding Ho – Cities of Last Things
A triptych that spans several generations and curiously moves backwards to present how we moved to a dangerous future, beautifully rendered in 35mm, Cities...
Video Interview: Dominga Sotomayor – Too Late to Die Young
The hype machine officially began on Chilean filmmaker Dominga Sotomayor's third feature back in August when she won Best Director at Locarno. Since then,...
Video Interview: Beatriz Seigner – Los Silencios | 2018 Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Intl. Film Festival
In a screenwriting process that would end up being more informed by Beatriz Seigner's hands-on docu approach, Los Silencios presents the secluded, no-man's lands...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Onwards and Awards | Day 10
The intimacy of smaller film festivals allow for a closer proximity between between those who create and those who contextualize and critique art. My...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Borders & Boundaries in Seigner’s Los Silencios & Xue’s The Crossing | Day 9
These days, the notion of borders is commonly associated to building walls and keeping what some deem as social ills at arm's length. In...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Birthplace of Ideas in Too Late to Die Young & Fenyang | Day 8
Moving into final stretch of the fest, day 8 was curiously bookended by the notion of the birthplace - either where a person is born...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Crossing into … Malaysia with Brooke | Day 7
I went into my second viewing of Yuan Qing's Three Adventures of Brooke (the Venice Days selected first time feature we raved about) prior...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Many Miles from Home with Paul Dano’s WildLife | Day 6
The yearly running joke among film journalists covering the festival beat is to identify the odd title that we somehow missed. In my case,...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Unhurried Hong Sang-Soo & Lee Chang-Dong | Day 5
I managed to miss the TIFF screening for Locarno premiered Hotel by the River (our Nicholas Bell has been on a steady pace of covering...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Cities of Last Things Inside the Ancient City | Day 4
The less than fifteen minutes flat walk from the hotel dwelling to festival venues is quite something to marvel in terms of passage of...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Blood Ties in “Dear Son” & “Cities of Last Things” | Day 3
We're still in time adjustment mode here at the Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon Int. Film Festival but we managed to pack in a...
2018 PYIFF Dailies: Celebrating Year To – Day 1
It occurred to me while kicking my heels for my connecting flight at the Beijing Intl. Airport (en route to the second edition of...
