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Free tickets to the Korean Film Festival (closed)
(Update: … and I’m all out. Thanks to those who wrote in!)
Heads up, readers in Sydney and Melbourne!
I’ve got three double passes to give away to any screening you like (except for the opening and closing night galas) at this year’s Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA 2011), courtesy of the festival organisers. Feast your eyes on their program full of recent Korean cinema, choose what you’d like to see, then come back and use our … (read more)
MIFF 2011 rolls onwards
I do hope Melbourne readers are getting stuck into MIFF this year — there’s a lot on show, and they’ve filled out their schedule with a bunch more Asian films since I wrote up our little summary of their First Glance list. You can see the full program at the MIFF site, but there are a few films of interest that I thought I’d make particular mention of.
Firstly, for those who want a chance to catch some bona fide … (read more)
Upcoming Asian film festival in Melbourne
I’ve been contacted by Neil Foley of Monster Pictures, a Melbourne-based distributor who are organising an all-Asian genre film festival, pencilled in for mid-November this year at the Cinema Nova in Carlton.
Things are still being bootstrapped, but among the titles playing will be Na Hong-Jin’s The Yellow Sea, Sion Sono’s new film Guilty of Romance, and a picture or two from Sushi Typhoon (think Alien vs Ninja, Mutant Girls Squad).
Neil’s looking for volunteers … (read more)
MIFF 2011: First Glance
The Melbourne International FIlm Festival (21 July to 7 August this year) have unveiled the “First Glance” at their program and, as usual, films from Asia are well-represented. Here’s a short rundown — you should check their website for full details. Note that there’ll be more on the way soon… the full program is released in July, and we’ll post an update with any further announcements then!
MIFF have an “Accent on Asia” track this year, and so … (read more)
Melbourne Cinémathèque screens six Tsui Hark films
You might be forgiven for thinking that Melbourne really does get the lion’s share of Asian cinema programming here in Australia, and this snippet of news from a reader does nothing to dispel this particular feeling!
On Wednesday nights from 18 May to 1 June, the Australian Centre for the Moving Image is screening six films from iconic Hong Kong director Tsui Hark as part of the Melbourne Cinémathèque program. Some of these are relative rarities: there are very … (read more)
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ACMI Melbourne: “Focus on Linda Lin Dai”
I’ve only just seen this update from SBS’s film news, so my apologies on the lack of lead time on this post; still, I thought some HC readers might be interested.
Melbourne’s Australian Centre for the Moving Image are running their retrospective, Focus on Linda Lin Dai from today until February 28. Lin Dai was one of the brightest stars of Hong Kong cinema from the 50s and 60s, most prominently with Shaw Brothers, and ACMI are bringing a bunch … (read more)
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Once Upon a Time in Chinatown
It was the end-of-an-era on 26 May 2008 when Melbourne’s Chinatown cinema closed its doors for the final time. For nigh on thirty years, the Chinatown cinema had regularly screened Cantonese language films in central Melbourne. And for just over nineteen of those years, I had been watching and enjoying Hong Kong movies on the big screen.
Sometimes the end of an era is celebrated and sent out on a high, but in the Chinatown’s case the last film was … (read more)
Let’s get MIFFed!
It’s certainly been too long in between yum-chas since the last Heroic Cinema MIFF reports! I hope those of you in Melbourne are braving the wintry conditions to sample some of the goodies on offer – it will warm your head, heart and get your pulse pumping!
I kicked off MIFF 2009 with the sublime All Around Us by Ryosuke Hashiguchi. Seemingly just an exploration of a couple’s evolving relationship over time, (like all good films) it is actually much … (read more)