The five award-winning directors will each make a short film inspired by a piece of art from their region.
National Gallery Singapore has announced an unprecedented collaboration with five award-winning Southeast Asian filmmakers – Apichatpong Weerasethakul [pictured] (Thailand), Brilliante Mendoza (Philippines), Eric Khoo (Singapore), Ho Yuhang (Malaysia) and Joko Anwar (Indonesia).
The five directors will create Art Through Our Eyes, an omnibus for which the directors each pick a masterpiece from the region to inspire their short films.
Initiated by Khoo with the Gallery, the project of dramatized interpretations aims to connect with audiences worldwide to deepen their appreciation for Southeast Asian art.
The directors are all festival favorites. Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives won the Palme d’Or in 2010 in Cannes while his Tropical Malady won a jury prize in 2004.
Mendoza won the Best Director at Cannes in 2009 for Kinatay; Khoo’s My Magic was in Cannes competition in 2008 and his Be With Me opened...
National Gallery Singapore has announced an unprecedented collaboration with five award-winning Southeast Asian filmmakers – Apichatpong Weerasethakul [pictured] (Thailand), Brilliante Mendoza (Philippines), Eric Khoo (Singapore), Ho Yuhang (Malaysia) and Joko Anwar (Indonesia).
The five directors will create Art Through Our Eyes, an omnibus for which the directors each pick a masterpiece from the region to inspire their short films.
Initiated by Khoo with the Gallery, the project of dramatized interpretations aims to connect with audiences worldwide to deepen their appreciation for Southeast Asian art.
The directors are all festival favorites. Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives won the Palme d’Or in 2010 in Cannes while his Tropical Malady won a jury prize in 2004.
Mendoza won the Best Director at Cannes in 2009 for Kinatay; Khoo’s My Magic was in Cannes competition in 2008 and his Be With Me opened...
- 5/17/2016
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Love and lust across a century form the backbone of In the Room, the latest film from director Eric Khoo (Tatsumi, Be with Me). An anthology feature with five main vignettes (titled “Rubber,” Listen,” “Change,” “Search,” and “First Time” in the end credits) and a few recurring revisits to the exploits of characters who have come and gone, the entire film is set within the confines of one Singapore hotel room, bar the occasional meet-cute or tearful lament in the corridor right outside.
The film opens on the initially sinister sight of a distressed figure in a decrepit incarnation of the room, looming over a man and woman having sex on a bed, singing to himself, “This was once a grand hotel. Now it’s in ruins.” This isn’t a horror film, but a later vignette will reveal this figure is a ghost, that of the songwriter of a...
The film opens on the initially sinister sight of a distressed figure in a decrepit incarnation of the room, looming over a man and woman having sex on a bed, singing to himself, “This was once a grand hotel. Now it’s in ruins.” This isn’t a horror film, but a later vignette will reveal this figure is a ghost, that of the songwriter of a...
- 10/11/2015
- by TFS Staff
- The Film Stage
If These Walls Could Catcall: Khoo’s Sex Omnibus Fails to Tantalize
Singaporean auteur Eric Khoo returns with his latest feature, In the Room, a decades spanning, multi-character chamber piece revolving around the inhabitants of a single hotel room and the private moments of love and intimacy that transpire there. Less titillating than the sum of its parts, documenting various acts across a range of orientations with a sort of unhurried inevitability, only the aural cues of creaky bed springs manage to wrench any tactile examination of humankind’s basic physical co-mingling.
Conservative, even rather rigid in its visual purveyance of sexual practices and traditional interactions, in Khoo’s preferred universe of multiple storylines, perhaps this time around he casts too many stories into the pool (unlike his celebrated 2005 title Be With Me, which consists of three separate stories), since despite the use of a unifying thread, the film’s...
Singaporean auteur Eric Khoo returns with his latest feature, In the Room, a decades spanning, multi-character chamber piece revolving around the inhabitants of a single hotel room and the private moments of love and intimacy that transpire there. Less titillating than the sum of its parts, documenting various acts across a range of orientations with a sort of unhurried inevitability, only the aural cues of creaky bed springs manage to wrench any tactile examination of humankind’s basic physical co-mingling.
Conservative, even rather rigid in its visual purveyance of sexual practices and traditional interactions, in Khoo’s preferred universe of multiple storylines, perhaps this time around he casts too many stories into the pool (unlike his celebrated 2005 title Be With Me, which consists of three separate stories), since despite the use of a unifying thread, the film’s...
- 10/1/2015
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Exclusive: Version Originale Condor has picked up French rights to Eric Khoo’s drama In The Room ahead of its world premiere in Toronto on Tuesday and plans an early 2016 release.
In The Room spans several decades centred on one room in a Singapore hotel and is based around a maid who works there her entire life but is haunted by the memory of a pop star she met one New Year’s Eve.
“We are thrilled to be working with Eric Khoo as we have been admirers of his work for a long time,” said Version Originale Condor head Eric Le Bot.
“After 12 Storeys and Be With Me, Eric Khoo created yet again a beautiful picture, filled with a myriad of situations and characters.”
Version Originale Condor’s acquisitions advisor Aranka Matits of Featurette negotiated the deal with Virginia Leung of Distribution Workshop.
“We are delighted to be working with Version Originale Condor on this film...
In The Room spans several decades centred on one room in a Singapore hotel and is based around a maid who works there her entire life but is haunted by the memory of a pop star she met one New Year’s Eve.
“We are thrilled to be working with Eric Khoo as we have been admirers of his work for a long time,” said Version Originale Condor head Eric Le Bot.
“After 12 Storeys and Be With Me, Eric Khoo created yet again a beautiful picture, filled with a myriad of situations and characters.”
Version Originale Condor’s acquisitions advisor Aranka Matits of Featurette negotiated the deal with Virginia Leung of Distribution Workshop.
“We are delighted to be working with Version Originale Condor on this film...
- 9/11/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
The radio dial — whether it's satellite like SiriusXM, web like Pandora or terrestrial like iHeartMedia — might never be the same. About a week ago, SiriusXM suffered a crushing courtroom loss to Flo & Eddie of The Turtles, the 1960s band which produced hit songs like "Happy Together," "It Ain't Me Babe" and "She'd Rather Be With Me." Flo & Eddie have been leading the charge against the uncompensated use of their music — and using state-based misappropriation, conversation and unfair competition claims because sound recordings only began falling under federal copyright protection in 1972. On
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- 10/2/2014
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Compared to good art, “great art is much harder to talk about,” the sculptor Charles Ray has said, speaking of the phantasmagoric work of Robert Gober, the subject of a 40-year retrospective survey at MoMA, called "The Heart Is Not a Metaphor." “If you were to ask me what his artwork talks about I would not be able to tell you. But this doesn’t mean it is not speaking … What I do understand … is that I want to see it again. It asks me to be near. To come closer and look longer or to come back tomorrow and look again. The work whispers ‘Be with me.’”The melancholy narratives of Gober’s work have gripped and bewildered me for 30 years. Imagine Proust just presenting a sculpture of a half-eaten madeleine or drawings of only the three windows through which he watched illicit homosexual encounters. The novelist and critic Jim Lewis,...
- 9/30/2014
- by Jerry Saltz
- Vulture
The incarcerated Ukrainian director has been named an honorary jury member at the forthcoming festival.
The San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27) has unveiled the jury for its 62nd edition, which includes imprisoned Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov.
The director, who has been involved in supporting the Euro Maidan protests in Kiev and has opposed the annexation of Crimea by Russia, was arrested on May 10 by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (Fsb) in his house in Simferopol and brought to a Moscow prison where he is still detained and awaiting trial for “committing crimes of a terrorist nature”.
In July, the campaign to free the film-maker from detention in Russia was taken to the European Court of Human Rights (Echr). A Moscow court ruled that Sentsov should remain in prison until Oct 11 when a trial is due to be held.
To defend freedom of expression and on request by the European Film Academy (Efa), San...
The San Sebastian Film Festival (Sept 19-27) has unveiled the jury for its 62nd edition, which includes imprisoned Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov.
The director, who has been involved in supporting the Euro Maidan protests in Kiev and has opposed the annexation of Crimea by Russia, was arrested on May 10 by the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation (Fsb) in his house in Simferopol and brought to a Moscow prison where he is still detained and awaiting trial for “committing crimes of a terrorist nature”.
In July, the campaign to free the film-maker from detention in Russia was taken to the European Court of Human Rights (Echr). A Moscow court ruled that Sentsov should remain in prison until Oct 11 when a trial is due to be held.
To defend freedom of expression and on request by the European Film Academy (Efa), San...
- 9/11/2014
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Enjoy an old rock tune on satellite radio lately? A new proposed class action raises the theory that SiriusXM has infringed millions of these older recordings from thousands of artists. Damages are alleged to be at least $100 million, but for a company that last reported quarterly revenues of $940 million, the attorneys representing the plaintiff believe that damage figure to be on the conservative side. The lead plaintiffs in the case are Flo & Eddie of The Turtles, the iconic band whose hits include "Happy Together," "It Ain't Me Babe" and "She'd Rather Be With Me." The
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- 8/2/2013
- by Eriq Gardner
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
DVD & Digital Release Date: March 26, 2013
Price: DVD $26.99 each
Studio: KimStim/Zeitgeist
Ghosts from Central Europe's past haunt a train station worker in the animated feature Alois Nebel.
Alois Nebel (2011) from the Czech Republic and the Singapore/Japan animated co-production Tatsumi (2011) are two gorgeously animated, award-winning film dramas.
Inspired by classic film noir and rendered in mesmerizing black-and-white rotoscope animation (à la Richard Linklater’s Waking Life), Tomás Lunák’s Alois Nebel traces the haunted memories and mysterious visions of a troubled train dispatcher through the shifting cultural and political landscape in the waning days of the Cold War. It focuses on the experiences of a quiet man at a remote railway station on the Czech-Slovak border whose life is disrupted bu a fog that brings hallucinations of trains from the previous 100 years. These ghosts from Central Europe’s dark past ultimately send him on a nightmarish and ominous journey.
The...
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Studio: KimStim/Zeitgeist
Ghosts from Central Europe's past haunt a train station worker in the animated feature Alois Nebel.
Alois Nebel (2011) from the Czech Republic and the Singapore/Japan animated co-production Tatsumi (2011) are two gorgeously animated, award-winning film dramas.
Inspired by classic film noir and rendered in mesmerizing black-and-white rotoscope animation (à la Richard Linklater’s Waking Life), Tomás Lunák’s Alois Nebel traces the haunted memories and mysterious visions of a troubled train dispatcher through the shifting cultural and political landscape in the waning days of the Cold War. It focuses on the experiences of a quiet man at a remote railway station on the Czech-Slovak border whose life is disrupted bu a fog that brings hallucinations of trains from the previous 100 years. These ghosts from Central Europe’s dark past ultimately send him on a nightmarish and ominous journey.
The...
- 3/7/2013
- by Laurence
- Disc Dish
Looking back at 2012 on what films moved and impressed us, it is clear that watching old films is a crucial part of making new films meaningful. Thus, the annual tradition of our end of year poll, which calls upon our writers to pick both a new and an old film: they were challenged to choose a new film they saw in 2012—in theaters or at a festival—and creatively pair it with an old film they also saw in 2012 to create a unique double feature.
All the contributors were asked to write a paragraph explaining their 2012 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch in that perfect world we know doesn't exist but can keep dreaming of every time we go to the movies.
How would you program some...
All the contributors were asked to write a paragraph explaining their 2012 fantasy double feature. What's more, each writer was given the option to list more pairings, with or without explanation, as further imaginative film programming we'd be lucky to catch in that perfect world we know doesn't exist but can keep dreaming of every time we go to the movies.
How would you program some...
- 1/9/2013
- by Daniel Kasman
- MUBI
Here is last week's caption pic winner. This week's caption pic is at the bottom of the page.
Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is ...
"Oh hey, a dumbbell! And he's lifting weights!."
Thanks to John for this week's winning caption!
Weekend Birthdays! (Note: Birthday shoutouts are for out entertainers, allies, or for any celeb that seems to have a following on Ae). Niall Matter is 32, Ae Member David is 22, John Krasinski is 33, Matt Dallas is 30, Viggo Mortensen is 54, Jennifer Holliday is 52, and the late, great Divine would have been 67. Former NFL player Kris Jenkins engages in strange rant on gay NFL players. Hetero Sapien? Speaking of, here are 22 straight male sports stars who support Lgbt rights, marriage-equalityCongratulations to Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake, who were married today in Italy.In ratings news, Beauty and The Beast was down 42% in its second week.Lizz Winstead and Sarah Silverman try to decipher Mitt Romney.
Thanks to everyone for participating! The winner is ...
"Oh hey, a dumbbell! And he's lifting weights!."
Thanks to John for this week's winning caption!
Weekend Birthdays! (Note: Birthday shoutouts are for out entertainers, allies, or for any celeb that seems to have a following on Ae). Niall Matter is 32, Ae Member David is 22, John Krasinski is 33, Matt Dallas is 30, Viggo Mortensen is 54, Jennifer Holliday is 52, and the late, great Divine would have been 67. Former NFL player Kris Jenkins engages in strange rant on gay NFL players. Hetero Sapien? Speaking of, here are 22 straight male sports stars who support Lgbt rights, marriage-equalityCongratulations to Jessica Biel and Justin Timberlake, who were married today in Italy.In ratings news, Beauty and The Beast was down 42% in its second week.Lizz Winstead and Sarah Silverman try to decipher Mitt Romney.
- 10/20/2012
- by snicks
- The Backlot
So every week - like five people read these. But I find this show delightfully trashy and I think my recaps are funny, so I am soldiering on for the five of you who take the time. I hope you enjoy these. What happened on "Love in the Wild" this week?
*fills up wine glass* And awayyyyyy we go!
Post-Couples Choice
Kym says Steele has a lot of the characteristics she looks for - like muscles and height. Meanwhile, Heather is super pissed she got ripped away from Miles for Adam the Meathead, but Erica is pumped to be back with Miles. Miles? Is like - whatever, they're both hot.
Theresa and Skip hop right into bed and Skip says she is "in your face" beautiful. Um, no. She's fake beautiful. Hope Solo is in your face beautiful. Theresa looks like she had a talented surgeon.
Meanwhile, Brandee and Ben...
*fills up wine glass* And awayyyyyy we go!
Post-Couples Choice
Kym says Steele has a lot of the characteristics she looks for - like muscles and height. Meanwhile, Heather is super pissed she got ripped away from Miles for Adam the Meathead, but Erica is pumped to be back with Miles. Miles? Is like - whatever, they're both hot.
Theresa and Skip hop right into bed and Skip says she is "in your face" beautiful. Um, no. She's fake beautiful. Hope Solo is in your face beautiful. Theresa looks like she had a talented surgeon.
Meanwhile, Brandee and Ben...
- 7/14/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
It's Valentine's Day, so it seemed appropriate to gather the most romantic movie lines of all time -- from "Casablanca" to "Four Weddings and a Funeral" to, of course, "The Notebook."
25 Most Romantic Movie Quotes"The Notebook" (2004)
"So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me,...
25 Most Romantic Movie Quotes"The Notebook" (2004)
"So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me,...
- 2/14/2011
- Extra
Another fine round of Free Korean movies start up in NYC shortly. Take a look at the offerings...
Korean Movie Night
from September 14, 2010 October 31, 2010
courtesy of the Korean Cultural Service
Every other Tuesday @ 7pm
Tribeca Cinemas
(54 Varick Street, on the corner of Canal Street, one block from the A, C, E
and 1 train Canal Street stops)
Price? Free.
All seating is first-come, first served. Doors
open at 6:30pm.
Upcoming Movies
Series Three: Documentaries
Tuesday, September 14 @ 7pm
Turn It Up To 11 (2009, 93 minutes, New York Premiere)
Winner of four major film awards, and the documentary that spawned the
Korean catch phrase, "I don't think we're gonna make it," Turn It Up To 11
is a rambunctious rock n'roll odyssey about Incheon's unlikeliest talent
incubator: Ruby Salon. A tiny, hole-in-the-wall club founded by aging punk
Lee Kyou-Young, who moved back home to Incheon after accidentally getting
his girlfriend pregnant, Ruby Salon is the...
Korean Movie Night
from September 14, 2010 October 31, 2010
courtesy of the Korean Cultural Service
Every other Tuesday @ 7pm
Tribeca Cinemas
(54 Varick Street, on the corner of Canal Street, one block from the A, C, E
and 1 train Canal Street stops)
Price? Free.
All seating is first-come, first served. Doors
open at 6:30pm.
Upcoming Movies
Series Three: Documentaries
Tuesday, September 14 @ 7pm
Turn It Up To 11 (2009, 93 minutes, New York Premiere)
Winner of four major film awards, and the documentary that spawned the
Korean catch phrase, "I don't think we're gonna make it," Turn It Up To 11
is a rambunctious rock n'roll odyssey about Incheon's unlikeliest talent
incubator: Ruby Salon. A tiny, hole-in-the-wall club founded by aging punk
Lee Kyou-Young, who moved back home to Incheon after accidentally getting
his girlfriend pregnant, Ruby Salon is the...
- 9/7/2010
- Screen Anarchy
Get ready BFFs! Superhot Ashton Kutcher and Katherine Heigl pair up for the summer flick ‘Killers.’ Is this Ashton’s best matchup onscreen yet?
Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher are two of the biggest stars in Hollywood – and they are finally pairing up for the romantic comedy Killers! The trailer for the film shows Katherine, looking like the uptight gal she’s played in 27 Dresses and The Ugly Truth, being pursued by Ashton, showing off the perfect six pack he displayed in What Happens in Vegas and Valentine’s Day. This already sounds like a hit!
In the film, Ashton plays an undercover hitman trying to live a normal life with wife Katherine – until she discovers his secret and joins in to help him! It looks like a suburban Mr. and Mrs. Smith – but with Ashton devoted to wife Demi Moore and Katherine’s new baby, Naleigh, off-screen antics were a no way,...
Katherine Heigl and Ashton Kutcher are two of the biggest stars in Hollywood – and they are finally pairing up for the romantic comedy Killers! The trailer for the film shows Katherine, looking like the uptight gal she’s played in 27 Dresses and The Ugly Truth, being pursued by Ashton, showing off the perfect six pack he displayed in What Happens in Vegas and Valentine’s Day. This already sounds like a hit!
In the film, Ashton plays an undercover hitman trying to live a normal life with wife Katherine – until she discovers his secret and joins in to help him! It looks like a suburban Mr. and Mrs. Smith – but with Ashton devoted to wife Demi Moore and Katherine’s new baby, Naleigh, off-screen antics were a no way,...
- 5/6/2010
- by lindsey
- HollywoodLife
It’s a crime that there are only a dozen or so films about, or involving, the world of broadcast radio. Not too many actually deal with the tribulations of censorship, though, which is where the upcoming film Pirate Radio comes in.
The film is about a group of rogue DJ’s on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic who broadcast a pirate radio station in the 1960s, despite the laws forbidding Rock and Roll…all for the love of music. Given the fact that the film is all about 60’s Rock, you can believe that the soundtrack is pretty killer, and you may get to win a copy!
Starting today, keep an eye on our Twitter account every week for a trivia question involving “Radio in The Movies.” The question may be the name of the radio station from Grosse Point Blank or the name of the epic band in Airheads,...
The film is about a group of rogue DJ’s on a boat in the middle of the Northern Atlantic who broadcast a pirate radio station in the 1960s, despite the laws forbidding Rock and Roll…all for the love of music. Given the fact that the film is all about 60’s Rock, you can believe that the soundtrack is pretty killer, and you may get to win a copy!
Starting today, keep an eye on our Twitter account every week for a trivia question involving “Radio in The Movies.” The question may be the name of the radio station from Grosse Point Blank or the name of the epic band in Airheads,...
- 10/30/2009
- by Matt Raub
- The Flickcast
- Following the announcement of the lineup for the 61st Festival de Cannes, one thing stuck out to me: where are the Japanese films? A year after Naomi Kawase took home the Grand Prix for The Mourning Forest, not a single Japanese film was selected for the Palme D’or, despite new films by such auteurs as Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Tokyo Sonata) and Hirokazu Koreeda (Still Walking), both of whom have previously been up for the major award. Asian cinema in general made out well with three films being selected for the Palme. Socially conscious filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to Cannes with 24 City, representing the sole major Chinese film playing at the fest in any category. This can be attributed primarily to China’s stringent censorship laws, which notably flared up in 2006 when Lou Ye’s Summer Palace screened in competition at the fest over objections by the Chinese government (the
- 4/23/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
BRUSSELS -- Tommy Lee Jones' directorial debut The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada won the Grand Prix at the Flanders International Film Festival in Ghent this weekend. The jury -- which included Brenda Blethyn, Arthur Lappin, Dominique Deruddere and Jose Luis Castineira de Dios -- awarded the festival's prestigious best music prize to Stephen Warbeck for John Madden's Proof. Best screenplay went to Singapore's Eric Khoo and Wong Kim Hoh for Be With Me, also directed by Khoo. China's Li Yu won the best director prize for his film Dam Street. The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, which won awards in Cannes for best screenplay (Guillermo Arriaga) and best actor (Jones), also stars Barry Pepper, Julio Cesar Cedillo, January Jones and Dwight Yoakam. A gruesome tale of a man who is shot in the Texas desert and hastily buried before being twice disinterred, it is already tipped to feature strongly in Oscar nominations.
- 10/24/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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