A many-splendored thing 9
April 16th, 2007 Mad Dog
電影學者談及多齣電影:
Paolo Gioli (保羅．治奧利)
Traces of traces (1969)
My Glass Eye (1971)
Anonimatograph (1972)
Paolo Gioli has been making experimental films since the 1960s. From one angle, his approach converges with the work of filmmakers like Ken Jacobs and Ernie Gehr. Gioli employs optical printing and other techniques to halt, fragment, and superimpose images, many of them from found footage…
Cold Blade (1970) (龍沐香) (楚原)
Cold Blade (1970) is a very different affair. This swordplay classic directed by the versatile Chor Yuen for Cathay has been fairly hard to see…
Cold Blade begins with a graceful title sequence showing our two heroes practicing their signature moves in slow motion and floating aerobatics. These maneuvers will of course prove important at the climax. The story was written for the screen, but it’s as full of twists and double-dealing as a martial-arts novel…
Bubble Fiction: Boom or Bust (2007) - by Baba Yasuo (超時空泡泡女)
Here’s one Asian film that won’t be remade in Hollywood; it’s already an unembarrassed riff on Back to the Future…
Naturally, Bubble Fiction is filled with retro music, dances, fashions, and hair styles, with plenty of in-jokes about J-pop culture and references to its Hollywood source…
The director painstakingly reconstructed the Tokyo of the time, including elaborate desserts and hand-punched train tickets…
On the Edge (2006) (黑白道) (邱禮濤)
On the Edge (2006) from the Herman Yau retrospective here at the festival, is one of the very best…
Thanks to a flashback structure, we see Nick’s rise in the gang juxtaposed to his slump once he’s back in uniform. Without being heavy-handed, the film juxtaposes a scene of Nick trying to return to civilian life with a parallel moment in his Triad days. It isn’t easy to advance two stories at once, but Yau manages it easily…
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作者: David Bordwell
刊於: David Bordwell’s website on cinema: Observations on film art and Film Art
Entry Filed under: 2007, 焦點導演：邱禮濤, 鍊光術師保羅．治奧利, 隆重首映及特備節目
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