SINdie is a blog that supports local films in its own unique ways and and they are planning something special for the year end on our blog, something that would be a useful resource for all in the film community as well.
It is like a ‘Who’s Shooting What?’ guide for 2010. So they want you to share some info on your ‘pet’ or key project of 2010. … Continue Reading
Having seen Jason’s ‘3 Feet Apart’ in the Singapore Shorts Collection Volume 1, makes ‘Brother No. 2′ a leap of a hundred feet from it. ‘3 Feet Apart’ is mind-tickling animation about a character who has a mobile phone growing out of his ear. “Brother No. 2′ is no-nonsense digging of history’s skeletons.
I propose to you a different way to look back at the Singapore films of 2008. Our memories of films may fade faster than we like to but unforgettable characters tend to stay with us in our minds. Instead of dishing out the stories all over again, I prefer to take a second look at the characters from the Singapore-made films that were hard to erase. And what a bunch of boys, women, uncles, ah mas and cross-dressers we’ve got on our plate, oops, my plate, to be exact.
Tak Dong Cheng is quite a flagship film of the Malay Filmmaker’s Society. It has been screened several times at various events, and I got to understand why at First Takes. Though I am not familiar with the ‘Bujang Lapok’ series, I know that it involves 3 men who get up to different antics, often off-tangent, enough to cpature the imagination of the audience.
A title that belies a rich cross-stitched fabric of relationships – that’s The High Cost of Living. It was easy to think that this movie might be about the pressures of living a 5Cs-obssessed Singapore. But my second brush with it proved not. I was watching a dark and action-packed trailer while buying popcorn at The Grand Cathay.
Expect nothing less when you have the blessing of 400 over extras. I heard it from the horse’s mouth Boi Kwong. This is Boi’s maiden feature film, about people close to his life as an ITE lecturer. These 400 extras, with some looing like coffeeshop aunties, turned up in several scenes whenever `brotherly’ help was needed, giving this gangster a lot of muscle.
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I cannot resist a comment about casting Fish Chaar in a short film. He has a knack for certain roles and this one was again up his alley. While being puzzled by the meaning of the title, no time is wasted in establishing the abusiveness of the husband and the silenced and tortured state of his wife.
‘Bedok Jetty’ is another film produced for the National Museum’s Digital Homelands project. Deeply personal and esoteric, it is about a person’s lost love and his attachment to Bedok Jetty, a place he used to frequent with his old flame. In the film, a juxtaposition of actual location shots and a screen shot of an msn conversation is used.
The 5th Singapore Short Cuts kicked off last Saturday at the National Museum of Singapore and with the new films were old favourites from the yesteryears curated by The Substation.
On 20 March 2010, the International Organisation of the Francophonie will celebrate its 40th year.
And as part of the 40th anniversary celebrations, Alliance Française de Singapour will be presenting a film marathon with four critically acclaimed films from Belgium, Canada, Switzerland, and France.
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This week alone marks the premiere of two local films going head to head with each other for the box office crown, amid a Hollywood heavyweight with Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland probably walking away with the prize.
This week alone marks the premiere of two local films going head to head with each other for the box office crown, amid a Hollywood heavyweight with Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland probably walking away with the prize.
The Panasonic Digital Film Fiesta runs for two days, starting tonight at 8pm, so don’t miss it! This is Andy Chung’s interview for his film, Grieving Conscience.
Catch Grieving Conscience, and more, during the Panasonic DFF screenings on the 24th and 25th of February.
