SINdie: Production Talk – Steadfast by David Liu and Linus Chen

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As part of Who’s Shooting What, we asked filmmakers to fill us in on their upcoming projects in 2010. (Sneak: We will be having another round of Who’s Shooting What in 2011 real soon! Do keep a lookout.) After close to half a year, Linus and David are finally presenting their work, Steadfast.

>> Read the full interview with David and Linus here at SINdie.

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Steadfast will be screening in Sinema Old School from the 9th of July. More details here.

SINdie: Production Talk – ‘Kitchen Quartet’ by Nicole Midori

In a food-obsessed nation, the power of food manifests in our lives in myriad ways. A patronizing food critic unknowingly affects a promising female chef through his review. Forced to question her culinary career, she reexamines her relationship with her hawker mum while the withdrawn young son of the critic uses food as a means of connecting with his father. >> Read the full interview with Nicole Midori here at SINdie.

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Sinema will be screening Nicole’s film, ‘Kitchen Quartet’, on the 29th of June, as part of our Sinema Showoff! programme.

SINdie: Who’s Shooting What in 2010?

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

SINdie: Brother No. 2

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.

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SINdie: Class of 2008 – See Who’s There!

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.

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SINdie: Tak Dong Cheng

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.

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SINdie: The High Cost of Living

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.

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SINdie: ‘The Days’ – Gangsters in Moschino

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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SINdie: Singapore Short Cuts #5 Week 3: Caramel by Kelvin Ke

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.

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