MIFF 2014 – Irma Vep (1996)
Director: Olivier Assayas Starring: Maggie Cheung, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Nathalie Richard, Nathalie Boutefeu, Antoine Basler Maggie Cheung stars as herself in this odd duck of a movie about a remake of a silent film that is
MIFF 2014 – The Imp (1981)
Director: Dennis Yu Starring: Charlie Chin Chiang Lin, Kent Cheng Jak Si, Dorothy Yu Yee Ha, Yueh Hua, Chan Shen, Hui Bing Sam, Jim Sam Sing Tak, Wong Ching, Wong Chung, Fung King Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4PZyJ3ORQ8
MIFF 2014 – Sound Proof (2013)
Director: Darren Cole Featuring: The Palace, Pure Pop Records, Cherry Bar, many musicians The story is well known to anyone who has been going to gigs in Melbourne during the past few years. The “Agent
MIFF 2014 – Rouge (1987)
Director: Stanley Kwan Starring: Anita Mui, Leslie Cheung, Alex Man, Emily Chu Getting the obvious out of the way, the Anita Mui and Leslie Cheung both died in 2003 and it was especially sad about
MIFF 2014 – The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness (2013)
Director: Mami Sunada Featuring: Hayao Miyazaki, Toshio Suzuki, Isao Takahata, Hideaki Anno, John Lasseter Tagline: “Oh no! I left the goats out!” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5IM2IwA7FU Covering the production of Hayao Miyazaki’s final film the Wind Rises, we
MIFF 2014 – The Tale of Princess Kaguya (2013)
Director: Isao Takahata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lDrkokymLQ Based on the folk story The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter we see a simple bamboo cutter finding a tiny girl inside a bamboo stalk, who turns into a baby once
MIFF 2014 – The Unknown Known (2013)
Director: Errol Morris I am a big fan of the work of this director and have read several of his New York Times columns on photography in depth and have the complete series of his
MIFF 2014 – Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
Director: Mark Hartley Featuring: A. Martin Zweiback, Adolfo Quinones, Al Ruban, Alain Jakubowicz, Alan Roderick-Jones, Albert Pyun, Alex Winter, Allen DeBevoise, Andrew Stevens, Avi Lerner, Barbet Schroeder, Bo Derek, Boaz Davidson, Cassandra Peterson, Catherine Mary
MIFF 2014: Why Don’t You Play in Hell? (2013)
Director: Shion Sono https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JfW4oNFAPI Movies about making a movie are so cliché now that you may as well make them out as joke from the start, which is what this film does and is not
MIFF 2014 – Sessions purchased
The only one I missed out on was Advanced Style as all three sessions were on standby tickets already. Why Don’t You Play in Hell? Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Canon Films The