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Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
A gritty Colombian drama about a woman who's been fitted with an explosive collar, shot in one continuous take, won the top Golden Kinnaree Award on Sunday at the Bangkok International Film Festival . Directed by Spiros Stathoulopoulos, the Main Competition jury of Singapore's Eric Khoo, Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz and Thai indie director Aditya Assarat, applauded PVC-1 for its "raw, original and...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Film News: Singapore selects Eric Khoo's 'My Magic' -- The Motion Picture Producers' Association of Japan (Eiren) has selected the Yojiro Takita helmed drama "Okuribito" (Departures) as Japan's contender for the foreign language Oscar, the pic's international distrib, Shochiku, announced Friday.
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Twitch (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
Eric Khoo’s new film was one of the many movies shown at Cannes last year that got really mixed reviews. Some where praising it for it’s pure beauty, some were wondering why it was even part of the competition. After seeing it at the World Film Festival, it’s easy to see why it divided the audience. My Magic doesn’t have the prestige of a Clint Eastwood film, it’s a film shot in only nine days on a...
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I.Z. Reloaded: Online Refreshments (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Singapore filmmakers, Ekachai Uekrongtham, Brian Gothong Tan and Eric Khoo were interviewed recently by TIME about the relaxed attitude among Singapore's censors. From TIME : KHOO: I started doing short films back in 1989, and I can feel the change. A lot of the stuff that I couldn't get away with back then, we can get away with now. I think that they do want the population to be more creative and...
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Wise Kwai's Thai Film Journal (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Singapore had its first film competing for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival this year, Eric Khoo's My Magic . And though the Straits Times did a nice story about the film before it went to the festival, it still seems like it's taken forever for the local media to take note of Khoo's achievement. Finally, Channel NewsAsia worked up a piece about the film . Here's an excerpt: It was a proud...
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GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 01/06/2008
"Eric Khoo's My Magic, Singapore's historic first entry to Cannes Competition, is interesting for casting Tamils (a minority in his country) in lead roles," writes Maggie Lee in the Hollywood Reporter. "It could have been a simple yet heartbreaking story...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
Film Reviews: A film so small that, even at 76 minutes, it plays like a way-distended short vignette, Eric Khoo's "My Magic" is thin, very unmagical fare.
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Chanel News Asia (Free subscription) | 24/04/2008
SINGAPORE: When it comes to movies, Eric Khoo is known to have that magic touch. This time, the magic has literally propelled the local filmmaker into the ranks of veteran directors such as Clint Eastwood and Steven Soderbergh.
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Twitch (Free subscription) | 18/04/2008
Singapore’s Eric Khoo will have his new film, My Magic , premiere at Cannes 2008, but as for which category and whether it will be in competition, remains to be seen until Thierry Fremaux announces the line-up in five days. Khoo is no stranger to Cannes, as his Be With Me premiered in Cannes 2005 in the Director’s Fortnight section. My Magic is somewhat of a curious item. It will be 80% in the Tamil...
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DVD Times (Free subscription) | 10/04/2008
DVD Video Review: Kev reviews Eric Khoo's beautifully moving drama from 2005, which is available to own in the UK care of Pecadillo Pictures.
