ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 02/10/2008
Olivier Assayas has said that his intention with Summer Hours was to return home and make a “French film” in the wake of his globetrotting trilogy of demonlover, Clean, and Boarding Gate. Given the terrain he’s been plumbing for...
GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
"With the pleasures of the magnificent Flight of the Red Balloon still floating in our heads, we feel the time is right for a comprehensive look back at one of the best and most aesthetically important filmmakers of the...
ReverseBlog (Free subscription) | 22/09/2008
If you're asking that question, then a further question arises: What on earth are you doing here at Reverse Shot? Then again, if you have stumbled here, stay a while, peruse our brand new 23rd symposium and all (well...most)...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
DVD Video Review: Hou Hsiao-hsien's 2007 remake is paired with Albert Lamorisse's 1956 classic French short film for its UK DVD release by Network. Noel Megahey looks at both and compares.
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
DVD Video Review: To accompany the release of Hou hsiao-hsien's Flight of the Red Balloon, Network release the original classic short film from Albert Lamorisse, collecting it with another of the director's award-winning short films. Noel Megahey reviews.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 11/09/2008
There is still plenty of strong work to be found at the Toronto International Film Festival, especially in the flourishing world of truly independent filmmaking.
From the Front Row (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
For anyone who has seen Albert Lamorisse's 1956 children's classic , Hou Hsiao Hsien's Flight of the Red Balloon will hold an extra special sense of nostalgia and magic.That's not to say that one needs to have seen The Red Balloon to appreciate or understand Hou's film. Flight of the Red Balloon is an homage to the Lamorisse film, not a remake or a sequel. Hou takes The Red Balloon as a starting place...
JSOnline (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Union Theatre's fall film series includes Iraq war documentaries, a restored Charlie Chaplin classic, environmental films, the epic Japanese anti-war trilogy "The Human Condition," and films by Jean-Luc God...
Cinematical (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
Filed under: Action , Foreign Language , Sci-Fi & Fantasy , Cinematical Indie If you've ever seen a film by Taiwanese filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien , you might not initially think of him to direct an action movie, even of the slower, more poetic wuxia genre that includes films like Ang Lee's Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Zhang Yimou's Hero and other recent works. But the master director has long...
Colin McEnroe | To Wit (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
It's unclear to me why so much has been made of the fact that the Packers' offer to Mon. Favre included "even a blog." Blogs are free, like stray cats. And they're work, once you get them. Why is that...
DVD Times (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Cinema Review: Olivier Assayas abandons the expansive global filmmaking of his recent work for an apparently smaller-scale Chekhovian drama that nonetheless has wider resonance and larger generational implications. Noel Megahey reviews.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 15/08/2008
Film News: Taiwan's gov't to provide $2.6 mil -- Hou Hsiao-hsien, the acclaimed Taiwanese helmer famed for his painstakingly slow drama and almost static camerawork, is inching towards making his first big-budget, martial arts pic.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 01/08/2008
Film News: Locarno Film Festival honorees
Pajiba (Free subscription) | 31/07/2008
Helium Elation Flight of the Red Balloon / Ranylt Richildis...
Twitch (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
My repeated reliance on Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Rouge seminar address “In Search of New Genres and Directions for Asian Cinema” belies not so much laziness on my part as the fact that Hsiao-hsien’s suggestion of the potential values (and pitfalls) of using “local elements … firmly rooted in local culture"—specifically when creating horror genre films—remains not only salient advice for East Asian and Southeast...
