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Articles by Clifford Hilo
LA Asian Pacific Film Festival 2009: "Right Under Your Nose" shorts
Do you smell that? Short films spread olfactory cheer and hope for future successes. Our critic takes a whiff at Ali Reza Talebzade's The Painting and Lim Hyung-Sup's Grandma and Wrestling.
Published on: 5/22/2009
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LA Asian Pacific Film Festival 2009: an interview with 100 director Chris Martinez
Director Chris Martinez talks to APA about his theatrical background, actress Mylene Dizon, and making movies in the Philippines.
Published on: 5/22/2009
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LA Asian Pacific Film Festival 2009: an interview with Kolorete director Ruelo Lozendo
Kolorete has politics, music, and the living dead. In other words, it's just another zombie flick. Director Ruelo Lozendo explains.
Published on: 5/22/2009
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LA Asian Pacific Film Festival 2009: an interview with Sounds of the New Hope director Eric Tandoc
Eric Tandoc's short film Sounds of the New Hope draws connections between music and politics, the Philippines and Filipino America. APA talks to the director about striking the right balance to strike the most provocative chord.
Published on: 5/22/2009
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The Naming of Lions and Tigers: Nagisa Oshima blurs the edges
Nagisa Oshima's In the Realm of the Senses and Empire of Passion are two sides of the same breathtaking blur between the pornographic and the artful.
Published on: 5/1/2009
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At the Heart of the Invisible
Now out on Criterion DVD, Akira Kurosawa's Dodesukaden is a brilliant misstep right into the heart of an artist.
Published on: 3/20/2009
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Best of 2008: Ten Best Film Moments
Many films are best remembered as single images, sounds, or performances. APA's Clifford Hilo recounts some such moments from Asian/American films viewed in 2008.
Published on: 1/2/2009
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AFM 2008: short reviews
APA breaks down some of the Asian (and not-so Asian) film highlights from the 2008 American Film Market, including Missing, Inju: the Beast in the Shadow, Dachimawa Lee, and 100.
Published on: 11/28/2008
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AFM 2008: Tokyo Gore Police
There's only one appropriate way to review Yoshihiro Nishimura's Tokyo Gore Police: as a catalog of the macabre.
Published on: 11/28/2008
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To Be Young is To Be Free: Wayne Wang's Princess of Nebraska
Fresh yet predictable, Wayne Wang's free-floating digital poem drinks from a familiar fountain of youth.
Published on: 11/14/2008
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A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Lessons in Heavy Breathing
Fresh air does Wayne Wang well in his patient, quiet new film A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.
Published on: 9/19/2008
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Alternating Angles: an interview with director Wayne Wang
The diptych A Thousand Years of Good Prayers and Princess of Nebraska marks Wayne Wang's heralded return to Chinese American stories. It's also an opportunity for him to riff on his family, his influences, and his inability to take the same road twice.
Published on: 9/19/2008
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Five Sketches of An Autumn Afternoon
To his fans, Yasujiro Ozu is not a mere artist, but a friend with whom you've shared a few Sapparos and who makes you feel you've known Japanese all your life. Thus these notes are written out of a familiarity and kinship, to a good friend in a neighboring city...
Published on: 9/19/2008
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Silently Stealing the Scene: an interview with actor Henry O
APA talks with veteran actor Henry O, the award-winning star of Wayne Wang's recent feature, A Thousand Years of Good Prayers.
Published on: 9/19/2008
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LA Film Festival 2008: Beyond the Blockbuster
APA tackles LAFF's programming of Asian and Asian American cinema. The docs rocked, but the narrative films barely mustered a whimper. Clifford Hilo explains.
Published on: 7/11/2008
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LA Film Festival 2008: Beyond the Blockbuster (part 2)
APA tackles LAFF's programming of Asian and Asian American cinema. The docs rocked, but the narrative films barely mustered a whimper. Clifford Hilo explains.
Published on: 7/11/2008
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Against Modernism, In Favor of Tofu: Three Silent Comedies by Ozu
Eclipse's second box set dedicated to Yasujiro Ozu provides another perspective on the beloved director.
Published on: 5/30/2008
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Blinding Us with Sadness
In the documentary Does Your Soul Have a Cold?, Mike Mills proves more cold than soulful in his investigation of antidepressants in Japan.
Published on: 7/13/2007
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Brimming with Java
One of the more flamboyant of the New Crowned Hope films commissioned for Mozart's anniversary, Opera Jawa holds carnal desire back.
Published on: 7/13/2007
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Death by Drowning
Elephant and the Sea's long shots, empty stares, uncomfortable silence is so 1994. For fans of Asian art cinema, Woo Ming-jin's latest feature holds no surprises.
Published on: 7/13/2007
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Musical Metamorphosis
From the smoky Malaysian netherworlds emerge sensuous sounds of love. Like so few films today, Tsai Ming-liang's I Don't Want to Sleep Alone soars.
Published on: 7/13/2007
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Window Wild Mirror Moving
As sweet as the most sentimental romance, as invigorating as the loftiest of the avant-garde, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's Syndromes and a Century is the movie gods' prescription of choice.
Published on: 7/13/2007
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