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The Spy Who Loved Me (1977, Dir. Lewis Gilbert): When you’re going downhill on skis at forty miles an hour and someone’s trying to put a bullet in your back,…
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The Other Half (2006, Dir. Ling Yiang) “Half of life is fucking up, the other half is dealing with it.” — Henry Rollins On the face of it, this is…
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The Old Garden (2006, Dir. Im Sang-Soo): “Life is long, history is longer.” — Oh Hyung-Woo, The Old Garden One of the reasons modern Korean cinema is so popular, in…
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Singapore Dreaming (2006, Dir. Yen Yen Woo, Colin Goh) “We wanted to present Singapore family life today — which is quite screwed-up and dysfunctional.” — Yen Yen Woo I must…
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How Is Your Fish Today? (2006, Dir. Xiaolu Guo) “I think it must be nice because that’s how I imagine it.” — Tourist interviewed on train to Mohe What do…
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A Few Days Later… (2006, Dir. Niki Karimi) This is my lifetime’s work. — Female author, A Few Days Later… It’s been about a decade since Abbas Kiarostami put Iran…
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Colossal Youth (2006, Dir. Pedro Costa) “When they give us white rooms, we’ll stop seeing these things.” — Ventura, Colossal Youth Sometimes I find that the more I get into…
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The tone was set as I stood in line for my first viewing of the 50th San Francisco International Film Festival at the Museum of Modern Art: A middle-aged couple…
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It’s Only Talk (2005, Dir. Ryuichi Hiroki) “There is no trace of chic in Kamata.” — Shinobu Terashima One of my favorite films from the 2005 SF International Film Festival…
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Dragon Boys (2006, Dir. Jerry Ciccoritti): Andrea Jiang: You’re out there on the front line, stamping out the yellow peril. These guys threaten how you see yourself, so you’re out…
