Film Reviews: Brides of Sulu and The Dawning Sky
By: Max Tessier,
Aug 30, 2011
It was the fifth time that the International Silent Film Festival (the only regular one of its kind in South-East Asia) took place at the Shangri-La Plaza, in Mandaluyong, Metro Manila (August 26 to 28, 2011), but it was only the first time that a Silent Filipino film was shown, as the opening film. And it was an intriguing one, indeed.
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The Death of an Artist: Tareque Masud
By: Latika Padgaonkar,
Aug 17, 2011
NETPAC expresses its grief at the untimely passing away of Tareque and joins Bangladesh in wishing Catherine a swift and complete recovery.
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Book Review
By: Max Tessier,
Aug 15, 2011
In Spanish, English, Tagalog. Introduction by Shirley O. Lua
Published by Instituto Cervantes de Manila, 2011 (price tba)
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Film Review
By: Max Tessier,
Aug 15, 2011
Kurosawa: la Voie
A documentary by Catherine Cadou. 52 mins.
Produced in 2011 by Film in Evolution (for French cable TV Cine + Classic)
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THE WOMAN IN THE SEPTIC TANK, Or a semantic look at Filipino Indie cinema and slums on the screen...
By: Max Tessier,
Jul 28, 2011
Although it superficially LOOKS like a comedy/parody, this film (which took most of the major awards at Cinemalaya) is quite subversive in its own way, spoofing with a sharp humor the kind of Filipino Indie films that usually make it to the Western festivals like Cannes or Venice, by surfing on the third world/poverty wave.
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Homage to Chidananda Das Gupta
By: NETPAC Bureau ,
Jul 19, 2011
Chidananda Das Gupta, film critic, author, director and one of the pioneers of the cinema movement in India passed away in Kolkata on 22 May 2011 at the age of 89.
In memory of this scholar, filmmaker and renowned critic, NETPAC organized a tribute at the India International Centre in New Delhi on 23 June.
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Are you the next Tarantino or Spielberg?
By: NETPAC Bureau ,
Mar 15, 2011
Here’s a golden opportunity to exercise your creative and storytelling skills, and nine minutes are all you need. For the first time ever, the Bangkok Post is hosting a short-film competition that’s open to all who are interested in the craft. So grab that video camera—or just your iPhone —and start shooting! We’re waiting for your films.
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NETPAC@20
By: Latika Padgaonkar,
Jun 14, 2010
In the twenty years since it was founded, NETPAC has become established as the leading platform for the discovery and promotion of Asian cinema.
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Remembering Alexis Tioseco
By: Neel Chaudhuri,
Sep 12, 2009
It is with great sadness that I write of the tragic death of Alexis Tioseco, my friend and fellow member of NETPAC. Alexis and his girlfriend, Nika Bohinc, were senselessly murdered on September 1 2009, in his house in Manila. And in that, we have lost the most passionate crusader for cinema from the Philippines, and the finest Asian film critic to emerge in the last five years. He was 28 years old.
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25 Years Are So Slow Like A Bad TV Show
By: Dome Sukvong ,
Apr 25, 2009
At some point in history, dubbing professionals of old Thai movies came up with a catchphrase: “time flies like lies.”
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Three Women, A Thief and Prasanna Vithanage
By: Robert Crusz ,
Mar 21, 2009
Prasanna Vithanage's new film, set in the social milieu of the leisure industry in Sri Lanka today, has no male characters of any significance. The main protagonists in the story are three women, two of them actresses in films and tele-dramas, and the other a night club hostess - also an actress of sorts.
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Life Without Buoys: A Conversation with Wu Tianming
By: Aruna Vasudev,
Dec 29, 2008
When I was young, I saw a lot of films in my city, Xian. I was first interested in arts, literature, modern opera. At the age of 19,1 saw Poem of the Sea by Aleksandr Dovzhenko for the first time but I didn't really understand it. So I sold my new shoes to buy two tickets, and saw it twice more at the Peace Cinema.
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Kamara Kamalova | The Grande Dame of Central Asian Cinema
By: Gonul Donmez Colin,
Dec 29, 2008
How does one describe Kamara Kamalova? The 'Grande Dame' of Central Asian cinema? And yet, she is as fresh and energetic as a young girl. She smiles with her eyes, a warm smile full of life and hope. Perhaps that is the secret behind her special bond with the youth.
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Uzbek Cinema: Breathing Freely
By: Rashmi Doraisamy,
Dec 29, 2008
Very moved by the old woman's gesture, he pointed out to his younger brother, Rishi Kapoor, that although their father had passed away long ago, here was an old woman in a remote land remembering him with so much palpable emotion - something few actors can boast of.
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