There was no hierarchy in the video rental shop. Hulk Hogan’s Christmas baby-sitting comedy Santa with Muscles (1996) could sit alongside the original, terrifying Ring (1998); Michael Mann’s obscure horror The Keep (1983) might share shelf space with Ken Loach’s Kes (1969). Video shops bred a canon-less cinephilia for those of us who frequented them, and a rabid sense of community that no algorithm could ever replicate. Despite the VHS being obsolete since 2006 – when David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence became the final movie to be released in such a format – nostalgia, collector’s fetishism and video shop mythologising have combined to create a cultural reappraisal of what they once offered us.
In what was perhaps the worst business decision of the last 20 years, the defunct rental shop juggernaut Blockbuster turned down an offer to buy a little company called Netflix – then a mail-order DVD service that would post the...
In what was perhaps the worst business decision of the last 20 years, the defunct rental shop juggernaut Blockbuster turned down an offer to buy a little company called Netflix – then a mail-order DVD service that would post the...
- 11/3/2022
- by Anna Bogutskaya
- The Independent - Film
There was no hierarchy in the video rental shop. Hulk Hogan’s Christmas baby-sitting comedy Santa with Muscles (1996) could sit alongside the original, terrifying Ring (1998); Michael Mann’s obscure horror The Keep (1983) might share shelf space with Ken Loach’s Kes (1969). Video shops bred a canon-less cinephilia for those of us who frequented them, and a rabid sense of community that no algorithm could ever replicate. Despite the VHS being obsolete since 2006 – when David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence became the final movie to be released in such a format – nostalgia, collector’s fetishism and video shop mythologising have combined to create a cultural reappraisal of what they once offered us.
In what was perhaps the worst business decision of the last 20 years, the defunct rental shop juggernaut Blockbuster turned down an offer to buy a little company called Netflix – then a mail-order DVD service that would post the...
In what was perhaps the worst business decision of the last 20 years, the defunct rental shop juggernaut Blockbuster turned down an offer to buy a little company called Netflix – then a mail-order DVD service that would post the...
- 11/3/2022
- by Anna Bogutskaya
- The Independent - Film
About MulanIFF
The Mulan International Film Festival (hereinafter referred to as “MulanIFF”) is a federally incorporated not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to showcasing the best of Chinese-language films as well as films about China and the Chinese diaspora. The aim of the festival is to facilitate appreciation of Chinese and Chinese diaspora cinema across Canadian communities and inspire the audience to discuss contemporary conflicts, challenges and opportunities from a global perspective. For more info about the festival, please see mulanfestival.com.
About the Fountainhead Programme
The Fountainhead Programme celebrates and promotes emerging talents and their works with creative originality. This Programme runs on a submission basis with official selection. In the last edition, the Final Selection Committee included Nai An, Liu Miaomiao, Wang Hongwei, Shelly Kraicer and Bart Testa (mulanfestival.com/fountainhead-final-selection-committee-2019). The list for 2022 is still to be confirmed.
In the last edition, the final selection included several titles...
The Mulan International Film Festival (hereinafter referred to as “MulanIFF”) is a federally incorporated not-for-profit organization that is dedicated to showcasing the best of Chinese-language films as well as films about China and the Chinese diaspora. The aim of the festival is to facilitate appreciation of Chinese and Chinese diaspora cinema across Canadian communities and inspire the audience to discuss contemporary conflicts, challenges and opportunities from a global perspective. For more info about the festival, please see mulanfestival.com.
About the Fountainhead Programme
The Fountainhead Programme celebrates and promotes emerging talents and their works with creative originality. This Programme runs on a submission basis with official selection. In the last edition, the Final Selection Committee included Nai An, Liu Miaomiao, Wang Hongwei, Shelly Kraicer and Bart Testa (mulanfestival.com/fountainhead-final-selection-committee-2019). The list for 2022 is still to be confirmed.
In the last edition, the final selection included several titles...
- 6/2/2022
- by Suzie Cho
- AsianMoviePulse
The Mulan International Film Festival (MulanIFF) is Canada’s largest film festival that celebrates Chinese-language films and Chinese filmmakers all around the world. The second year of the festival will be held from August 9 to August 17, 2019, in downtown Toronto. The festival will open with The Little Shrimp, the debut feature of the newly-graduated director Chen Zhilin (Chilam), who will be attending the festival. It will close with the Canadian Premiere of Stanley Kwan’s latest film, First Night Nerves.
Founded in 2018, MulanIFF is 100% run by volunteers. In hoping to present the real, unfiltered, and complete picture of China, a small group of recent graduates from the University of Toronto decided to use films as the seeing glass. Mulan International Film Festival was founded with one grand mission: Seeing China, one film at a time.
Image Courtesy: Mulan Festival
Film- Rail
The festival itself aims at facilitating the appreciation of Chinese...
Founded in 2018, MulanIFF is 100% run by volunteers. In hoping to present the real, unfiltered, and complete picture of China, a small group of recent graduates from the University of Toronto decided to use films as the seeing glass. Mulan International Film Festival was founded with one grand mission: Seeing China, one film at a time.
Image Courtesy: Mulan Festival
Film- Rail
The festival itself aims at facilitating the appreciation of Chinese...
- 8/6/2019
- by tyriter
- AsianMoviePulse
Directors, actors, producers, executives and film journalists were celebated at Lff photocall.
Actresses Rosamund Pike and Andrea Riseborough, producer Christine Vachon and directors Tinge Krishnan and Carol Morley were among the over 80 women who came together at the BFI London Film Festival to celebrate women filmmakers at the festival and women working throughout the UK and international film industry and as film journalists on Friday (October 12).
They were joined by Tricia Tuttle, artistic director of the Lff and Amanda Nevill, chief executive of the BFI. ”I’m so proud to celebrate more female filmmakers at Lff 2018 than ever before, and...
Actresses Rosamund Pike and Andrea Riseborough, producer Christine Vachon and directors Tinge Krishnan and Carol Morley were among the over 80 women who came together at the BFI London Film Festival to celebrate women filmmakers at the festival and women working throughout the UK and international film industry and as film journalists on Friday (October 12).
They were joined by Tricia Tuttle, artistic director of the Lff and Amanda Nevill, chief executive of the BFI. ”I’m so proud to celebrate more female filmmakers at Lff 2018 than ever before, and...
- 10/12/2018
- by Louise Tutt
- ScreenDaily
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