Yang ± Yin: Gender in Chinese Cinema
Commissioned by the British Film Institute as part of the 100 Years of Cinema celebrations, Stanley Kwan takes a look back into the history of Chinese films with a broad array of filmmakers.
Category: reviews
Yankie – Lost in Memories
Stepping out into the spotlight on his own, Yankie of the hip-hop duo TBNY released his first solo album, Lost In Memories. The album boasts an amazing line up of featured artists, high quality production and amazing lyrics.
Yann Martel – Life of Pi
It’s a test of faith when a young man is stranded on a boat with a zebra, an orangutan, a hyena… and a Bengal tiger for 227 days.
Yasunari Kawabata – The Old Capital (Kioto)
The Old Capital tells the story of a 20-year-old girl named Chieko in Post-War Kyoto, daughter of a Kimono maker, who discovers she was an abandoned child. Then one day, she discovers something while attending one of the many festivities in the city.
YB – Blue Whale
Following their successful appearances on Survival: I Am A Singer, YB released a new mini album back in November.
Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
A group of friends grow up, grow apart, and Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani hints at the coming of age aspects of a film on friendship more than a run of the mill rom-com.
Yelle – Safari Disco Club
If you’ve never listened to Yelle, go listen to her previous work. This one won’t impress you much.
Yelle – Stockholm, Sweden 2011
The entire club was dancing, screaming, throwing their hands in the air and trying to sing along in French. From start to end, no one stood still for a second. Yelle came to Stockholm and rocked her socks out at Club Popaganda.
Yellow Elephant (Japanese Film)
Tsuma and Ayumu Muko are a married couple in a small town in the middle of nowhere. He’s a novelists with a part-time job as a caretaker in the local nursery home while she’s a housewife with a faint heart… that sees the world from a different perspective.
Yellow Monsters – Riot!
Sophomore albums are sometimes cursed for new bands that had a strong debut. They change their sound and flop, or stay too much the same and have the same reaction. There is no such problem for the Yellow Monsters and Riot!.
