Tagged: clint mansell (composer)

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The Year of Asian 2.0: Hallyu and More

It’s been nearly 11 years since I wrote the small piece on The Year of Asian, celebrating Yojiro Takita’s Okuribito snatching the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film and Slumdog Millionaire sweeping award season...

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Experiment Awards: Best of 2014

There are a lot of movie all over the world, some left in distribution limbo, some others left unsubtitled, so this is my attempt at making some sort of comprehensive list of what I thought was great… with some surprises, like last year.

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Noah (2014)

The most notable changes Aronofsky does with Noah is presenting the main character with extremist traits, providing the story a villain and giving a voice to women, which isn’t something you would notice on the Bible.

Noah Trailers

The internet has provided us with two trailers of Noah. As we all expected, it will be an epic adventure/drama of (literally) biblical proportions!

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Requiem for a Dream

After quite some time, I managed to revisit Darren Aronofsky’s Requiem for a Dream, and it’s still holding strong for me.

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Stoker

Those familiar with director Park Chan-wook’s style will immediately be engaged by the lush nature of his English-language debut Stoker, a coming-of-age story of a very different kind.