Tuesday, August 28, 2007

FAMILY PICNIC (2006, Hong Seung-wan, A+++++)

INTERNATIONAL ANIMATIONS SEEN IN LATE AUGUST

1.BUTTERFLY (2002, Glenn Marshall, 10 min, A+)

2.POUR MAMAN (Matthieu Rouget, Canada, A+)

3.TO HAVE AND TO HOLD (2003, Emily Mantell, 3.52 min, A+)

4.GUY 101 (2005, Ian Gouldstone, 8 min, A+)
This film is about gays.

5.CAREFUL (2005, Damian Gascoigne, 6 min, A+)
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1248/1257136403_c7b092fc65_o.jpg

6.EXTN. 21 (2002, Lizzie Oxby, 9.00 min, A+)

7.HOW MERMAIDS BREED (2002, Joan Ashworth, 9.41 min, A+)

8.NSPCC: CARTOON (2002, Frank Budgen + Russell Brooke, 1 min, A+)

9.RABBIT (2005, Run Wrake, 8 min, A+)

10.FISH NEVER SLEEP (2002, Gaelle Denis, 6.30 min, A+)

11.LITTLE THINGS (2003, Daniel Greaves, 11 min, A+)

12.GIFTED (2002, Emily Mantell, 3.12 min, A+)

13.PERPETUAL MOTION: IN THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY (2004, AL+AL, A+)
Second viewing

14.MUM IS BORN (2006, John Chan, 22 min, Hong Kong, A+)
http://www.cgvisual.com/headlines/IFVA_fish/CGVheadlines_fish_p2.htm
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15.OBSERVER MAGAZINE: FROM ABBA TO ZAPPA (2004, Smith & Foulkes, 1 min, A+)

16.TAKUSKANSKAN (2003, Selina Cobley, 5.48 min, A+)

17.CARE (2005, Mario Cavalli, 1 min, A+)

18.MOTOROLA: GRAND CLASSICS (2005, Smith & Foulkes, 1.13 min, A+)


19.MINEMA CINEMA: REVENGE IS COLD (Tim Hope, 7 min, A+/A)

20.SLEEP WITH THE FISHES (2005, Belle Mellor, 4.30 min, A+/A)

21.SURVEY (2002, Joe King, 4.36 min, A+/A)

22.DAD’S DEAD (2003, Chris Shepherd, 6.36 min, A)

23.JOSEF M. (Juan Antonio Pascaul Albarranch, 4 min, Spain, A)

24.FBIZOO (2006, Yohann Angelvy + Julien Vray, 12.40 min, France, A)

25.CITY PARADISE (2004, Gaelle Denis, A)
Second viewing

26.TAPS (2003, Matthew Gravelle, 3.18 min, A)

27.THE GIRL AND THE HORSE (2003, Rebecca Manley, 3.15 min, A)

28.KILLING TIME AT HOME (2003, Neil Coslett, 3 min, A)

29.KAMINYA’S CORRESPONDENCE (Sumito Sakakibara, 7 min, A)

30.ATOMIC SPACE SHEEP (Guillaume David, France, A)

31.ASTRONUTS (2005, Matthew Walker, 8.30 min, A)

32.TERRENCE HIGGINS TRUST: CAVERN CLUB (2002, Manu Roig, 1 min, A)

33.THE CAGE (Gilles Lepore, Switzerland, A)

34.FETCH (Dana Dorian, Scotland, A)

35.MINEMA CINEMA: KEEP GOING (2004, Tim Hope, 7 min, A)

36.TARZANSE (Torben Meyer, Germany, A/A-)

37.HOW TO COPE WITH DEATH (2002, Ignacio Ferreras, 3.10 min, A/A-)

38.HOW TO FLY (Tibor Na’das, Hungary, A-)

39.TENNENTS: BODY ARMOUR (2002, Darren Walsh, 0.40 min, A-)

40.BUS STOP (Matthew Abbis, A-)

41.PLAY (2004, Matthew Abbis, A-)

42.MINEMA CINEMA: LOVE THEN FIRST FIGHT (2007, Tim Hope, 7 min, A-)

43.BAA TITLE SEQUENCE (Bob Cosford, 1.20 min, A-)

44.VODAFONE: MAYFLY (2005, Darren Walsh, 1 min, A-)

45.HONDA: GRRRR (2004, Smith & Foulkes, 1 min, A-)

46.SONY PSP: A DAY IN THE LIFE…(2005, Alex Rutterford, 1 min, A-)



INTERNATIONAL SHORT FILMS SEEN IN LATE AUGUST

1.FAMILY PICNIC (2006, Hong Seung-wan, South Korea, 24 min, A+)

This film should really be screened together with THE BANGKOK BOURGEOIS PARTY (2007, Prap Boonpan), or this film can be retitled as THE KOREAN BOURGEOIS PICNIC. This film begins like a Thai melodramatic film, in which a lower-class girl might have a chance to be a bourgeois’ wife. But fortunately, the film doesn’t turn out to be a melodramatic one like that. In fact, what happens in this film really reminds me of a recent case of a Thai rich boy who killed poor people brutally.

Sometimes I wish a character in a film can jump into another film to do some justice. That’s what I feel after seeing FAMILY PICNIC. I wish Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire from LA CEREMONIE (1995, Claude Chabrol, A+) can jump into FAMILY PICNIC and punish the bourgeois family. And I wish Nadine and Manu from BAISE-MOI (2000, Virginie Despentes, Coralie Trinh-Thi, A+) can jump into TO BE TWENTY (1978, Fernando Di Leo, A+) to punish the murderers. That’s just my fantasy.


2.IN THE RANK (2006, Cyprien Vial, 14.45 min, A+)
This is a gay film.

3.TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN (2007, Wakai Makiko, Japan, A+)
This is a lesbian film.

4.EXCEPT THE SILENCE (2006, Lea Fehner, 14 min, A+)

5.HEROS AND SCOUNDRELS (2007, Murielle Iris, France, 18 min, A+)

6.T’AS UN GERANIUM (Also, France, A+)

7.THIRTY YEARS (2006, Nicolas Lasnibat, 20 min, A+)

8.TWICE (Joseba Fuentes, 24 min, A+)

9.PAYSTATION (Also, France, A+)

10.BARKING TIE (Sophie Lagues, Czech, A+)

11.REVOLUTIONARY SONG (2005, Istvan Kantor, Canada, 9 min, A+)

12.THE SONG OF THE CRICKET (Dany Campos, 17 min, A+)

13.ABOUT ROMANCE OR SOMETHING ELSE (2007, Fong Wing Leung, Hong Kong, 14 min, A+)

14.THE CRAZY ON THE ROCKS (2007, Altaf Mazid, India, 15 min, A+)

15.DVD (Ciro Altabas, 17 min, A+)

16.THE PARABOLIC DISH (Xavi Sala, 12 min, A+)

17.HOMELESS (2006, Chen ChiaKuei, 21 min, Taiwan, A+)
You can watch a trailer of this film at:
http://tdb.berlinale-talentcampus.de/campus/garage/profile?tid=20072668

18.TRANSFERT (Alexandre Marcheguet, France, A+)

19.THE COMMUTER (Martin Pickles, England, A+)

20.UNDER THERE (Jeremy Lanni, USA, A+)

21.STONG (Dang-Thai Duong, France, A+/A)

22.ROADKILL (Jeroen Annokkee, Netherlands, A+/A)

23.LES PIEDS DEVANT (2006, Luc Meilland, 15.40 min, A+/A)

24.LONDRES LONDON (2007, Eva Tang, 10 min, A+/A)
This is a lesbian film.

25.LES PETITS SABLES (Chloe Micout, France, A+/A)

26.THE CROSSING (2006, Maeva Poli, 12 min, A)

27.CARCAN (Stephane Levallois, France, A)

28.GOODBYE TO THE NORMAL (Jim Field Smith, UK, A)

29.MY DAY (2006, Bela Lukac, South Africa, 14 min, A)

30.BIR DAMLA SU (2006, Deniz Gamze Erguven, 18.57 min, A/A-)

31.SUPERMAN VA EN BAVER (Frog & Rosbeef, France, A/A-)

32.BEFORE AND AFTER KISSING MARIA (Ramon Alos, 7 min, A-)

33.E-MOTION CAPTURE (Alex Feil, Germany, A-)

34.WELCOME BACK (S. Schmidt + F. Becker, Germany, A-)

35.NOT SO SMALL TALK (K. Roeters + S. Kelly, USA, A-)

36.TICKET PLEASE (Lucas Figueroa, 14 min, A-)

37.DADDY’S LITTLE HELPER (Daniel Wilson, UK, A-)

38.SECOND CHANCE (2006, Wade Muller, Thailand, 11 min, B+)


MOST DESIRABLE ACTOR
The leading actor in TICKET PLEASE


FAVORITE ACTRESS
Dinara Drukarova in EXCEPT THE SILENCE

Drukarova also stars in SINCE OTAR LEFT (2003, Julie Bertucelli, A)
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