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Recent Posts on The Case for Global Film- Love Education (Xiang ai xiang qin, China-Taiwan 2017) May 19, 2019Love Education is a Chinese family melodrama presented as a ‘quality film’ which has made appearances at major film festivals in Asia such as Busan and Hong Kong, winning several prizes. Strangely, it doesn’t seem to have made much impact outside East Asia, despite being a film by the celebrated Taiwanese singer, actor, writer and […]Roy Stafford
- Kiss Me Deadly (US 1955) May 18, 2019It seems scarcely credible that Kiss Me Deadly is over 60 years old. It still carries a punch with its brilliant camerawork and editing and its story about a brutish man in pursuit of what turns about to be a disturbing pre-echo of a contemporary scare, referred to in the film as “the great whatsit”. […]Roy Stafford
- The Party and the Guests (O slavnosti a hostech Czechoslovakia, 1966) May 17, 2019The western translation of O slavnosti a hostech, (also known as A Report on the Party and Guests) made Jan Němec’s film’s allegorical intention obvious; Němec co-wrote the story with Ester Krumbachová who wrote the screenplay. It’s likely that the satire of the film would have been obvious to the censors of the time anyway even if […]nicklacey
- I’ve Got the Blues (Hong Kong 2018) May 15, 2019This unusual documentary played at HOME in Manchester with a Q&A featuring the director Angie Chen. It was part of a mini-season of Ms Chen’s work and another contribution to HOME’s year-long programme presenting women working in global cinema. Angie Chen, born in Shanghai, raised in Hong Kong and Taiwan, trained in the US and […]Roy Stafford
- An Introduction to Pan’s Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno Spain-Mexico-USA, 2006) May 13, 2019I’ve recently published a study guide (you can buy it here). Here’s the introduction: Pan’s Labyrinth is set in 1944, five years after the end of the Spanish civil war, when the last of the resistance to the fascist forces of General Franco were being crushed. However the inspiration for the film was the 11th September 2001 […]nicklacey
- Love Education (Xiang ai xiang qin, China-Taiwan 2017) May 19, 2019
