Scribbles and Ramblings

A Tale of Two Journeys: The clichéd statement "the grass is greener on the other side" is quite true for the two films Traveller...

The calm & poetic cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul I first came across Apichatpong Weerasethakul at VIFF 2006 when I passed him in ...

Out of the three pregnancy Hollywood films from 2007 ( Juno , Waitress and Knocked Up ), two involved the use of alcohol in order to get th...

Palme d’Or -- Entre les Murs ( The Class ), France, Director Laurent Cantet Best Director -- Nuri Bilge Ceylan for Three Monkeys Best Act...

Untapped: The Scramble for Africa's Oil by John Ghazvinian Poisoned Wells: The Dirty Politics of African Oil by Nicholas Shaxson The...

Before Oil Film: Caribe (2004, Costa Rica, Director Esteban Ramírez) Pristine beauty. Calm waters & beautiful coastlines. This is...

A few days after I finished Roberto Saviano's wonderful book Gomorrah , I found out that a fictional movie based on the book was in the ...

Shifting location from Taipei to Kuala Lumpur: Tsai Ming-liang returns to his birth country Malaysia to make his first feature outside of ...

Aks / reflection / double / doppelganger / kagemusha: A look-alike is discovered and asked to shadow the original. Strange consequences t...

Asian Spotlight, Filipino Films Two years I had not seen a single film from the Philippines. Then at VIFF 2006, I came across Jeffrey Jet...

It seems every time Henry has a bad touch of the ball, two articles get written in Spain about Henry's failure. Considering that Henry ...