Fan Siu-wong, Kurt Russell, Zoe Bell, Mike Star, Fred Stoller, Johnny Barnes, Keanu Reeves’ fist, and Hugo WeavingScreenshot: YouTube
With the release of Amazon’s Mma-inspired remake of Road House, The A.V. Club is looking at the most brutal, compelling, and consequential punches to the face in cinema. Now,...
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- 3/22/2024
- by Matt Schimkowitz
- avclub.com
Production is under way on “Land of Mercy” an English-language animated feature set in Tibet. The story sees a young man embark on a quest for Buddhist enlightenment that was the last wish of his dying father.
Its voice cast includes Armand Assante (HBO’s “Gotti”), Alexander Wraith (“The Mandalorian”) and Louis Mandylor (“Debt Collector”) as well as Singapore stage actor Adrian Pang.
The 3 million picture is written, directed and produced by Tan Keng Leck, head of Singapore-based firm Hwallywood Studio, and adapted from a well-known novel by Fan Wen. Animation production is handled by the film’s co-producer Indonesia’s Msv (“Battle of Surabaya”).
Production is to be completed by mid-next year, with release of the film in October 2023. No sales agent or distribution channel has been announced yet.
Fan Wen is a China-based author, who identifies as Catholic and has completed 15 literary works. He reputedly spent ten years penning his “Trilogy of Tibet,...
Its voice cast includes Armand Assante (HBO’s “Gotti”), Alexander Wraith (“The Mandalorian”) and Louis Mandylor (“Debt Collector”) as well as Singapore stage actor Adrian Pang.
The 3 million picture is written, directed and produced by Tan Keng Leck, head of Singapore-based firm Hwallywood Studio, and adapted from a well-known novel by Fan Wen. Animation production is handled by the film’s co-producer Indonesia’s Msv (“Battle of Surabaya”).
Production is to be completed by mid-next year, with release of the film in October 2023. No sales agent or distribution channel has been announced yet.
Fan Wen is a China-based author, who identifies as Catholic and has completed 15 literary works. He reputedly spent ten years penning his “Trilogy of Tibet,...
- 7/11/2022
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
It takes a certain magic to lose an audience within the simplistic grandeur of a world almost far-removed from the rest of civilization; to educate in the ways of your forefathers with little in the way of preachiness; to allow those age-old traditions sing in near-perfect harmony. Yet, for all these sublime touches Pema Tseden conjures with effortless ease here on “Sacred Arrow”, his morality tale of pseudo-sportsman rivalry broiling over into village life deals little in the way of actual conflict, and at times feels more like the enabling of immature, petty squabbling between two siblings who simply need a clipping behind the ears. So why then are we so captivated by what is unfolding before our eyes?
“The Sacred Arrow” screened at
Festival des Cinémas d’Asie de Vesoul
The centuries-old archery competition between Lhalong and Damo villages determines more than just the superior archer but is also...
“The Sacred Arrow” screened at
Festival des Cinémas d’Asie de Vesoul
The centuries-old archery competition between Lhalong and Damo villages determines more than just the superior archer but is also...
- 2/16/2020
- by Jamie Cansdale
- AsianMoviePulse
Fandor's Kevin B Lee on Warriors of the Rainbow: Seediq Bale, which screened in Competition in Venice and was a Special Presentation in Toronto: "The most expensive film ever made in Taiwan, this 150-minute epic tells the story of Taiwanese Seediq aborigines fiercely battling the oppression of Japanese occupiers in the 1930s. It's an awkwardly timed project given the global sympathies directed this year at tragedy-stricken Japan, but this project was years in the making as an attempt to put Taiwan squarely on the map as a maker of global blockbusters. It's no coincidence then that its story of spiritually endowed forest-dwelling natives fighting technologically superior enemies has strong echoes of Avatar; even the dialogue is in subtitled aboriginal dialect."
The Hollywood Reporter's Deborah Young sensed those echoes, too: "The action is set in the spell-binding Avatar-land of Mount Chilai and its lush rain forest, where waterfalls and rainbows, narrow...
The Hollywood Reporter's Deborah Young sensed those echoes, too: "The action is set in the spell-binding Avatar-land of Mount Chilai and its lush rain forest, where waterfalls and rainbows, narrow...
- 9/26/2011
- MUBI
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