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Tag: New York Asian Film Festival 2021

New York Asian Film Festival Review: My Missing Valentine

Written by Patrick Hao 75/100 Hollywood studios used to make romantic comedies – romantic comedies that would be delightful and stirring, and borderline problematic. But they've largely ceased making those except for the occasional films that go straight to streaming … Continue reading.

Drink in the Movies Film Festival, New Releases Leave a comment September 6, 2021September 3, 2021

New York Asian Film Festival 2021 Review: All U Need Is Love

Written by Patrick Hao 25/100 All U Need is Love is not a real movie. Well that is to say that All U Need is Love is about as real as a movie as The Father of the Bride Part … Continue reading.

Drink in the Movies Film Festival, New Releases Leave a comment August 28, 2021August 26, 2021

Fantasia & New York Asian Film Festival Review: Sweetie, You Won’t Believe It

Written by Patrick Hao 55/100 One of the shames of watching a movie like Sweetie, You Won’t Believe It and other festival movies at VOD screenings is the palpable audience reaction to a movie that unfurls itself to the audience. … Continue reading.

Drink in the Movies Film Festival, New Releases Leave a comment August 23, 2021August 21, 2021

Fantasia & New York Asian Film Festival Review: Junk Head

Written by Patrick Hao 64/100 If filmmaking is a labor of love, then animation is the 12 Labors of Hercules. It’s a long, lugubrious, and isolating process. For director Takahide Hori, the stop motion animated film Junk Head is one … Continue reading.

Drink in the Movies Film Festival, New Releases Leave a comment August 21, 2021August 6, 2021

New York Asian Film Festival Review: Barbarian Invasion

Written by Taylor Baker 75/100 "Are we going to make a Hong Sang-soo film?" Moon played by Chui Mai Tan asks Pete Teo's Roger Woo. The intended director and writer of her next film, and seemingly her long time collaborator, … Continue reading.

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New York Asian Film Festival 2021 Review: Shadows

Written by Taylor Baker 25/100 Shadows marks the first time director Glenn Chan has gone up to a 90 minute runtime. After previously releasing the 70 minute film Two Boys and a Mermaid in 2015, Glenn exchanges comedy for a … Continue reading.

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New York Asian Film Festival Review: New Dragon Gate Inn

Written by Patrick Hao 66/100 One of the most exciting features to be shown at this year’s New York Asian Film Festival is the free retrospective screening of New Dragon Gate Inn. The film will be shown outdoors on August … Continue reading.

Drink in the Movies Film Festival Leave a comment August 9, 2021August 6, 2021

New York Asian Film Festival Review: Anima

Written by Patrick Hao 73/100 “It takes hundreds of years for a tree to grow. But just minutes to cut it down.” Those are words said by Linzi (Eric Wang) which serves as a thesis for Jingling Cao’s feature debut, … Continue reading.

Drink in the Movies Film Festival, New Releases Leave a comment August 8, 2021August 6, 2021

Fantasia and New York Asian Film Festival Review: Under the Open Sky

Written by Patrick Hao 52/100 Under the Open Sky is the disappointing feature from Miwa Nishikawa attempting to explore the difficulties an ex-convict faces as he tries to integrate back into society. That ex-convict is Mikami (Koji Yakusho), a former … Continue reading.

Drink in the Movies Film Festival, New Releases Leave a comment August 7, 2021August 9, 2021

Three Rounds with the Boxing Films of the New York Asian Film Festival (Fighter, Blue, and One Second Champion)

Written by Patrick Hao https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEsoGXOH1Nw Three Rounds with the Boxing Films at the New York Asian Film Festival Boxing as a metaphor for daily struggle, pain and resistance has been a cinematic tradition going all the way back to Wallace … Continue reading.

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