Film Reviews Flight of the Red Balloon (2007) [An abridged version of this review was published at Christianity Today.] • How is childhood like a red balloon? Watching Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s new film Flight of the Red Balloon, there are many possible answers to that question. We watch seven-year-old Simon meander along Paris sidewalks, and his progress is as
The Auralia Thread Good Medicine by Way of Paris and Taiwan: Thank You, Hou Hsiao-Hsien! I may have the flu, I may have a voice like a gravel-crusher and a fever of 101, but I'm still here, propped up in bed editing Cyndere's Midnight. It may have had something to do with my diet of aspirin, soup, hot tea, cough medicine,
On Movies & Media Orsay! It was just an ordinary mid-summer day in movieland, with a bunch of chatter about the box office and the Oliver Stone film's underwhelming opening weekend, when what should appear at Cinematical, but the sort of news that makes serious movie buffs sit up and pay close attention:
On Movies & Media Rosenbaum Reviews "Three Times" Sure to be one of the year's best, Three Times is the latest from Hou Hsiao-hsien, whose film Cafe Lumiere is one of the best I've seen in the past few years. Here's a review by Jonathan Rosenbaum.
On Movies & Media Cafe Lumiere (2004) The more movies I watch, and the older I get, the more I enjoy a particular sight onscreen — people who are thinking. And Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Cafe Lumiere is full of people thinking. Beautiful pictures of people thinking. At the same time, it's a tribute to Yasujiro
On Movies & Media Tracking Toronto GreenCine Daily is providing all kinds of coverage on the Toronto International Film Festival, including some comments on The Smell of Paradise, a film that makes me uneasy just in its summary. Meanwhile, the blogging has begun in earnest at Long Pauses by Darren Hughes, who is determined not to
