Category: Film

Tom Hiddleston and Rachel Weisz throwing the world into soft focus in The Deep Blue Sea
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EUFF Returns with a Record 28 Films

  Singapore’s second-longest running film festival is back with its heftiest line-up to date. The 23rd edition of the European Union Film Festival will run for 10 days from 15 to 23 May 2013 at Shaw Lido with the screening of 28 films from across the continent. These films have been carefully selected by the participating European embassies and cultural representatives in Singapore as works that best represent the standard of contemporary cinema in their respective countries. Speaking Read more
Posted: 6 May, 2013 Film Shortlink
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A Celebration of Italian Cinema in Singapore

  Think Italian cinema and the names that first come to mind are likely to be those of the Maestros from the ‘50s, ‘60s and ‘70s – Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Vittorio De Sica – whose iconic films shaped the international cinema scene. But what about Italian filmmakers today aside from big names like Bernardo Bertolucci and Nanni Moretti? If you draw a blank, that is precisely what the Italian Cultural Institute in Singapore wants to address (and Read more
Posted: 9 April, 2013 Film Shortlink
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Seaside Art Film Screenings

  Nine acclaimed documentary films that have been making waves around the world will reach our shores this Thursday with the inaugural Art-in-Film Festival at Dusk (AFFD) held at hipster hangout Tanjong Beach Club. Over 10 days from 7 to 16 March 2013, the lush seaside enclave in Sentosa will be transformed into an atmospheric location where film screenings, gourmet cuisine and film-inspired, site-specific performances are set to whisk you away from your hectic daily life. Although the Read more
Posted: 4 March, 2013 Film Shortlink
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Go See Film Screenings at the 3rd SIPF

  The 3rd Singapore International Photography Festival is bringing together a selection of films on the lives of photographers and their works. Curated by Tan Ngiap Heng, the film screenings seek to inspire by offering a rare glimpse into the thought processes and creative methodologies of the auteurs of photography. The film screenings will take place in various venues across town from October 6 – November 19. Tickets are $12 (adults) and $10 (concession) for each film. BERNH & Read more
Posted: 17 October, 2012 Film, Photography Shortlink
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Murakami’s Theatre of Dreams

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle 25-26 May 2012 Esplanade Theatre Murakami fans will be thrilled as the first theatrical staging of a Murakami novel graces our shores as part of the Singapore Arts Festival 2012. Wind Up Bird Chronicle tells the story of unemployed Toru Okada who loses both his cat and wife. His struggles to cope with their disappearances bring him on an eccentric adventure involving a fantasy-line worker, an overbearing prostitute, a death- obsessed teen, a war veteran and a sadistic Read more
Posted: 14 May, 2012 Dance, Film, Literary, Theatre Shortlink
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Far From Dull, the EUFF is Full of Cinematic Gems

Far From dull, the EUFF is full of cinematic gems, says film-obsessed Diana Othman. It may be the second longest running annual film festival in Singapore but the European Union Film Festival (EUFF) is far from being a dull, fuddy-duddy affair. The year is 2007 and the festival brought the ultra-funny and simply awesome Hot Fuzz to our shores (we’re not worthy!!). The objective has always been to present the more notable titles from European cinema today and this year, it has managed to put Read more
Posted: 23 April, 2012 Film Shortlink
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The Art of Imitation

MORIMURA YASUMASA Requiem for the XX Century Self-Portraits in Motion Ikkan Art Gallery Singapore 11 January to 25 February 2012 Morimura Yasumasa has crafted a reputation for himself around the art of impersonation. He has inserted his visage into famous paintings in the canon of Western art and photographed himself in the guise of historical icons. Marilyn Monroe, Frida Kahlo, Mao Zedong, even a chicken in a Dutch still-life painting – Morimura has done all that. He reinvents and appropriates Read more
Posted: 6 February, 2012 Film, Visual Art Shortlink
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The Art of French Cinema

If you're a true-blue cinephile, you would have kowtowed to the French gods of cinema at some point. Jean Luc Godard,  Jean Cocteau, Francois Truffaut - the list goes on. But how about today's French cinema? A mega, star-studded French film festival is in town to change that. Societe Generale Private Banking 1st Rendezvous with French Cinema, on from 8 to 13 December, features 16 new films and a retrospective of Carole Bouquet, Bond actress and Chanel star. Did we mention they flew in the likes Read more
Posted: 10 December, 2011 Film Shortlink
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Nothing Ordinary

Perspectives Film Festival 2011, 27 to 30 October 2011 Controversial movies don't normally make it to our theaters. Or any other theaters for that matter. Red tape and censorship a major reason for this occurrence. The brouhaha shrouding their release sometimes overshadow the movie. Considered controversial, these films received flak for pushing the boundaries and displaying ideas beyond the norm. Some were banned, never truly receive the recognition it duly deserves until many years later. Perspectives Read more
Posted: 24 October, 2011 Film Shortlink