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Birthday Suits, Asia Major
27 November 2009 7:30 AM, PST
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Do you ever celebrate the birthdays of your favorite movie folk? You should. Here are your options for 11/27
Michael Vartan, Bruce Lee
1940 Bruce Lee Chinese American trailblazer, 70s icon, legend. Without him, whose to say how long it would have taken martial arts films to gain as much international popularity? Without him, no Uma Thurman in a yellow track suit.
1951 Kathryn Bigelow director, action fan. An Oscar nominee in about 2 months and a week.
1956 William Fichtner actor
1957 Callie Khouri, screenwriter. She'll always have Thelma & Louise
1957 Kevin O'Connell, the most nominated never-winning Oscar anything. He's been nominated 20 times (!) for his sound work. He has only his Emmy and lucrative blockbuster heavy career to comfort him. His next project is the Gyllenhaal action flick Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. [editor's note: You may recall that the second podcast ever here at Tfe was an interview with his then working partner Greg P Russell whose own Oscar tally totals 12 nominations without a win.]
1963 Fisher Stevens, Michelle Pfeiffer's boyfriend during her Catwoman years
1968 Michael Vartan, French-American actor (Alias)
1978 Unax Ugalde, Spanish hottie... seduced Julianne Moore
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A Tiff Programmer Talks Nymph
17 August 2009 8:37 AM, PDT
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[A little while back, Toronto International Film Festival programmer Raymond Phathanavirangoon checked in to share a list of his most anticipated titles of 2009 and now he’s coming back to us with a series of quick looks at his selections for the big festival and why he feels they are important films. Up first is the latest from Pen-Ek Ratanaruang!]
Hi all, after my last article about my most anticipated 2009 titles (in which, unfortunately, only 5 of them actually made 2009), I’m back to introduce some of the films I have programmed this year at the Toronto International Film Festival. It’s a particularly strong year for Asian cinema, and overall I’m very happy with the films I have chosen.
The first film I’d like to introduce is Nymph by Pen-ek Ratanaruang. It has already been reviewed here (by none other than Todd himself), but the version that will be showing in Toronto is not the Cannes version. Instead, Tiff will be screening the international premiere of the Director’s Cut version of the film, which is a full 15 minutes shorter than the Cannes cut. Other changes include the addition of a soundtrack and a color-corrected print, among others. Some say that the new version moves faster, but I
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Cannes 09: Nymph Review
20 May 2009 2:37 PM, PDT
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In my opinion Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s supernaturally tinged drama Nymph bears roughly the same relationship to his previous film Ploy as his Invisible Waves did to Last Life In The Universe. Both Last Life and Ploy marked first forays into a new style of film, forays quickly followed up by second movements meant - at least in part - to push deeper into that style of film making, with several key elements and the basic style of shooting repeated. But, unfortunately, the second shot at the new style in both Invisible Waves and Nymph is just simply not as successful as the first steps were.
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