Chao Gan’s striking documentary The Red Race was the winner of Zagreb Film Festival in 2008. This year Gan was a jury member in documentary competition of the same festival. It was really a great opportunity to talk with him about his carrier, The Red Race and development of documentary genre in China.
If you’re not a fan of hip hop, break dance, rap and so… don’t make a mistake by clickin’ the ‘next’ button, because this documentary that I’m gonna blog about today is more than just a cinematix document on a particular music genre… this is more movie on struggle then movie on boyz wearing basketball sneakers, golden necklaces, baseball shirts and oversized jeans…
Slingshot Hip Hop Continue reading
After seeing ‘Rumba‘ at ZFF, my first thought was that this film would make Laurel and Hardy, Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin altogether… laughing, thinking, crying or even, Latino dancing.
Luis Bunuel would probably be jealous on the screenplay, Dziga Vertov ought to still their colours, Eugene Ionesco re-writing again and again his plays, while the Marx Brothers might think to take break for a while…
This year Zagreb Film Festival offers very interesting selection in the section for documentary films, so I was literary rooted on the chair of the cinema every day from 5pm to 8pm . Exceptions were made only when I decided to see also the feature films, which means that I just stayed sitting for the rest 3 hours.
Excerpt from movie The Red Race Continue reading
Um… I think, I’m stuck now… My fingers are dancing around the keyboard for how many minutes? 25 or 30… while trying to start writing… my wrists are almost red and totally furbished from heavy reclining at my table…
How to make a cool blog intro for such an actress as cool as Anna Magnani was?!
Magnani & Mastroianni in Correva l’anno di grazia 1870 Continue reading
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