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October 26, 2006
DEREK DISSECTS VENICE
Variety's Derek Elley dissects the Venice Film Festival's Asian film line-up with painful precision (" Like most programmers of large festivals, Muller is a politician first and film buff second..."). Read it.
October 26, 2006 at 11:16 AM in News | Permalink
Comments
I really doubt the jury's decision to award STILL LIFE was merely a political gesture or that BOBBY is more substantial. (Granted, I haven't seen either film.) Has Elley read any reviews of Jia's other films? The guy's got a pretty enthusiastic international critical following.
Posted by: Steve | Oct 26, 2006 5:45:49 PM
Steve, surely you're not suggesting that people might actually *like* a slow-paced, arty Chinese film? We all know any praise or awards such works get is just an effort by hoity-toity culture snobs to put one over on the masses. The Good Book (aka "Variety") tells us so!
Posted by: Michael Wells | Oct 30, 2006 4:56:54 PM
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