d.e.v.i.a.n.c.e. is one of the
main music bands that I’m following very closely for my documentary
Rock ‘n’
Roll Girls, but it’s not a rock band at all. The common point between
d.e.v.i.a.n.c.e.
and rock music is that, the two members of the band,
Hong Kong director Pang Ho-cheung 彭浩翔,who shot the trailer of the 10th Far East Film Festival(starring Sunny Lau) was invited in Udine - for the fourth time I think - between the 19th and the 23th of April 2008 .
Pang Ho-cheungHis last feature, the omibus movie Trivial Matters 破事兒 was screened (Among the 7 short stories, 5 of them were adapted from Pang Ho-cheu...Read more
After 10 days spent in Italy for the 10th edition of Far East Film Festival, I went back to Paris and discovered yesterday that Simon Yam 任達華and Vincent Sze 施祖男were there. They played for the first time together four years ago in SPL 殺破狼, and will team again this year in PTU's theatrical sequel produced by Johnnie To 杜琪峰 and directed by Lau Wing-cheong 羅永昌. (there are also four other Tactical Unitmovies with Simon Yam made before, bu...Read more
French rock 'n' roll girls band IKU, on April 13th, 2008, performing an orgasmic impro about " Muscador", a simple, cheap, sweet sparkling and refreshing white wine.
Frédéric Ambroisine (April 24th, 2008)
The poet and politician Aimé Césaire just died at the age of 94, and it's one of the biggest loss that Martinique ever knew. May he rest in peace...
Biography (from Wikipedia) : " Aimé Fernand David Césaire(June 25,1913...Read more
Akasha Lust a.k.a. Sick Lust, one of the main artist of my Rock 'n' Roll Girls documentary, is the singer, musician and composer of IKU, d.e.v.i.a.n.c.e., Lust Con...Read more
I wish I was still in Hong Kong to see that with my own eyes ! I've just learned some hours ago that Susan Shaw /邵音音(a.k.a. Shaw Yin-yin a.k.a. Shao Yin-yin a.k.a. Shaw Yum Yum a.k.a. Siu Yam-yam), won the best supporting actress award at the 27 th for her role in The Pye-Dog /野·良犬. Hooray When I visited her a few weeks ago, I was already very glad when she told that she was nominated for the first ti...Read more
Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the private screening of a very good short movie – 27 minutes - named " Cam 2 Cam". It was directed by a young French director, Davy Sihali, who did a few years ago, a very forgettable ultra-low-budget action movie, " Unfailing". For " Cam 2 Cam", he didn't make the same mistakes as before, and took his time, with his co-wr...Read more
It’s been already ten days since I came from Hong Kong. I was there between the 16th and the 29th of March 2008, which was a very short time for me, because I didn’t really do all the things that I wanted to do when I was there. Plus, during my stay, I had to spend more than one day, stucked in a room, editing a video interview of Soi Cheang / 鄭保瑞 - that I did last year - for the “Shamo / 軍雞” French DVD cos’ I had a deadline on the 1st of April. But still, I did a lot of things in Hong Kong (...Read more
If you saw Korean movies like OLD BOY( 올드보이) or EVERYBODY HAS A LITTLE SECRET ( 누구나 비밀은 있다), you already know the work of Shim Hyun-jung, a very talented film music composer that I met for the first time in 2002, during the Pusan International Film Festival. At that time, she just started to compose music for feature films. Now, she's working with the biggest names and companies of the Korean film industry.Read more