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  • <span class="excerpt_part">..., but never tips over into bathos, thanks largely to Aaron Kwok’s tough performance that doesn’t angle for audience sympathy. Cheong-shing thinks nothing of using other for his needs, from pimping Fong out to an elderly gentleman to forcing Boy to rob people’s homes while he acts as a lookout. He embodies a tragic figure who weaves a path of destruction all around him, always making feeble promises to change his ways. The moody and lush images are...</span>

    Review: Patrick Tam’s “After This Our Exile”

    Christopher Bourne
    Posted on February 11, 2011 | No Comments
    ..., but never tips over into bathos, thanks largely to Aaron Kwok’s tough performance that doesn’t angle for audience sympathy. Cheong-shing thinks nothing of using other for his needs, from pimping Fong out to an elderly gentleman to forcing Boy to rob people’s homes while he acts as a lookout. He embodies a tragic figure who weaves a path of destruction all around him, always making feeble promises to change his ways. The moody and lush images are...

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  • <span class="excerpt_part">...<strong>form</strong>), along with the houses in which it is contained. A Useful Life would <strong>form</strong> an ideal triple bill with Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye Dragon Inn and Lisandro Alonso’s Fantasma, two other films which similarly mark the passing of the old-school movie-going experience.A Useful Life follows Jorge (played by Uruguayan film critic Jorge Jellinek), a programmer at the Cinemateca Uruguaya, a repertory and revival movie house which has fallen on hard times...</span>

    Review: Federico Veiroj’s “A Useful Life”

    Christopher Bourne
    Posted on August 3, 2011 | No Comments
    ...form), along with the houses in which it is contained. A Useful Life would form an ideal triple bill with Tsai Ming-liang’s Goodbye Dragon Inn and Lisandro Alonso’s Fantasma, two other films which similarly mark the passing of the old-school movie-going experience.A Useful Life follows Jorge (played by Uruguayan film critic Jorge Jellinek), a programmer at the Cinemateca Uruguaya, a repertory and revival movie house which has fallen on hard times...

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  • <span class="excerpt_part">...id Nalbandian, and runner-up Marcos Baghdatis, go to Nalbandian returns to <strong>form</strong>, wins 2010 Legg Mason Tennis Classic. As the U.S. hardcourt season – well under way after the conclusion of the World Team Tennis exhibitions – crawls through August, here are some names and faces to look for across the country leading up to New York, in the <strong>form</strong> of photos taken at last year’s Legg Mason Tennis Classic. Some names will be familiar, such as Andy Roddick...</span>

    Photos: 2010 Legg Mason Tennis Classic

    Kwai Chan
    Posted on September 10, 2010 | No Comments
    ...id Nalbandian, and runner-up Marcos Baghdatis, go to Nalbandian returns to form, wins 2010 Legg Mason Tennis Classic. As the U.S. hardcourt season – well under way after the conclusion of the World Team Tennis exhibitions – crawls through August, here are some names and faces to look for across the country leading up to New York, in the form of photos taken at last year’s Legg Mason Tennis Classic. Some names will be familiar, such as Andy Roddick...

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  • <span class="excerpt_part">...te fascinating to watch. Valentino puts a premium on respecting the female <strong>form</strong> and making clothes that actual women can wear, rather than the faux avant-garde creations that infect fashion shows today. While much attention is paid to the minutiae of creating Valentino’s dresses, as well as the opulent lifestyle that surrounds this work, the real heart of the film is the touching love story between Valentino and his life partner Giancarlo Giammett...</span>

    Matt Tyrnauer’s “Valentino: The Last Emperor” – Documentary Review

    Christopher Bourne
    Posted on November 26, 2009 | No Comments
    ...te fascinating to watch. Valentino puts a premium on respecting the female form and making clothes that actual women can wear, rather than the faux avant-garde creations that infect fashion shows today. While much attention is paid to the minutiae of creating Valentino’s dresses, as well as the opulent lifestyle that surrounds this work, the real heart of the film is the touching love story between Valentino and his life partner Giancarlo Giammett...

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  • <span class="excerpt_part">...editing, and in his use of actors as intellectual vessels rather than “performers,” Jeon is no less than Korea’s answer to Robert Bresson. “Hahaha” (Hong Sangsoo, South Korea) Two old friends, a film director and a film critic, reminisce over drinks. Out of this very simple premise, Hong spins his funniest film to date, making the title of the film perfectly apropos. The familiar themes of Hong’s films, involving pathetic men and their long-suffe...</span>

    The best films of the 2010 Pusan International Film Festival

    Christopher Bourne
    Posted on August 31, 2010 | No Comments
    ...editing, and in his use of actors as intellectual vessels rather than “performers,” Jeon is no less than Korea’s answer to Robert Bresson. “Hahaha” (Hong Sangsoo, South Korea) Two old friends, a film director and a film critic, reminisce over drinks. Out of this very simple premise, Hong spins his funniest film to date, making the title of the film perfectly apropos. The familiar themes of Hong’s films, involving pathetic men and their long-suffe...

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  • <span class="excerpt_part">...reaware about Kim’s works: “The installation centers on a common household <strong>form</strong>—the drying rack—and points to the curious relationship shared by darkroom photography and handmade clothing: the need to hang-dry. Using photographs shot on site at Rachel Comey and images from her series, Street Errands, Kim has created a playful installation mirroring the interior architecture of Comey’s boutique.” (photo by Yanek Che / Meniscus Magazine)   KangHee K...</span>

    New York Design Week 2017: Dazzled by KangHee Kim

    Yanek Che
    Posted on May 25, 2017 | No Comments
    ...reaware about Kim’s works: “The installation centers on a common household form—the drying rack—and points to the curious relationship shared by darkroom photography and handmade clothing: the need to hang-dry. Using photographs shot on site at Rachel Comey and images from her series, Street Errands, Kim has created a playful installation mirroring the interior architecture of Comey’s boutique.” (photo by Yanek Che / Meniscus Magazine)   KangHee K...

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  • <span class="excerpt_part">...Gallery will be born out of a unison between the <strong>form</strong>er City Hall and the <strong>form</strong>er Supreme Court of Singapore, two buildings in neoclassical style that are reminiscent of Singapore’s colonial times. In order to find people with the right expertise for this ambitious project, Singapore’s Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA) organized an architectural design competition in association with the Singapore Institute of Architects...</span>

    studioMilou | National Gallery Singapore

    Florence Coirier Giraudon, buyMeDesign
    Posted on April 17, 2015 | No Comments
    ...Gallery will be born out of a unison between the former City Hall and the former Supreme Court of Singapore, two buildings in neoclassical style that are reminiscent of Singapore’s colonial times. In order to find people with the right expertise for this ambitious project, Singapore’s Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts (MICA) organized an architectural design competition in association with the Singapore Institute of Architects...

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  • <span class="excerpt_part">Although some have hailed “Creepy” (2016) as a return to <strong>form</strong> for horror master Kiyoshi Kurosawa, his latest still falls short of the brilliance of his past works such as “Cure” (1997). Yuko Takeuchi (left) and Teruyuki Tagawa in “Creepy.” (still © 2016 “CREEPY” FILM PARTNERS) <strong>Form</strong>er detective Takakura (Hidetoshi Nishijima) and his wife (Yuko Takeuchi) move outside the city to plant new roots, he as a professor who misses the meat and potatoes of...</span>

    Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s “Creepy” (クリーピー) – 2016 NYAFF Review

    Yuan-Kwan Chan
    Posted on June 20, 2016 | No Comments
    Although some have hailed “Creepy” (2016) as a return to form for horror master Kiyoshi Kurosawa, his latest still falls short of the brilliance of his past works such as “Cure” (1997). Yuko Takeuchi (left) and Teruyuki Tagawa in “Creepy.” (still © 2016 “CREEPY” FILM PARTNERS) Former detective Takakura (Hidetoshi Nishijima) and his wife (Yuko Takeuchi) move outside the city to plant new roots, he as a professor who misses the meat and potatoes of...

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  • <span class="excerpt_part">...York Fashion Week collection, an interesting representation of how people <strong>form</strong> connections through a click or swipe on their phones. Cable ties are threaded through almost every piece in Wang’s collection, and allow the wearer to loosen or tighten the clothing which lends to creating a completely different shape. For example, many of the pants were cinched in around the knees giving the pants a ‘bell bottom’ look. Wang’s basic color palette showc...</span>

    Feng Chen Wang Spring 2017 – New York Fashion Week Men’s

    Megan Lee
    Posted on August 2, 2016 | No Comments
    ...York Fashion Week collection, an interesting representation of how people form connections through a click or swipe on their phones. Cable ties are threaded through almost every piece in Wang’s collection, and allow the wearer to loosen or tighten the clothing which lends to creating a completely different shape. For example, many of the pants were cinched in around the knees giving the pants a ‘bell bottom’ look. Wang’s basic color palette showc...

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  • <span class="excerpt_part">...Novak Djokovic, 6-3, 7-5. We tried to ask Nishikori about his pre-Olympic <strong>form</strong>, but he was too disappointed in his runner-up finish in Toronto to answer. This transcript of the English portion of Nishikori’s press conference on July 31, provided below in full, is courtesy of FastScripts by ASAP Sports; the first question was asked by Meniscus Magazine, whereas the rest were asked by other reporters. Kei Nishikori during his runner-up finish to No...</span>

    Kei Nishikori: 2016 Rogers Cup runner-up interview transcript

    Kwai Chan
    Posted on August 1, 2016 | No Comments
    ...Novak Djokovic, 6-3, 7-5. We tried to ask Nishikori about his pre-Olympic form, but he was too disappointed in his runner-up finish in Toronto to answer. This transcript of the English portion of Nishikori’s press conference on July 31, provided below in full, is courtesy of FastScripts by ASAP Sports; the first question was asked by Meniscus Magazine, whereas the rest were asked by other reporters. Kei Nishikori during his runner-up finish to No...

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