Ten Nights of Dreams
Back in 1990 the late Akira Kurosawa made a film called Dreams, a compilation of good dreams and nightmares the director had had over the years. This film has the same idea - a bunch of dreams tagged together - but uses different directors for each of the 10 entries. Contributors include Takashi Shimizu (director of the Grudge series) and veteran Kon Ichikawa.
Vengeance
Get your grindhouse fix with this 2006 flick from Thailand, screening in tandem with its DVD release. A cop and his team hunt a prison escapee in a forest teeming with dangerous and strange creatures and unknown evil forces. Could this be a metaphor for the Muslim insurgency in southern Thailand? Either way, the basic set-up and the location are in debt to Predator and maybe Jurassic Park, with some mysticism thrown into the pot.
Purple Ribbon Film Festival
You could be forgiven for feeling worn out by all the film festivals at the moment. This one, however, deserves a late mention. The Purple Ribbon Film Festival in Taipei County is again promoting dialogue
on how to deal with domestic violence and child abuse and includes some fine titles. Still to be screened are Cristina Comencini's Don't Tell, Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin, Pedro Almodovar's Volver, Ghyslaine Cote's The Five of Us and Kay Pollak's As It Is in Heaven. Screening at Aletheia (Tamsui campus), Shih Hsin and Fu Jen Catholic universities from Tuesday to Thursday next week, then concluding at Tamkang University from Oct. 22 to Oct. 24 and the National Taiwan University of Arts on Oct. 23. Web site: blog.yam.com/purpleribbon.
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