Frank Yan
@FrankYan2
Programmer @Cine_Cina; Distributor @CrescendoHouse; Writer/Album Producer @SoundtrackMag; Freelance writer on film, TV, and music
Took me a while but I’m glad my interview with Tsui Hark is finally out! It’s not every day that you get the chance to talk with a truly legendary filmmaker about the film that changed his career screenslate.com/articles/tsui-…
Premiering exclusively on @criterionchannl on August 5: Jia Zhangke's CAUGHT BY THE TIDES (2024), a kaleidoscopic odyssey across time and space. The latest feature from the visionary director is an entirely original, captivating epic that draws on a 23-year collaboration…
If even Disney is now doing vertical microdramas, it’s really so over
Then you better be seated at the SHIN GODZILLA re-release next month
The best evidence that Hollywood is run by communists is that they never make the movie everyone wants: US military vs superhero/dinosaur/godzilla/etc where the US military gets to take not run out of bullets or avoid some other contrivance designed to stop the US from winning
When the first film came out, it was during the peak of China’s urban renewal campaigns and the Chinese audience emphasized strongly with it as they saw it as a story of people fighting to protect their private properties against forced eviction and demolition by the government
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Jia Zhangke selling the hell out of The Gold Rush: "The new 4K restoration of Chaplin's The Gold Rush opens today... The most beautiful film in cinema history, a primer on understanding the enigma of film, a classic very suited for taking children to see."
This type of test should be the standard
the cultural literacy required to work at Vogue in the 90s.
So glad to celebrate my 31st birthday with my friends and then watch my favorite film about loneliness together
Bernard Herrmann. Four completely different scores. All bangers
Name your favorite film composer. You cannot say Hans Zimmer or John Williams. Go!
One of the most beautiful and spiritual films released today 70 years ago
I was born on the 200th anniversary of Thermidorian Reaction which ended the Reign of Terror
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This came out almost 20 years ago
We simply do not have the technology for CGI babies yet.
The Searchers (1956), directed by John Ford Twin Peaks (1990-91), created by David Lynch & Mark Frost
Went on a rabbit hole when I heard a theme from an Ozu film (Tokyo Twilight) in a Kurosawa film (Stray Dog) and turns out it’s just Ça c'est Paris by José Padilla. No wonder I always find the music of Ozu and Tati strikingly similar
Glad to see Timur Bekmambetov is still exploring desktop cinema after all these years
First trailer for a new ‘WAR OF THE WORLDS’ movie set entirely on a computer screen starring Ice Cube. Releasing July 30 on Prime Video.