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THE TASTE OF THINGS Review: You Will Get Hungry!
In September 2023, The Film By the Sea Festival in Vlissingen focused on French cinema, and on literary book adaptations. With Trần Anh Hùng's The Taste of Things they scored a double-whammy, as it falls in both categories. A loose...
Get Swept Away by The Beauty And Emotion of The Trailer For Tran Anh Hung's ETERNITY
Pause for a moment and take in the overwhelmingly beautiful and emotionally charged trailer for Tran Anh Hung's French language period drama Eternity. Mercy. At the end of the 19th century, Valentine, aged 20, married Jules. Towards the...
Review: NORWEGIAN WOOD (Anh Hung Tran)
I'm not really the biggest Anh Hung Tran fan, but I do follow his work from a distance. While not truly spectacular, I appreciated the soft-natured atmosphere of Mua He Chieu Thang Dung, Xich Lo on the other hand was...
Review: NORWEGIAN WOOD Is Beautiful But Not Flawless
My initial impressions of Norwegian Wood when viewed for the first time were that its pacing was too slow, the characters talked rather a lot about sex and little else, and there were some big gaps in the narrative. I...
NORWEGIAN WOOD Review
[With Tran Anh Hung's film opening in New York on January 6, we revisit this earlier review.]Although a fan of the writings of Haruki Murakami, I never really gelled with NORWEGIAN WOOD, arguably his most popular novel. Give me the...
Adapting Murakami's NORWEGIAN WOOD: Tran Anh Hung Interview
When I heard that Tran Anh Hung, the Vietnamese-born auteur of Scent of Green Papaya, Cyclo and I Come with the Rain, was going to be adapting Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood back in 2008, I couldn't be happier. I honestly...
THE SCENT OF GREEN PAPAYA Blu-ray Review
Kino International:An Academy Award nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Tran Anh Hung's "luxuriant, visually seductive debut" (New York Times) recreates antebellum Vietnam through both the wide eyes of childhood and the deep blush of first love. In 1951 Saigon,...
I COME WITH THE RAIN Behind The Scenes Featurette!
With the release this week of Tran Ahn-Hung's thriller I Come With the Rain in the UK on Blue-ray and DVD via Trinity we have a behind the scenes featurette to share with you. After the break!...
NORWEGIAN WOOD Review
Although a fan of the writings of Haruki Murakami, I never really gelled with NORWEGIAN WOOD, arguably his most popular novel. Give me the surrealist eccentricities of HARD-BOILED WONDERLAND AND THE END OF THE WORLD or A WILD SHEEP...
First Teaser For Tran Anh-Hung's NORWEGIAN WOOD!
Going in to this there can really only be one question. Has Vietnamese director Tran Anh-Hung done justice to the source material? Adapted from a novel by the great Haruki Murakami - the first of his major works to be...
I COME WITH THE RAIN review
It's about suffering, appropriately enough, given for many viewers Tran Anh Hung's I Come With The Rain will be up there as two of the most punishing hours of cinema they're ever likely to sit through. Graced with a...
First Images Arrive From Tran Anh Hung's Adaptation of Murakami's NORWEGIAN WOOD!
When word of the upcoming adaptation of Haruki Murakami's Norwegian Wood first came out my only response was "Perfect. Just perfect." While there is very much a aprt of me that would love to see someone tackle one of his...
[REVIEWS] I Come with The Rain
Not that I would ever dare to compare Seneca with Park Chan-Wook, but one of the themes which transpired from his latest, sublime 박쥐 (Thirst) is that knowing your sins is the first step on the path which leads to...
Tran Ahn Hung's I COME WITH THE RAIN Hits DVD In January!
Still no sign at all of Tran Ahn Hung's English language thriller I Come With The Rain on local shores but no worries: The impatient among you with a hankering to see the Josh Hartnett / Lee Byung-Hyeon / Shawn...
Second Korean Trailer For Tran Ahn-Hung's I COME WITH THE RAIN
Just days after posting the first - very Lee Byung-Hun centered - Korean trailer for Tran Ahn-Hung's metaphysical action-thriller I Come With The Rain a second trailer has arrived out of Korea, this one much more focused on Josh Hartnett's...
Lee Byung Hun Shows Off His Abs In The Korean Trailer For I COME WITH THE RAIN
Though it has been largely passed over by the world's big festivals, the sheer star power of Tran Ahn-Hung's action thriller I Come With The Rain is more than enough to guarantee that it will receive a significant release throughout...
