“The Day the Saucers Came” in Dark Horse Presents #21 (2013) Words by: Neil Gaiman Art by: Paul Chadwick Letters by: Gaspar Saladino First published in 2006’s Fragile Things, Neil Gaiman’s (Sandman, American Gods) “The Day the Saucers Came” creates a succinctly symphonic orchestration of the terrors of omission and commission that bedevil and bestir the aching …
Following two event-filled weekends, March 1-4 and 9-11, the third edition of the AmérAsia Film Festival has come to a close. This year the festival featured about 50 Asian and Asian-Canadian films including Cannes and Academy Award-winning productions from China, Kyroskistan, India, Japan, South Korea, and Vietnam, as well a number of Quebec-origin films. Over …
Poetry Directed by Lee Chang-dong Written by Lee Chang-dong South Korea, 2010 The most recent edition of Montréal’s AmérAsia film festival had as part of its lineup the ‘We Distribute’ section, which highlighted both some of the more recent successful Asian films but also the local film companies who willingly distributed them. Among such movies …
Poetry Written by Lee Chang-dong Directed by Lee Chang-dong South Korea, 2010 Like its namesake at its best, Lee Chang-dong’s Poetry elevates and juxtaposes thoughts that are provocative and gentle, complex and simple, and thoughts that are akin to life and its definition. At its core, Poetry is life filled with the memories of good …
Poetry Written by Lee Chang-dong Directed by Lee Chang-dong South Korea, 2010 There are the aesthetic qualities of language – phonic, visual, etc. – and then there are the experiences and impulses that language is used to express. Poetry has, as an art form, traditionally sought to erase the distance between the two, to construct …
The 48th annual New York Film Festival is fast approaching us on September 24th, filled with a rich variety of films that will surely appease everyone’s taste. From populous director David Fincher’s The Social Network to Shakespeare’s adapted The Tempest, this year’s festival will turn the heads of mainstream movie goers to theater buffs to …