Friday, October 21, 2011

Last 10% of Tickets Left for A Clockwork Orange

Ladies and gentlemen,

Thank you all for your support for A Clockwork Orange. We're left with the last 10% of tickets! Unfortunately, tickets are no longer available online. However, if you're dying to watch Kubrick's masterpiece on the big screen, you can...

1. Call the GV booking hotline at 1900 912 1234, or
2. Head down to one of the GV box offices.

See you soon!

Wednesday, October 19, 2011

THE JOY OF CELLULOID

While we were looking around for more treats to reward our film-enthusiastic audience, we came across this article on The Guardian that features big names like Steven Spielberg,  Jean-Luc Godard and Martin Scorsese as they discuss and compare working with film and digital. 

Here's a peak on Godard's view:
"The so-called 'digital' is not a mere technical medium, but a medium of thought. And when modern democracies turn technical thought into a separate domain, those modern democracies incline towards totalitarianism."

To continue reading, click here.

Friday, October 14, 2011

THE BLUE KITE - A STRUGGLE FOR POLITICAL FREEDOM

by Jason Lin, film blogger, SON:sation


Tian Zhuangzhuang is a Fifth Generation Chinese Filmmaker, just like the better-known Chen Kaige and Zhang Yimou. His works have deviated from previous filmmaking norms, opting for a liberal approach to bold political discussion instead of blind political propaganda.

CATERPILLAR: SEXPLOITATION WITH A DIFFERENCE

by Associate Professor Stephen Teo, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information


Caterpillar is the latest opus of Koji Wakamatsu, a veteran of the exploitation genre in the Japanese cinema who has directed numerous pinku eiga movies (or “pink films”, a term used by the Japanese to describe soft-core porn movies).