Tag: Filem
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Singapore Dreaming
President Nathan say good! Usually, when you watch a Singapore-made film, you watch it as if you’d look at a school project, appreciating the effort put into the project. Colin Goh & his wife Yen Yen’s Singapore Dreaming didn’t quite afford the same behaviour. Because it was a very good film. I was drawn into…
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Saint Jack
I read Paul Theroux’s Saint Jack years ago when I was in junior college, and enjoyed it partly because I thought it was banned. I only found out this morning that it was never on the MDA’s banned wagon. (Thank you Rambling Librarian for setting me straight) But if I were to re-read the book,…
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TODAY: When bloggers go to the movies
The word-of-mouth effect – only far more effective When Tan Pin Pin’s documentary, Singapore Gaga (singaporegaga.com), was shown at a “press screening” for a select few in the media, several of us bloggers were a little surprised we were on the invite list. We didn’t ask too many questions at the Q&A that followed, and…
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Podcast: Singapore GaGa
I already enjoy documentaries, but Singapore Gaga is something I’d watch more than once, and in fact, already have. Maybe because it’s a film that makes you go, ‘hey, I also can make a film liddat’. Film maker Tan Pin Pin brought along one of her subjects in the film, Margaret Leng Tan, and the…
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Maggie & Me
How come Maggie Cheung came to town and no one told me? Sun Li-Zhen: “You notice things if you pay attention” “In the Mood for Love – Criterion Collection” (Kar Wai Wong) Technorati Tags: maggie cheung, pharmacy singapore