Change of address

We're now at http://sgfilmsoc.blogspot.com/ Shorter URL, same spicy taste!

Yet another S'porean film site: sgNewWave

Students from Ngee Ann Polytechnic's School of Film and Media Studies have set up their own film commentary site, ambitiously called sgNewWave. Moreover, they apparently want to make this site the Singapore equivalent of Cahiers du Cinema.

http://www.sgnewwave.com/

Well, we'll see.

I like how their masthead is a nod to Sight & Sound, but did they really have to use Impact?

For logophiles

For extreme logophiles, you now have Wordie/a>. It's Flickr but with words.

/heavy breathing

Good heavens, yet another S'pore film blog

The Screen Bug
http://thescreenbug.blogspot.com/

Announcing a hiatus

Due to various committments, we won't be updating this blog for a while. But make sure you keep watching movies. We'll be seeing you at our screenings, ya?

Till next, here's some links:

Singapore Film Society
http://www.sfs.org.sg/

SGFilm Forums
http://www.sgfilm.com

Sinema.SG
http://sinema.sg/

Moving Images: A Season of Australian Cinema

Well, if animation don't float your boat, you may wanna head over to The Substation:

The Substation Moving Images presents
A SEASON OF AUSTRALIAN CINEMA
With Dr Vincent O'Donnell

20 to 25 November 2006
The Substation Theatre
2 to 5pm daily
$15 / $10 concession per session
$60 / $40 concession for whole season
(please note change in pricing)
Tickets available from Gatecrash

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Peter Weir, Sunday Too Far Away by Ken Hannam, and My Brilliant Career by Gillian Armstrong – just to name a few stellar films that marked the rebirth of Australian cinema in the 1970s. By using carefully selected films that explore developments in cinema in Australia over the past thirty years, each of the six sessions will begin with a discussion about the historical and social context of the film for the day, followed by the full screening of the film, and a discussion and analysis. This is a programme for those who like cinema for more than what blockbusters can offer, for those interested in the language of cinema, the emergence of a national voice in cinema, depictions of national identity in cinema, low to medium-budget filmmaking, diversity in national cinema, and cinema history.

(con't at The Substation website)

A public service announcement for Animation Nation 2006

This just in:

Ticket sales for the screenings of "Renaissance" and "Paprika" are sold out on Cathay's Internet booking system, but a fair number of good seats are still available at the Cathay Cineplex Orchard box office (Orchard Cineleisure building, near Somerset MRT Station).

You know what to do ;)

Animation Nation 2006 tickets on sale

Well, you don't post for a bit, and suddenly some b*stards come along and hijack your film blog into a splog.

Anyway, we're back - back I say! - and gearing up for Animation Nation, 16-22 Nov 2006.

Tickets went on sale just earlier this week, and tickets for both screenings of Satoshi Kon's latest psycho-thriller Paprika are more than half gone. Go grab yours quick.

Don't forget to also check out the rest of our sterling lineup, including well-known independent animator Bill Plympton's masterclass and films.

Animation Nation 2006 synopses and schedule.

And a bonus for all of you loyal readers: Animation Nation website.