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Sound On Sight Radio #220: The Very Best Of Asian Cinema

Ricky — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 06:08:39 +0000

Castaway On The Moon

The Clone Returns Home

Three of the most interesting films of the last 12 months are probably not coming to a theater near you. They’re highlights from the last two Fantasia Film Festivals’ Asian programs, and you might need to do a bit of hunting to track them down. Two are Japanese – the rock n’ rooll tall tale Fish Story and the ethereal sci-fi epic The Clone Returns Home – and the other, a peculiar and beguiling comedy called Castaway on the Moon, hails from South Korea.

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Playlist:

Score excerpts from each film
The Walkmen – Stranded
Comet Gain – If I Had a Soul
The Velvet Underground – That’s the Story of My Life

Fish Story

Sound On Sight Radio #215: Fantasia 2010: Martial Arts Cinema

Ricky — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 04:30:04 +0000

It seems like just yesterday that Fantasia ended with a glorious advance screening of Inglourious Basterds, and yet the fest has come back to haunt our dreams and wreck our social calendar. In this hour, we’ll be taking a look at the fest’s prestigious gathering of martial arts flicks – the blockbuster sequel Ip Man 2 (along with the original, which screened last year), starring the incomparable Donnie Yen, and the scrappy Shaw Brothers homage Gallants.

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Playlist:

The Knife – Silent Shout

Raekwon ft. Ghost Face Killah & Method Man – House Of Flying Daggers

The Rza – Battle Without Honor Or Humanity

The Rza – Samurai Showdown

Sound On Sight Radio #201 – Basquiat / My Dear Enemy

Simon Howell — Wed, 05 May 2010 15:20:46 +0000

Our latest spotlight tackles art and artists on celluloid. First up: Julian Schnabel’s 1996 debut feature Basquiat, a typically colorful portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat, widely considered to be the first artist of African descent to find international art stardom. We’ll also be taking a look at the South Korean export My Dear Enemy, which might be best described as a romantic comedy drained of both romance and comedy.

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Sound On Sight Radio # #139 – Fantasia 2009 – Best of Korean Cinema

Ricky — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 09:38:27 +0000

As part of Sound on Sight’s ongoing coverage of the Fantasia Film Festival, North America’s premier genre film blowout, Al and Simon take a quick look at four of the South Korean films they’ve spied over the last week, including director Kim Ki-duk’s trippy Dream, the tense and sadistic crime thriller The Chaser, Woody Allen-inflected romantic comedy My Dear Enemy, and Seoul sould band biopic Go Go ’70s. Additionally, Simon interview two of the fest’s Asian film programmers for more insight into the films and Korean cinema in general.

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Listen to the full interview with Nicholas and Mi-Jeong Lee

Sound On Sight Radio # 137 – Fantasia 2009 – Asian Cinema: Thirst & Love Exposure

Ricky — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:53:34 +0000

Fantasia, Montreal’s international genre film festival, has expanded its mandate over the years to include a wide variety of films from around the world, with the sole proviso seemingly being that they’re not based on an SNL skit or a Dane Cook routine. There has, however, always been a focus on Asian films, particularly the weird ones that might give the impression the entire Eastern half of the world grew up watching Faces of Death and Leave it to Beaver at the same time. And this year is no exception. Tonight, Sound on Sight takes a look at hotly anticipated South Korean vampire movie Thirst, from Oldboy director Park Chan Wook, four-hour romantic comedy Love Exposure, and Thailand’s fantasy epic .

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Naked Lunch Radio #47 – Tokyo Shock, Japanese Rock part 2

Ricky — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:45:43 +0000

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When it comes to madness and mayhem, nobody can deliver it quite like the Japanese, and we’ve recently been exposed to a series of hyperactive Japanese flicks so action-packed (though not, of course, always actually good) that we’ve put together a follow-up to our previous Japanese spotlight. This time, we’re tackling “Machine Girl,” Takashi Miike’s spaghetti western throwback “Sukiyaki Western Django,” and the much-touted splatterfest “Tokyo Gore Police.”

Naked Lunch Radio #3 – Tokyo Shock & Japanese Rock

Ricky — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 06:42:14 +0000

Get ready for some Japanese rock, movie talk and Tokyo shock. Episode 3 is now ready to download. Reviews on Cyber-Punk JApanese films and the music artist of the week is a man who has left his prints everywhere in rock and punk music. Of course I am talking about Captain Beefheart.

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