Firecracker. 13.

"Everyone else does one, so why can't we? Yes, Firecracker Magazine has opted to inflict its own version of the ubiquitous end-of-year poll, with the Firecracker Top Ten of 2005." Top ten East Asian films, of course, this being Firecracker, and leading off with Lu Chuan's Mountain Patrol (Kekexili), which Ziad Semann reviews.

Also in this issue:

• Robert Williamson reports on last month's London Film Festival.

• Erika Franklin interviews Lee Myung-se, director of Nowhere to Hide and Duelist, and actor Giorgio Pasotti.

Reviews:

• Williamson on 2 Young.

• Mike Atherton on Crying Fist, The Hidden Blade, Steamboy, The Little Norse Prince, Memento Mori and Swordsman II & III.

• Nick North: "It’s not hard to see why Onibaba (1964) and Kuroneko (1968) have been released together, such are the narrative similarities." Also, Saving Face.

• Franklin on The Aggressives and Hold Up Down.

Posted by dwhudson at December 11, 2005 1:50 PM