VIFF, 10/11.

Jurors Robert Koehler, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Jessica Winter have announced that the winner of the Dragons & Tigers Award at this years Vancouver International Film Festival goes to John Torres's Todo Todo Teros, with special mentions going to Kim Kyong-mook's Faceless Things and Kim Gok and Kim Sun's Geo-lobotomy.

David Bordwell's got notes on five terrific Asian films he's seen so far, including Faceless Things: "Kim Kyong-Mook is only in his early twenties, but his ambition and daring make him a filmmaker to watch." Also, an appreciation of Tony Rayns as he steps down as as coordinator of the Dragons and Tigers competition.

The San Francisco Bay Guardian's Johnny Ray Huston: "The weekend is a time for perversion and penance, so what better way to begin mine at the Vancouver International Film Festival than with The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, a Slavoj Zizek-guided psychoanalytic tour through the works of Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, and others? And what could be a more monastic way to end the weekend than with the devotional cinema of Jacques Rivette's 12-plus hour long Out 1: Noli me tangere? In between, I caught Shortbus and witnessed the full frenzy of a Beatlemania-like response to Bong Joon-ho and his totally awesome monster flick The Host." Related: Gareth Evans interviews Zizek for Time Out: "'I have not seen it,' Zizek declares. 'I'm just terrified by myself on screen...'"

More VIFF interviews at Hollywood Bitchslap: David Lammers (Northern Light), Rajko Grlic (Border Post), Daniel O'Conner (Run Robot Run), Larry Weinstein (Mozartballs and The War Symphonies), Paul Yule (The Photographer, His Wife, Her Lover), Anne Makepeace (Rain in a Dry Land), Greg Hamilton (Mystic Ball) and Jasmine Dellal (When the Road Bends).

Posted by dwhudson at October 11, 2006 3:12 PM