October 15, 2011
A scene from Canh dong bat tan (Floating lives), a box-office hit adaptation of Nguyen Ngoc Tu’s 2005 sensational short novel of the same name. ‘Floating lives’ was short-listed but not selected to represent Vietnam at next year’s Oscars. As the National Film Selection Committee was debating which of its three candidates – Canh [...]
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November 11, 2009
LookAtVietnam – The Golden Lotus Award competition of the 16th Vietnam Film Festival has revealed the list of nominees. The festival will be held in HCM City from December 8-12. A scene from “Adrift”. According to the Vietnam Cinema Administration, films produced and distributed between the 15th and 16th festivals (November 2007 to December 2009) can [...]
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May 23, 2009
A scene from “Living in Fear”.LookAtVietnam – There is no place like Vietnam, where audiences turn their backs on films that win domestic and international prizes. Awarded movies = unmarketable In a meeting, director Bui Thac Chuyen outspokenly said: “Talking about the revenue of Song Trong So Hai (Living in Fear) is painful.” Few people bought tickets [...]
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