Posts Tagged ‘ Trang Noi ’

Movies lead the way in 2009 while television lags behind

December 27, 2009
Movies lead the way in 2009 while television lags behind

This year Vietnam’s movie industry has won new admirers for its innovation but the same cannot be said of television. Director Dang Nhat Minh (second from the left) received the Gold Lotus Award 2009 for “Don’t Burn”. 2009 was a year of high achieving movies with filmmakers achieving both critical and commercial success. Art house movies [...]

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Three local films to screen at Asia-Pacific film fest

December 17, 2009
Three local films to screen at Asia-Pacific film fest

Three Vietnamese films including Don’t Burn, The Moon at the Bottom of the Well, and Adrift will be shown at the 2009 Asia-Pacific Film Festival in Kaosiung City, Taiwan from December 17-20. LookAtVietnam – Three Vietnamese films including Dung dot (Don’t Burn), Trang noi day gieng (The Moon at the Bottom of the Well), and Choi [...]

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Awards buzz follows Vietnam Film Festival

December 12, 2009
Awards buzz follows Vietnam Film Festival

Speculation about future award nominees is swirling ahead of the closing ceremony of the 16th Vietnam Film Festival on December 12. Actress Kathy Uyen (R) could be in contention to win a Best Leading Actress award this year for her role in the movie Chuyen tinh xa xu (Photo: SGGP)Several films shown during the week [...]

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LIFESTYLE IN BRIEF 19/11

November 19, 2009
LIFESTYLE IN BRIEF 19/11

Prize hat trick for local movie Trang Noi Day Gieng; Artist crafts picture from coconut shells to toast capital’s birthday; Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol set The movie Trang Noi Day Gieng (Moon at the Bottom of the Well) by Nguyen Vinh Son has won three awards in the 15th Asian Film Festival that was [...]

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Risky to aim for both commercial and artistic values in a movie

August 23, 2009
Risky to aim for both commercial and artistic values in a movie

Nguyen Vinh Son, the first Asian to be named best director at the Madrid Film Festival in Spain last June talks about his passion for movie-making and future projects. LookAtVietnam – Nguyen Vinh Son, the first Asian to be named best director at the Madrid Film Festival in Spain last June for his Trang Noi Day [...]

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Chau Tho – a leading female scriptwriter

June 9, 2009
Chau Tho – a leading female scriptwriter

Acclaimed writer Chau Tho is well known for several of her own scripts, many of which have been made into films and plays since 2001. She is one of only a few leading female scriptwriters in the Vietnamese film industry. LookAtVietnam – Acclaimed writer Chau Tho is well known for several of her own scripts, [...]

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Big Apple applauds Vietnamese film

April 8, 2009
Big Apple applauds Vietnamese film

Actress Hong Anh stars as Hanh in Trang noi day gieng (The Moon at the Bottom of the Well) The award-winning Vietnamese film Trang noi day gieng (Moon at the Bottom of the Well) was well-received by an audience at New York University (NYU) last week. After the screening at NYU’s Cantor Film Center, the [...]

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Vietnamese award-winning film tours the US

April 1, 2009
Vietnamese award-winning film tours the US

Actress Hong Anh stars as Hanh in Trang noi day gieng (The Moon at the Bottom of the Well) Director Nguyen Vinh Son’s Trang noi day gieng, or The Moon at the Bottom of the Well, is touring 12 US universities through April 22. The US-based Institute for Vietnamese Culture & Education (IVCE) launched the [...]

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Under the ‘moon’-light

March 19, 2009
Under the ‘moon’-light

Hanh, brilliantly played by Hong Anh, bathes her stepchild in Trang noi day gieng (Moon at the bottom of the well) Vinh Son’s “Moon at the Bottom of the Well” reflects hope, desperation and ambiguity in modern Vietnam. Happiness proves illusory in the slow-moving Vietnamese drama Trang noi day gieng (Moon at the bottom of [...]

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Local actress wows global awards circuit

March 15, 2009
Local actress wows global awards circuit

LookAtVietnam – Hong Anh talked about the recent film roles which put the Vietnamese actress in the spotlight, winning her a number of awards, both at home and abroad.Playing the role of a Hue native in the film Trang Noi Day Gieng (Moon at the Bottom of the Well), Hong Anh won a best actress [...]

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Vietnam, Cuba foreign ministries to bolster ties

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Vietnam’s top diplomat has affirmed that the Foreign Ministry will closely cooperate with its Cuban counterpart to implement the agreements reached by the two...