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Chopso is the ultimate streaming destination for English-language Asian content worldwide which includes movies, documentaries, short films, TV and digital series…
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The service will kick off the launch with exclusive content including two 20th Anniversary re-issuings of Chris Tashima’s Oscar winning short Visas and Virtues and the HD restorations of Quentin Lee and Justin Lin’s Shopping for Fangs.
“Asian Americans and English speaking Asian cultures globally are underserved and underrepresented in entertainment” says Chopso’s CEO, Koji Sakai. In 2016, Asian Americans were the biggest U.S. moviegoers of any ethnic group, dethroning Hispanics by seeing 1.5 more movies on average that year; and according to exhibition lobbying from the National Association of...
- 11/21/2017
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Art School Confidential
PARK CITY -- With broad strokes and the most garish colors, "Art School Confidential" lampoons the poseurs, artistes, druggies, burnouts and assorted other ass-pirants who make up an arts institute. With an "Animal House"-ish deportment, "Art School" likely will entertain a sophomoric audience and etch some winning college-kid figures, but art house audiences will be disappointed by its paint-by-numbers storytelling.
Splashed with almost every genre -- romance, comedy, mystery -- this satirical sendup centers on Jerome Max Minghella), a freshman art school student. Fresh-faced from the "burbs," Jerome aspires to become the "greatest artist of the 21st century." Picasso is his role model -- not in painting or sculpture but in sexual conquests. In fact, he's been inspired to attend the Strathmore Institute by the photo of a pretty nude arts model (Sophia Myles) in its brochure.
The institute is truly an asylum for affected students and pedantic instructors. Compared to his classmates, who are largely depressed, punked-out and hostile, Jerome is somewhat "normal," which, of course, makes his work "inaccessible." Not surprisingly, Jerome's most inspired moments come from painting Audrey, who is somewhat moved by his haunting depiction. Despite a friendly rapport, Audrey totes emotional baggage: Like women who are not in institutes, she rejects Jerome and goes for hunky bad-boy Jonah (Matt Keeslar), who turns out to be an undercover cop.
Dolloped with savagely dark smears against those in the "arts," the satire is so steeped in caricature and so gummed up with stereotypes that its comedic potential is diluted. The character palette itself is dull: The varied art students here pretty much fall into a narrow spectrum of self-centered, untalented egoists.
Still, there are some sharp-witted broadsides in Daniel Clowes' script: Salvos against the pretentiousness of gallery showings, New York Times reviews and professorial pomposity abound. Unfortunately, the satire seems to be spray-painted, rather than intelligently etched, into the film's overwrought fabric.
While it is admirable that John Malkovich and Steve Buscemi have joined the production, which must have made it bankable, they have posed for these character portraits before: One is epicurean and reptilian, while the other is brash and manipulative. Wanna guess which is which? That said, they're both very funny.
Supporting players exhibit some strong showings: Joel David Moore as a smart-ass student, Jack Ong as a burned-out professor and Jim Broadbent as a drunken never-been.
Under director Terry Zwigoff's heavy comic hand, the technical contributions are similarly overarched, including Howard Cummings' high-trash production design.
ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
United Artists and Sony Pictures Classics
Mr. Mudd
Credits:
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Screenwriter: Daniel Clowes
Producers: Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Russell Smith
Executive producer: Barbara A. Hall
Director of photography: Jamie Anderson
Production designer: Howard Cummings
Music: David Kitay
Costume designer: Betsy Heiman
Editor: Robert Hoffman
Cast:
Jerome: Max Minghella
Audrey: Sophia Myles
Professor Sandiford: John Malkovich
Jimmy: Jim Broadbent
Jonah: Matt Keeslar
Vince: Ethan Suplee
Bardo: Joel David Moore
Matthew: Nick Swardson
Sophie: Anjelica Huston
Marvin: Adam Scott
Professor Okamura: Jack Ong
MPAA rating R
Running time -- 102 minutes...
Splashed with almost every genre -- romance, comedy, mystery -- this satirical sendup centers on Jerome Max Minghella), a freshman art school student. Fresh-faced from the "burbs," Jerome aspires to become the "greatest artist of the 21st century." Picasso is his role model -- not in painting or sculpture but in sexual conquests. In fact, he's been inspired to attend the Strathmore Institute by the photo of a pretty nude arts model (Sophia Myles) in its brochure.
The institute is truly an asylum for affected students and pedantic instructors. Compared to his classmates, who are largely depressed, punked-out and hostile, Jerome is somewhat "normal," which, of course, makes his work "inaccessible." Not surprisingly, Jerome's most inspired moments come from painting Audrey, who is somewhat moved by his haunting depiction. Despite a friendly rapport, Audrey totes emotional baggage: Like women who are not in institutes, she rejects Jerome and goes for hunky bad-boy Jonah (Matt Keeslar), who turns out to be an undercover cop.
Dolloped with savagely dark smears against those in the "arts," the satire is so steeped in caricature and so gummed up with stereotypes that its comedic potential is diluted. The character palette itself is dull: The varied art students here pretty much fall into a narrow spectrum of self-centered, untalented egoists.
Still, there are some sharp-witted broadsides in Daniel Clowes' script: Salvos against the pretentiousness of gallery showings, New York Times reviews and professorial pomposity abound. Unfortunately, the satire seems to be spray-painted, rather than intelligently etched, into the film's overwrought fabric.
While it is admirable that John Malkovich and Steve Buscemi have joined the production, which must have made it bankable, they have posed for these character portraits before: One is epicurean and reptilian, while the other is brash and manipulative. Wanna guess which is which? That said, they're both very funny.
Supporting players exhibit some strong showings: Joel David Moore as a smart-ass student, Jack Ong as a burned-out professor and Jim Broadbent as a drunken never-been.
Under director Terry Zwigoff's heavy comic hand, the technical contributions are similarly overarched, including Howard Cummings' high-trash production design.
ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL
United Artists and Sony Pictures Classics
Mr. Mudd
Credits:
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Screenwriter: Daniel Clowes
Producers: Lianne Halfon, John Malkovich, Russell Smith
Executive producer: Barbara A. Hall
Director of photography: Jamie Anderson
Production designer: Howard Cummings
Music: David Kitay
Costume designer: Betsy Heiman
Editor: Robert Hoffman
Cast:
Jerome: Max Minghella
Audrey: Sophia Myles
Professor Sandiford: John Malkovich
Jimmy: Jim Broadbent
Jonah: Matt Keeslar
Vince: Ethan Suplee
Bardo: Joel David Moore
Matthew: Nick Swardson
Sophie: Anjelica Huston
Marvin: Adam Scott
Professor Okamura: Jack Ong
MPAA rating R
Running time -- 102 minutes...
- 1/25/2006
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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