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| "La Féline : Rock 'n' Roll Spectre" live music video is online | |
Online since November 8th, 2008 : A 10-minute best of compilation shot on October 24th, 2008 in Paris and featuring Juliette Dragon and indie French bands Fury Furyzz, Fix It, Viande Petrole , Whodunit,Tony Truant, Tu Seras TerriblemenT Gentille, Pussydelic, Sheraff, Beef Paradise and Smash and IKU. Click on the picture below to see it.
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| "Invitation Only" interview is online | |
My interview of the Taiwanese producer Michelle Yeh (from the company Three Dots Entertainment) about the slasher horror Invitation Only, is online since October 20th, 2008. Click on the picture below to see it.
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| "Red Cliff" Cannes 2008 Party video is online | |
My video about the "Red Cliff" party, shot in May 2008 at the Cannes Film Festival (featuring director John Woo, producer Terence Chang & the movie's cast + many other guests) is online since October 17th, 2008. Click on the picture below to see it.
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"Omgasm"
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My short documentary Omgasm at Cannes part 1 : Premiere Screening, featuring Alexandra Fulton is online exclusively on fredambroisine.com since October 15th, 2008. Click on the picture below to see it.
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My short documentary Martyrs vs Censorship, featuring Morjana El Alaoui and Pascal Laugier is online exclusively on fredambroisine.com since September 3rd, 2008. Click on the picture below to see it.
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My blog on AliveNotDead.com
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JOSEPH
KUO : A BRONZEMAN DIRECTOR IN PARIS In the west, Joseph Kuo Nan-hong’s most popular movie is, without a doubt, his 1976’s Shaolin kung-fu flick, 18 Bronzemen, starring Carter Wong, Polly Shan Kuan and Tien Peng. Directed, written and produced by Joseph Kuo through his company Hong Hwa International Films, 18 Bronzemen is about a kid, sent to Shaolin...(coming soon) |
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FRANCE
DE GRIESSEN ROCKS ! France de Griessen is a Dutch/Belgian artist (singer, composer, actress, model...) based in Paris, who's a recent Alive Not Dead member. In 2005, she released a concept-album related to Billy the Kid named "Billy", with her previous band Teen Machine. Now, she just finished the recording...(read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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IKU
: COMING TO ALIVE NOT DEAD I finally convinced some members of the band IKU (who'll feature in my documentary Rock 'n' Roll Girls) to launch their pages on Alive Not Dead. So, here come the pages of the two guitarists of the band : Solange Protin and Anne Mercier... (read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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IS D.E.V.I.A.N.C.E. BABY ! d.e.v.i.a.n.c.e. is one of the main music bands that I’m following very closely for my documentary Rock ‘n’ Roll Girls, but it’s not a rock band at all. The common point between d.e.v.i.a.n.c.e. and rock music is that, the two members of the band, Akasha “Sick” Lust and So. Noel, are also playing in...(read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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WORLD
PREMIERE OF PANG HO-CHEUNG FIRST SHORT FILMS IN UDINE ! Hong Kong director Pang Ho-cheung, who shot the trailer of the 10th Far East Film Festival (starring Sunny Lau) was invited in Udine - for the fourth time I think - between the 19th and the 23th of April 2008. His last feature ...(read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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TACTICAL
UNIT'S SIMON YAM AND VINCENT SZE IN PARIS After 10 days spent in Italy for the 10th edition of Far East Film Festival, I went back to Paris and discovered yesterday that Simon Yam and Vincent Sze were there. They played for the first time together four years ago in SPL, and will team again this year in PTU's theatrical sequel produced...(read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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IKU
: ORGASMIC IMPRO French rock 'n' roll girls band IKU, on April 13th, 2008, performing an orgasmic impro about "Muscador", a simple, cheap, sweet sparkling and refreshing white wine....(read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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AIMÉ
CÉSAIRE : THE GREATEST MAN IN MARTINIQUE IS GONE The poet and politician Aimé Césaire just died at the age of 94, and it's one of the biggest loss that Martinique ever knew. May he rest in peace... Biography (from Wikipedia) : "Aimé Fernand David Césaire (June 25, 1913....(read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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SICK
LUST MUSIC VIDEOS + VAG1 KAO, ROUND 2 (FOR MATURE AUDIENCE) Akasha Lust a.k.a. Sick Lust, one of the main artist of my Rock 'n' Roll Girls documentary, is the singer, musician and composer of IKU, d.e.v.i.a.n.c.e., Lust Control and The 70 Miles Family, but also a prolific videographer...(read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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HONG
KONG FILM AWARDS : SUSAN SHAW RULES ! I wish I was still in Hong Kong to see that with my own eyes ! I've just learned some hours ago that Susan Shaw (a.k.a. Shaw Yin-yin a.k.a. Shao Yin-yin a.k.a. Shaw Yum Yum a.k.a. Siu Yam-yam), won the best supporting actress award at the 27th Hong Kong Film Awards for her role in The Pye-Dog...(read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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CAM
2 CAM : WEBCHAT EROTIC THRILLER Last week, I had the opportunity to attend the private screening of a very good short movie – 27 minutes - named Cam 2 Cam. It was directed by a young French director, Davy Sihali, who did a few years ago, a very forgettable ultra-low-budget action movie, Unfailing. For Cam 2 Cam, he didn't.(read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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PREVIEW
: HONG KONG EVENTS / INTERVIEWS (MARCH 16th – 29th, 2008) It’s been already ten days since I came from Hong Kong. I was there between the 16th and the 29th of March 2008, which was a very short time for me, because I didn’t really do all the things that I wanted to do when I was there....(read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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ZOMBIES
ATTACK PARIS ! FIRST (BLOODY) FOOTAGE Last year, French director Gregory Morin shot an apparently bloody, gory and explosive action-horror short movie, beautifully named Paris by Night of the Living Dead. This degenerated love story set in a post-apocalyptic Paris full of Zombies, is still in post-production, and the first footage of the movie ...(read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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JOSIE
HO : MY VERY FIRST HONG KONG INTERVIEW... IN CANNES Last night, I was turning with nostalgia and sadness, the pages of some old issues of "Kumite", a magazine which just disappeared (check out the Kumite is Dead entry) and realized that the first Hong Kong artist I interviewed...(read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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ASIAN
STARS ARE BACK ! TI've just learned that some short documentaries that I did a while ago, will finally be released on DVD by Pathe Distribution in their Asian Star DVD collection, on March 26th, 2008 : - L'Héritier de Hong Kong : Derek Tsang interview on AV French DVD- Le Rebelle de Hong Kong : Pang Ho-cheung,interview .....(read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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SHOOT OR TO BE SHOT (FOR SHAW MOVIES) The DVD era is apparently over for Shaw Brothers movies in France. I had the chance to collaborate with the two French distribution companies who released 58 Shaw titles in DVD between 2004 and 2007 (46 for Wild Side Films and 12 for CTV International), but the last few years, the DVD sells weren’t as successful ..(read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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LYDIA
SHUM (1947-2008) : SCREENCAPS TRIBUTE I've just learned that Lydia Shum (a.k.a. Fei Fei) passed away today. She was mostly known for her TV shows like Enjoy Yourself Tonight, but I think she was also a very important figure of teenage Hong Kong movies in the late 60's, which I watched a lot when I started to prepare my documentary project...(read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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IKU
PICTURES : SAYONARA BABY ! Here are some pictures of IKU members took just before their live performance at the memorable "Sayonara Baby !" night on February 16th, 2008, where other great bands like Louis Lingg and the Bomb, Enob and Savon Tranchand played as well...(read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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LIVE
VIDEO : 1 GUITAR + 1 DRUM KIT = MOTORAMA I've just edited a video of the song "Rich Man", performed by the Italian girls rock band Motorama, during the 1st Female Trouble Show. This video was shot by Akasha "Sick" Lust (lead singer of IKU, d.e.v.i.a.n.c.e. & Lust Control) and me in Paris, on January 26th, 2008. Enjoy...(read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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VINCENT
SZE JOINS THE HK POLICE FORCE IN A NEW JOHNNIE TO MOVIE Two days ago, “Hong Kong Frenchy Boy” Vincent Sze started to play beside veteran actor Simon Yam, in a new movie, directed and produced by Johnnie To . Vincent Sze is a Hong Kong actor who lived 20 years in France and Noumea ... (read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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HONG
KONG PERFORMING ARTISTES GUILD + "10" SHORTS II noticed that several famous Hong Kong artists recently added on AnD (Andy Lau, Simon Yam, Eric Tsang, Philip Chan, Ray Lui, Franckie Chan, Cecilia Yip, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Lam Ka-tung, Teddy Robin Sammy Leung, John Sham, Cheung Tam-ming, Anthony Wong, Tiffany Lee) were registered as members of ..(read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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GANG
OF GIRLS SHOWCASE + FEMALE TROUBLE NIGHT IKU is a French rock band influenced by Grunge and Riot Grrrls music, formed in 2004. Members included Akasha 'Sick' Lust (Bass guitar and singer), Solange Protin (guitar), Anne Mercier (guitar) and Céline Vanier (drums), who left the band and was replaced by So. Noel in December 2007.... (read more on AliveNotDead.com) |
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KUMITE
n°34: THE TWINS EFFECT FILE + CHRIS DOYLE, EYE IN THE SKY, CROMARTIE
HIGH SCHOOL... The editorial policy of “Kumite” (a quaterly French magazine specialized in Asian cinema - I’m writing in it since 2002) changed radicaly with this n°34 issue. Apparently, thehead(s) of the magazine’s company say(s) something like “We have to... (read more here) |
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THE
1ST EUROPEAN SPIRITUAL FILM FESTIVAL: EVERYONE CAN WATCH, EVERYONE
CAN VOTE! Going to a festival and staying at home at the same time ? Yes, that's possible with the European Spiritual Film Festival (ESFF), founded by French film director / producer and Viet Vo Dao master, Marc Olivier Louveau a.k.a. Lou Ma Ho... (read more here) |
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VORHER
UND NACHHER : MY GERMAN DOCUMENTARY ABOUT INFERNAL AFFAIRS 3 Since the beginning of 2004, all the short documentaries that I made about Asian cinema (more than 100) were released in DVD in France as extra features. Among them, only two were released in other countries. The first one, Fast and Dangerous, which.. (read more here) |
