Articles by Allan Tong

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  CHERI

  Stephen Frears

  PUBLISHED Jun 25, 2009

  (Directed by Stephen Frears) More than 20 years after Dangerous Liaisions, director Stephen Frears and actress Michelle Pfeiffer reunite to...

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  Departures (Okuribito)

  Yojiro Takita

  PUBLISHED Jun 11, 2009

  The Academy tends to choose soft, sentimental dramas, but this year's Oscar-winner for best foreign film stands a cut above the rest. Depar...

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  Revolutionary Road

  Sam Mendes

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2009

  Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet reunite as the troubled Wheelers in this faithful adaptation of Richard Yates's novel. The Wheelers are...

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  Unwigged & Unplugged: Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, and Harry Shearer

  Massey Hall, Toronto, May 21

  PUBLISHED May 22, 2009

  Messr, Guest, McKean and Shearer (a.k.a. Spinal Tap, a.k.a. The Folksmen of A Mighty Wind) made the lone Canadian stop on their Unwigged &...

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  69

  Nikolaj Viborg

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  When Copenhagen's city hall reneges on a contract, closing the town Youth House without securing a replacement, the kids fight back. Since...

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  Afghan Star

  Havana Marking

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  "If there was no signing then the world would be silent," proclaims a blind little boy at the start of this remarkable film about freedoms...

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  Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country

  Anders Høgsbro Østergaard

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  The full title says it all: Reporting from a Closed Country. Since 1962 a military regime has run this Southeast Asian nation with a cruel...

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  Carmen Meets Borat

  Mercedes Stalenhoef

  PUBLISHED May 4, 2009

  Ionela is a Rom (the preferred nomenclature for "Gypsy") living in a Romanian village called Glod. It's a place where women wash their clot...