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Bodies Abstracted, Architected: The Films of Philippe Grandrieux

January 10, 2018by Jason Ooi Leave a comment

Wrote this paper for Chris Straayer’s class on Film Theory at NYU, Fall Semester 2017.

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Venice: Ai WeiWei’s ‘Human Flow’ and Frederick Wiseman’s ‘Ex Libris’

November 19, 2017by Jason Ooi Leave a comment

Two unfinished reviews that I had written about documentaries for Venice. Decided to try and finish them to the best of my ability, since I didn’t like having the drafts floating around my pages tab.

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‘Princess Cyd’, Wishful Thinking

November 15, 2017by Jason Ooi Leave a comment

Despite a frantic opening scene of pitch black visual accompaniment to a 911 phone call expositing the death of the mother, the film resembles a fairytale. The lightness thereof stems from director Stephen Cone’s exuberant humanism.

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Deja Vu and Watching Movies

July 1, 2017by Jason Ooi Leave a comment

I find myself becoming less and less receptive towards films in that “love-letter to cinema” genre that set themselves within the film industry. It’s a much more incredible, interesting feat to capture the magic of cinema through its relation towards other aspects of life.

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On the Beach at Night Alone

June 20, 2017by Jason Ooi Leave a comment

On the Beach at Night Alone is a major Hong, now playing at LAFF.

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It Takes a Village: Appraising Life in High & Low

June 8, 2017by Jason Ooi Leave a comment

Wrote this a year ago for a writing the essay class. The class sucked but at least I saw this movie.

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MDFF: New New York Cinema (Golden Exits and Person to Person)

May 9, 2017by Jason Ooi Leave a comment

Funny how it took the Maryland Film Festival to put together an amazing New York double feature. Dustin Guy Defa’s Person to Person and Alex Ross Perry’s Golden Exits make for such a magically incongruous pairing.

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