http://www.hammertonail.com/genre/drama/munyurangabo-movie-review/ building a home for ambitious film Sat, 20 Mar 2010 21:05:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.hammertonail.com/genre/drama/munyurangabo-movie-review/comment-page-1/#comment-1378 / HAMMER TO NAIL » Blog Archive » THE 2009 HAMMER TO NAIL AWARDS Wed, 23 Dec 2009 20:07:23 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=65#comment-1378 [...] Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani) 2. The House of the Devil (Ti West) 3. Munyurangabo (Lee Isaac Chung) 4. Medicine for Melancholy (Barry Jenkins) 4. Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim) 6. [...] [...] Goodbye Solo (Ramin Bahrani) 2. The House of the Devil (Ti West) 3. Munyurangabo (Lee Isaac Chung) 4. Medicine for Melancholy (Barry Jenkins) 4. Treeless Mountain (So Yong Kim) 6. [...]

]]> http://www.hammertonail.com/genre/drama/munyurangabo-movie-review/comment-page-1/#comment-1238 / HAMMER TO NAIL » Blog Archive » NEW DVD RELEASES 10/6/09 Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:31:12 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=65#comment-1238 [...] a new cinematic intersection where American independent film embraces the world. Read the rest of Tom Hall’s review, then buy it on [...] [...] a new cinematic intersection where American independent film embraces the world. Read the rest of Tom Hall’s review, then buy it on [...]

]]> http://www.hammertonail.com/genre/drama/munyurangabo-movie-review/comment-page-1/#comment-1019 / HAMMER TO NAIL » Blog Archive » MOVIES ON BIG SCREENS - Theatrical Releases: May 29th-31st, 2009 Fri, 29 May 2009 14:01:05 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=65#comment-1019 [...] (Anthology Film Archives) — Be sure to read Tom Hall’s review of Lee Isaac Chung’s extraordinary Rwandan drama, as well as my conversation with Chung, [...] [...] (Anthology Film Archives) — Be sure to read Tom Hall’s review of Lee Isaac Chung’s extraordinary Rwandan drama, as well as my conversation with Chung, [...]

]]> http://www.hammertonail.com/genre/drama/munyurangabo-movie-review/comment-page-1/#comment-1018 / HAMMER TO NAIL » Blog Archive » A Conversation With Lee Isaac Chung Thu, 28 May 2009 20:37:59 +0000 http://www.hammertonail.com/?p=65#comment-1018 [...] Raised in rural Arkansas by Korean parents, Lee Isaac Chung headed to Yale to study Biology. But after seeing Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express, a new seed was planted. He began to voraciously study cinema and subsequently got his graduate degree at the University of Utah. After shooting a documentary in China (which has yet to see the light of day as the material was quite sensitive), Chung headed to Rwanda to teach film production to eager youngsters, but he realized that the best way to teach them was to make an actual film. The result of that experience was Munyurangabo, which went on to premiere in the Un Certain Regard program at Cannes before embarking on a hugely successful festival run throughout the world. Deservedly so. Munyurangabo is one of the most impressive low-budget American indies of the decade, a tender, beautifully photographed tale of impending revenge that shines a positive, poetic light on the Rwandan situation in the years following the genocide (read Tom Hall’s review here). [...] [...] Raised in rural Arkansas by Korean parents, Lee Isaac Chung headed to Yale to study Biology. But after seeing Wong Kar Wai’s Chungking Express, a new seed was planted. He began to voraciously study cinema and subsequently got his graduate degree at the University of Utah. After shooting a documentary in China (which has yet to see the light of day as the material was quite sensitive), Chung headed to Rwanda to teach film production to eager youngsters, but he realized that the best way to teach them was to make an actual film. The result of that experience was Munyurangabo, which went on to premiere in the Un Certain Regard program at Cannes before embarking on a hugely successful festival run throughout the world. Deservedly so. Munyurangabo is one of the most impressive low-budget American indies of the decade, a tender, beautifully photographed tale of impending revenge that shines a positive, poetic light on the Rwandan situation in the years following the genocide (read Tom Hall’s review here). [...]

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