The Sydney Film Festival is halfway through - you still have time to run out and get tickets for Time and Tide on Saturday night. Don't miss this buoyant Year 2000 HK action comeback from Tsui Hark, or I may have to kill ya. Only part of the lineup has been revealed, but it's already pretty mega. Also from Korea is Kim Jee-woon's funny fightin' film The Foul King, and Im Sangsoo's frank teen film Tears . From China comes Jia Zhang-ke's Platform , which has been solid festival fodder around the world over the last few months, including Best Film at Buenos Aires.
Japan gets the single largest bloc.
Birthday , a prequel to last year' s Ring and Ring 2 . Another horror Inugami looks equally creepy, about dog spirits which I'm guessing will eventually have their day. Anyway, it's all good stuff, but still a month away - keep a close eye on the Melbourne Film Festival website for updates, and for further info on all of the above. I plan to check out Born Wild, Patrick Leung's boxing film which is now playing in Hoyts George Street in Sydney and at Hoyts City Centre in Melbourne. Leung is an excellent director, his credits include Beyond Hypothermia and Task Force.